Head to head

HireVue vs Lightscreen

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

HireVue

Enterprise

Enterprise structured video interviews with assessments wired into the hiring stages. Quote-based.

Where HireVue fits

  • Enterprise talent teams standardising video interviews
  • Teams that need assessments before an onsite
  • High-volume employers that cannot run live first rounds
  • Buyers comparing validated assessment vendors

Lightscreen

Sales-quoted

Lightscreen is an AI recruiting pipeline for screening, scheduling, and voice AI interviews. Packaging is sales-quoted.

Where Lightscreen fits

  • TA teams that want screening plus voice AI interviews plus scheduling in one vendor
  • High-volume roles where a voice agent should book the next step
  • Companies comparing a pipeline product with FetchTalent or EvoHire screens
  • Orgs that will keep Greenhouse or Ashby as the ATS of record

At a glance

DetailHireVueLightscreen
Starting priceEnterpriseSales-quoted
Free tier–No–No
MCP server–No–No
Public API–No–No
Listed underAssessments, Candidate fraud & AI detection, Interviewing, AI screeningAssessments, Interviewing, AI interviewing
Capterra4.5 from 50 reviewsNot enough reviews

Where they pull apart

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

  • Small businesses that want a cheap async video tool
  • Desks that only need interview notes

Lightscreen

Stands out: Screening, scheduling, and voice AI interviews sit in one pipeline, so you are not stitching an AI interviewer to a separate scheduler.

Watch out: lightscreen.ai routes buyers to a demo. There is no $99/mo self-serve interviewer. ATS writeback and volume bands land in the quote.

Not the right fit for

  • Hiring managers who want a $59/role one-way video link today
  • Buyers who need a published per-interview rate

Pros and cons

HireVue

  • Video and assessments in one suite
  • Built for defensible high-volume screening
  • Connects to the major enterprise trackers
  • No published price
  • No API or MCP
  • Too heavy for small-team async video

Lightscreen

  • Screening, scheduling, and voice AI interviews in one pipeline
  • Voice agent can move a candidate to a booked next step
  • Designed as a layer on the ATS, not a rip-and-replace
  • Sales-quoted, no public interview pack
  • Implementation depends on ATS and calendar access
  • Overlap with EvoHire, Ribbon, and HireVue

What each one costs

HireVue

Enterprise

Enterprise. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 7 Sep 2026

Lightscreen

Sales-quoted

Lightscreen quotes screening, scheduling, and voice AI interview pipelines. lightscreen.ai routes buyers to a demo rather than a published grid. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 19 Sep 2026

Common questions

Can you try HireVue or Lightscreen for free?
Neither carries a free tier on our listing.

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Editorial listings, never paid rankings. Prices checked 7 Sep 2026. Confirm current terms on the vendor site. Spot an error?