Eleven AI and video interview tools, compared on how they interview, what they cost and who they suit. There’s no single best tool. A large company with a hundred open jobs and a founder hiring their first support person need different things. We make LessRounds, and we’ve said below where other tools are the better pick.
Facts last checked 24 September 2026 · Published by the LessRounds team
How we compared
A live conversation that can ask follow-up questions, or recorded answers to set questions.
Whether each score comes with a reason you can check.
Public pricing, a free way to try it, and what the cheapest plan really costs.
Whether you can sign up on your own, or need a demo and contract first.
Whether candidates need an app, an account or a particular device.
Whether it connects to your applicant tracking system (ATS), the software many companies use to manage job applications, and how you can export results.
At a glance
| Tool | How it interviews | AI interviewer | Free to try | Sign up on your own |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LessRounds | Live AI interview (voice or video) | Yes. It can ask its own follow-up questions, or read your questions word for word | 100 free credits when you sign up (about 20 interviews). They don’t expire | Yes. Sign up with an email code |
| Ribbon | Live AI interview (voice or video) | Yes. Its questions adapt to each answer | 7-day trial | Yes |
| HireVue | All-in-one platform for large companies | Yes. AI voice interviewer launched June 2026 | No | No. You start with their sales team |
| Alex (formerly Apriora) | Live AI interview (phone, video, SMS, WhatsApp) | Yes | No | No. You start with their sales team |
| HeyMilo | Live AI interview (voice, video, SMS) | Yes | None published | No. You start with their sales team |
| Interviewer.AI | Recorded video + AI avatar | Yes, on the Professional plan and above | 14-day trial | Yes |
| Metaview | Note-taker + AI interviews | Yes, Screening (launched 3 September 2026) | Free plans for other products, not for Screening | Partly |
| TestGorilla | Skills tests + AI interviews | Yes, on the Plus plan and above | Yes, but without AI interviews | Yes, up to the Core plan |
| Spark Hire | Recorded video answers + applicant tracking system | No. “AI Video Review” rates recorded answers (English only) | No free plan or trial, per its FAQ | Partly |
| Willo | Recorded answers (video, audio, text) | No. It offers AI summaries, a threshold filter and detection of scripted answers | No | Yes, on Lite |
| Hireflix | Recorded video answers | No. People rate the answers. Transcripts are made automatically | 30-day free trial, no card | Yes |
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Best free and pay-per-interview option
An AI interview tool you can set up on your own. You share a link, an AI interviewer talks with each applicant, and each skill gets a score with a quote from their answers as evidence.
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Trade-offs
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Best for connecting to applicant tracking systems, with published prices
A Canadian AI interviewer. It runs voice and video interviews that adapt to each answer, on any phone with no app. It’s aimed at companies hiring in large numbers and hiring frontline staff.
Where it’s strong
Trade-offs
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Best for large companies
A hiring platform for large companies. It covers recorded and live video interviews, assessments, an AI voice interviewer and interview notes.
Where it’s strong
Trade-offs
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Best for interviews by phone and WhatsApp
An AI recruiter that runs live first interviews by phone, video, text message (SMS) or WhatsApp, with scheduling and identity checks.
Where it’s strong
Trade-offs
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Best for staffing agencies and outsourcing firms hiring in large numbers
An AI recruiter for companies hiring in large numbers. It interviews candidates by voice, video and text message (SMS), and scores them from the transcripts.
Where it’s strong
Trade-offs
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Best for admissions and interviews with an AI avatar
A Singapore-based tool offering recorded video interviews and an AI avatar that asks follow-up questions, for hiring and admissions.
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07
Best if you already use an interview note-taker
A tool that takes notes in interviews. In September 2026 it launched Screening, which interviews candidates with an AI voice. It also offers tools for finding candidates (sourcing) and reviewing applications.
Where it’s strong
Trade-offs
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Best for skills tests plus interviews
A skills-testing platform with 350+ tests that added one-way and conversational AI video interviews in October 2025.
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Best for recorded video with a built-in applicant tracking system
Recorded (one-way) and live video interviews for small and mid-sized organizations. It also has its own applicant tracking system (ATS) and a behavioral assessment.
Where it’s strong
Trade-offs
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Best for many languages and answer formats
A UK-based one-way interview tool where candidates answer by video, audio, text, file upload or multiple choice.
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Best low-cost recorded video interviews
A simple one-way video interview tool with no app or login for candidates, popular with small businesses, universities and agencies.
Where it’s strong
Trade-offs
Software that interviews job candidates for you, usually as the first interview. With some tools, candidates record answers to set questions. Newer tools run a live spoken conversation with an AI that can ask follow-up questions. Most score or summarize the answers for someone on your team to review.
LessRounds gives you 100 free credits when you sign up, enough for about 20 AI interviews, with no time limit and no card. Among the tools here, the others offer time-limited trials or nothing free, and TestGorilla’s free plan doesn’t include AI interviews.
No. They replace the repetitive first phone call with each applicant. A person still reads the results, decides who moves forward and runs the later interviews.
Checked 24 September 2026.
Start with 100 free credits, enough for about 20 interviews. No credit card or sales call needed.