Comparisons
Agentic Blue vs HireVue: which AI interviewer fits your hiring?
HireVue is one of the largest platforms in hiring technology, built for enterprise procurement. Agentic Blue does one thing, the first-round interview, for teams hiring at volume. Which fits depends far more on your organisation than on either product.
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The short answer
Choose HireVue if you are a large organisation that wants one enterprise platform for one-way and live video interviews, a conversational AI interviewer and skills assessments, connected to your applicant tracking system, and you have the procurement process to match.
Choose Agentic Blue if you hire at volume, want a first-round interview candidates can finish on a phone without needing a camera, and want to see the price in ringgit before speaking to anyone.
Agentic Blue and HireVue side by side
| Agentic Blue | HireVue | |
|---|---|---|
| Interview format | Typed chat by default; Voice or Video interviews where the employer sets them | One-way and live video, a voice-based AI interviewer, a website chat agent, and a co-pilot for live interviews on Zoom or Teams |
| What the candidate needs | A phone, with no app and no account; a camera only for a Video interview | A camera and a quiet place for the video formats, and a microphone for the voice interviewer |
| Built for | Teams hiring at volume, from one recruiter to a talent team | Large employers. It says 40% of the Fortune 100 use it |
| Assessments | None. It runs the first-round interview | Job-relevant skills tests, game-based assessments and an assessment builder |
| Languages | Starts in English; candidates can answer in Malay or Chinese | French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and more, it says. Malay is not named |
| Integrations | None published | More than 45 applicant tracking systems, it says |
| Security certifications | None published | SOC 2, ISO and FedRAMP, it says |
| What the recruiter gets | A scored profile with its reasoning and the full transcript. The recruiter decides | Recordings, assessment results and structured interview insights |
| Pricing | Published in ringgit, pay as you go: RM 3.10 a typed interview, RM 0.55 a minute for voice or video, no seats and no subscription | Not published. Buying is through sales |
Where HireVue is the stronger choice
Breadth. Video interviews, live interviews, assessments and a candidate chat assistant in one platform. Agentic Blue does one of those things.
Enterprise requirements. Published security certifications and a long list of ATS integrations are what an enterprise security review asks for first. Agentic Blue publishes neither today.
Roles where speaking is the job. For a call centre or a sales team, a spoken or video format tells you something a text interview cannot.
Where Agentic Blue is the stronger choice
More candidates finish. A text interview needs a phone and a few minutes, can be closed and picked up again, and asks nobody to film themselves. For shift workers and volume roles, that decides how many applicants get screened at all.
You know the price. Agentic Blue publishes its prices in ringgit and charges for what you run: RM 3.10 a typed interview, RM 0.55 a minute for voice or video (about RM 5.50 for a 10-minute one), and the first 3 typed interviews each month free. Top up from RM 50.00; there is no seat fee and no subscription.
Evidence you can read. Every score comes with its reasoning and the full transcript, and Blue does not reject anyone. It is also never shown the role’s must-haves while interviewing, so it cannot steer the conversation toward them.
Set up in a sentence. A recruiter describes the role, and the JD Builder Agent writes the posting and the screening questions. Everything the first round covers, from the CV read to the ranked shortlist, is on Agentic Blue’s AI recruiter page.
How to decide
Start with the format your roles need, then the size of the process you can support. If you are unsure which format suits your candidates, read AI video interviews or chat interviews. For more options in Malaysia, see the 8 best AI interviewer tools in Malaysia.