Talview

Talview interviews and ranks high volumes of candidates, and you get the price by quote

Talview Ivy also has a page in our guide to AI interview agents. Read the Talview Ivy page for how the interview itself works.

The same interview for everyone, with a reason behind every score

It suits teams that interview thousands of people for the same roles

Talview can end your service without notice and caps what it owes you

Talview quotes a price per unit, and lists Ivy at $5,000 a month on Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace

Talview prices by unit, and each feature has its own unit. Options exist for single features and for bundles. You fill in a form and a salesperson contacts you.

A first order typically needs about 150 to 200 candidates. A pilot above 10 candidates may cost extra. Ask for the price of a 150-candidate first order in writing before you agree to a pilot.

Talview lists Ivy on Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace on a one-month plan at $5,000. The plan renews automatically. Companies that buy from Microsoft can pay with Azure credits. Check that the marketplace plan matches what your salesperson quotes.

When a contract ends, Talview destroys the data it processed for you and shares proof. Until then it keeps the data as long as the service needs it. By default, Talview keeps data for six months. The service agreement sets this.

Nine questions before you sign

1. What notice will you give before ending our service, and what uptime do you promise? Good answer: A written notice period and an uptime figure in our own order form.
2. Will you raise the six-month cap on what you owe us? Good answer: Yes, to at least a year of fees, written into the order form.
3. What does Ivy treat as non-verbal cues, and what does it do with them? Good answer: A short list that does not include mood or emotion. A cue never changes a score on its own.
4. Which of our applicant tracking systems can Ivy send scores back to, and what shows on the candidate record? Good answer: A named list that includes our system, with the score and a link to the transcript.
5. Where will our candidates’ interviews be stored, how long do you keep them and how do we export them? Good answer: A named country, a retention period we can shorten, a file format and a deletion date with proof.
6. What does a candidate get if they cannot or will not take an AI interview? Good answer: A named alternative that does not count against them.
7. Who ran the third-party fairness audit, and can we read the results? Good answer: A named auditor, a date and a report we can keep.
8. Which of our rules can move on or turn down a candidate with no person looking? Good answer: A named list of rules, a setting to switch each one off and a person who reviews every turn-down.
9. How many interviews does the $5,000 marketplace month cover, and what does each extra one cost? Good answer: A written number of interviews, a price for extra ones and the cost of a 150-candidate first order.

Alternatives to Talview

If Talview does not fit, look at HireVue, HeyMilo, Humanly, Maki People and CodeSignal, or buy nothing.

HireVue sells an AI Interviewer with agents that ask follow-up questions and record answers. HeyMilo screens every applicant by voice, video, text message and forms in more than 20 languages. Humanly is built for hourly, frontline and high-volume hiring. Maki People’s Mochi agent runs the recruiter phone screen. It sends results to your applicant tracking system as they come in. CodeSignal runs AI interviews for volume roles, customer-facing screens, support and operations, and an engineering behavioural screen. Its Build plan costs $79 a month, billed annually. It covers the Product, Design and Engineering AI Interviewers.

Buying nothing is also a real choice. If you interview a few dozen people a year, your recruiters can run the first call. Talview’s minimum first order is far larger than that.