Tracy vs HireVue: AI Interviews Compared (Nov 2026)
HireVue is a full hiring suite. Its AI Interviewer holds a two-way voice conversation, scores each answer against a rubric and sends the scores to your ATS. Tracy at Qode interviews on video. It follows up inside each person's own field, flags signs of cheating, and backs every point in its summary with the person's own words, so your team decides from what was said.
Pick HireVue if you want one vendor from application to offer, automatic scores in your ATS, or FedRAMP. Pick Tracy if you want follow-up questions that go deep in each person's field, cheating signals in every interview, a setup built around the process you already run, and no upfront cost.
Who each is for
HireVue is built for large employers that want one platform for the whole hiring process, with validated assessments and a long list of security certifications, including FedRAMP for US government work.
Tracy is built for teams that screen skilled people at volume, where the second and third questions decide: engineers, domain experts, specialists, and founders applying to a program.
Side by side
| Tracy at Qode | HireVue | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An AI interviewer | A hiring suite: AI Interviewer, video interviewing, assessments, automation and scheduling, Match and Apply |
| The AI interview | Two-way video. Follow-up questions inside the person's own field, built on each answer, including live coding for engineers | A voice interview in "a natural two-way conversation", with "probing follow-up questions" |
| What the reviewer gets | Each answer in the person's own words, linked to its moment in the recording, organized by your fields. Scoring is optional | Scores against your criteria: meets or does not meet; a 1 to 5 rubric based on which expected points the answer mentions; validated competency scales. Scores go to your ATS, with reviewable transcripts |
| Who decides | Your team. Scoring is optional and follows your setup | "Recruiters always make the final call" |
| Other interview formats | None | One-way on-demand video; live interviews in HireVue, Zoom, Teams or Webex |
| Use cases | Hiring, technical interviews with live coding, expert vetting, founder applications | Hiring |
| Security and compliance | SOC 2 Type 2 attested | ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27701:2019, an annual SOC 2 Type 2 audit, FedRAMP authorization |
| Price | No upfront cost and no seats; you pay per result. $7 per credit; one credit covers up to 20 minutes. Enterprise pricing set to your volume | Not published; HireVue asks you to request a demo |
Where Tracy is the better pick
Your roles need judgment a checklist can't score. HireVue's own product page shows its example skill rubric scoring an answer from 1 to 5 by how many expected points it mentions. A candidate who has rehearsed, or has an AI feeding them the right words, can hit every point. Tracy asks about what the person just said, such as why they chose that approach or what they would change. Ask a backend engineer to design a rate limiter, and Tracy follows up on concurrency, failure modes and testing, or hands them a coding task and probes the trade-offs. AI technical interviews shows a full example.
Cheating signals come built in. HireVue's AI Interviewer, the part that asks follow-up questions, is voice-based. Its video interviews are one-way recordings or live calls with your own interviewers. HireVue does list a cheating and fraud mitigation offering, and says suspicious AI Interviewer cases can be flagged for human review. Tracy asks its follow-ups on video, and every interview comes with cheating signals for your reviewers to check. Gartner predicts 1 in 4 candidate profiles worldwide could be fake by 2028, and in Greenhouse's 2025 AI in Hiring Report, 39% of US hiring managers said they now run more in-person interviews to confirm candidates are real. How to detect AI cheating in interviews covers the warning signs.
Every point comes with the moment it was said. A 3 out of 5 doesn't show what the person said. In a Tracy summary, each point is the person's own words, linked to that moment in the recording, so a reviewer can confirm a strong answer, or catch a thin one, in one click. AI interview summaries shows the layout.
It fits the process you already run. Bring your own questions or start from a proven interview type, choose the fields your reviewers get back, and send a personal invite or a public link from wherever you already contact people. They join in the browser with no sign-up. Teams get a custom interview set up in days. HireVue is built to run the whole process, from application to offer, on its own platform.
There's no upfront cost. You pay only when an interview produces a result. There are no seats to buy, a session with no answers is never charged, and enterprise teams get pricing set to their volume. HireVue doesn't publish prices; its pricing page asks you to request a demo. The HireVue pricing guide collects what is public.
What a reviewer sees in Tracy
Here is part of a Tracy summary for a customer support lead role. It is an illustration with test data, not a real candidate.
| Field | What the candidate said |
|---|---|
| Handling escalations | "Last month a customer threatened to cancel over a billing error. I refunded first and fixed the invoice after, because the refund was the part they cared about." |
| Team managed | "Six agents across two shifts." |
| Start date | "I can start on 1 December." |
Click any quote and the recording jumps to that moment. Scoring is optional, and every point stays tied to the answer behind it.
Pricing side by side
HireVue doesn't publish its prices. Its pricing page says the platform is built "from mid-market to enterprise" and offers a demo and an ROI calculator.
Tracy publishes its list price at tracyinterview.ai/pricing: $7 per credit; one credit covers up to 20 minutes. You pay per result, never per seat, and credits never expire. Enterprise teams get pricing set to their volume.
Trying Tracy next to HireVue
You don't have to replace HireVue to try Tracy. Pick one role or one program, run Tracy next to your current first round on the same applicants for two weeks, and compare what your reviewers would have decided. Tell applicants that an AI runs the interview; are AI interviews legal? covers what to disclose.
Questions
Does HireVue have an AI interviewer? Yes. HireVue's AI Interviewer holds a two-way voice conversation with follow-up questions and scores each response against role-specific criteria.
Does Tracy score candidates? Only if you set it up to. Either way, Tracy organizes what each person said by your fields and backs every point with their own words, and someone on your team makes the decision.
How much does HireVue cost? HireVue doesn't publish prices. Its pricing page asks you to request a demo.
Is HireVue certified for government work? HireVue says it holds FedRAMP authorization, after an audit by a third-party assessment organization.
Can I use Tracy for expert vetting or founder interviews? Yes. Tracy has templates for hiring, technical, expert and application interviews, and you can write your own questions.
Book a demo and see Tracy run an interview for one of your roles: cal.com/tracy-ai/tracy-demo-web
Sources
All retrieved 26 Oct 2026.
- HireVue, Pricing
- HireVue, Enterprise (security and compliance, product list)
- HireVue, AI Interviewer
- HireVue, Video interviewing
- HireVue, AI Interviewer launch announcement, June 2026
- Gartner, Survey Shows Just 26% of Job Applicants Trust AI Will Fairly Evaluate Them, 31 Jul 2025
- Greenhouse, 2025 AI in Hiring Report release, 19 Nov 2025
- Tracy at Qode, tracyinterview.ai and pricing