Bryq vs Criteria

Bryq is a talent assessment platform for HR teams that combines cognitive ability, personality traits, hard skills, and AI fluency in a candidate profile. Customers can combine cognitive, personality, and skills assessments in one test. Its AI Fluency Assessment examines task strategy, prompting, critical evaluation, ethical use, and workflow integration. Bryq says its cognitive and personality assessments draw on the Big Five, 16pf, and CHC intelligence models and were developed with organizational psychologists. Self-service ATS integrations include Workable, Greenhouse, Lever, Teamtailor, BreezyHR, Recruitee, Pinpoint, Ashby, JazzHR, SmartCV, Zoho Recruit, and Comeet. Enterprise adds guided integrations and optional custom integrations. An MCP connection allows compatible assistants to answer candidate questions with read-only access governed by existing permissions. Bryq lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR compliance. Pro costs $69 per month, billed annually at $828 with a one-year commitment; free access is available through a free-forever plan or trial up to 15 days.

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.