Ribbon

Ribbon publishes its price, and a recruiter decides every hire

Its price, flag guidance and a yearly outside bias audit come standard

Ribbon can train on your recordings and end service without notice

Ribbon AI Inc. is a young company based in Toronto. It announced $8m of funding in March 2025, led by Radical Ventures. Social Leverage, Cadenza Ventures and GD1 also took part. That is the only funding round it publishes. No acquisition and no layoffs have been reported. No case on the public court record names Ribbon. You are signing with a small supplier. Read the terms yourself before you sign.

It suits teams with more applicants than recruiters can phone

Published plans run $499 to $1,999 a month, billed yearly

The next plan up costs $999 a month, for five recruiters and 400 interviews. The largest published plan costs $1,999 a month, for ten recruiters and 1,000 interviews. The charge for going over your plan drops too. It runs from $4.00 an interview on the entry plan, to $3.00, then $2.50, on the bigger plans.

These prices assume yearly billing. Price the month you run most often, not your peak month. If about 400 interviews is your usual month, the entry plan adds $1,200 to your $499 a month. The $999 plan that covers 400 interviews costs less in that case. If 400 interviews is a once-a-year spike, the entry plan plus that month’s extras costs less instead.

A custom-quoted plan sits above these three. It adds staff login with their existing company account, separate teams inside one account, and security reviews. It is invoiced, not priced on the website.

There is no minimum volume. The smallest published plan covers two recruiters and two open roles at a time. No named customer has a published headcount. Ribbon calls Opencare “a small but ambitious organization”. Its own co-founder calls Katalyze AI “a small hiring team”.

By default, Ribbon keeps recordings and transcripts for up to 24 months. You or the candidate can ask for them to be deleted sooner. Your account data lasts as long as the contract does. When the contract ends, Ribbon’s data processing agreement commits it to delete or return all personal data, whichever you choose. You can also cut off access to one interview’s recordings on demand.

Eight questions for the demo

1. Is the consent message switched on for our account from day one? Who on our side can switch it off? Good answer: Only one named admin can change it, and every change is logged.
2. Will you remove the clause that lets you train your AI on our recordings? Good answer: Yes, in the order form, and for recordings you already hold.
3. What notice period and uptime figure will you put in our contract, without us buying the custom plan? Good answer: A written notice period and uptime figure on our own plan.
4. Will you give us the full bias audit report and the figures for roles like ours? Good answer: The full report, with figures we can publish for Local Law 144.
5. Where do your outside providers, LiveKit, OpenAI and Kombo, process and store our candidates’ data? Good answer: A named country for each one, and a line we can give a candidate who asks.
6. Which of our systems can you send a score into, not just read jobs from? Good answer: A named list of systems, and what appears on a candidate’s record.
7. What does a candidate get instead if they cannot take an AI interview? Good answer: A named alternative that does not count against the candidate.
8. How do our recordings, transcripts and scores come out in bulk when the contract ends? Good answer: A stated file format and a time window, written into the contract.

HeyMilo, Apriora and Humanly can act alone. Ribbon cannot.

If Ribbon comes off your shortlist, HeyMilo, Apriora and Humanly do the same job. All three are sold for the same high-volume hiring. All three quote against your headcount or your applicant numbers, rather than publishing a figure. Employment Hero and Metaview Screening sit inside products some companies already pay for. Buying nothing is a sixth route.

Look at HeyMilo, Apriora and Humanly if you want the interview to act on its own result. Each can be set to move a candidate on by itself, without a recruiter opening the interview first. HeyMilo can also reject a candidate the same way. Someone on your side owns that setting. Apriora also adds fraud scoring, interview monitoring and an identity check against a government document. Ribbon has no such identity check.

Employment Hero also publishes a price. A$199 a month covers 50 interviews. Buying it does not mean moving your HR or payroll systems across as well. Metaview Screening charges per finished interview. It starts every account with 25 free interviews, so a trial costs close to nothing.

Buying nothing this year is the last option. At about forty screens a month, most of Ribbon’s 100 interviews would go unused. From 2 December 2027, hiring systems like this one count as high risk under EU rules, with duties attached. The UK’s new rules on automated decisions came into force on 5 February 2026. A person must now be part of any such decision. Ribbon keeps a person in the decision, as long as your recruiters really open the interviews. Our market guide covers building a narrower version yourself.