Spark Hire pricing in 2026: plans, real costs, and what teams actually pay
Spark Hire splits into a Meet video product and a Recruit ATS, each priced separately. Here's what every plan costs and what's gated behind a quote.
AI summary
- Spark Hire now sells two product lines. Meet (video interviews and behavioral assessments) runs $299/month month-to-month or $249/month billed annually, per product. Recruit, the ATS, starts at $335/month and climbs to $499/month, annual only.
- Video interviews and assessments are priced separately, so buying both is roughly $498/month before you add the ATS. Larger plans and the Enterprise tier are quote-only.
- A lean team that needs one-way video, assessments, and resume screening in one tool can run Truffle at $149/month, or $99/month billed annually, with a 7-day free trial and no credit card.
You want async video so you stop scheduling phone screens. Candidates record their answers on their own time, you review when it suits you, and the calendar stops being the bottleneck. That’s the pitch, and for the recording part, it works.
Then you open the dashboard and there are forty recordings waiting. Each one runs three to five minutes. A pure video tool moved the bottleneck, it didn’t remove it. You traded scheduling for watching, and watching forty clips to find the three worth a real conversation is its own slow afternoon.
Spark Hire is one of the better-known tools in this space, and in 2026 its pricing changed in a way that’s easy to misread. So this guide lays out the current plans, what each one actually includes, where the real cost hides, and how it stacks up if your job is screening, not just collecting video.
What is Spark Hire?
Spark Hire is a video interviewing company that’s grown into two separate products. The original product, now called Spark Hire Meet, handles one-way and live video interviews plus behavioral assessments. The newer one, Spark Hire Recruit, is a full applicant tracking system, built on the Comeet ATS that Spark Hire acquired and rebranded.
That split matters for pricing, because you’re not buying one thing anymore. You’re choosing between a video tool, an ATS, or both, and each line has its own price.
The typical buyer is a small to mid-size hiring team that wants to put candidates on camera early and skip a round of phone screens. It’s lighter and cheaper than enterprise platforms, and it publishes most of its prices, which already puts it ahead of competitors that hide everything behind a demo.
One-way video interviews
This is Spark Hire’s core. You write a set of questions, candidates record video answers whenever they want, and your team reviews on demand. No calendar invites, no time zones, no phone tag.
For early-stage screening at any real volume, that’s a genuine time save. You can send a one-way interview to every applicant instead of picking a handful for live calls. The catch is review. Someone still watches the recordings, and the more candidates you invite, the bigger that pile gets.
Live video interviews
Spark Hire also runs live interviews in the browser, with scheduling, panel support, and recording. It’s the part of the product that replaces a Zoom-plus-spreadsheet setup for later interview rounds, keeping the video and the candidate record in one place.
Spark Hire Recruit (the ATS)
Recruit is the applicant tracking side. It posts to job boards, runs branded careers pages, manages hiring workflows, and includes an AI resume review feature that flags and prioritizes applicants against your requirements. It’s a separate purchase from Meet, with its own tiers and its own annual contract.
This is where Spark Hire competes with full ATS platforms rather than other video tools. If you already have an ATS you like, you’re probably only looking at Meet.
Behavioral assessments
Spark Hire sells a predictive behavioral assessment as its own product, priced the same as the video line. It measures traits and work style as a separate signal from how someone comes across on camera. It surfaces results for your team to weigh; a person still makes the call on who advances.
Spark Hire pricing
Spark Hire publishes most of its pricing, but the structure takes a minute to read because each product is billed on its own. The figures below come from Spark Hire’s own pricing page as of June 2026. Larger plans note that pricing “varies by company size,” so your quote can sit above these floors.
| Plan | Price | What’s included | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meet, monthly | $299/month | Unlimited one-way or live interviews, 5 jobs, 5 users, basic support. Same price for the assessment product. | Trying it month to month |
| Meet, annual | $249/month (billed annually) | Unlimited interviews, unlimited jobs and users, live training, dedicated CSM | Teams committing for a year |
| Recruit Pro | $335/month (billed annually) | Up to 200 employees, AI resume review, one-way video, reference checks, basic automation | Small teams wanting an ATS |
| Recruit Growth | $499/month (billed annually) | Up to 500 employees, more resume review volume, behavioral assessment, scorecards, panel scheduling, advanced reporting | Growing mid-size teams |
| Recruit Enterprise | Custom quote | 500+ employees, highest resume-review volume, dedicated CSM, custom integrations, advanced security | Large hiring programs |
Two things to flag. First, the Meet video product and the behavioral assessment product are priced identically and separately. Want both? That’s two subscriptions. Second, Recruit is annual-only, while Meet gives you a monthly option at a higher rate.
What you’ll actually pay:
- The monthly Meet plan caps you at 5 jobs and 5 users. Unlimited jobs and users only unlock on the annual plan, so the month-to-month rate isn’t just pricier, it’s narrower.
- Video and assessments are separate line items. Running both Meet products is roughly $498/month on annual billing before you touch the ATS.
- Recruit is annual-only. There’s no month-to-month option for the ATS, so you’re committing for a year to get a price.
- Recruit tiers are gated by company size. Pro covers up to 200 employees, Growth up to 500. Cross those lines and you move up a tier or into a custom quote.
- Enterprise is quote-only. Anything above 500 employees, plus custom integrations and advanced security, means a sales conversation, not a published number.
Pros and cons of Spark Hire
Pros
- Published pricing on most plans. You can see real numbers for Meet and the main Recruit tiers without sitting through a demo first. That alone beats a lot of this category.
- Solid one-way video. The core recording and review experience is mature and easy for candidates to use. For getting people on camera early, it does the job well.
- Modular. Buy just video, just assessments, just the ATS, or stack them. If you already run an ATS, you can take only the piece you need.
- Lighter than enterprise platforms. Setup is measured in days, not the multi-week rollout that comes with the biggest tools in the space.
Cons
- Per-product pricing adds up fast. Video, assessments, and the ATS are separate subscriptions. A team wanting all three is paying three bills, and the math climbs quickly.
- You still watch the recordings. Spark Hire captures and transcribes video, but reviewing the pile is on you. At volume, that’s the work that eats the afternoon.
- No standalone resume screening. Resume review lives inside the Recruit ATS tiers. If you only want Meet, you don’t get resume scoring as part of the deal.
- Annual lock-in for the ATS. Recruit has no monthly plan, so the cheapest way to try the ATS is still a year-long commitment.
Who should use Spark Hire
Teams that mainly need video
If your gap is async and live interviewing and you’re happy reviewing recordings yourself, Meet covers it at a fair, published price. That’s the cleanest fit.
Small teams shopping for an ATS
If you don’t have an applicant tracking system yet, Recruit bundles tracking, careers pages, and resume review in one place, with video built in. For a team starting from scratch, that consolidation has appeal.
Buyers who want a number before a demo
Spark Hire publishes most of its rates, so you can budget upfront instead of negotiating blind. If transparent pricing is a hard requirement, it earns a look.
Who might want an alternative
If your real problem is screening volume, not just capturing video, Spark Hire leaves the slow part with you. You collect the recordings, but you still watch every one to find the few worth your time. And if you want resume scoring, video analysis, and assessments in a single view, you’re stitching together Meet plus Recruit plus a separate assessment, and paying for each.
A team that size and shape usually wants one tool that screens across resumes, interviews, and assessments at once, and surfaces the strong matches so the watching gets shorter. That’s a different kind of product.
Spark Hire integrations
Spark Hire connects across the hiring stack so video, assessments, and candidate data land where your team already works. Recruit advertises 100-plus integrations; the categories below cover the ones teams reach for most.
| Integration category | Supported platforms |
|---|---|
| Job boards | LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor |
| HRIS and onboarding | ADP, BambooHR, HiBob, Paycor, Paylocity, Rippling, UKG |
| Background checks | Checkr, HireRight, Verified First |
| E-signature | DocuSign, PandaDoc |
| Sourcing | LinkedIn Recruiter, hireEZ, SourceWhale |
| Notifications | Slack, Microsoft Teams, email |
If you’re running Meet alongside a separate ATS, check that your ATS is on the list before you commit. The deepest integrations live in Recruit, since that’s the system Spark Hire built to be the hub.
Alternatives to Spark Hire
Spark Hire does video well and prices it openly. Depending on whether your job is collecting video or screening candidates, here’s how it sits against the other options.
| Feature | Spark Hire | Truffle | HireVue | VidCruiter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resume screening | In Recruit ATS only | Yes | No | No |
| One-way video interviews | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI video analysis and highlights | Partial | Yes (Candidate Shorts) | Partial | Partial |
| Talent assessments | Yes (separate product) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Transparent pricing | Yes ($249 to $499/mo) | Yes ($149/mo) | No | No |
| Setup time | Days | 10 minutes | Weeks | Weeks |
| Best for | Small to mid teams wanting video | Lean teams, 100-1,000 person companies | Enterprise scale | Mid to enterprise |
Truffle
Truffle is a candidate screening platform that combines resume screening, one-way video interviews, and talent assessments. It overlaps with Spark Hire on one-way video and assessments, but it’s built around a different job: not just recording candidates, but cutting down the time you spend reviewing them.
Here’s how it works. Candidates apply, and you design the screening flow to match the role. That might be resume screening alone, resume plus a one-way interview, or all three with an assessment added.
The difference shows up in the review. Truffle scores resumes against your criteria. It transcribes and analyzes one-way interview responses, then surfaces 30-second Candidate Shorts, the most revealing moments from each recording, so you don’t watch every full clip to find the signal. Assessments add a measured read on skills or work style. Everything stacks into one candidate view: resume data, interview highlights, assessment results, and match scores side by side.
That’s the gap with a pure video tool. Spark Hire hands you the recording; Truffle adds the layer that saves the time. It surfaces the strong matches and the moments that matter, then you decide who moves forward. Truffle never auto-rejects anyone. The human stays in control.
The price is plain too. Truffle is $149/month, or $99/month billed annually, with a 7-day free trial and no credit card required. That’s one subscription covering resume screening, video, and assessments, instead of three Spark Hire line items. Setup takes about 10 minutes.
HireVue
HireVue is the enterprise option, built for companies hiring thousands of people a year across many roles and locations. It pairs video interviewing with a deep assessment library, including game-based and coding assessments.
It doesn’t publish pricing, and the reported entry point sits far above Spark Hire, so it’s a fit for large programs rather than lean teams. For a fuller breakdown, see our HireVue pricing guide.
VidCruiter
VidCruiter combines video interviews, assessments, and recruiting workflow tools. It’s broader than a pure video platform and closer to enterprise in scope.
Like HireVue, it uses custom pricing, so you’ll go through sales to get a number, and implementation takes time. For a small team, that often means paying more than expected for features you won’t fully use.
How to choose between Spark Hire and alternatives
Run your situation through a few questions before you book any demo.
- Do you need to collect video, or screen candidates? If recording is the whole job and you’ll review clips yourself, Spark Hire’s video product fits. If the bottleneck is reviewing volume, look for a tool that surfaces the moments worth watching.
- How many products are you actually buying? Spark Hire prices video, assessments, and the ATS separately. Add them up before you compare, because one tool that covers all three can come in lower than three subscriptions.
- Do you already have an ATS? If yes, you probably want Meet alone, and you should confirm your ATS is on the integration list. If no, Recruit bundles tracking and resume review, but it’s annual-only.
- Do you want resume scoring in the mix? Spark Hire keeps resume review inside the Recruit tiers. If you want it without buying a whole ATS, that points you elsewhere.
- Do you want the tool to decide, or to help you decide? None of these should auto-reject for you. The better question is which one gives you the evidence fastest and leaves the final call with you.
The deeper question is what you’re optimizing. Spark Hire answers “we want candidates on camera and we’ll review them ourselves.” If your real problem is “we get more applicants than we can watch and we need the strong ones to rise to the top,” you’re looking for a screening platform, not a video recorder. Sort out which problem is yours, and the shortlist gets short fast.
Frequently asked questions about Spark Hire pricing
How much does Spark Hire cost per month?
Spark Hire Meet, the video interviewing product, costs $299/month month-to-month or $249/month billed annually, and the behavioral assessment product is priced the same. The Recruit ATS starts at $335/month for Pro and $499/month for Growth, both billed annually. Buying video and assessments together runs roughly $498/month before any ATS, since each is a separate subscription.
Does Spark Hire have a free trial?
Spark Hire doesn’t clearly advertise a free trial in 2026, and recent sources conflict on whether one exists, so the reliable path to see the product is to request a demo. If a no-commitment trial matters to you, Truffle offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card required.
Is Spark Hire pricing published or quote-only?
Most of it is published. Spark Hire lists prices for Meet and for the Recruit Pro and Growth tiers on its pricing page. The Recruit Enterprise tier, for companies above 500 employees, is custom-quoted, and larger plans note that pricing varies by company size, so your final number can sit above the listed floors.
Why are video and assessments priced separately?
Spark Hire sells its one-way video product and its behavioral assessment product as two standalone subscriptions at the same rate. If you want both signals, you’re paying for both products. That’s a key reason to total up everything you need before comparing Spark Hire against a tool that bundles screening into one price.
Is Spark Hire cheaper than HireVue?
Yes, by a wide margin at the entry point. Spark Hire publishes plans from $249 to $499/month, while HireVue doesn’t publish pricing and is reported to start in the tens of thousands of dollars per year. They aim at different buyers: Spark Hire at small to mid-size teams, HireVue at enterprise-scale hiring programs.
