HireVue's async, one-way video format goes back to 2004, long before candidates could open ChatGPT in the next tab. Evy gives you a live, conversational interview with calibrated eye tracking, screen + camera capture, and a lockdown browser, at $2–4 per interview, not a $35K+ enterprise contract.
HireVue records candidates alone with no live integrity monitoring, and dropped its AI facial analysis in 2020 (announced January 2021) after EPIC's FTC complaint. Today's scoring is transcript-only. Evy ships calibrated eye tracking, screen + camera capture, full-page activity detection, and a lockdown browser on every interview, on record.
Per Vendr's 2025 transaction data, HireVue's Essentials tier starts around $35K/yr (no AI scoring or games), the median enterprise contract lands near $49,855/yr, and large deployments run $145K+/yr, with year-one costs typically 30–60% above the base subscription. Evy publishes pay-as-you-go ($4), monthly ($3), and annual ($2) rates on /pricing. Pay only for interviews you actually run.
HireVue's async one-way recordings predate LLMs by twenty years. Innovation since Carlyle's acquisition has been M&A driven (MindX 2018, AllyO 2020, Modern Hire 2023, Hireguide 2026). Evy runs a real-time, two-way conversation that adapts follow-ups to every answer, which makes both the interview signal and the cheat detection categorically stronger.
How Evy and HireVue stack up on the things buyers ask about.
The #1 thing Evy gets right and most AI interviewers get wrong: catching the candidates who run ChatGPT in another window. Here's the honest comparison.
Async video recording, transcript-only scoring, no live integrity monitoring
HireVue's flagship format is the async one-way interview: a candidate sits alone, in their own room, and records answers to pre-set questions on their own device. That format is structurally vulnerable to modern AI cheating. There is no live interviewer to read the room, no calibrated eye tracking to flag a second monitor, and no full-page activity detection to catch a candidate tabbing into ChatGPT between questions. HireVue dropped facial analysis from its AI scoring in March 2020 (announced publicly in January 2021) after an EPIC FTC complaint; Chief Data Scientist Lindsey Zuloaga later acknowledged that facial cues contributed only about 0.25% to predictive accuracy, not worth the controversy. Today's scoring is transcript-only and deterministic, useful for a hiring manager to review later but with no live signal on the candidate's camera, screen, or eyes. CodeVue adds plagiarism detection and randomized questions for coding interviews, but the core async product has no browser lockdown, no eye tracking, and no behavioral proctoring. In 2026, an async one-way recording is effectively a writing prompt that the candidate can answer with help from ChatGPT, a friend off-camera, or both.
An async interview in the age of ChatGPT isn't a screen, it's a writing prompt for AI.
HireVue does not publish prices on its site, but Vendr's 2025 transaction data documents the floor at roughly $35K/yr for the Essentials tier (one-way video and basic compliance, no AI scoring or games), a median enterprise contract near $49,855/yr, and high-end deployments at $145K+/yr. Year-one true cost typically runs 30–60% above the base subscription once you add implementation ($15K–$40K), ATS integration services, and advanced analytics. Contracts are 2–3 years with rolling 60-day auto-renewal. There is no pay-as-you-go option, no self-serve tier, and no published per-interview rate.
At 200 interviews/month, Evy costs less per YEAR ($4,800–$9,600) than HireVue's median enterprise contract costs per YEAR ($49,855), and the floor tier at HireVue doesn't include AI scoring or games at all. Same interview count. Better anti-cheat. No procurement cycle.
Evy caught a candidate cheating that we 100% would have moved forward. That alone paid for the year.
Set up an interview in 4 minutes, had 12 candidates done by Monday. This is the future.
Reduced our cost-per-hire by ~40%. Hard to argue with the math.
Talk to Evy yourself. She'll ask about you, your team, and what your hiring looks like.