Checked on 3 Nov 2026 against Paradox's and Workday's own pages. Paradox publishes no price, so the one outside figure below comes from a third party and is labelled that way.
TLDR
- For skilled roles, Tracy AI Interviewer interviews every applicant who clicks the link, at any hour, and can read each CV to ask 3 to 5 tailored questions. Its price is public: the first 3 results are free, then $7 per credit.
- Paradox publishes no price; you get a quote through a demo request, from Paradox or from Workday. It is the stronger fit for hourly and frontline hiring: chat screening, self-scheduling and candidate Q&A in 100+ languages.
What does Paradox cost?
Paradox does not publish a price. Its /pricing address redirects to the home page, and the call to action on the pages we read is "Request demo". Workday completed its acquisition of Paradox on 1 October 2025 and sells the product as the Workday Paradox Candidate Experience Agent, which it says is available "through Workday or Paradox". Workday's recruiting-agent datasheet carries no price either; it ends with Workday's general phone and fax numbers.
| What you want to know | What Paradox and Workday publish |
|---|---|
| Public price | None |
| Plan names and tiers | None |
| Volume or enterprise tiers | None |
| Free trial | None described on the pages we read |
| How to buy | Demo request to Paradox, or sales through Workday |
What does a third party say it costs?
Truffle, a third-party site that sells a competing screening product, reports that independent directories list a starting price around $1,000 a month with no self-serve free trial, and that Paradox "has never published a price". Its guide is dated February 2026 and was updated in October 2026. That is not a Paradox statement and we could not confirm it. Use it, if at all, as a starting point for the quote conversation.
What are you buying?
Paradox sells a conversational assistant, Olivia, that handles applying, screening, scheduling and onboarding over text and chat. Its home page describes "mobile-first automation for frontline workers and managers", and its FAQ says it serves "frontline high-volume hourly and high-skilled professional roles".
The scheduling work is where Paradox is strongest. It claims interviews scheduled within 10 minutes (a vendor claim), and its Candidate Experience Agent page describes multi-person, multi-room, multi-location scheduling. Candidates apply and are screened by SMS, WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger, and the assistant answers candidate questions in more than 100 languages. It integrates with Workday and SAP SuccessFactors among others.
Pick Paradox when:
- you hire hourly or frontline staff in volume and the bottleneck is applying, checking eligibility and booking interviews;
- you run Workday Recruiting and want one vendor and a direct Workday integration;
- SMS or WhatsApp is the channel your candidates already use, or you need candidate Q&A in many languages.
A quote is worth requesting in those cases. The price buys scheduling and text or chat messaging at scale. The Tracy pages we checked describe no scheduling step or text-message screening; Tracy's volume case is a different one, set out below.
What should you ask for in a quote?
Because nothing is published, the quote is the whole price. Ask for these in writing:
- the unit that is priced: locations, hires, candidates or conversations;
- what the base fee includes, and what costs extra, such as text messaging, extra languages or integrations;
- implementation and onboarding fees, and the contract length;
- whether Workday or Paradox is the seller, and how that changes support;
- whether a pilot is possible, since no trial is described.
For other quoted tools, compare the same questions in HireVue pricing, HeyMilo pricing and Alex pricing.
How does Tracy pricing compare?
The two do not price the same thing. Paradox is a chat and scheduling layer priced by quote. Tracy AI Interviewer gives every applicant a spoken interview when they click the link, at any hour and with no scheduling, so a large pool for a skilled role is interviewed in full rather than cut to a shortlist first. It prices each result, with no seats: your first 3 results are free, then $7 per credit. One credit covers each started 20 minutes of an interview that produced a result, so a result of up to 20 minutes costs $7. Credits never expire and a session with no answers is never charged.
| Results of up to 20 minutes | Tracy, after the 3 free |
|---|---|
| 100 | $679 |
| 500 | $3,479 |
| 1,000 | $6,979 |
Those Tracy totals are 7 times the number of results after the first three. Paradox has no figure to set beside them. The totals count only the interview; hourly volume that needs scheduling and text screening is a different job. The wider cost method is in AI interview cost per candidate.
Is Paradox worth it, and for whom?
For hourly volume with a scheduling bottleneck, the price buys what Paradox is built for. For skilled roles the fit is narrower. Paradox's own page lists the corporate and skilled use as Q&A and complex scheduling, and Workday's datasheet says the agent screens applicants "for basic qualifications". The Paradox pages we read do not describe adaptive follow-up questions on an answer, a coding task or a report that ties a result to what the candidate said. Absence from those pages is not proof the product lacks them, so ask in the demo.
Tracy covers the interview side of skilled hiring. It runs a two-way video interview and can read the CV and ask 3 to 5 questions tailored to it and to the role's must-haves. A vague answer gets a sharper question, each follow-up depends on the answer before it, and for technical roles it can introduce a coding task and probe the trade-offs. Each result comes with the recording, a transcript timed to it, a written assessment per question with its reasoning, and integrity signals marked on the recording for a reviewer to weigh. Enterprise teams get API and MCP connections and a setup customised to their workflow. Read Tracy vs Paradox for the full comparison, or Paradox alternatives for skilled roles for the wider shortlist.
Questions
How much does Paradox cost?
Does Paradox have a pricing page?
Who sells Paradox now?
Does Paradox have a free trial?
How does Tracy's pricing compare?
Is Paradox the right tool for skilled roles?
Sources
All sources retrieved 3 Nov 2026.
- Paradox, Paradox home page, frontline positioning, text and chat screening, and the demo request as the only call to action
- Paradox, Paradox pricing address, the address redirects to the home page; no pricing page exists
- Paradox, Paradox FAQs, hourly and skilled-role scope, 100+ languages, integrations
- Paradox, Candidate Experience Agent, channels, scheduling and the skilled-hiring use
- Paradox, Conversational ATS, the 10-minute scheduling claim
- Workday, Workday completes acquisition of Paradox, the completed acquisition of 1 Oct 2025 and how Workday sells the agent
- Workday, AI agents for Workday Recruiting datasheet, what the agent does; screening for basic qualifications; no price
- Truffle, Paradox AI pricing, third-party estimate only, published Feb 2026, updated Oct 2026 and from a vendor of a competing screening product: starting price around $1,000 a month, no self-serve free trial, no published price
- Tracy AI Interviewer, Tracy pricing, free results, credit price, session-length billing, no-answer policy, no seats, credits never expire, API and MCP connections and customised setup for Enterprise
- Tracy AI Interviewer, Tracy product page, two-way video interview, CV check, follow-ups, coding task, recording and transcript, result with assessment per question, integrity signals
- Tracy AI Interviewer, Tracy hiring at volume, interview on click at any hour with no recruiter and no calendar, ready in under 10 seconds