Alva Labs alternative: hear the job skills that logic tests miss
Alva Labs made its name with logic and personality tests. They are good at telling you who is likely to learn fast and how someone tends to work.
They cannot tell you how a candidate sounds when a customer is angry, whether they explain a refund clearly, or if their spoken English holds up on a ten-minute call. For phone-heavy and customer-facing roles, that is the part you most need to know, and it is the part that only shows up when someone talks.
The short version
- What is tested: Alva Labs tests logic and personality. Greet tests how someone handles a spoken situation from the job.
- Scope: Alva Labs is growing into a full hiring system. Greet is one step, the first-round interview, added to the process you already have.
- Price: Alva Labs pricing requires contact. Greet is $99/month for 100 sessions.
What Alva Labs is
Alva Labs is a Stockholm company that began as a logic and personality testing platform. It now describes itself as an agentic hiring system that handles the work from role brief to offer. Its customers are mostly tech companies and growing European employers.
It has real strengths. Its psychometric tests are well regarded, candidates get good feedback reports, and the move toward a full workflow suits teams that want one platform.
Where it falls short
From its own site:
- Logic and personality, not spoken skills. The tests do not show how someone handles a real conversation.
- A broad platform means more change. Adopting a system that covers brief to offer is a bigger decision than adding one step.
- Pricing requires contact.
What Greet does instead
It listens to the candidate do the work
You write the scenario and the AI plays the other side: a customer who was double-charged, a prospect with an objection, a patient who cannot find their referral. The candidate talks it through in real time. The AI follows up when an answer skips the hard part.
Spoken skills you can score
Add assessment blocks for what you care about: communication, English level, product knowledge, problem-solving. Greet scores them from the dialogue, the answers, and the audio or video. Each session returns a match rate, a written summary, the transcript and the recording.
One step, not a new platform
Greet does not ask you to move your hiring into it. Share an interview link from your job ad, import a CSV of candidates, or connect your ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, Teamtailor, Workable and more) when you are ready. If you already run psychometric tests, keep them. Greet adds the spoken signal they do not give you.
Candidates can see how they did
Turn on Show Feedback and candidates see their results at the end. Push to Talk helps candidates in noisy rooms, and they can type instead if you enable the chat option.
Ready in minutes
Describe the role in a line, for example “Screen account managers, 10 minutes, friendly tone”, and AI drafts the instructions, questions and settings. Press Play to take the interview yourself before anyone else does.
Side by side
| Alva Labs | Greet | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Logic and personality tests, growing hiring system | Two-way AI voice interview with role-play scenarios |
| What it tests | Logic and personality | Spoken handling of real situations from the job |
| Price | Not published; contact required | $99/month for 100 sessions, $200/month for 500 |
| Scope | Role brief to offer | First-round interview on top of your current process |
| You get | Test results and candidate feedback reports | Score, summary, transcript and recording per candidate |
| After the hire | Not a core use | Same scenarios as role-play training |
Which one to pick
Pick Alva Labs if you hire knowledge workers, value validated logic and personality testing, want one system from brief to offer, or need assessments in Swedish.
Pick Greet if you hire for roles where the work is talking (support, sales, account management, front desk), mostly in English or another language Greet supports, and you want to hear the skill before the interview. Use it next to your tests if you like both signals.
Try it on one role
- Pick a role where good test scores have not always meant good calls.
- Write the conversation a strong hire handles every week.
- Press Play and take the interview yourself.
- Send the link to your next applicants and compare their Greet scores with their test results.
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.