Avoma vs BrightHire (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Avoma if

• Fits if your sales or customer success team logs meeting notes to a CRM
• Works for companies where many people only watch recordings, since viewer seats are free

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you're one person who wants meeting notes, at $19 a month billed yearly or $29 monthly
• Not for you if you want a free plan, as the account turns view-only when the 14-day trial ends
• Skip it if you want coaching and forecasting in the base price, as those are $29-a-seat add-ons
• Tight if your team grows: Startup stops at 25 recorder seats and Organization at 100, and every recorder must share one plan
• Watch out: SSO and HIPAA need Enterprise, with a 10-seat minimum and yearly billing only

Pick BrightHire if

• Fits if you run a recruiting team on Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby and want interview notes written for you
• Works for companies that need to review how interviewers score people

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want a price before you talk to anyone, as every product is quoted after a demo
• Not for you if you want notes for general team meetings, because it is built for hiring interviews
• Watch out: pricing varies by company size, applicant volume and interview volume, so costs can move
• Watch out: candidates are told they are recorded and can opt out
• Too light for a solo user, as the listing shows no self-serve plan

Avoma

• There is no free plan. When the 14-day trial ends, the account drops to a viewer role that cannot record new meetings.
• Call scoring, coaching, deal risk alerts and forecasting are add-ons at $29 per seat a month (annual), on top of a base plan.
• Startup is capped at 25 recorder seats and Organization at 100. Enterprise needs at least 10 seats and is billed annually only.
• Every recording user in an account must be on the same base plan.

BrightHire

• No prices are published; every product is quoted after a demo request.
• It is built for hiring interviews, not for general team meetings.
• Interview Intelligence is priced by company size, Inbound by applicant volume and Screen by interview volume.
• Candidates are notified about recording and can opt out.

Avoma

Recording and live transcription

Records audio and video on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoToMeeting, with or without a bot, and transcribes in more than 70 languages with speakers named.

AI notes and templates

Notes come with key takeaways, action items and more than 40 default topics, using 10+ built-in templates such as MEDDIC and SPICED. Custom templates and topics start on Organization.

CRM note sync

Saves meeting notes to the matching account, opportunity or contact in Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Pipedrive or Copper without manual entry.

Scheduler

Unlimited 1:1 scheduling links are on every plan. Group and round-robin scheduling need Organization, and rule-based lead routing is a separate add-on.

Ask Avoma

An AI assistant that answers questions about a single meeting on every plan. Asking across all conversations is listed with Enterprise and with the Conversation Intelligence add-on.

Conversation and revenue intelligence

Add-ons for AI call scoring, coaching recommendations, deal risk alerts, win-loss analysis and forecasting, each priced at $29 per seat a month on annual billing.

BrightHire

AI interview notes

Live interviews get AI notes and scorecards that can be filled into the applicant tracking system with one click.

Interviewer insights

Interviewer quality trends and coaching show how interviews are run across teams and roles.

AI interviewer

BrightHire Screen runs structured first-round screening interviews that candidates can take at any hour, scored against your rubric.

Application review

BrightHire Inbound checks applications against a rubric drafted from the job description and syncs actions to the ATS.

Fraud signals

Flags potential fraud on applications and, with candidate consent, in interviews; the site says it is never a hiring decision.

Access and compliance controls

The vendor states SOC 2 Type II certification, GDPR and CCPA compliance, role-based access and custom data retention.

Avoma

• Startup$19

  per recorder seat / month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly)

  Up to 25 paid seats: video recording, unlimited transcription and AI notes, Ask Avoma for a meeting, CRM note sync and 1:1 scheduling.

• Organization$29

  per recorder seat / month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly)

  Up to 100 paid seats: adds custom AI topics and templates, group and round-robin scheduling, translation, API access and webhooks.

• Enterprise$39

  per recorder seat / month, billed annually only

  Minimum 10 paid seats: adds SAML or OIDC single sign-on, data retention policies, HIPAA compliance and a designated success manager.

BrightHire

Pricing could not be confirmed. See brighthire.com.

Avoma

• Annual discount

  Up to 33% off with yearly billing

  Avoma offers up to 33% off the base plan when paid yearly upfront: Startup is $19 instead of $29 per recorder seat a month, and Organization $29 instead of $39.

BrightHire

No public discounts listed.