Aural vs Criteria

Aural is a platform for conducting structured, adaptive interviews by chat, voice, or video. Its AI interviewer changes the depth, tone, and direction of follow-up questions based on participant responses. Interviews can be live or asynchronous and recorded; sessions are automatically transcribed and summarized, with structured results exportable as XLSX or PDF. Templates support open-ended, multiple-choice, rating-scale, coding, and whiteboard questions. Aural supports interview languages including English, Chinese, Spanish, French, and German. It provides a REST API with Bearer-token authentication and an OpenAPI specification, but does not provide webhooks or official SDKs. Aural is open source under the MIT license and can be self-hosted; that version supports pluggable LLMs including OpenAI, Kimi, MiniMax, or compatible APIs. Aural states that data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.3, and that it complies with GDPR and other global privacy regulations. The free plan includes three templates, 100 AI tokens, 30 minutes of session time, and one seat. Paid plans include usage-based pricing and a Starter plan at $9 a month.

Criteria Real-Time Video Interviewing is a web platform for live candidate interviews, combining two-way video, guided questions, scoring, recording and AI-assisted post-call review. Evaluators can use predefined questions, real-time prompts and role-specific rubrics, then rate answers, add comments and supplementary ratings, and record an overall recommendation. After a call, the service can provide a transcript, summary, categorized key moments and plain-English interview questions and answers linked to recording timestamps. Batch transcripts with speaker labels are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese. Candidates and evaluators join in a browser without downloads or account creation; multiple evaluators use separate passwordless links and scoring forms. Candidates must explicitly consent to recording and AI processing, and those AI features remain off without consent. Criteria says it supports standard ATS integrations plus API and custom connections to ATS or HRIS systems. Pricing is on request.