The Humanly alternative

Humanly screens hourly hires by chat and voice. Talyi screens on video, runs the live interview, and is the platform.

Humanly is a conversational AI recruiter built for high-volume, hourly and frontline hiring — it engages candidates 24/7 over SMS, chat, email and voice, screens them against your criteria, and books the interview. After a 2025 acquisition spree it now spans sourcing through its own ATS. It's genuinely strong at hourly-volume automation — but its screening signal is conversational, chat-and-voice-first, and the end-to-end suite was assembled from several acquisitions. Talyi is one natively-built platform: it screens on video, scored per skill, joins the live interview with a scorecard, reads and ranks every résumé, and is the ATS. One system, free to start.

Two different jobs to be done

Humanly automates the top of a high-volume hourly funnel over text and voice. Talyi is a video-first interview and hiring platform for roles you actually sit down and interview for.

Talyi
Humanly
24/7 conversational screening (SMS / chat / voice)
~Async video + résumé screen, less chatbot automation
Its core — multi-channel, high volume
Video screen (scored per skill) + live interview copilot
Built in — async video & live interview
~Chat/voice-first; not positioned as a live + async video interview product
Reads & ranks every résumé
Every applicant, scored per skill
~Scores conversation responses; résumé data via ATS/integrations
One natively-built platform
Single system, one data model
~End-to-end suite assembled via 2025 acquisitions
Is the ATS / system of record
Post, careers page, applicant pipeline
Recently added; also layers on Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse…
Public pricing, free to start, self-serve
Free tier, from $99/mo, no sales call
No public pricing — demo / sales-led
Included~ Partial / different approach Not offered / not public

Two products, two buyers

Both use AI to move candidates through the funnel. One is built for high-volume hourly automation; the other is a video-first interview platform for the roles you interview.

Talyi

Complete hiring platform (ATS) · free to start
  • Reads & ranks every applicant against the scorecard, with a plain-English reason
  • Async video screens scored per skill, plus a live interview copilot with a scorecard forming in real time
  • A full ATS — post a role, careers page, applicant pipeline — built as one system
  • ~Less built for pure high-volume hourly SMS/chat automation than Humanly

Humanly

Conversational AI recruiter · high-volume hourly / frontline
  • 24/7 multi-channel engagement — SMS, chat, email and voice — that screens and schedules at high volume with knockout questions and bias controls
  • Purpose-built for hourly & frontline hiring (retail, QSR, healthcare, logistics); strong enterprise ATS/HRIS integrations and sourcing/CRM reach
  • Screening is conversational, chat-and-voice-first — not a live + async video interview product
  • Broad suite assembled from multiple acquisitions rather than one native platform

Pricing you can see vs a demo you have to book

Humanly doesn't publish pricing — it's quote-only through a sales demo, and is priced for enterprise volume. Talyi starts free and scales with how much you hire.

Talyi

Free to start · self-serve
  • Free forever tier — start today, no sales call
  • Paid from $99/month — priced by how much you hire
  • Sign up and run a real hire the same day

Humanly

Quote-only · enterprise-priced
  • No public pricing — every plan is custom, via a sales demo
  • No public free tier or self-serve trial found
  • Positioned for enterprise / high-volume teams with a TA-ops function

Where your candidate data is processed

Interview and résumé data is sensitive. Talyi's AI runs on infrastructure we own — it doesn't leave for a third-party cloud or an outside model provider.

Talyi

Self-hosted AI · your data stays in our datacenter
  • Résumés, audio and video are processed by AI running on infrastructure we own and operate
  • Not sent to a third-party cloud or external model provider — and never used to train outside models
  • One place your candidate data lives

Humanly

Public-cloud SaaS · GDPR / CCPA
  • Runs as public-cloud SaaS; screening and transcription use third-party cloud AI
  • States GDPR and CCPA/CPRA compliance, with data-subject rights and consent capture
  • Does not publicly state SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification (verify current terms)

The honest take

Talyi is a better fit if…

You interview people for skilled & professional roles
  • You want to screen on video, interview live and read/rank résumés — all in the ATS
  • You'd rather run plan → screen → interview → decide in one native system than stitch tools together
  • You want to start free and pay for what you hire, with no sales call

Humanly is a strong fit if…

You hire hourly / frontline at high volume
  • You're filling hourly, frontline or high-volume roles (retail, QSR, healthcare, logistics) around the clock
  • Your bottleneck is engaging and screening thousands of applicants over SMS/chat/voice
  • You run an enterprise ATS (Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse…) and want an automation layer on top

Start free — screen on video, interview live, hire in one place

Run the async video screen scored per skill, join the live interview with a scorecard that writes itself, and rank every applicant — in one native platform that's also your ATS.

Humanly is a conversational AI recruiting platform focused on high-volume, hourly and frontline hiring: it engages, screens and schedules candidates 24/7 across SMS, chat, email and voice, and (following 2025 acquisitions) now offers sourcing, an AI interviewer, an AI notetaker and its own ATS module, while also integrating with enterprise ATS/HRIS systems such as Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG and Dayforce. Its screening is conversational and chat/voice-first; we could not confirm a live or async on-camera video interview product. Humanly does not publish pricing (quote-only via demo) and does not publicly state SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification, though it states GDPR and CCPA/CPRA compliance. Capabilities, packaging and pricing are taken from humanly.io and third-party review sites as of 2026 and change quickly — verify current terms on their site. Talyi pricing: Free $0/month, Starter $99/month.