Spark Hire alternatives: six one-way video interview tools compared
Spark Hire is a video interviewing platform that also sells a full applicant tracking system, priced from $249 a month on an annual commitment or $299 month to month, with no free plan. People look for alternatives to it mostly on price: $249 a month is an enterprise-shaped number, and a team screening for two or three roles a year rarely gets $3,000 of value out of it. The six tools below all do one-way video interviews for less, and most of them do only that.
Side by side
Spark Hire's own column is included so the gap is visible rather than asserted. Every figure was read from the vendor's public pages on the date shown beside their section.
| Tool | Free plan, not a trial | Entry price | Team members included | AI scoring against a rubric you write |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoxScreen Our product | Yes, 50 candidates a month | $39/mo | Unlimited, on every plan | Yes |
| Spark Hire The tool you are comparing against | No | $249/mo | 5 monthly, unlimited annual | Not stated on their site |
| Hireflix | No | $75/mo | Unlimited | Not stated on their site |
| Willo | No | $59 per live role/mo | 5 on Lite | Scorecards + AI summaries |
| Truffle | No | $49/mo | Unlimited | Yes |
| OneWayInterview | No | $13.99/mo | Unlimited | Yes |
| Hirevire | No | $49/mo | 1 on Essentials | AI scorecards |
The tools in detail
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
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 rather than 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.
· Sources: hireflix.com/pricing , help.hireflix.com · VoxScreen vs Hireflix
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.
Pick Willo if
- You need ISO 27001, SSO, MFA and a dedicated success manager to clear procurement.
- You need built-in ID, right-to-work or background checks in the same flow.
- You interview in languages beyond the five VoxScreen covers. Willo lists 18+.
· Sources: willo.video/pricing · VoxScreen vs Willo
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 rather than 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 rather than questions generated for your role.
- Unlimited interviews at $209.99/mo is the shape you need, and metering per interview beats metering per candidate.
· 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.
· Sources: hirevire.com/pricing
Which one to look at first
If you want to spend nothing until it has proven itself: VoxScreen is the only permanent free plan here — 50 candidates a month with unlimited seats.
If you want the lowest paid price: OneWayInterview at $13.99/mo annually, then VoxScreen at $39/mo and Truffle and Hirevire at $49/mo.
If you interview at genuinely high volume: Hireflix at $75/mo buys unlimited interviews and seats, which stops the per-candidate maths from ever biting.
If you actually wanted the ATS, stay. This is the honest caveat on the whole page: every tool below is a screening tool, and none of them tracks an applicant from application to offer. If Spark Hire is replacing an ATS as well as an interview tool, replacing it with anything here means finding a second product too, and the combined bill may not beat $249.
Common questions
What is a cheaper alternative to Spark Hire?
Nearly everything in this category. Spark Hire's video interview product is $249/mo billed annually or $299 month to month. OneWayInterview is $13.99/mo on an annual plan, VoxScreen $39/mo with a free tier below it, Truffle and Hirevire $49/mo, Willo $59 per live role and Hireflix $75/mo. The gap is large enough that price is usually the reason people are on this page.
Is there a free Spark Hire alternative?
VoxScreen, which has a permanent free plan covering 50 candidates a month, 2 active interviews and unlimited team members with no card and no expiry. Spark Hire offers no free plan. The other tools here offer trials of 7 to 30 days rather than free tiers.
Do Spark Hire alternatives include an ATS?
No, and that is the main thing you would give up. Spark Hire sells applicant tracking alongside video interviewing, from $335/mo. Every alternative compared here is a screening tool: it collects, transcribes and in most cases scores recorded answers, then hands off to whatever ATS you already run. Most of them integrate with common ATS products through an API, webhooks or Zapier.
How many team members do Spark Hire alternatives include?
Spark Hire includes 5 users on the monthly plan and unlimited on the annual one. Among the alternatives, VoxScreen, Hireflix, Truffle and OneWayInterview include unlimited team members; Willo Lite caps at five; Hirevire's entry plan includes one. If several people review candidates, this row is worth reading before the price row.
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 are the better buy. Products and prices change — check their site before you decide.
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