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Alex vs TalentSprout

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

TalentSprout

$199/mo 7 day free trial

TalentSprout is an AI interviewer that runs scored voice and video first-round screens by link, in 50+ languages and at any hour. It suits agencies and in-house teams doing lots of first-round screening, from $199/month for 50 interviews with a 7-day free trial.

Where TalentSprout fits

  • Staffing agencies screening high volumes of applicants
  • Customer-facing, sales, support and hourly roles
  • Teams hiring across many languages
  • Bullhorn, Greenhouse or Lever users who want scores on the candidate record

At a glance

DetailAlexTalentSprout
Starting priceSales-quoted$199/mo
Free tier–No–No
Free trialNot on record7 day free trial
MCP server–No–No
Public API–No✓Yes
Listed underCandidate fraud & AI detection, Interviewing, AI interviewing, AI screeningAI interviewing, Interviewing, AI screening

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

TalentSprout

Stands out: Every plan carries the full feature set, including resume and questionnaire pre-screening, custom scoring matrices and branding, so the only thing you buy is interview volume. Results sync to a long list of ATS, HRIS and staffing CRMs including Bullhorn and Fountain, and a Resume Screening API exposes the same scoring engine.

Watch out: Overage is $4 per interview on Starter, so a busy month past 50 interviews adds up fast; Growth at $499 for 250 is the better buy above about 125 a month. Only Zoho Recruit and Breezy HR connect self-serve, other ATSs go through TalentSprout's managed setup, and the company dates from January 2025 with no outside reviews yet.

Not the right fit for

  • Teams that interview only a handful of candidates a month
  • Buyers who want an established vendor with outside reviews
  • Teams that want self-serve setup for every ATS

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

TalentSprout

  • All features on every plan
  • Voice and video interviews in 50+ languages
  • Broad ATS, HRIS and Bullhorn integrations
  • $4 overage per interview on Starter
  • Most ATS connections are a managed setup
  • Young company 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 28 Oct 2026

TalentSprout

$199/mo

TalentSprout prices by interviews per month, with every feature on every plan. Starter is $199/month for 50 interviews and 2 seats, then $4 per extra interview. Growth is $499/month for 250 interviews and 5 seats, then $2.50 per extra interview. Extra seats are $49/month each on both. Enterprise is quoted, with unlimited interviews and seats, white-label branding, custom voices and a dedicated account manager. There is a 7-day free trial with no credit card. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 28 Oct 2026

Common questions

Can you try Alex or TalentSprout for free?
Neither carries a free tier on our listing. TalentSprout offers a 7 day free trial.

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Editorial listings, never paid rankings. Prices checked 28 Oct 2026. Confirm current terms on the vendor site. Spot an error?