Free Willo alternatives: what you can run at no cost, and what Willo does better
Willo is a one-way video interview platform priced at $59 per live role per month on Lite, capped at 5 live roles, 5 users and 150 assessed candidates per role, with an Enterprise contract from $3,229 a year above it. There is no free plan. Two things send people looking: the per-role meter, which punishes hiring for several positions at once, and the tier split: custom branding, custom scorecards, anti-cheat, the open API and downloadable responses are all Enterprise features, not Lite ones.
Side by side
Willo's own row is included so the comparison is against what you have instead of against a claim about it. Every figure was read from the vendor's public pages on the date shown beside their section.
| Tool | Free plan, not a trial | Free trial, if there is no free plan | Entry price | Team members included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoxScreen Our product | Yes, 50 candidates a month | Not needed. The free plan has no end date | $39/mo | Unlimited, on every plan |
| Willo The tool you're comparing against | No | Not stated on their site | $59 per live role/mo | 5 on Lite |
| Hireflix | No | 1 month | $75/mo | Unlimited |
| Spark Hire | No | Not stated on their site | $249/mo | 5 monthly, unlimited annual |
| Truffle | No | 7 days / 30 credits, no card | $49/mo | Unlimited |
| OneWayInterview | No | 14 days, no card | $13.99/mo | Unlimited |
| Hirevire | No | 7 days, no card | $49/mo | 1 on Essentials |
The tools in detail
Willo
Willo is a British one-way interview platform with 18+ interview languages, an assessment library, custom scorecards, anti-cheat controls, ISO 27001 certification and a long list of enterprise ATS integrations.
Willo Lite is $59 per live role per month, capped at 5 live roles, 5 users and 150 assessed candidates per role. Willo Enterprise is an annual contract from $3,229 to $3,799 a year depending on term. There is no free plan. The split between the two is worth reading carefully: Lite covers the assessment library, email and SMS invites and 18+ languages, but custom branding, custom scorecards, anti-cheat, the open API and downloadable responses are all marked as Enterprise features on their pricing page.
Pick Willo if
- You need ISO 27001, SSO, MFA and a dedicated success manager to clear procurement.
- You need ID, right-to-work or background checks in the same flow. They aren't bundled — Enterprise draws them from a credit balance and Lite sells them as add-ons — but no comparable step exists in VoxScreen at all.
- You interview in languages beyond the five VoxScreen covers. Willo lists 18+.
· Sources: willo.video/pricing · VoxScreen vs Willo
Hireflix
Hireflix is a focused one-way video interview product with unlimited seats, positions and responses on every paid plan, a well-documented GraphQL API and signed webhooks, and integrations into most ATS products.
Hireflix publishes $75/mo for companies under 50 employees and $150/mo for 50 to 250, both billed yearly, with a custom tier above that and a one-month free trial. There is no permanently free plan.
Pick Hireflix if
- You interview at high volume and want one flat price instead of a per-candidate allowance.
- You already run a mature ATS and want the interview tool to plug in and stay out of the way.
- Your team prefers to watch and judge answers itself rather than start from an AI score.
- You want the interview on your own domain. Hireflix sells custom domains. VoxScreen doesn't have them, so the candidate page stays on ours.
· Sources: hireflix.com/pricing , help.hireflix.com · VoxScreen vs Hireflix
Spark Hire
Spark Hire sells three separate products: an applicant tracking system, video interviewing, and behavioural assessment. Paid plans carry unlimited users, and pricing steps up with company size.
The video interview product is $299/mo month-to-month for up to 5 simultaneous jobs and 5 users, or $249/mo billed annually with unlimited jobs and users. The ATS plans start at $335/mo, annual only. No free plan is offered.
Pick Spark Hire if
- You want an ATS and a video interview tool from one vendor on one contract.
- You buy on an annual contract through procurement. The ATS plans are annual only and priced for that.
- You want behavioural assessment and automated reference checks in the same purchase.
· Sources: sparkhire.com/pricing · VoxScreen vs Spark Hire
Truffle
Truffle is candidate screening software combining resume screening, one-way video interviews and talent assessments, all drawing on a single monthly credit pool. A resume screen costs 1 credit, an assessment 2, and a one-way interview 5.
Starter is $49/mo billed monthly with 200 credits and a hard cap. Core is $99/mo billed annually with 7,200 credits a year, Team $199/mo, Scale $499/mo, and rollover plus $0.25 overage credits above Starter. The trial is 7 days and 30 credits, no card.
Pick Truffle if
- Resume screening is the bottleneck, not the interview. Truffle prices that as its cheapest action.
- Your volume swings month to month and credit rollover is worth more to you than a fixed allowance.
- You want assessments and interviews measured in one budget not two subscriptions.
· Sources: hiretruffle.com/pricing · VoxScreen vs Truffle
OneWayInterview
OneWayInterview is a one-way video interview tool aimed at small businesses, with AI candidate scoring, over 100 pre-built screening tests, ATS integrations, anti-cheat controls and metered interview volume.
Annual plans run $13.99/mo for 30 interviews, $34.99 for 60, $62.99 for 150 and $209.99 for unlimited, with monthly billing about 30% higher and extra interviews at $0.57 each. The trial is 14 days with no card. There is no free plan.
Pick OneWayInterview if
- Your volume is genuinely small and predictable, and a 30-interview allowance covers a whole quarter.
- You want a large library of ready-made screening tests instead of questions generated for your role.
- Unlimited interviews at $209.99/mo is the shape you need, and metering per interview beats metering per candidate. That tier is also the only one with their Corporate Domain option, which VoxScreen has no equivalent of.
· Sources: onewayinterview.com/pricing · VoxScreen vs OneWayInterview
Hirevire
Hirevire is an asynchronous screening tool that collects video, audio and file responses, transcribes them in 90+ languages and produces AI scorecards, with plans metered by active jobs, users and interviews per year.
Hirevire publishes $49/mo for Essentials (1 active job, 1 user, 300 interviews a year), $149/mo for Professional and $249/mo for Agency, each about 20-35% cheaper billed yearly. There is a 7-day free trial with no card, but no permanently free plan.
Pick Hirevire if
- You need candidates to attach files or portfolios alongside their recorded answers.
- You screen in languages well outside the five VoxScreen supports: Hirevire advertises transcription in 90+.
- You hire one role at a time and one person does all the reviewing, which is exactly what the Essentials plan is priced for.
- You need interviews on your own domain, or emails sent from your own server. Hirevire sells both from Professional up; VoxScreen has neither.
· Sources: hirevire.com/pricing · VoxScreen vs Hirevire
The short answer, then the long one
Free, with no clock: VoxScreen is the only permanent free plan here. 50 candidates a month, unlimited team members, no card. Custom branding is on the free plan, which is the sharpest contrast with Willo, where branding starts at $3,229 a year.
Cheaper per role: if you hire for several positions at once, almost anything beats a per-role meter. VoxScreen, Truffle, Hireflix and OneWayInterview all meter candidates or interviews instead of open roles, so a second and third role cost nothing extra to open.
Where Willo genuinely wins: 18+ interview languages against VoxScreen's five, ISO 27001 certification, and SMS invites alongside email. If you screen outside Western Europe and the Americas, or if a security questionnaire is part of your buying process, those aren't small things and no free plan replaces them.
Read the tier split before you compare prices at all. Willo Lite at $59 doesn't include branding, the API, downloadable responses or anti-cheat. Comparing $59 against another tool's entry price is comparing different products.
Common questions
Does Willo have a free plan?
No. Willo Lite starts at $59 per live role per month and there is no free tier. Willo doesn't publish a trial length on its pricing page either, so the terms for trying it are something you would need to ask about. This was last checked on the date shown beside their section below.
What is the free alternative to Willo?
VoxScreen, which has the only permanent free plan in this comparison: 50 candidates a month, 2 active interviews, unlimited team members, no credit card and no expiry. Unlike Willo Lite, custom branding is included, your logo and colors go on the interview and the invitation email on every plan, the free one included.
Why is Willo priced per role instead of per candidate?
It suits a team hiring for one position at a time with a large applicant pool, since 150 assessed candidates are included per role. It suits a team hiring for five positions with 20 applicants each much less well, because each open role is another $59. Which meter is cheaper depends entirely on the shape of your hiring, not on the headline number.
Can I get custom branding without Willo Enterprise?
Not on Willo. Branding is an Enterprise feature, and Enterprise is an annual contract from $3,229. Elsewhere in this comparison branding is far cheaper: it is on every tier at Hireflix, Truffle, OneWayInterview and Hirevire, from $13.99/mo at the low end, and it is on the free plan at VoxScreen. What VoxScreen doesn't offer is white label — no custom domain, and our name stays on the candidate page.
VoxScreen makes one of the tools on this page, so read the ranking with that in mind. Every competitor figure comes from that vendor's own public pages, read on the date shown in their section, and every section says when they're the better buy. Products and prices change. Check their site before you decide.
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