Alex AI vs Puck

Alex AI is a recruiting platform from Apriora Inc., doing business as Alex. It covers outreach, resume screening, candidate interviews, verification, and scheduling while keeping the hiring team involved throughout. Talent Match uses natural-language matching to rediscover qualified past applicants in an applicant tracking system. Resume scoring compares candidates with role criteria and summarizes strengths, gaps, and alignment in plain language. Alex runs personalized two-way screening interviews by video, phone, SMS, or WhatsApp, with interviews in 26+ languages and 24-hour availability. Verification can check a government ID and live selfie, flag possible fraud, and identify signs of cheating. A coordinator books qualified candidates on the team calendar and manages briefings, confirmations, reminders, and rescheduling. Alex says it supports 33+ ATS integrations, including Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, and SAP SuccessFactors. It states that interviews create records of questions, responses, and evaluated criteria, and that final hiring decisions remain with the team.

Puck is talent acquisition software for attracting applicants, screening candidates, and managing hiring workflows. Its AI Recruiter conducts on-demand phone interviews around the clock and supplies recordings, transcripts, and candidate scores. Candidates start from an SMS link without an app or camera, choose their timing, and can interview in more than 33 languages. Puck says people, not its AI, decide which candidates advance. Employer-branding tools include career sites, job pages, employee audio stories, passive outreach, and branded content. Talent CRM supports candidate relationships and automated outreach or follow-up. Lightweight ATS features cover job posting, candidate review, applicant stages, and collaboration with hiring managers. Listed integrations include Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, JazzHR, Comeet, PCRecruiter, and Applicant Pro. Plans bill yearly: Starter is $300 a month, Standard $600 a month, Pro $1,000 a month, and Enterprise has no listed price. Standard includes 200 AI Recruiter interviews monthly and Pro 500; extra interviews cost 3 USD each. The site displays a SOC 2 badge, and recordings are usually retained about two years.