Truffle pricing and Truffle credits cost per one-way interview compared with 9 screening tools

Truffle costs $49 a month on Starter, which is billed monthly only, and $99, $199 or $499 a month on Core, Team and Scale when billed annually. Month to month, those three are $119, $239 and $599. A year on Core is $1,188, on Team $2,388 and on Scale $5,988, which is what Truffle means by two months free. Above 4,000 credits a month it quotes a Custom plan on a call. We read all of this on hiretruffle.com/pricing on October 15, 2026.

Truffle plans differ by the size of the monthly credit pool, not by features. Truffle's FAQ says every feature is on every plan, including AI match scores, Candidate Shorts, ATS and Zapier integrations, unlimited positions and unlimited team members. The plan cards do tie two things to Core and up: credits that roll over for 12 months, and the option to buy extra credits at 25 cents each. Starter is a hard cap with no overage, and Core and up add personalized onboarding.

Every screening action draws from one monthly pool. An AI match score on a resume costs 1 credit, an assessed candidate costs 2 and a completed one-way video interview costs 5. Truffle charges only when a screening produces a result, so a candidate who never starts or does not finish an interview costs nothing. That is a fair rule for one-way video, where a meaningful share of invited candidates never record.

Truffle says a typical role takes about 150 to 250 credits, and its own example shows why the pool empties faster than the headline suggests: 240 resumes, 45 assessments and 15 interviews come to 405 credits in a month. That is two thirds of a Core pool for one busy role. Unused credits on Core, Team and Scale roll over for 12 months, up to three months' worth, and are forfeited if you downgrade or cancel.

Counting interviews alone, a Truffle one-way interview costs about $1.23 on Starter (200 credits buy 40 interviews), 83 cents on Core billed annually, 66 cents on Team and 62 cents on Scale. Billed monthly, Core works out to 99 cents, Team to 80 cents and Scale to 75 cents. Past the pool, every extra interview costs $1.25 at 25 cents a credit. Truffle's own page states the same range of 62 cents to $1.25.

Those figures assume the whole pool goes on interviews. Most teams also screen resumes in Truffle, and every resume spends a credit. A role with 100 applicants and 30 interviews uses 250 credits, so a Core pool covers about two such roles a month, not four. Compare that with the cost of our own plans: Starter billed yearly is $888 for up to 100 interviews a month, about 74 cents each, and Growth billed yearly is $2,388 for up to 300, about 66 cents. At 300 interviews a month, a year on Truffle Team and a year on our Growth plan cost exactly the same $2,388.

Yes. Truffle's pricing FAQ says the flat $149 a month plan was retired in June 2026 and replaced by the credit plans, and that there is no Growth or Pro plan. If a directory listing or an older review quotes Truffle at $149 a month, $99 a month with 150 candidates, or $99 to $129 for a Starter tier, it is describing pricing a new account cannot buy. We found all three figures on software directories in October 2026.

Existing customers may still sit on the old plan, so if you are renewing rather than buying, ask Truffle which model your account moves to. For a new buyer the practical point is simpler: estimate your monthly resumes, assessments and interviews, multiply by 1, 2 and 5, and pick the smallest pool that covers the total with a little room.

Both, except Starter, which is monthly only. On Core, Team and Scale the annual rate saves about 17%, and Truffle says an annual plan makes the full year of credits available up front. Truffle advertises no contracts and says you can upgrade or downgrade as your needs change, though rolled-over credits are lost on a downgrade.

The choice turns on how steady your hiring is. A team that hires every month and can forecast its pool is better off annual. A seasonal employer that interviews heavily for one quarter may pay less on monthly Team for three months ($717) than on a year of Core ($1,188), and gets a bigger pool while it matters.

Truffle does things we do not, and a buyer should weigh them honestly. It screens resumes, runs short assessments and collects one-way video in one tool from one pool of credits, so a team that wants all three stages from a single vendor gets them for as little as $49 a month. Every plan has unlimited team members, which matters to a team with many occasional reviewers, and the seven-day trial with 30 credits needs no card. Its 30-second Candidate Shorts are a quick way to share a recording with a hiring manager.

What Truffle does not do is hold the conversation. A one-way interview is a recording: the candidate answers fixed questions on camera, and nobody asks a follow-up when an answer stays vague. Our agent conducts the first round instead. It calls the candidate from your company's own verified number, or interviews by voice, video or in writing from a link, asks a follow-up when an answer is thin, scores each answer against anchors your team wrote, and shows the quote behind every score. A recruiter makes every decision. How the scoring works is set out on interview scorecard software.

Among tools that print a price, Hirevire starts at $39 a month billed yearly and Hireflix at $75 a month billed yearly, both for recordings your team reviews. Spark Hire is $249 a month billed annually. For an AI that conducts the interview, InterviewAgent.ai starts at $149 a month or $888 a year for up to 100 interviews, HappyFleet at $149 a month for 20 phone interviews with an ATS, Interviewer.AI at $199 a month and Ribbon AI at $499 a month billed annually.

Pick on the job first. If you mainly need to cut a pile of resumes and see a short recorded answer, Truffle is priced well for that. If what costs you time is the first conversation, the phone screen a recruiter used to run, compare tools that ask the questions themselves. Our Hireflix pricing page covers the cheapest recorder in detail, and the full field is in our Truffle alternatives guide.