Ployo vs Interviewer.AI: published pricing, and who gets the live interview
Updated August 2026
Interviewer.AI is a Singapore-founded video interview platform, and it stands apart from almost every other vendor in this cluster on one count: it publishes real, self-serve dollar pricing, from $199 to $399 a month, with a 14-day free trial. It also does something Ployo does not do at all: on its custom-priced Enterprise tier, it offers a live, avatar-led interview where the candidate sees an on-screen AI presence, not just hears one. This page concedes both points plainly. The more interesting comparison is what the two published, priced tiers actually contain, because it is not the same product as the Enterprise one.
Interviewer.AI is the better choice if you want to see and self-serve a real price before talking to anyone, and you are comfortable that the live, avatar-led interview experience only exists on its custom-priced Enterprise tier, not the published $199 or $399 plans. It is also the right choice if a genuine on-screen AI avatar is specifically what you want the candidate to experience; that capability exists on Enterprise, and Ployo does not have it at any tier. Ployo is the better choice if what you want is a live, adaptive, two-way video interview by default, on every plan, with no separate tier to unlock it, and a verdict quoting the candidate's own words rather than a facial-expression-and-voice score. Interviewer.AI's published pricing is the most transparent in this category. Ployo's live interview is the default, not the upsell.
An end-to-end AI video interview platform offering asynchronous one-way video interviews at its published Essential and Professional tiers, and, on its custom-priced Enterprise tier only, live conversational interviews led by an on-screen AI avatar.
- Format
- Two distinct modes, both on video. The published Essential and Professional tiers run asynchronous one-way interviews: the candidate records video answers to a fixed set of preset questions, analyzed for spoken words, voice and facial expression, and a recruiter reviews the recording later. A second mode, described as 'conversational, avatar-led interviews powered by agentic AI' and gated to the custom-priced Enterprise tier, asks dynamic follow-up questions in a format the company describes as simulating a live Zoom or Teams call. The candidate is recorded on video in both modes.
- Based
- Singapore-founded, per third-party company profiles; positioned as a global platform on its own site.
- Pricing
- Published on interviewer.ai/pricing. Essential Edition $199/month: 50 interview credits/month, 20-minute interviews, 15 user licenses. Professional Edition $399/month: 120 credits/month, 30-minute interviews, 25 licenses, adds AI interview summaries, transcripts and an Interview Fraud Checklist. Enterprise Edition: custom/annual pricing, customizable credits and duration, 40+ users, a dedicated account manager, and the conversational AI-avatar mode. Credit system: 1 credit equals 1 async video interview and report, 2 credits equal 1 conversational AI interview. 14-day free trial covering up to 5 completed assessments; credit top-ups from $150 for 50 credits.
Side by side
| Interviewer.AI | Ployo | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Published in three tiers: Essential $199/month (50 credits, 20-minute interviews, 15 licenses), Professional $399/month (120 credits, 30-minute interviews, 25 licenses), and a custom-priced Enterprise tier. A 14-day free trial covers up to 5 completed assessments. | Not published. Every engagement is scoped directly with the founder, with no volume floor. |
| Live, avatar-led AI interview | Available, but only on the custom-priced Enterprise tier. The published Essential and Professional tiers do not include it. | Every interview is a live, adaptive conversation by default; there is no separate paid tier to unlock it. |
| What the $199 and $399 published tiers actually run | Asynchronous one-way video: the candidate records answers to a fixed set of preset questions alone, with nothing adapting the questions in the moment. | A live two-way video interview that adapts its follow-up questions to what the candidate actually says. |
| Does the AI appear on screen | Yes, on the Enterprise tier: the conversational mode is described as 'avatar-led,' a genuine on-screen AI presence. The Essential and Professional tiers have no avatar, because those interviews are pre-recorded, not conversational. | No, on any plan. The AI speaks with no on-screen avatar; the candidate is the one on camera. |
| Fraud detection | An 'Interview Fraud Checklist' feature, available from the Professional tier ($399/month) and up, flags suspicious submission patterns; no further technical detail published. | Every interview is recorded on video with integrity signals attached, on every engagement, with no tier gate. |
| Languages | 10+ languages claimed for global hiring. | Not published as a fixed count. |
| Scale claimed | 850+ companies claimed as customers; a claimed 60 to 80% reduction in screening time and 1,000+ hours saved annually per customer. | No disclosed funding round; running in production on Australian care and healthcare hiring, a smaller and younger install base. |
| What the hiring team receives | A score derived from spoken words, voice and facial expression at the published tiers; an AI interview summary and transcript are added from the Professional tier up. | A per-requirement verdict quoting the candidate's own words, plus the full video recording and transcript, on every engagement. |
Choose Interviewer.AI if
- You want a real, self-serve price you can act on without a sales call. Interviewer.AI publishes three tiers, $199 and $399 a month with a stated feature list, plus a custom Enterprise plan, and backs it with a 14-day free trial covering up to 5 completed assessments. It is the only vendor in this comparison set, and one of very few in the whole category, with an actual dollar figure on the page.
- You specifically want the candidate to see an AI presence on screen, not just hear one. Interviewer.AI's Enterprise tier genuinely offers this: a conversational, avatar-led interview described as simulating a live Zoom or Teams call. Ployo does not have an on-screen avatar at any tier; its AI speaks and has no visual presence.
- You want to start cheap and grow into a live format later without switching vendors. Interviewer.AI's credit system lets a buyer run async interviews on the entry tiers and move up to the conversational, avatar-led mode when the budget and Enterprise tier support it.
- You want facial-expression and voice analysis layered on top of a scored interview, plus a named fraud-checking feature from the mid tier up. Interviewer.AI's Professional plan adds an Interview Fraud Checklist and AI-generated summaries and transcripts, a named integrity feature at a stated, published price point.
Choose Ployo if
- A live, adaptive, two-way conversation is not an upsell at Ployo, it is every interview, on every engagement, for every candidate. At Interviewer.AI, the two published, priced tiers, $199 and $399 a month, run the older asynchronous, fixed-question format; the live conversational mode with dynamic follow-ups is reserved for the custom-priced Enterprise tier that the transparent pricing this page just credited them for does not actually cover, so the headline price is not the price of the format most buyers picture when they hear 'AI interviewer'.
- Ployo returns a per-requirement verdict quoting the candidate's own words next to the full recording and transcript, on every plan, with no tier gate. Interviewer.AI's published tiers return a score built from spoken words, voice and facial expression, with a transcript only added once you reach the Professional tier and up, and even then, the page does not describe linking a specific score back to the specific words that produced it the way a quote-linked verdict does.
- No credit system and no license cap to plan around. Interviewer.AI meters both credits, 50 or 120 a month, at 2 credits per conversational interview, and user licenses, capped at 15, 25 or 40-plus depending on tier, so a hiring surge can simply run out of credits mid-role. Ployo is scoped per hiring team directly with the founder, with no volume floor and nothing to run out of.
- Integrity signals are recorded on every interview by default, at no extra cost and with no tier to unlock. Interviewer.AI's own Fraud Checklist is a Professional-tier-and-up feature, so a buyer on the entry $199 plan gets neither a fraud check nor a transcript, and would need to pay twice as much a month before either exists on their account at all.
The only vendor here with a real price tag
Interviewer.AI publishes its pricing directly, and this is a genuinely unusual level of transparency in this category: Essential at $199 a month for 50 interview credits, 20-minute interviews and 15 user licenses; Professional at $399 a month for 120 credits, 30-minute interviews, 25 licenses, and added summaries, transcripts and fraud checking; a 14-day free trial covering up to 5 completed assessments; and credit top-ups starting at $150 for 50 credits.
Ployo does not publish a price list, and this page will not dress that up as anything other than what it is: every engagement is scoped directly with the founder. The trade is no volume floor and no per-seat or per-credit metering, which suits a single hiring team running a role with a few hundred applicants differently than a tiered, credit-metered plan does. But if what you need first is a number on a page you can act on today, Interviewer.AI has one and Ployo does not.
Two products in one, and which tier you actually need
The detail worth reading carefully on Interviewer.AI's own pricing page is the credit system: 1 credit runs an asynchronous video interview and report, and 2 credits run a conversational AI interview, but the conversational mode itself, the one with an on-screen avatar and dynamic follow-up questions, is only available on the custom-priced Enterprise tier. The published $199 and $399 tiers run the async, fixed-question format regardless of how many credits you have.
That means a buyer comparing Interviewer.AI to Ployo on 'they also do a live AI interview' should check which tier actually includes it, because the transparent, self-serve pricing this page just credited them for does not cover the live format. Every Ployo interview is the live, adaptive format described above, with no tier to climb to get there.
A real on-screen avatar, and why Ployo does not have one
This is a genuine capability Interviewer.AI has that Ployo does not, and it is stated here without hedging: on the Enterprise tier, Interviewer.AI's conversational mode is described as avatar-led, meaning the candidate sees a rendered AI presence during the interview, not just hears a voice.
Ployo has no on-screen avatar at any tier. The AI speaks; it does not appear. That is a deliberate product decision, not an unfinished feature, but a buyer who specifically wants the candidate-facing experience of talking to a visible AI interviewer should know that Interviewer.AI's Enterprise plan offers exactly that today, and Ployo's answer is a live conversation with no face attached to it.
What each output actually contains
At Interviewer.AI's published tiers, the hiring team gets a score derived from the candidate's spoken words, voice and facial expression; an AI-generated summary and transcript are added once you reach the Professional tier and up. What is not described on the pages fetched is a mechanism for linking a specific score to a specific quote a hiring manager could check against a requirement.
Ployo's output is built around exactly that link: a per-requirement verdict quoting the candidate's own words, alongside the full video recording and transcript, on every engagement regardless of plan. One G2-sourced review of Interviewer.AI noted that setup was 'more involved than expected' and that 'some features shown in demos weren't available in our plan,' a reminder to check what a specific tier includes before assuming the demo reflects what you will actually get.
Who each is actually built for
Interviewer.AI targets a wide range of buyers, from growing teams on the Essential plan up to high-volume Enterprise hiring, with named verticals including warehouse workers, call centre agents, caregivers and university admissions or career-readiness programs, and a claimed 850+ companies as customers.
Ployo is built for a narrower, currently smaller case: a hiring team that wants the live, adaptive interview by default, with no tier to unlock it, running in production on Australian care and healthcare hiring today, with no disclosed funding round behind it. If the entry price point and self-serve evaluation matter most, that points toward Interviewer.AI. If what matters is that every candidate gets the same live, adaptive interview regardless of which plan you are on, that is what Ployo is built around.
Interviewer.AI wins on disclosure twice over: a real published price, and a real on-screen AI avatar, both things Ployo genuinely does not have. Neither is disputed here. What the comparison actually turns on is which tier gets you the live, adaptive interview. At Interviewer.AI, that is Enterprise, custom-priced, off the published page entirely. At Ployo, it is the only product there is: every candidate gets a live, two-way conversation and a quote-linked verdict, with no tier to climb to get there.
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Frequently asked
How much does Interviewer.AI cost?
Published in three tiers: Essential at $199/month (50 interview credits, 20-minute interviews, 15 user licenses), Professional at $399/month (120 credits, 30-minute interviews, 25 licenses, plus AI summaries, transcripts and fraud checking), and a custom-priced Enterprise tier. A 14-day free trial covers up to 5 completed assessments. Ployo does not publish a price list; every engagement is scoped directly with the founder.
Does Interviewer.AI have a live AI avatar?
Yes, on its Enterprise tier only. The conversational mode is described as avatar-led, giving the candidate a genuine on-screen AI presence, with dynamic follow-up questions. It is not available on the published $199 or $399 tiers. Ployo has no on-screen avatar at any tier; its AI speaks without a visual presence.
Do the $199 and $399 Interviewer.AI plans include a live conversational interview?
No. Those two published tiers run asynchronous, one-way video interviews with a fixed set of preset questions. The live, avatar-led conversational mode is reserved for the custom-priced Enterprise tier. Ployo's live, adaptive video interview is the only product it has, available on every engagement.
Does Interviewer.AI's fraud detection work on every plan?
No. The Interview Fraud Checklist feature is available from the Professional tier ($399/month) and up; the entry Essential tier does not include it. Ployo records every interview on video with integrity signals attached on every engagement, with no tier gate.
Does Ployo have a video avatar like Interviewer.AI's Enterprise tier?
No. Ployo's AI speaks and has no on-screen avatar at any tier; the candidate is the one on camera. Interviewer.AI's Enterprise tier genuinely offers an avatar-led conversational interview, which is a real capability Ployo does not have. The trade is that every Ployo interview is live and adaptive by default, with no separate tier required to get it.
Sources
Facts about other products come from their own public pages, checked on the dates below. Vendors change pricing and features without notice, so verify anything decision-critical at the source. Found something out of date? Tell us and we'll correct it.
- Interviewer.AI homepage · checked 2026-08-05
- Interviewer.AI pricing page · checked 2026-08-05
- Capterra: Interviewer.AI listing · checked 2026-08-05
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