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Alva Labs: cost, fit and limits
Alva Labs is a hiring assessment company whose Agentic Psychometrics and Agentic Hiring System products combine personality and logic tests with an AI agent that drafts role criteria, scores interview transcripts and drafts candidate feedback, priced per hire.
What to know first
Alva Labs prices per hire by annual volume, billed in arrears, with no platform fee and no per-seat licence. Two products appear on the pricing page: Agentic Psychometrics for tests and reports alongside an existing ATS, and the Agentic Hiring System, marked Recommended, which adds applicant tracking, career page, sourcing and interview tools. Grow, Scale and Enterprise are named volume tiers without figures. The privacy policy page returned a 404.
Alva Labs at a glance
| Maker | Not stated on the vendor pages, Not stated on the vendor pages |
|---|---|
| Free plan | No |
| Entry price | Quote only |
| API access | No |
| Category | Best AI Pre-Employment Assessment Software in 2026, rank 11 of 13 |
| Website | alvalabs.io |
Who Alva Labs is best for
Teams that want pay-per-hire economics
There is no platform fee or per-seat licence, so cost scales with the number of hires rather than the size of the recruiting team.
Companies replacing their ATS
The Agentic Hiring System covers applicant tracking, career page, job advertising, CV screening, scheduling and candidate communication, so it can stand in for a separate system.
Employers using structured interviews
Interview transcripts are scored against role criteria, and the page says scores are suggested pending hiring team approval. Hiring teams stay in charge of every decision.
Alva Labs plans and pricing
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic Psychometrics | Not published (per hire by annual volume) | Personality and logic tests, Role Fit scoring, leadership report, Deep Insights, team insights, candidate reports, analytics and ATS integrations; coding tests and interview kits cost extra. |
| Agentic Hiring System | Not published (per hire by annual volume) | Everything in Agentic Psychometrics plus applicant tracking, career page, sourcing, CV screening, structured interviews, scheduling, transcription and HRIS integrations. |
| Volume tiers Grow, Scale, Enterprise | Not published | Named in the FAQ as per-hire volume tiers; the pages we read show no prices or allowances for any of them. |
Checked November 2026.
What Alva Labs does
- Agentic Hiring System
- An AI agent that runs hiring steps from defining the role to onboarding reports, with the page stating that humans make the final decision. The vendor describes it as an agent.
- Role setup from an intake call
- Drafts role criteria, an assessment plan and a job ad from an uploaded intake call, which turns a recruiter's conversation with a manager into a starting structure.
- Transcript scoring
- Scores interview transcripts against role criteria and marks the results as suggested pending hiring team approval, so a person signs off before decisions. Interviews are transcribed inside the system.
- Drafted rejection feedback
- Writes personalized rejection feedback from scorecards, which saves recruiters time on declines while keeping messages tied to the stated criteria. Messages are drafted, not sent automatically on the pages read.
- Applicant marketplace
- An opt-in marketplace of pre-assessed applicants lets employers see candidates who have already completed the assessments. Whether employers pay extra for access is not stated on the pricing page.
How Alva Labs handles your data
The privacy policy page at alvalabs.io returned a 404 when we opened it, so the data-handling facts here come from the homepage alone. The site calls its psychometric assessments independently certified by DNV, with no certificate number or scope, and claims GDPR compliance without a certificate. Retention periods, hosting region and whether customer data trains AI models are not stated on the pages opened. The homepage cites outcome figures such as a 60% reduction in time to hire, which are vendor claims we did not verify.
Where Alva Labs falls short in practice
- Per-hire cost is unknowable upfront. Without published rates, an employer cannot estimate spend until annual hiring volume is shared with sales and a tier is assigned. Tier names appear without prices.
- Hiring system replaces your ATS. The Agentic Hiring System is positioned as a replacement for an existing ATS, so adopting it is a larger migration than adding a test provider.
- Missing data terms. With the policy page unavailable and no region or retention period stated, a data protection officer has little to assess before talking to the vendor.
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Alva Labs: common questions
How does Alva Labs pricing work?
Alva Labs prices per hire by annual volume, billed in arrears, with no platform fee and no per-seat licence. Grow, Scale and Enterprise are named volume tiers without figures. Ask for the per-hire rate at your expected volume and what happens if you hire fewer people than forecast.
Does the Alva Labs AI make hiring decisions?
The page says humans make the final decision. The Agentic Hiring System scores interview transcripts against role criteria, and those scores are suggested pending hiring-team approval. It also drafts job ads and rejection feedback. Ask how an approver can see the evidence behind a score.
Can I use Alva Labs with my existing ATS?
Yes, with Agentic Psychometrics, which works alongside an existing ATS through integrations, though the pages do not name them. The Agentic Hiring System is positioned as a replacement for an ATS instead. Confirm that your system is supported before choosing the lighter product.
Where does Alva Labs store candidate data?
The pages we opened do not state a hosting region or retention periods, and the privacy policy page returned a 404. The site claims GDPR compliance and DNV certification of its psychometric tests. Ask for the processing agreement and a statement of region before any pilot.
Are the Alva Labs results claims verified?
No. The homepage cites outcomes such as a 60% reduction in time to hire and 91% assessment completion, and these are vendor claims we did not verify. Ask for the study behind each figure, its sample and its date, before using them in a business case.