Humanly AI Alternatives (2026): Price, GDPR and Who Should Switch

Humanly is an AI recruiting platform for high-volume hiring: it chats with applicants, screens them by chat, voice or video and schedules the interview. It publishes no prices, so most buyers compare it with Paradox (Olivia), Sapia.ai, HireVue and Sprad. Stay with Humanly if you hire hourly staff in the US and need its ATS connectors and SMS. Look at Sprad if you want screening, multilingual AI interviews and a talent network in one tool at published prices (from 0.49 € per application) with EU hosting.

What Humanly does, and what we could not verify

Humanly (Seattle, founded 2020) sells an AI Recruiter that engages and screens applicants around the clock and an AI Interviewer that runs structured interviews by chat, phone or video, plus an ATS and a notetaker (GeekWire reported its $12 million Series A in 2023). Its homepage claims 1,000+ high-volume hiring teams, named customers such as Mutual of Omaha, MGM Resorts and Trinity Health, and a 600M+ profile network for sourcing.

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Humanly homepage, retrieved 30 October 2026 (headline rotates).

What we could not confirm: the homepage shows no SOC 2 or GDPR statement, no languages and no prices. Results such as “screening cut from 30 minutes to five” are customer quotes on the vendor’s own site. Independent tests are rare; most comparison pages come from competitors, including this one, so check every claim in a demo.

What does Humanly cost?

There is no public price list. Third-party sites estimate anything from about $299 per user per month to $500–1,000 per month; none is official, and the cost drivers named are active roles, candidate volume, integrations and SMS usage. Ask for a written quote that lists overage rates and the term. As a yardstick, Sprad prints its price: 0.49 € per application with CV screening, chat interviews and candidate portal, plus 0.20 € for voice interviews with every fifth applicant (sprad.io/pricing, as of October 2026, net, billed annually).

Who should stay with Humanly, and who should switch

• Stay if you hire hourly staff in the US, your ATS is on Humanly’s connector list, SMS is your main candidate channel and the contract already fits your volume.
• Switch if you cannot get a price in writing, hire in several European languages, need a GDPR and hosting statement for your works council, or want sourcing and a reusable talent pool next to screening.
• Add rather than switch if screening works but you lose candidates before they apply: pair it with a talent network instead of a second chatbot.

The best Humanly alternatives compared

Sources: vendor websites and the third-party pages named in this article, retrieved 30 October 2026. Vendor figures are the vendors’ own claims.

1. Sprad — screening, AI interviews and your own talent network

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Sprad screening page, retrieved 30 October 2026.

Sprad reads every application and scores it per criterion, with the quote behind each score; nothing is rejected automatically. AI interviews run by voice, video or web chat in many languages, and WhatsApp is available for invitations and the whole conversation, which matters in Europe. Sprad also searches over 1B+ public profiles and your own pool, checking every profile individually against your requirements (see the voice screening guide for staffing and the CV screening overview). In our own re-measurement in the recruiting area of the public PeopleSearchBench, Atlas comes to 73.5 out of 100, converted to the published scale¹; Humanly did not take part, so there is no like-for-like sourcing number for it.

Honest limits: no SMS, no AI call notetaker, and US phone numbers or phone interviews only through a custom enterprise setup; in the US, text chat works best today.

2. Paradox (Olivia) — the enterprise frontline suite

Paradox is the name most directories list first next to Humanly. Workday signed an agreement to buy it in August 2025 (Workday newsroom, financial terms not disclosed). Olivia remains available as a standalone product, but the price is a custom quote and Workday-first roadmaps are worth a question.

3. Sapia.ai — structured text-chat interviews

Sapia.ai runs an untimed, mobile text-chat interview of about five questions for every applicant, scores communication and behavioural traits and ranks candidates for the recruiter, according to its own pages; named customers include Starbucks and Qantas. It is a fit when you want one consistent interview instead of CV reading, and fairness is on your checklist. It does not do sourcing or scheduling the way Humanly does; pricing is on request.

4. HireVue — video-first assessment

HireVue is the long-standing video-interview platform for large enterprises. For hourly roles, video asks more of the applicant than chat or voice; that is the main reason shops with high drop-off look elsewhere. It is the better fit for structured, asynchronous video at scale.

How do the alternatives compare on price, data coverage and GDPR?

Price: four of five publish nothing; only Sprad prints a per-application price. A worked example with our assumptions: 2,500 applications a year at 0.69 € (CV screening, chat, voice for every fifth applicant) is 1,725 € a year. A recruiter who spends five minutes on each first screen needs about 208 hours; at a loaded 30 € per hour that is roughly 6,250 €. The assumption is ours; plug in your own time per application. Per-application flats win at volume; credits (a screening with chat interview costs about 12 credits) suit low volume.

Data coverage: screening tools see only people who apply. Humanly claims a 600M+ profile network for sourcing; Sprad searches 1B+ profiles plus your own network. GDPR: an automated rejection without human review can fall under Article 22 GDPR. Sprad is hosted in Frankfurt and states GDPR and EU AI Act compliance; none of the other four shows a hosting or GDPR statement on its homepage, so ask for one.

Compliance checks before you sign: EU AI Act, GDPR, New York City

• EU AI Act: AI used to filter applications or evaluate candidates is high-risk under Annex III of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689; inferring emotions of applicants is prohibited at work (Article 5). According to a law-firm summary, the high-risk obligations were postponed to 2 December 2027; confirm the date in the Official Journal.
• New York City: Local Law 144 requires a bias audit within one year before use of an automated employment decision tool and notice to candidates 10 business days beforehand; enforced since 5 July 2023.
• Illinois has a separate AI Video Interview Act for video interviews.

Mistakes we see when teams switch screening tools

• Knockout questions copied from the old tool. Re-test them; one badly worded question can remove a whole shift pattern.
• No human decision. Let the tool prepare, a person decide.
• Long chats. Completion falls with every extra question; keep the first contact short.
• Trusting vendor time-to-hire stats. Measure completion rate and shortlist quality over four weeks with your own roles.
• Testing in English only. Run the interview in the languages your applicants speak, with accents.

How to choose

1. US hourly volume, SMS-first, ATS on the list: Humanly or Paradox.
2. Screening plus AI interviews in many languages, sourcing, a talent pool and a printed price: Sprad.
3. One structured chat interview for everyone: Sapia.ai.
4. Video assessments at enterprise scale: HireVue.

Start free at sprad.io/pricing or see the screening product; related reading: AI interviewer for high-volume hiring, bias and fairness in AI interviews.

¹ PeopleSearchBench (Recruiting), published by Lessie, October 2026. Other systems' scores as published in the benchmark; Atlas is our own re-measurement with the benchmark's open test procedure, converted to the published scale; not an official entry. Details: sprad.io/sourcing-benchmark, as of October 2026.

FAQ

What are the best alternatives to Humanly?

Sprad, Paradox (Olivia), Sapia.ai and HireVue. Pick by job: Sprad for screening plus multilingual AI interviews and a talent network at published prices, Paradox for the enterprise frontline suite, Sapia.ai for text-chat interviews, HireVue for video.

Who should switch from Humanly and who should stay?

Stay if you hire US hourly staff and rely on its ATS connectors and SMS. Switch if you need written prices, European languages, a GDPR statement or sourcing alongside screening.

How much does Humanly cost?

Humanly publishes no price. Third-party estimates range from about $299 per user per month to $500–1,000 per month and are unverified; request a written quote.

Is Humanly GDPR compliant?

Its homepage shows no GDPR or SOC 2 statement. Ask for the data processing agreement, hosting region and its position on Article 22 GDPR before you sign.

Which alternative finds more matching candidates?

Screening tools rank people who already applied. For finding candidates, our own re-measurement in the recruiting area of the public PeopleSearchBench puts Sprad’s Atlas at 73.5 out of 100, converted to the published scale (see note); Humanly did not take part in that benchmark.

Does Humanly work with my ATS?

Its homepage lists Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Dayforce, UKG, Oracle Taleo, iCIMS, Greenhouse and Avature. Sprad connects to Ashby, d.vinci, Personio and any system with an API.