Alex alternative: AI interviews with a public price and no demo
Alex, the AI recruiter that used to be called Apriora, holds real conversations with candidates. It asks follow-ups, works over phone and WhatsApp, and books the next round. If you are reading this, you probably already like the idea of an AI that talks back.
The question is how you get there. Alex has no published pricing and no self-serve plan, so the first step is a demo. And it is sold as a full AI recruiter, which is more platform than many teams need when the real gap is the first-round interview.
The short version
- Price: Alex is demo-first with no public pricing. Greet is $99/month for 100 sessions, on the website.
- Depth: Alex covers screening breadth across many channels. Greet goes deep on job-specific role-play, where the AI plays the customer, patient or caller.
- After the hire: Greet runs the same scenarios as training for new hires, in the same dashboard.
What Alex is
Alex, based in San Francisco and backed by Y Combinator (W24, as Apriora), is an AI recruiter that runs live two-way interviews by video, phone, SMS and WhatsApp, then scores candidates and schedules the next round. It also offers identity checks, proctoring and resume screening. Its customers include mid-market and enterprise employers, RPOs and staffing firms in healthcare, retail, manufacturing and early-careers hiring.
What it does well: conversational interviews with real follow-ups, a wide set of channels, and fraud and identity checks built into the product.
Where it falls short
From its own site and public comparisons:
- No published price, no self-serve. You start with a demo before you can try it on a role.
- A lot of platform. It is positioned as an end-to-end AI recruiter. If you already have an ATS and a process, much of it overlaps.
- Breadth over role-play. The focus is general screening rather than putting candidates inside a scenario from the job.
What Greet does instead
You can see the price and start today
Pro is $99/month for 100 completed sessions. Enterprise is $200/month for 500. There are custom plans for more. You sign up, build a session and send a link without talking to anyone.
The AI plays a part in the job
Both products can ask questions and follow up. Greet is built for the next step: role-play. For a medical billing role, the AI plays a payer rep who keeps denying a claim. For a call center, it plays an angry caller who has already been transferred twice. You write the scenario once and every candidate gets the same one.
Your criteria, your evidence
You define the assessment blocks: knowledge, communication, English level, problem-solving, or anything specific to the role. Greet scores them from the dialogue and returns a match rate, summary, transcript and recording (Pro and above). When a score looks wrong, you listen to that moment and decide.
The same scenarios train your new hires
Once someone is hired, the scenarios they were screened on become practice. A new agent can take the hard calls with the AI before a real customer, and you see their progress next to their interview score.
It fits around what you have
Share a link, import a CSV, or put a voice application form on your careers page with one script tag. Connect Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday or another ATS through the API if you want. Turn on Camera Required or Block Copy & Paste when cheating matters.
Side by side
| Alex | Greet | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Two-way AI interviews by video, phone, SMS, WhatsApp | Two-way AI voice interview in browser, or by phone call |
| Scope | End-to-end AI recruiter, resume screening, scheduling | Screening interview, plus training after the hire |
| Role-play scenarios | Not the main focus | AI plays the customer, patient or caller |
| Price | Not published; demo required | $99/month for 100 sessions, $200/month for 500 |
| Fraud controls | Identity checks and proctoring | Camera Required, Block Copy & Paste |
| Getting started | Demo | Sign up and build in minutes |
Which one to pick
Pick Alex if you want one AI recruiter to screen resumes, interview over WhatsApp and SMS, verify identity and schedule the next round, and a sales process is fine.
Pick Greet if you want to hear how a candidate handles the hardest part of the job, keep your current ATS, and know the price before you start.
Try it on one role
- Pick a role where the job is a conversation: support, billing, intake, sales.
- Describe it in one line and let AI draft the session, then add one tough scenario.
- Take it yourself with Play.
- Send the link to this week’s applicants and read the top five summaries.
Create your Greet account and run it on one role.
Competitor details come from the public pages below, checked November 2026. Prices change; check the vendor’s site. Greet details are from greetai.co.