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BrightHire vs Confeti

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

Starting price

BrightHire

Sales-quoted

Interview intelligence that records, transcribes and coaches, sitting on top of your ATS. Quote-based, with MCP available.

Where BrightHire fits

  • Talent teams on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby or Workday
  • Panels where someone always misses the interview
  • Teams coaching their interviewers
  • Organisations that want notes without a separate note-taker

Confeti

$49/mo Free tier

Confeti captures interviews and hiring manager intakes without a meeting bot and turns them into evidence-linked scorecards and candidate briefs. A Free plan covers 5 conversations a week, and Core is $49/recruiter/mo with hiring managers and interviewers free. It fits in-house talent teams that want interview notes, calibration and funnel analysis in one place.

Where Confeti fits

  • In-house talent teams running multi-stage interview loops
  • Recruiting leaders who need to explain funnel drops by role
  • Teams whose candidates dislike meeting bots on calls

At a glance

DetailBrightHireConfeti
Starting priceSales-quoted$49/mo
Free tier–No✓Yes
MCP server✓Yes–No
Public API✓Yes–No
Listed underAI note takers, InterviewingAI note takers, Interviewing, People analytics

Where they pull apart

BrightHire

Stands out: Interview recordings and coaching attached to the candidate record in the ATS.

Watch out: No published price, and it needs an ATS underneath it.

Not the right fit for

  • Small businesses with no ATS
  • High-volume hourly chat screening

Confeti

Stands out: Only recruiters are billed on Core; hiring managers and interviewers get unlimited free seats. Evaluations cite the exact quote and timestamp behind each rating, and the Intelligence tier flags requirement drift between intake and later interviews. Capture runs from a macOS or Windows desktop app, so no bot joins the call.

Watch out: Confeti does not name which ATS platforms its $99/mo Connected sync supports, so check your ATS before buying. Cross-role analytics, calibration and company memory sit in the separate Intelligence tier from $149/mo, and the full ATS option is quote-only. The same brand also sells HR tools such as docs, eSign and performance cycles, so confirm which modules your quote covers.

Not the right fit for

  • Agencies that need a candidate sourcing database
  • Buyers who need a named, verified integration with their ATS today
  • Teams looking for an AI interviewer that runs screens on its own

Pros and cons

BrightHire

  • Works with the major modern trackers
  • MCP available
  • Coaching sits alongside the recording
  • No published price
  • Requires an ATS underneath

Confeti

  • Hiring managers and interviewers are free
  • No meeting bot on calls
  • Ratings link to exact quotes and timestamps
  • Supported ATS platforms are not named
  • Analytics require the separate Intelligence tier
  • Full ATS option is quote-only

What each one costs

BrightHire

Sales-quoted

Quote-based. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 17 Sep 2026

Confeti

$49/mo

Confeti has a Free plan that records and transcribes up to 5 conversations per week with a basic interview summary. Confeti Core costs $49/recruiter/mo and adds unlimited interview capture, summaries, candidate briefs and candidate-level Ask Confeti. Hiring managers and interviewers use Confeti free on every plan. Confeti Connected adds an ATS sync for $99/mo per ATS, and Confeti Intelligence starts at $149/mo per company for cross-role analytics, calibration and company memory. Confeti ATS, which replaces your existing ATS, is priced by headcount through sales. No free trial is listed; the Free plan is the way to test it. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 28 Sep 2026

Common questions

Can you try BrightHire or Confeti for free?
Confeti carries a free tier on our listing.
Does BrightHire or Confeti have an MCP server?
BrightHire ships a first party MCP server, so an AI assistant can work the product directly.

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Editorial listings, never paid rankings. Prices checked 17 Sep 2026. Confirm current terms on the vendor site. Spot an error?