One-Way Video Interview Software Pricing: 8 Vendors

One-way video interview software costs between $75 and $317 a month for most US teams, but only three of the eight vendors we checked publish a number at all. Hireflix is the cheapest published route at $75 a month billed yearly for companies under 50 staff and $150 for 50 to 250 employees. Spark Hire publishes $249 a month billed annually, or $299 month-to-month with a cap of 5 jobs and 5 users. Willo publishes Enterprise from $3,799 a year, roughly $317 a month, plus a Lite plan at $59 per live role. HireVue, VidCruiter and Jobma publish nothing. myInterview no longer exists as a standalone product. Every figure below was read off the vendor's own pricing page in August 2026 and is dated.

The reason this category is hard to budget for is not that the products are complicated. They are the simplest thing in recruiting software: you send a link, the candidate records answers to fixed questions on their own time, and somebody on your team watches the recordings later. The reason it is hard to budget for is that half the market treats a monthly figure as a state secret, and the half that publishes prices them on four different units.

So this is a pricing audit rather than a feature roundup. What each vendor publishes, what the number actually buys, where the caps and add-ons sit, and which pricing model wins once your volume grows.

How much does one-way video interview software cost?

For a US company under 50 employees, expect $75 to $250 a month for a published plan, or a quote in the low thousands per year from the vendors that do not publish. The spread across published vendors is roughly fourfold at the same company size, which is unusually wide for products that do broadly the same job.

Here is every published figure, with the date each was verified.

We build an AI interview agent ourselves, so treat our row with the skepticism it deserves and open the vendor pages yourself. We have deliberately published no dollar figure for HireVue, VidCruiter or Jobma, because we could not find one on their sites and the third-party estimates in circulation for HireVue span more than five times from bottom to top without tracing back to HireVue.

Which one-way video interview vendors actually publish a price?

Three of the eight: Hireflix, Spark Hire and Willo. That is a better ratio than the adjacent interview intelligence category, where four of ten publish, but it still means most buyers walk into a demo without an anchor.

The distinction that matters is between a published price and a published floor. Hireflix is the only one of the three that publishes something close to a real number: $75 and $150 are tied to explicit company-size bands, and every plan includes every feature, so there is little room for the quote to drift. Spark Hire and Willo both publish starting-at figures that scale with company size, which tells you whether you are in the right market rather than what you will pay.

If you are running a shortlist, the practical move is to get the published vendors quoted first and use those numbers as the anchor in the conversations with the vendors that quote. We keep dated plan-level breakdowns on our Spark Hire pricing, Willo pricing and HireVue pricing pages, refreshed whenever we re-verify.

What is the difference between per-role, per-seat and flat pricing?

Three units are in use across this category and they diverge sharply as you grow.

• Flat by company size. Hireflix and Spark Hire both price this way: one number covers your whole team, banded by headcount. Cost per interview falls as volume rises, which is the friendliest model for seasonal or high-volume hiring.
• Per live role. Willo Lite charges $59 for each role that is live in a given month, capped at five. If you run two reqs, you pay $118. If you run twelve, Lite does not fit and you are into an annual Enterprise contract. This suits genuinely occasional hiring and punishes anything steady.
• Per seat. Rare in one-way video but standard in the interview intelligence tools next door, where Metaview charges $60 per user a month for AI Notes. Seat pricing is the one that quietly compounds, because hiring managers keep getting added and nobody removes them.

Run the arithmetic against your actual next twelve months rather than this quarter. A team hiring for three roles at a time pays $177 a month on Willo Lite and $75 on Hireflix for the same basic capability. A team hiring for eight roles cannot use Lite at all.

Why is Spark Hire's monthly plan more expensive than its annual plan?

Because the monthly plan is both pricier and more restricted, which is worth stating plainly since it runs against the usual pattern. Spark Hire charges $299 a month month-to-month and $249 a month on annual billing, and the monthly option is capped at 5 jobs at a time and 5 users while the annual one is unlimited on both. Live training, personalized onboarding, a named Customer Success Manager and the ability to download interviews are all annual only.

The saving is about 17 percent, not the 20 percent several roundups state. Whether it is worth a twelve-month commitment comes down to how confident you are about hiring volume in month nine, which for most teams under 50 people is the honest sticking point.

One more Spark Hire detail that changes the math: its Recruit applicant tracking system starts at $335 a month and includes one-way video interviews, AI Video Review and AI summaries. If you were going to buy the standalone video product at $249, the full ATS is $86 a month more.

What hidden costs should you check before signing?

Four line items account for most of the gap between the quoted number and the invoice.

Add-ons sold separately. Spark Hire lists API access, single sign-on and additional brands as add-ons rather than included features. Single sign-on is the one that catches teams out, because IT assumes it is standard and finds out during implementation.

Products that look like tiers but are separate line items. Spark Hire's behavioral assessment is priced identically to its video product and billed separately, so running both is roughly $498 a month before the ATS. Stacked line items are the most common source of renewal surprise in this category, and they are worth tracking the same way you would track any other recurring software spend that drifts upward between renewals.

Candidate volume caps. Willo Lite allows 150 assessed candidates per live role. A retail or customer-service req that draws 400 applicants hits that ceiling in the first week, which is exactly when you least want a billing conversation.

Export and download rights. Ask whether you can download recordings and transcripts on the plan you are buying, not just on the top tier. If you ever need to hand a recording to a client, a hiring manager outside the platform or a legal team, this is not a detail. It also interacts with record-keeping duties: the federal floor for retaining application and interview records is one year, two years for many federal contractors and four in California, which we cover in our guide to how long to keep interview records.

Is myInterview still available?

Not as a standalone product. As of August 30, 2026, myinterview.com redirects to Radancy's screening and scheduling platform page, and that page does not mention the myInterview brand anywhere. The product has been absorbed into Radancy's wider talent acquisition suite and is now part of an enterprise platform purchase rather than a tool you buy on its own.

This matters because a large number of 2026 comparison articles still list myInterview as an independent one-way video vendor with its own pricing tiers. It is the same pattern we found with Pillar, which Employ Inc. acquired in March 2025 and now ships as AI Interview Companion, and with Modern Hire, which HireVue acquired back in 2023. Directory and roundup sites copy each other, so a stale entry propagates across the whole ecosystem and stays there for years.

The practical rule: before you shortlist a vendor from a roundup, open the vendor's own domain and see where it lands. A redirect tells you more about a product's status than any review page will.

Is one-way video interview software worth paying for?

It is worth paying for if your bottleneck is scheduling, and it is not if your bottleneck is reviewing. That single distinction predicts satisfaction with this category better than any feature comparison.

What a one-way tool genuinely removes is the calendar. No time zones, no reschedules, no 20-minute phone screens spread across a week. Candidates record whenever they want, which is a real improvement for hourly and shift-based hiring where nobody is free between 9 and 5. That is worth $75 to $250 a month on its own for most teams.

What it does not remove is the watching. Two hundred applicants produce two hundred recordings, and someone still has to get through them. Teams that buy a recording tool expecting the screening workload to drop are usually disappointed by month two, because the work moved rather than disappeared. AI summaries, which Spark Hire and several others now ship, shorten that job without removing it.

If the recordings are what is piling up, the category that fits is one where the tool conducts the interview and returns a scored shortlist rather than a review queue. That is a genuinely different product and we build one, so weigh that accordingly. Our comparison of AI interview software covers nine vendors on who actually conducts the first round, and our one-way video interview software page sets out where recording tools fit best.

Do any one-way video interview tools offer a free trial?

Hireflix advertises a first month free on both published tiers, which is the most straightforward trial offer among the vendors that publish. Spark Hire publishes no employer trial: its pricing FAQ confirms that the product is free for job applicants, which is a statement about candidates rather than a trial for buyers. Willo publishes no free plan on either of its two tiers. The vendors that do not publish prices generally route you to a demo instead.

If a trial is important to you, the useful question to ask in a demo is not whether one exists but whether you can run a real req through it end to end. A sandbox with sample candidates tells you about the interface. Twenty real applicants tell you about completion rates, which is the number that actually decides whether async video works for your roles.

How to compare quotes without a published price

Five of the eight vendors here will send you to a sales call. Three questions make those calls comparable.

Ask what the unit is before you ask what the number is. Per seat, per role, per interview and per company size produce wildly different totals at scale, and a vendor quoting per interview will look cheap in a pilot and expensive in a peak hiring month. Ask for the price at your projected volume in twelve months, not today's. And ask which of the features in the demo are add-ons, specifically single sign-on, API access and export rights.

Then anchor. The published numbers in the table above are the strongest negotiating tool a small US hiring team has in this category, because they establish what comparable capability sells for in public. A vendor that will not put a figure on paper is not necessarily expensive, but it is asking you to negotiate without information, and knowing that Hireflix does the core job for $75 a month changes the shape of that conversation. For a wider view of what the whole category charges, including the AI interviewing tools next door, see our AI interview software pricing breakdown.