Asynchronous video screening
Primary sources checkedCandid
Async video screening you can buy one role at a time: candidates record answers, the team reviews and scores together, and AI transcription and summaries make the clips searchable.
The short answer
- Best for
- Recruiters and agencies who screen a handful of roles a year and want to pay per role, or agencies running up to twenty active roles on one plan
- Not ideal for
- Roles where the live conversation is itself the assessment, and teams needing deep ATS automation out of the box
- Price
- GBP 49 per role, or GBP 225 per month billed annually. 14-day trial
- Closest alternative
- ScreeningHiveChoose ScreeningHive when you screen continuously and a USD 19 or USD 49 monthly plan beats paying per role
At a glance
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Ease of useUnknown
- ImplementationStrong
- Price transparencyStrong
- Value for moneyUnknown
- ScalabilityFair
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Built around the role and the candidate, and priced around the role too. Nothing about it is a general video tool adapted for hiring.
- Ease of useUnknown
- A 14-day trial makes this cheap to answer for yourself, and the part that matters, whether candidates finish the recording, is not something we can judge from outside.
- ImplementationStrong
- Buy a role, write the questions, send the link. On Starter there is nothing to integrate and nothing to configure beyond the interview itself.
- Price transparencyStrong
- Both plans publish their price, their limits and their seat counts, including the 60-day role window and the 100-response cap. You can work out your cost per candidate before you sign up.
- Value for moneyUnknown
- Per-role pricing is excellent for occasional use and poor for continuous use, and which one you are is a question about your own year, not about the product.
- ScalabilityFair
- The Agency plan covers up to twenty active roles and ten seats, which suits a mid-size agency well. Beyond that you are in Enterprise, where nothing is published.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
- Apply
- Screen
- Interview
- Decision
The SourcrLab bottom line
The commercial design is the reason to look at Candid. GBP 49 for one role, sixty days and 100 responses is the only pricing in this category that lets you use async video for a single difficult vacancy and then stop, and that removes the main reason occasional users never adopt these tools. The Agency plan at GBP 225 a month covers twenty roles and ten seats for teams that screen continuously. The trade-offs are the ones the whole category shares: candidate friction, response caps that move with applicant volume, and integration depth that is a request rather than a feature.
Best fit
Someone who screens in bursts. A single hard role with sixty applicants, or an agency running a steady twenty. Both are served, and the per-role option means the tool costs nothing in the months you are not using it.
Think twice if
Async video is a filter, and filters lose candidates. On roles where you are competing for scarce people, asking them to record answers for a company that has not yet spoken to them will cost you some of the best applicants. Use it where you have more applicants than time, not where you have fewer.
SourcrLab assessment
Everything on this page comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on the dates below. SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work, so you will not find a first-hand opinion here.
Why choose Candid?
You can buy one role and stop
GBP 49 covers a single role for up to sixty days with 100 video responses and two seats. No annual commitment, no seat licence, no renewal conversation. For a recruiter with one genuinely hard vacancy, this is the difference between trying async video and never trying it.
Clips you can read instead of watch
AI transcription and summaries turn twenty recordings into twenty pages of text. That is what makes async review actually faster than calls: you can skim a transcript in forty seconds and only watch the ones worth watching.
A plan shaped like an agency desk
GBP 225 a month billed annually for up to twenty active roles and ten seats maps to how an agency actually works: several roles live at once, several consultants reviewing, and no per-user surcharge for the resourcer who only reviews.
Two weeks to test the only thing that matters
A 14-day trial is long enough to run one real role and count how many invited candidates actually complete the recording. That number decides whether async video works for your market, and no feature list can tell you what it will be.
Main trade-offs
The response cap moves with applicant volume
Starter includes 100 video responses per role. A well-advertised role can generate that in a week, at which point the effective cost is no longer GBP 49 per role but GBP 49 per hundred candidates. Check the overage terms before you use it on a high-volume vacancy.
Sixty days is a real deadline
The Starter role window is up to sixty days. Roles that stall, get re-briefed or reopen after a hiring freeze will outlive it, and you will be buying the same role twice. For anything that historically takes a quarter to fill, the monthly plan is the honest comparison.
ATS integration is a request, not a feature
Integration is described as available on the Agency plan by request rather than as a published connector list. Assume manual status updates until proven otherwise, and confirm exactly what syncs before you route a whole desk through it.
Recorded candidates are stored candidates
Video of a person's face and voice is sensitive personal data, and a per-role purchase does not remove the obligations that come with it. Agree retention, who may replay, and deletion on request before the first invitation goes out.
Pricing and buying reality
GBP 49 per role, or GBP 225 per month billed annually
- Starter: GBP 49 per role, for up to 60 days, 100 video responses and 2 seats
- Agency: GBP 225 per month billed annually, up to 20 active roles and 10 seats
- Enterprise: custom pricing
- A 14-day free trial is offered; ATS or CRM integration is available on the Agency plan by request
What we do not know
- What happens after 100 video responses on a Starter role
- Whether a Starter role can be extended beyond 60 days, and at what cost
- Which ATS systems the Agency integration actually covers
- Recording retention periods and deletion controls
Checked on the vendor's pricing page, August 2026. Candid pricing page
How it fits your stack
Works with
- An ATS or CRM, on the Agency plan by request
- Distributed reviewers, since seats are included per plan
Likely replaces
- The repetitive first screening call
- A monthly video-interview subscription for occasional users
May overlap with
- One-way interview tools such as Hireflix and ScreeningHive
- AI voice screening, which asks similar questions without video
- Video steps already inside an ATS
Check before buying
- Candidate completion rate on one real role during the trial
- Overage behaviour past 100 responses, and role extension past 60 days
- Which ATS the Agency integration supports, and what it syncs
- Recording retention, replay access and deletion on request
Candid vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Choose ScreeningHive when you screen continuously and a monthly interview allowance is cheaper than paying per role
Choose Hireflix when you want a more established one-way interview specialist with a documented ATS integration list
Used Candid?
Tell other recruiters what worked, what did not, and who it suits. Positive, mixed or critical — all useful.
Evidence
- Candid runs asynchronous video screening with candidate clips, collaborative team review and AI transcription and summaries — checked against a primary source: Candid product site
- Starter is GBP 49 per role for up to 60 days, 100 video responses and 2 seats — checked against a primary source: Candid pricing page
- Agency is GBP 225 per month billed annually for up to 20 active roles and 10 seats, with Enterprise on custom pricing — checked against a primary source: Candid pricing page
- A 14-day free trial is offered and ATS or CRM integration is available on the Agency plan by request — checked against a primary source: Candid pricing page
- Overage behaviour past the 100-response limit and role extension past 60 days — not enough evidence
- SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work. — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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