In short
Mercer Mettl publishes no price. Its pricing page offers personalised plans and a quote. Tracy AI Interviewer publishes hers: $1 per credit, one credit per started 20 minutes, the first 3 results free, no seats, no upfront cost.
A 45-minute technical interview is $3 on Tracy, with follow-ups and a written assessment per question.
Mercer Mettl is the better pick for proctored tests at campus and enterprise scale; ask it for a first-year total at your volume.
Next step: try three real interviews free and set the figure beside your quote.
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Mercer Mettl pricing is not public. Its pricing page asks for a quote, with no amount, plan tier or unit listed. That makes the first job of a pricing page practical: say what is known, how to estimate, and what to ask on the call. Tracy AI Interviewer is the contrast. She charges for each interview that produced a result, the price is on her pricing page, and you can work out a budget before you speak to anyone.
What does Mercer Mettl pricing look like?
Mercer Mettl's pages describe an online assessment and proctoring platform and sell by quote. The table lists every price signal on the pages read.
Source: Mercer Mettl pages, read 9 Nov 2026. Quoted phrases are word for word. No amount, plan name or unit appears on any of them.
| Page | What it says about price | Read on |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing page | "Personalized Pricing Plans" and "Customised plan as per your organisation". A Get quote now button with a product selector, and a demo request. | 9 Nov 2026 |
| Tech screening page | Offers "Try for free", a demo and a call with an expert. No price. | 9 Nov 2026 |
| Home page | Lists Pricing in its main menu. No amount. | 9 Nov 2026 |
How can you estimate what Mercer Mettl costs?
What follows is reasoning, not a Mercer Mettl figure. Its pages do not say how it bills, so the unit could be the candidate, the test, the proctored session or the user. Whatever the unit, a quote built for large assessment programmes is likely to carry a minimum, and a low volume of interviews is then likely to cost more per interview than a high one. Treat any figure you are given as a starting point and ask for the first-year total at 100, 500 and 1,000 candidates, so you can compare it with a per-result price. Also ask whether the quote covers proctoring, the live coding interview tool and the question library, because its pages list them as separate products.
What should you ask on a Mercer Mettl quote call?
- What is the unit we pay for: candidate, test, proctored session or user?
- Is there a minimum commitment or a minimum number of candidates?
- Which of the pieces we need are priced separately: proctoring, the live coding interview tool, the question library, reports?
- Does ATS integration cost extra? Its partners page lists prebuilt integrations (Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters); ask which are in the quote.
- What does the free trial on the tech screening page include?
- What is the first-year total at 100, 500 and 1,000 candidates, and what happens at renewal?
- What support is included, and who answers a candidate's call on test day?
What does Tracy cost at 100, 500 and 1,000 interviews?
Tracy charges one credit, $1, for each started 20 minutes of an interview that produced a result. The first 3 results are free, credits never expire, a session with no answers is never charged, and there are no seats. Worked examples: 15 minutes is 1 credit, 34 minutes is 2 credits, and 100 interviews of 20 minutes cost $100.
Tracy figures are $1 per credit before the first 3 free results. Mercer Mettl: quote, no price published. Bring your yearly volume and interview length and we will work out your own cost on a demo call.
| Interviews in a year | Mercer Mettl | Tracy, up to 20 minutes | Tracy, 41 to 60 minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | Quote | $100 | $300 |
| 500 | Quote | $500 | $1,500 |
| 1,000 | Quote | $1,000 | $3,000 |
Scroll the table sideways to see all 4 columns.
Tracy's cost is a straight line you can compute before a call: $1 per 20 minutes, 100 to 1,000 interviews.
What is inside each Tracy credit?
A credit buys a finished interview, not a seat. Tracy drafts questions from your job description or uses your own, asks follow-ups in the person's own field, and can run a coding task inside the same interview. Each result comes with a recording of both sides, a timestamped transcript and a written assessment per question with its reasoning. A person decides. Each applicant starts on a click, at any hour, with no scheduling. See hiring at volume and AI interview reports.
The follow-up is part of the credit: Tracy asks about the constraint the first answer skipped.
How do Tracy and Mercer Mettl compare beyond price?
Mercer Mettl column: its own pages, read 9 Nov 2026. "Not stated" means the pages read do not say.
| Criterion | Tracy AI Interviewer | Mercer Mettl | Who leads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depth | Follow-ups in the person's own field; a coding task inside the interview. | Coding assessments and a live coding interview tool; an AI interviewer is not stated. | Tracy on follow-ups |
| Volume | Starts on click at any hour; a dropped applicant can rejoin within 10 minutes. | Schedule and invite multiple candidates; trusted by 6,000+ organizations and 700+ educational institutions. | Mercer Mettl at campus scale |
| Stack | API and MCP, Slack, WhatsApp and Zapier, beside Workable and Breezy HR. | Prebuilt ATS and LMS integrations listed on its partners page. | Level |
| Evidence | A recording, a timestamped transcript and a written assessment per question; integrity signals with their evidence. | Section and question-level reports; AI and human proctoring. | Mercer Mettl on proctoring; Tracy on interview evidence |
| Security | SOC 2 Type II attested; report on request. | A "SOC2 Type 2" tile and ISO 27001 on its pricing page. | Level |
| Support | Enterprise adds a dedicated customer manager and a support channel. | Phone, email and a help portal. | Level |
Scroll the table sideways to see all 4 columns.
Is Mercer Mettl worth a quote, and for whom?
If your first round is a proctored test, if you run campus drives, or if you need psychometric and aptitude tests with AI and human proctoring, Mercer Mettl is built for it and a quote is worth getting. If you want the first round to show how each applicant reasons, with a cost that follows the number of interviews, Tracy's published price lets you test one role before you commit: the first 3 results are free, and the next 100 interviews of up to 20 minutes cost $100. Enterprise is priced to how many interviews you run.
Which path fits you:
- Engineers and other technical roles: technical interviews.
- Hundreds or thousands of applicants: volume hiring.
- A first-round budget: AI interview cost.
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Sources
- Mercer Mettl: Pricing, retrieved 9 Nov 2026.
- Tracy AI Interviewer: Pricing, retrieved 9 Nov 2026.
