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Aeviya vs. BrightHire: run the interview, or improve the ones you run?

Reviewed October 18, 2026

Written by Aeviya from the product sources below. This is not an independent performance test.

BrightHire is built around the interviews your team runs: plans, live guides, recording, notes, scorecards, and coaching. BrightHire Screen is a separate first-round interviewer that BrightHire describes as an extension of the recruiting team.

Aeviya's main product is that first interview, by text, phone, or video, plus the ranked shortlist. BrightHire fits better when the priority is how your own interviewers run later rounds.

Compare the screening workflow

Interview formats

Aeviya

Structured text, phone, and video interviews. The AI conducts the interview.

BrightHire

Interview plans and live guides for human interviews, with recording and transcription. BrightHire Screen automates a first-round interview and surfaces fraud signals.

Scoring and review

Aeviya

Scores answers against the criteria for that job, then ranks applicants with the evidence behind the score. People make the hiring decision.

BrightHire

AI notes, topic coverage, candidate summaries, and one-click scorecards from interviews your team conducts. BrightHire also describes interviewer coaching.

ATS and the rest of hiring

Aeviya

Export resumes from your ATS and bulk upload them. Export results as CSV. There is no native Greenhouse, Workday, or Lever connector, and application status does not sync back automatically.

BrightHire

BrightHire presents itself as interview intelligence across planning, the interview, and the decision. Confirm which ATS it writes back to.

Pricing

Aeviya

First job has no job fee. Additional jobs are $1,500 each, about 100 AI interviews. Finalist activation is $500. Professional is $1,199 per month. Enterprise is custom.

BrightHire

Ask BrightHire for a proposal. Public plan prices were not on the homepage reviewed here.

What Aeviya brings to your screening process

Aeviya runs the first structured interview and turns the answers into a shortlist your team can review.

  1. 1

    Define what a strong candidate looks like

    Set the skills and evidence that matter for the role. Aeviya uses those criteria for the interview and the scores.

  2. 2

    Let candidates complete the interview

    Applicants take a structured interview by text, phone, or video, without a recruiter on the first call.

  3. 3

    Review a shortlist with the reasoning

    Aeviya ranks completed interviews and shows the evidence behind each score. Your team decides who to meet next.

Which fits your team?

  • Why choose Aeviya?

    Choose Aeviya when you want every applicant to take a structured text, phone, or video interview, then review a ranked shortlist against criteria you set. Published job and activation fees are on the site.

  • When to evaluate BrightHire

    Choose BrightHire when you need to plan, record, and coach the interviews your hiring managers already run, and you want to evaluate Screen as an add-on. Aeviya is not a notetaker for those later rounds.

What to know before you start

  • Plan for a manual ATS workflow: export resumes for bulk upload, then export a CSV when you need results back in your system. Status does not sync automatically.
  • Product pages change. Read the sources below and confirm the current product, integrations, and price before you buy.

See Aeviya with your role in mind

Talk with us about your role, evaluation criteria, and applicant volume. We can walk through the interview workflow, finalist review, resume bulk upload, CSV export, and pricing with your team.

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Sources and further reading

Product information reviewed on October 12, 2026.

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