A HireVue alternative that actually conducts the interview

There is no single best alternative, because the right one depends on why you are leaving. If HireVue felt too heavy to roll out, a focused interview agent like InterviewAgent.ai is the closer fit: it conducts the structured first-round interview, scores it, and ranks a shortlist, without an enterprise implementation project. If your problem was the opposite, that you wanted a broader assessment and video-library platform, the honest answer is that HireVue is strong at that and a lighter tool will feel thinner.

The useful way to shortlist is by what each tool actually does at the first round. Some record one-way videos for a human to watch later, some run text chats, and some now conduct a live interview and score it. We keep an up-to-date, honest breakdown of the vendors that conduct interviews on our AI interview software page, including where each one beats us. If you want the wider landscape rather than this head-to-head, our HireVue competitors page compares eleven vendors on what each one really does and which five publish a price.

HireVue does not publish pricing. It is sold through a sales process with quotes that scale by company size and modules, and most public figures floating around are third-party estimates rather than numbers from HireVue, so we will not repeat a specific one as fact. For a buyer, the practical effect is that you cannot compare it on price without a call.

That opacity is common in this category. Of the vendors we track, only a handful publish a price at all. InterviewAgent.ai lists its pricing openly, starting at 149 dollars a month with 399 and 999 dollar tiers, so you can size it against your hiring volume before you ever talk to anyone.

Both, as of 2026. HireVue built its name on asynchronous video assessment, where a candidate records answers to preset questions and a human or model reviews them later. In June 2026 it added a conversational AI Interviewer that holds a live back-and-forth, so it now does more than record. That closes the gap that used to be the clearest reason to pick a live interview agent over HireVue.

Where InterviewAgent.ai still differs is focus. Conducting and scoring the first-round interview is the whole product, not one module in a suite, which is why it starts fast and stays simple. If you want the live interview to run and return a ranked shortlist without adopting a full platform, that narrowness is the point.

For a small team, the enterprise model is usually the friction. A platform priced and implemented for large organizations tends to carry setup, seat, and contract commitments that only pay off at scale. If you are hiring steadily but not running thousands of requisitions, a focused interview agent you can turn on in days and pay for monthly is generally the better shape.

That is the buyer InterviewAgent.ai is built for. You connect it, set the role and rubric, and start screening, and the same interview runs whether you are hiring for two seats or two hundred. For the broader question of which category fixes which bottleneck, our guide to AI hiring software maps the options.