TLDR Tracy AI Interviewer runs the first-round interview for each applicant and is priced per completed interview: $1 per credit, one credit per started 20 minutes, the first 3 results free, no seats.
Each result comes with a recording, a timestamped transcript and a written assessment per question, and a person decides.
Read AI lists Pro at $15 per user per month on annual billing. If your own team keeps running the interviews, Read is the cheaper pick.
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Read AI pricing is public for every self-serve plan. Free, Pro, Enterprise and Enterprise+ are priced per user per month, and the page lists an annual and a monthly rate for each. Read AI is a meeting notetaker, so the price buys notes on calls your people hold. Running the candidate interview is not stated on its pricing page.
Choose Read AI when your recruiters and hiring managers keep running the interviews and you want a summary, transcript and action items from each call, at $15 per user per month on annual billing, or free for five meetings a month.
Choose Tracy AI Interviewer when you want the first-round interview run for every applicant, at a price you can compute before any call: $1 per credit, no seats. She starts on click at any hour, with no scheduling and no recruiter present, and the cost follows interviews, not headcount.
Read AI pricing table: every plan the page lists
Source: Read AI pricing page, 9 Nov 2026. Prices are Read AI list prices in USD, the annual rate first. Enterprise is the name Read AI gives its second paid plan.
| Plan | Price per user per month (annual / monthly) | What it lists | Page words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 5 meeting transcripts per month; recordings up to 1 hour | "5 meeting transcripts per month" |
| Pro | $15 billed annually, $19.75 monthly | Unlimited meeting transcripts; premium integrations; recordings up to 4 hours | "Unlimited meeting transcripts" |
| Enterprise | $22.50 billed annually, $29.75 monthly | Pro plus audio and video playback, video highlights, premium support | "Audio & video playback" |
| Enterprise+ | $29.75 billed annually, $39.75 monthly | Enterprise plus HIPAA compliance, SAML and SCIM, custom data retention, EU and CA hosting; recordings up to 8 hours Requires 5 or more licenses. | "REQUIRES 5+ LICENSES" |
What limits and extras apply on Read AI
Licenses are individual: a workspace needs one per invited person, and every license in it must be on the same plan, so a mixed team of Pro and Enterprise seats is not possible. Read AI discounts by annual license count: 10% at 100 or more, 15% at 500 or more, 20% at 1,000 or more. It says it does not offer refunds, though you can cancel before the renewal date.
Under every plan the page also lists "30 meetings measured per month" and does not say what is measured. The same plans list unlimited transcripts and reports, so ask what the figure limits before you rely on it for a busy interview season.
What a typical team pays for Read AI
Take a team where five people run interviews and all five need Read. Five Pro licenses at $15 are $75 a month on annual billing, or $900 over twelve months. On monthly billing at $19.75 it is $98.75 a month. A team of 20 interviewers is $300 a month on annual billing. This is our arithmetic from list prices, not a Read AI quote. Because Pro lists unlimited transcripts, 100 calls and 1,000 calls cost the same for those five seats.
Tracy runs the first round, and a person reviews the result and decides.
What Tracy costs at 100, 500 and 1,000 interviews
A credit costs $1 and covers each started 20 minutes of an interview that produced a result. The first 3 results are free with no card, and there are no seats. The full model is on Tracy's pricing page, and AI interview cost works through more examples. Enterprise is priced to your volume and adds a dedicated customer manager, a dedicated support channel and a setup customised to your workflow in days.
Cost at 100, 500 and 1,000 interviews a month: Tracy next to Read AI Pro
Interviews of up to 20 minutes on Tracy; one over 20 minutes costs one more credit per started 20 minutes. Read AI seats are our assumption, rising with volume. The columns buy different work: Tracy runs the interview, Read AI records one a person runs. Hours are our arithmetic at 20 minutes per interview.
| Interviews per month | Tracy runs the interview | Read AI Pro, people run the calls | Interviewer time if people run the calls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $100 | $30 a month, 2 interviewers on annual billing | about 33 hours |
| 500 | $500 | $75 a month, 5 interviewers on annual billing | about 167 hours |
| 1,000 | $1,000 | $150 a month, 10 interviewers on annual billing | about 333 hours |
100, 500 and 1,000 interviews of up to 20 minutes cost $100, $500 and $1,000 on Tracy.
Is a seat price cheaper than an interview price?
Read AI's number is lower at every volume in the table, and that is the honest read: a seat price is low because the page describes notes, not an interviewer. What the table leaves out is people time. 1,000 interviews of 20 minutes is about 333 hours of interviewer time, our arithmetic, before scheduling and note review.
Our reasoning, not a Read AI figure: seat pricing wins when the same few people run a steady number of calls. Per-interview pricing wins when applicants arrive in waves and you do not want to staff them. Tracy bills nothing in a month with no interviews, because there are no seats and no upfront cost.
To see your own cost per completed interview, run three interviews free and read the report.
What to ask Read AI before you buy
If you are weighing Read AI for interview notes, ask these before you sign:
- What does "30 meetings measured per month" limit, and what happens after it?
- Which plan do you need to keep audio and video playback of interviews?
- Does an applicant tracking system connect? The pricing page lists Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Zapier and webhooks.
- What are the annual terms, given that refunds are not offered?
- At what license count does the volume discount start for your team?
Beyond price: how the published workflows differ
Source: Read AI pricing page and Tracy product documentation. Where the pricing page is silent the cell says so.
| Criterion | Tracy AI Interviewer | Read AI | Who leads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depth | Two-way video interview. After each answer she asks about what was said, in the person's own field, and a coding task can sit inside the interview. | Notes on meetings your people run: summary, topics, action items and key questions. Interviewing the candidate is not stated. | Different jobs: Tracy asks, Read records. |
| Volume | Starts on click at any hour, no scheduling, no recruiter present. | One license per person; unlimited transcripts on paid plans; recordings up to 4 hours on Pro. | Tracy for applicant waves, Read for steady team calls. |
| Stack | API and MCP (ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral, Gemini, Copilot Studio), Slack, WhatsApp, Workable, Breezy HR, Zapier, Power Automate. | Zoom, Teams and Meet; Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Zapier, webhooks; announces a Claude connector, ChatGPT app and MCP server. ATS not named. | Even. Check your ATS with both. |
| Evidence | Recording of both sides, timestamped transcript, written assessment per question, integrity signals shown to a person. | Transcript by speaker and summary; audio and video playback on Enterprise and Enterprise+. | Tracy for interview evidence, Read for meeting playback. |
| Security | SOC 2 Type II attested; report on request. | HIPAA, SAML and SCIM on Enterprise+. SOC 2 not stated on the pricing page. | Read on the controls listed. |
| Multilingual | A spoken-language check scores fluency, coherence, grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. | Reports in 16+ languages. | Not comparable: different outputs. |
| Accessibility | Not stated. | Not stated on the pricing page. | Neither. Ask both. |
| Validation and bias | Tracy publishes no bias audit. A person decides from the evidence report. | Not verified. | Not verified. |
Is Read AI worth it, and for whom?
On speed, not price: one customer cut its average time to hire from 44 days to 7, and Tracy did the work of 53 full-time recruiters in one month.
The verdict for a budget owner: if the plan is to keep people on the call, price Read AI by seat and enjoy the low number. If the plan is to have the first round run for you, set Tracy's per-interview price beside it, at your own volume.
Which path fits you?
- Technical hiring: technical interviews covers role-specific interviews with follow-ups.
- High-volume hiring: volume hiring covers applicant waves.
- Integrations: Connect lists what Tracy connects to.
- The report: AI interview reports shows what a reviewer gets.
Questions
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Sources
- Read AI, Plans and pricing, retrieved 9 Nov 2026.
- Tracy AI Interviewer, Pricing, retrieved 9 Nov 2026.
- Tracy AI Interviewer, Connect, retrieved 9 Nov 2026.