Interviewer.AI pricing and Interviewer.AI cost per interview compared with 10 AI interview tools

On October 7, 2026 interviewer.ai/pricing listed three editions with a Monthly and an Annual toggle. Essential, for growing teams getting started, is $199 a month. Professional, marked Recommended, is $399 a month. Enterprise, for high-volume and custom hiring, is quoted by sales on annual billing. Billed annually, Essential is $1,990 a year and Professional $3,990 a year, which the page presents as two months free against the $2,388 and $4,788 that twelve monthly payments would cost. All prices are in US dollars.

Interviewer.AI used to sell quarterly credit bundles, and several directory listings still quote figures such as $200 for 50 assessments a quarter. The help center articles that described those plans returned a not-found page when we checked on October 7, 2026, and the live pricing page lists only the monthly and annual editions above. Price from the live page, not from a listing.

One credit pays for one completed async video interview with its assessment report. Two credits pay for one conversational AI interview, where an AI avatar talks with the candidate in real time. A credit is reserved when you send the invitation and returned if you delete a candidate who has not finished, or automatically after an invitation sits incomplete for 30 days. Unused credits roll over month to month, and on an annual plan the whole year of credits is available up front.

Retakes are where credits leak. Interviewer.AI lets you allow up to five retakes per candidate, and its pricing page says each retake is treated as a new interview and uses another credit. If you allow retakes on a busy role, budget for them, or keep them off and use the re-record-before-submit option, which does not spend a second credit.

Divide each edition by its credits. An async video interview costs $3.98 on Essential and $3.33 on Professional at monthly prices, or $3.32 and $2.77 billed annually. A conversational avatar interview uses two credits, so on Professional it costs $6.65 a month to month or $5.54 billed annually. Top-up credits cost $3.00 each on the smallest pack, so an extra async interview costs $3.00 and an extra conversational one $6.00. These are floors that assume you use every credit, although rollover makes unused credits less of a loss here than on plans that expire them.

For comparison, our own plans cost $1.49 per interview on Starter, $0.80 on Growth and $0.50 on Scale at monthly prices, and half that billed yearly, and every interview can be a two-way conversation by voice or video that asks follow-up questions. How each answer is scored is set out on interview scorecard software.

Professional and Enterprise. Essential covers AI-scored one-way video interviews, resume screening and matching, a response relevancy score, human review and a branded application portal. Conversational AI avatar interviews, dynamic interview flows, adaptive follow-up questions, transcripts with summaries, detailed score breakdowns and interview fraud checks all start at Professional, which also gets two avatar models against eight on Enterprise.

That makes the plan choice a format choice. If a one-way recording scored by AI is enough for your roles, Essential is the cheaper ticket. If you want the AI to probe a thin answer with a follow-up, you need Professional at $399 a month, and each of those interviews costs two credits. Custom interview rubrics and custom AI avatars are listed only under Enterprise.

On Enterprise. The pricing page lists ATS integrations, naming Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, SmartRecruiters and Bullhorn, among the items Enterprise adds on top of Professional. Essential and Professional customers get bulk CSV export and PDF assessment reports, so results reach your ATS by export rather than by a live connection. A dedicated account manager, quarterly reviews and data residency options are also Enterprise items.

If your recruiters live in the ATS, that pushes a mid-size team toward a sales conversation even when the credit volume fits Professional. Ask Interviewer.AI what Enterprise costs at your volume before you compare it with self-serve tools. On our plans, ATS export starts at Growth, $399 a month for up to 500 interviews, and every plan publishes its price on our pricing page.

Yes. Essential and Professional both start with a 14-day free trial that covers up to five AI interview assessments, and the page says your card is not charged until the trial ends. Interviewer.AI also states that it does not offer refunds, so cancel before the renewal date if the trial does not convince you.

Five interviews is a small sample, so make them count. Use one real role, send it to five real applicants, and have a recruiter score the same people by hand so you can compare rankings. If you want a scored first round to compare it against, the interview agent at the top of this page runs one on a role you name and returns the transcript, the scores and the ranking.

Among AI interviewers that print a price, Ribbon AI starts at $499 a month billed annually for 100 interviews, HappyFleet at $149 a month for 20, Classet at $249 a month billed annually for 50, InterviewFlowAI at $59 for 20 credits and HireFoundry at $99 a month billed annually for 1,000 interview minutes. We start at $149 a month for 100 interviews, or $888 a year. HeyMilo and Alex do not publish a price.

If you do not need AI scoring and are happy for your team to watch recordings, Hireflix ($75 a month billed yearly) and Hirevire ($49 a month) are cheaper still, but someone has to watch every answer. A vendor-by-vendor guide is in our article on Interviewer.AI alternatives, and the wider field is on AI interview software.

Start with three numbers: how many candidates you want interviewed in a normal month, how many new job posts you open each month, and whether you need conversational interviews. Job posts are capped at 3 a month on Essential and 5 on Professional, so a team opening eight roles a month outgrows both regardless of credits. If you need conversational interviews, halve the credit count before you compare plans.

Then decide on billing. Annual saves two months and gives you the full year of credits on day one, which suits seasonal hiring well because the credits wait for your peak. Monthly lets you leave after a hiring push, but with no refunds, cancel before the next renewal date rather than after it.