AI interview software for hiring in Europe and the UK

Four of the five sellers are based in Europe or the UK

Tengai is Swedish. Maki is French. Metaview Screening and Spotted Zebra are both British. Employment Hero is Australian.

Maki keeps data mostly in the EU. Tengai keeps it in Sweden.

The seller’s country decides which law applies to a claim. Two things change your risk. They are whether a person decides, and whether there is a published bias audit.

Maki fits most hiring across Europe

Maki is MakiPeople SAS, based in Paris. It scores only the words a candidate says for this interview. Recruiters can turn on filters, such as a missing work permit, that reject a candidate automatically. No person reviews that specific call. Maki's own product page says no candidate is ever auto-rejected. The filter is real, and a recruiter switches it on. Holistic AI audited Maki for bias in March 2026.

Tengai fits hiring in the Nordics

Tengai is a Swedish company, Tengai AB, and it keeps interview data in Sweden. Its spoken interview is in Swedish or English. Since 17 September 2026, it translates every question into Norwegian and Danish too. Tengai's own pages describe who decides two ways. Most say the recruiter always decides. One page says its framework can screen and recommend candidates on its own. Tengai publishes no outside bias audit.

Employment Hero and Metaview Screening fit if you already pay for them

Employment Hero sells its interview tool in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It sells nothing on the European mainland. It reviews a candidate's audio and video together, and calls this "sentiment analysis." Its own terms class the interview as high-risk AI and rule out automatic rejection. For Metaview Screening, the company on your contract depends on where your company is based. The European Economic Area is the EU plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. There, and in the UK or Switzerland, it is Metaview Global Ltd, registered in England.

Spotted Zebra publishes the least of the five

Spotted Zebra is British, Spotted Zebra Solutions Ltd. Its contracts follow English law. VerifyWise audited it for bias on 10 September 2026. That audit was built from invented candidates for one sales role rather than real hiring data.

Compare Ribbon, sold out of Toronto, Canada. Its paperwork names a US company, LiveKit, Inc., that runs its interviews.

Tengai deletes a recording after 36 months, or sooner if a candidate objects. Metaview keeps one for the recruitment process plus up to 24 months. Spotted Zebra’s privacy policy typically keeps a candidate’s data for up to seven years after the assessment. Get a time limit for the recording from Maki and Employment Hero.

Prices here are the same as in the US

Ribbon, based in Toronto, Canada, lists $499 a month, billed yearly, for a hundred interviews a month. CodeSignal lists $79 a month, billed yearly. Employment Hero lists A$199 a month for fifty interviews. That is in Australian dollars, the currency of its own pricing page. Go over Ribbon's first hundred interviews and it charges $4.00 an interview more. None of these rates change for a European or UK contract. None of the five publishes a separate European or UK rate.

Tengai and Spotted Zebra publish no price. What you pay depends on your hiring numbers and a call with a salesperson. Maki bills per candidate interaction, with each of its agents billed separately. Maki’s contract offers smaller plans than its website leads with. Metaview gives 25 free interviews, then sells packs. The packs expire rather than carry over. Buy them against a hiring plan for each country, not one guess for the whole region.

What should you ask before you sign?

Take this list onto your first sales call.

1. Maki: Which objective filters can exclude a candidate for us, and are any switched on by default? Good answer: A named list of filters, none on by default unless we choose them.
2. Maki: Your privacy policy allows a supplier outside the European Union. Which safeguard covers that for our account? Good answer: A named safeguard, in writing.
3. Tengai: One of your own pages says your framework can screen candidates on its own. Does a person always decide for our account? Good answer: Yes, always, confirmed in writing.
4. Tengai: You publish no outside bias audit. Will you commission one before the EU's high-risk duties start on 2 December 2027? Good answer: Yes, with a date written into the contract.
5. Metaview Screening: Your rating comes from the transcript alone. What does the camera actually check? Good answer: Written confirmation that nothing from the camera feeds the score.
6. Spotted Zebra: Your bias audit used invented candidates for one sales role. Will you audit the roles we actually hire for? Good answer: Yes, before we sign.
7. Employment Hero: Your video summary uses what you call sentiment analysis. What exactly does it read? Good answer: A named list of signals, in writing.
8. Employment Hero: Can you confirm in writing that a person decides every rejection? Good answer: Yes, in the order form.

Tengai for the Nordics, Maki for the rest of Europe

If you are also sizing this by headcount, our mid-market guide and enterprise guide cover the rest of this shortlist. The comparison page puts all sixteen tools side by side.