Curious Thing
Voice AI interviews for scalable candidate screening.
Quote-based pricing
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Bottom line
Voice AI interviews for scalable first-round screening. Pricing is sales-quoted.
Stands out for: Structured voice conversations at scale with a candidate-experience pitch, not a cheap SMS blaster.
Watch out for: The vendor does not publish a pricing grid. Do not confuse it with the separate Lucy call-answering product sold at $24/mo.
Overview
Curious Thing is a voice AI interviewing platform that runs structured candidate conversations at scale. It is used for consistent first-rounds, not as a human interviewer marketplace. There is a public API.
Pricing is sales-quoted. The vendor does not publish a pricing grid. The product site is curiousthing.io. No free trial is advertised. Confirm ATS connectors on a demo.
Who it's for
Best for
- TA teams that want consistent first-round voice screens
- High-volume professional hiring
- Companies that will take a quote and an API
- Desks comparing Ribbon and HireVue
Not ideal for
- SMBs hunting a $24/mo voice bot
- Teams that will not use AI interviews
- Buyers who need a public price
Key features
Voice AI interviews. Automated voice conversations that ask role-specific screening questions.
Structured scoring. Consistent evaluation so every candidate is measured against the same criteria.
Candidate experience. Conversational interviews designed to feel closer to a human screen than a form.
AI features
| What the AI does | Plan |
|---|---|
| Voice AI structured candidate interviews | Quoted platform |
Only features named in the vendor's own documentation. Anything sold separately is marked as an add-on.
Pricing
Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Checked 17 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Is Curious Thing expensive?
Curious Thing does not publish a price. It is one of 49 quote-based tools among the 72 interviewing tools in our directory. 7 have a free tier, and those with a public price typically start around $79 a month.
- 49 quote-based
- 7 free tier
- 23 public price
Worked out automatically from every interviewing listing, so it updates as the directory changes.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Structured voice first-rounds rather than trivia tests
- Public API
- Aimed at scale, not a single-recruiter gadget
Cons
- Quote-only
- No published price grid or connector list
- Easy to confuse with unrelated 'Curious Thing' call-answering SKUs
How Curious Thing compares
See all Curious Thing alternatives, with what each one does differently and a head to head for every pairing.
| Tool | Free tier | From | MCP | API | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | – | Sales-quoted | – | ✓ | |
 Ribbon Public $499 voice interviewer if you want a grid instead of a Curious Thing quote. | – | $499/mo | – | – | Compare |
| | – | Enterprise | – | – | Compare |
| | – | Contact for pricing | – | ✓ | Compare |
| | – | Sales-quoted | – | – | Compare |
Ribbon$499/mo
Public $499 voice interviewer if you want a grid instead of a Curious Thing quote.
Enterprise
Enterprise structured video if voice-only is not enough.
Contact for pricing API
Voice plus SMS plus WhatsApp if the screen must meet candidates on their phone.
Sales-quoted
High-volume AI interviewer if Curious Thing and Babblebots are the two quotes.