Aural vs Interviewer.AI

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.

Interviewer.AI provides asynchronous video interviews, conversational AI avatar interviews, admissions screening, and mock interviews. Its screening tools include resume screening, candidate matching, response relevancy scoring, and human review. The 14-day trial permits up to five AI interview assessments. One credit covers an asynchronous interview and its assessment report; a conversational AI interview uses two credits, and unused credits roll over monthly. Essential Edition costs $199 a month and includes 50 interview credits per month, three job posts, 20-minute interviews, and 15 user licenses. Professional Edition costs $399 a month. The platform supports live interviews, recording, and templates, and is available on mobile without downloading an app. ATS integrations are available on annual Professional with a one-time customization fee and on Enterprise. Enterprise includes API access and custom connectors. Fraud checks flag signals for human review without changing candidate scores. The company says AI assessments support decisions, and authorized employer personnel must review candidates rather than rejecting them solely on AI scores.