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Alex vs MetaDay

Same facts, side by side: starting price, free tier, MCP, API and what each one is actually built for.

Starting price

Alex

Sales-quoted

Alex (formerly Apriora) is an AI interviewer for live voice, video, and text screens. The company is Alex at alex.com. Pricing is sales-quoted after a demo. There is no public rate card.

Where Alex fits

  • High-volume TA teams that cannot staff enough first-round interviewers
  • Companies that want one AI recruiter across phone, video, and text
  • Orgs already on one of the 33 supported ATS platforms
  • Global hiring that needs 30-language screens

MetaDay

$479/mo 30 day free trial

An AI recruiter that does the hiring work itself: it sources, sends outreach from your own LinkedIn and inbox, phones candidates for screening, runs AI interviews and negotiates with the top three before handing them over. Execute costs $479/mo on annual billing plus a 10% success fee per hire, which suits companies hiring one to three roles a month without a recruiter or agency. Scout is free to try with 5 discoveries.

Where MetaDay fits

  • Startups and small companies hiring one to three roles a month without a recruiter
  • Founders who want to cut agency placement fees
  • Teams on Ashby, Greenhouse or Workable that want the legwork automated around their ATS
  • Hiring managers who only want to meet decision ready finalists

At a glance

DetailAlexMetaDay
Starting priceSales-quoted$479/mo
Free tier–No–No
Free trialNot on record30 day free trial
MCP server–No–No
Public API–No–No
Listed underInterviewing, AI interviewing, AI screeningSourcing, AI interviewing, AI screening, AI sourcing

Where they pull apart

Alex

Stands out: Alex has run 1,000,000 candidate interviews, supports 30 languages, and lists 33 official ATS integrations. It handles outreach, screening, interviewing, verification, and scheduling so TA does not add headcount for first rounds.

Watch out: Every commercial path is a 30-minute demo. No self-serve SKU, no published per-interview rate, and no trial. This is built for high-volume screening, not a $99/mo SMB seat.

Not the right fit for

  • SMBs that need a published per-interview or per-month price
  • Teams that only want a human notetaker, not an AI that runs the interview

MetaDay

Stands out: Most AI recruiting tools stop at a shortlist or a screening score. MetaDay carries on through phone screens, scored interviews and a negotiation step, so the first time you meet a candidate they have already been screened, interviewed and aligned on terms. Outreach runs from your own LinkedIn and inbox, and it keeps your existing ATS rather than replacing it.

Watch out: The subscription comes with a 10% success fee per hire on top, so model the real cost per hire before committing. Running the flow inside your own tools rather than natively on MetaDay drops Execute to one cycle a month instead of three. SOC 2 Type II is still in progress (report expected H1 2027), the product has no outside reviews yet, and an AI phoning and negotiating with candidates may need disclosure under local hiring rules.

Not the right fit for

  • Recruitment agencies that bill clients on placements and want their own recruiters doing the calls
  • High volume hourly hiring, where conversational scheduling tools fit better
  • Buyers who need a finished SOC 2 Type II report today

Pros and cons

Alex

  • Voice, video, and text in one AI interviewer, 30 languages
  • 33 official ATS integrations, so reports can land where recruiters already work
  • Scale story: 1,000,000 interviews, built for thousands of screens a day
  • Sales-quoted only. Demo-gated, no trial
  • Overkill if you just need notes on human interviews
  • Review corpus is split across the Apriora and Alex names

MetaDay

  • Runs screening calls, interviews and negotiation, not just sourcing
  • Outreach goes from your own LinkedIn and inbox
  • Free Scout plan and a 30-day trial on Execute
  • 10% success fee per hire on top of the subscription
  • SOC 2 Type II not yet complete
  • New product with no outside reviews yet

What each one costs

Alex

Sales-quoted

Alex does not publish plan prices. Access is quoted after a demo. The product is the AI interviewer formerly sold as Apriora, now at alex.com. No self-serve trial is offered. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 19 Sep 2026

MetaDay

$479/mo

Scout is free to start with 5 discoveries and no card. Each discovery returns about 300 ranked candidates for you to contact by hand, and more credits are pay as you go from $99 per 1,000. Execute is $479/mo billed annually or $599/mo month to month, plus a 10% success fee per hire, with a 30-day trial. It runs one to three hiring cycles a month with up to 25 AI screening calls and 15 AI interviews per role, the AI negotiator for your top 3 and 2 seats. Enterprise (unlimited roles, 5 seats, priority SLA) is quoted, and a white glove VIP tier with a dedicated success manager starts from $6,500/mo. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 11 Oct 2026

Common questions

Can you try Alex or MetaDay for free?
Neither carries a free tier on our listing. MetaDay offers a 30 day free trial.

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Editorial listings, never paid rankings. Prices checked 19 Sep 2026. Confirm current terms on the vendor site. Spot an error?