HireVue is an enterprise AI video interviewing platform — it automates the interview itself. HireBetter audits interview recordings for integrity signals. They solve genuinely different problems, and many teams use both.
Different tools solving different problems — but if you run AI-led interviews, you need both.
HireVue tells you how a candidate performed against a scoring rubric. HireBetter tells you whether that performance was genuine. One without the other gives you an incomplete picture.
HireVue is one of the most widely deployed AI video interviewing platforms. Its core function is conducting structured asynchronous video interviews at scale — candidates record their responses to preset questions, the platform scores them using natural language and behavioral AI, and hiring teams review the ranked results. It removes the scheduling bottleneck and standardizes the early screening stage.
HireVue is built around answer quality: did the candidate say the right things, in the right structure, with the right behavioral signals? Its scoring models are trained on interview content. Integrity — whether the candidate produced that content themselves, with genuine knowledge — is outside its scope.
HireBetter analyzes recorded interviews for integrity signals — the behavioral, acoustic, and visual evidence that tells you whether a candidate's performance was authentic. It does not conduct interviews or score answer quality. It answers a different question: was this person the one answering, and were they answering on their own?
The signals it looks for include AI-assistant usage (reading from a second screen, response timing consistent with generated text), off-camera coaching (earpiece patterns, gaze tracking an off-frame source), proxy fraud (identity verification throughout the session, detecting stand-ins or mid-session swaps), and scripted answer patterns (structural uniformity across all responses, inability to extend on follow-up). Each finding is tied to a timestamp in the recording and described in a reviewable integrity report.
HireBetter works on any video recording, not just HireVue sessions — including recordings from Zoom, Teams, Loom, or any other platform that produces a video file.
AI-generated answers score well on HireVue's rubrics. A response produced by ChatGPT is structured, well-formed, and uses appropriate terminology — exactly the signals that automated scoring rewards. The transcript looks high-quality because it is high-quality, just not authentic.
HireVue's behavioral AI tracks engagement signals like eye contact and speaking pace, but it is not designed to detect whether those signals are being manipulated. A candidate who reads generated answers from a second screen while maintaining forward-facing camera posture will produce a good HireVue score. The fraud is in the provenance of the answer, not in its content.
Teams running HireVue at volume — screening hundreds or thousands of candidates — typically add post-interview integrity analysis when they notice a pattern: high-scoring candidates who underperform in follow-up rounds or fail on-the-job, or an increase in candidates whose interview performance doesn't match their work product during probation.
The workflow is straightforward: HireVue conducts the screening interview and ranks candidates by score; HireBetter analyzes the recordings for integrity signals before any candidate advances. Teams get both dimensions — performance and authenticity — from a single set of recordings.
Because HireBetter is priced per analyzed minute with no seat fees or subscriptions, it adds negligible cost relative to the downstream value of making better hiring decisions with higher confidence.
HireVue is an enterprise platform sold on annual contracts. Pricing is not published and typically includes platform fees, per-seat or per-assessment charges, and implementation costs. It is designed for large enterprise teams with structured procurement.
HireBetter charges $0.12 per analyzed minute of interview footage. There are no seat fees, no subscriptions, and no minimum commitments. New accounts start with 30 free minutes of analysis. The model is designed to be accessible at any volume — from a startup reviewing ten candidates per month to a large team processing thousands.
No subscriptions, no seat fees. Analyze your first 30 minutes of interviews at no cost — then pay only for what you analyze.