Interview intelligence, without the procurement cycle
BrightHire is built for in-house talent functions running structured hiring at scale, and it is priced accordingly: a custom annual quote, a demo, a contract. Recruitly is the CRM agencies already run on, with the meeting assistant inside it, live the afternoon you sign up.
Enterprise, by design
Their pricing is quoted per deployment rather than published, and 2026 benchmarking puts typical annual contracts in the five figures. Checked 22 August 2026.
Live this afternoon, cancel any time
No quote, no contract, no implementation project.
An agency cannot buy meeting notes like an enterprise buys them
A five-figure annual commitment for interview intelligence makes sense when you run a hiring function with a headcount plan behind it. It makes no sense for a desk of eight that lives on billings.
Getting started
Demo, quote, procurement
BrightHire
Sign up and invite her to a meeting
Recruitly
The commitment
Annual contract
BrightHire
Per hour, cancel any time
Recruitly
The scope
Interviews
BrightHire
Every meeting on the desk
Recruitly
Based on BrightHire’s published product pages and third-party contract benchmarking, checked 22 August 2026. They quote per deployment — ask them directly, and hold ours to the same standard.
What you get instead of an implementation project
Written onto the record
Notes land on the client, the candidate and the job in the CRM your agency already runs on. Nothing to copy, nothing to file, nothing to reconcile.
The call becomes the job
A client briefing drafts the vacancy: requirements, band, process and fee, ready to publish and match against the same afternoon.
Commitments become tasks
Every promise made in the room becomes a task with an owner and a date, or a callback in the queue. Not a bullet in a document.
The rest of the desk
Jobs, candidates, shortlists, placements, billings, campaigns, WhatsApp and an AI phone system — in the same subscription.
Two different businesses
BrightHire is answering an in-house question: are our interviews consistent, fair and defensible across a hiring function.
That is a real question with a real product behind it. It is not the agency question. Yours is whether the client briefing on Tuesday turned into a vacancy, a shortlist and a fee before your competitor got back to them — and no interview-intelligence platform is built to answer that, because it does not hold your jobs, your candidates or your pipeline.
Recruitly is built for recruitment agencies and nothing else. The meeting assistant is one part of the same product as the ATS, the CRM and the phone system, which is why it costs $1.50 an hour instead of a contract.
Recruitly vs BrightHire
One is an enterprise platform for hiring teams. One is the system your agency bills from.
| How you buy it | Sign up, pay by the hour | Demo, then a custom annual quote |
| Typical commitment | None | Annual contract |
| Built for | Recruitment agencies | In-house talent teams |
| Meeting types | Briefing, BD, screen, debrief, reference | Interview-led |
| Where the notes live | On the client, candidate and job | Its platform, then synced |
| Drafts the vacancy from an intake call | Included | — |
| Applicant tracking system | Included | — |
| Recruitment CRM with deals and billings | Included | — |
| AI phone system in the same product | Included | — |
| Live on day one | Included | After implementation |
| Cost of a quiet month | Nothing | The contract |
Capability comparison against BrightHire’s published plans, checked 22 August 2026.
Questions before you move
Is this as rigorous as BrightHire for interviews?
For the things that matter to an agency, yes: named transcripts, structured screening notes, scorecards prefilled with the candidate’s own words as evidence, and every AI score a visible draft until a human confirms it. What we do not do is the enterprise hiring-programme layer around it — interviewer coaching programmes, panel calibration across a large in-house function. If that is what you are buying, buy that.
We are an agency. Would BrightHire even sell to us?
They will talk to anybody, but the product and the price are shaped by in-house talent functions, and it shows in what it optimises for. The intake call that creates your vacancy is a footnote there and the main event here.
What does yours cost?
$1.50 per hour of meeting attended, charged by the second, with the first hour free for every user. It rides on the $25 a month Simi add-on that switches the AI on across the whole product. No quote, no annual commitment, no implementation fee.
How long before it is working?
The length of time it takes to put an email address on a meeting invite. There is nothing to install, no calendar to connect and no IT approval to wait for.
Meeting notes should not need a procurement cycle.
Best Value & Best Ease of Use · Capterra 2026