Head to head
Same facts, side by side: starting price, free tier, MCP, API and what each one is actually built for.
Sales-quoted 14 day free trial
Pre-employment testing and video interviewing sold as three packages: Assess, Interview, and Hire. Quote-based, with a 14-day free trial.
Where Criteria fits
Enterprise
Enterprise structured video interviews with assessments wired into the hiring stages. Quote-based.
Where HireVue fits
| Detail | Criteria | HireVue |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Sales-quoted | Enterprise |
| Free tier | –No | –No |
| Free trial | 14 day free trial | Not on record |
| MCP server | –No | –No |
| Public API | ✓Yes | –No |
| Listed under | Assessments | Assessments, Candidate fraud & AI detection, Interviewing, AI screening |
| Capterra | Not enough reviews | 4.5 from 50 reviews |
Criteria
Stands out: Cognitive, personality, emotional intelligence, risk, and skills tests on one platform, with video interviews in the same suite.
Watch out: All three packages are sales-quoted. AI proctoring, the AI interview agent, and AI scoring are paid upgrades, and Develop is a separate add-on.
Not the right fit for
HireVue
Stands out: Video interviews and validated assessments in one enterprise suite.
Watch out: No published price, and it is far heavier than a small team needs for async video.
Not the right fit for
Criteria
HireVue
Criteria
Sales-quoted
Sales-quoted. No public rate card on the vendor site. Three packages (Assess, Interview, Hire) are priced by headcount, with AI upgrades and the Develop add-on on top, and a 14-day free trial is available. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.
Checked 19 Sep 2026
HireVue
Enterprise
Enterprise. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
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