Talview alternatives (2026): exam proctoring vs AI interviewing
Sep 15, 2026
Talview alternatives: pick the half of the product you actually need
Talview sells two things that most vendors sell separately. One is exam and certification proctoring, where their customers are awarding bodies like Cambridge Assessment, ETS, City and Guilds, GMAT and Kaplan. The other is AI interviewing for hiring, which is Ivy plus a candidate verification module.
Almost every buyer we talk to needs one of those, not both. Which is why most "Talview alternatives" lists are useless: they mix proctoring vendors and hiring vendors into one ranking, and the ranking can't mean anything.
We compete with the hiring half, so this page splits it.
First, work out which half you're replacing
If you're delivering exams, certifications or high stakes assessments to candidates who aren't job applicants, you're buying proctoring. Go to the second list.
If you're screening job applicants and the proctoring is there to stop the wrong person showing up, you're buying an AI interviewer with verification attached. That's the first list.
The reason the distinction matters: an exam proctoring stack is built for a fixed test taken by a known person over a fixed window, with a human review path afterwards. An interview integrity stack has to work in a live two way conversation where the recruiter needs to know something's wrong before the call ends. The engineering is different and so is the failure mode.
Ours, so discount accordingly. Berri MasterMind runs adaptive interviews pulling questions from the candidate's own resume, then role specific questions, then coding in an integrated environment. The integrity checks aren't a separate product: Berri Proctor detects micro-signals through 3D liveness detection and lip sync analysis alongside identity verification and environment analysis. In January 2026 we added smart glasses detection after training our vision systems on the publicly available Meta Ray-Ban devices, and that one is documented end to end: immediate flag, candidate warned, interviewer notified. Berri Connect handles calls, WhatsApp, SMS and scheduling before that.
Against Talview: we publish no certification list, no named ATS integrations, no pricing and have no G2 reviews. Talview has all four. That's a fair thing to hold against us.
HirePro
Bengaluru, Careernet group, and the most specific published fraud spec in the category. 30 plus fraud signals claimed, including real time deepfake, virtual camera, recorded feed and stand-in detection, unauthorised AI assistance identified through content, style, speech patterns and typing analysis, government ID matched to face and name and rechecked mid interview, and mid session identity switch detection. Axis Bank and Delhivery named.
No published methodology, no pricing, no G2 presence.
InCruiter
Bengaluru and Plano. IncBot for voice and video interviews, with dual voice detection, altered video and face swap detection, AI generated voice detection and a risk score on the report. They also run interview as a service with 4,500 human interviewers, which covers rounds where you still want people. The only vendor in the category publishing rupee prices: ₹1,99,999 a year plus GST for IncVid Pro, ₹5,99,999 for Pro+. G2 4.6 from 137 reviews.
Their compliance claim is "SOC 2, ISO, GDPR compliant" with no ISO number attached, which isn't verifiable as written.
HackerRank
The right answer if what you use Talview for is technical screening rather than integrity. Chakra runs voice or video AI interviews with adaptive follow ups and coding in an integrated IDE. 22 named ATS integrations. ISO 27001, SOC 1 and SOC 2. Published pricing at $165 a month billed annually for 120 candidate attempts. G2 4.6 from 561 reviews, the biggest review base in the category.
They claim no identity verification and no deepfake detection, and they're upfront about it.
iMocha
Pune, operating as Tecknack Technologies Private Limited with a Delaware entity alongside. India customers contract under Indian law with jurisdiction in Pune. TARA for conversational AI, plus automated video interviews. Impersonation handled through government ID and selfie in about 10 seconds, face detection, a cheating intensity rating and virtual machine detection. 20 named ATS integrations including Darwinbox. G2 4.4 from 276 reviews.
No published certification page.
HireVue
Worth knowing about even though most Indian buyers won't land here. ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, FedRAMP Moderate, a published bias audit by DCI Consulting with real impact ratios, 1,300 validation studies and a Chief Science Officer. Nobody in this category matches the documentation.
The catch for an Indian buyer is location. Their published hosting footprint is the US and Europe, with no India data centre, no India entity and no DPDP reference anywhere.
If you need exam and certification proctoring
We don't compete here and won't pretend to rank it well. Three things worth knowing.
Talview's proctoring is genuinely strong, and their customer list in this market is the argument. Cambridge Assessment, ETS, City and Guilds, GMAT, Kaplan. Four delivery modes, a lockdown browser, secondary camera, an integrity score within 24 hours, and a proctoring API. Most of their published case studies with hard numbers sit on this side of the business, including La Trobe running 12,000 students at a 1:8 live proctor ratio.
The vendors people evaluate against them in exams are Proctorio, Honorlock, Examity, Proctor360, Kryterion and Inspera. Talview publishes comparison pages against most of those, which tells you who they consider the competition.
In India specifically, Mercer Mettl is the incumbent for volume assessment proctoring: three point authentication with email, mobile OTP and official ID, facial verification, 360 degree dual camera proctoring and browser lockdown, referencing ISO 27001 and AICPA certifications.
Where Talview is weaker than its marketing suggests
Two things we'd check before renewing, both verifiable in a few minutes.
Their compliance documentation doesn't agree with itself. The trust centre says "GDPR, GDPR-K, PDPA, CCPA, AICPA, EEOC, LGPD, ISO 27001 compliant" and doesn't mention SOC 2. A separate compliance page names SOC 2 Type II and doesn't mention ISO 27001, and that page is stamped "Last updated: April 19, 2022." Note also that the word used throughout is "compliant" rather than "certified," with no certificate numbers or audit dates.
Their interview numbers don't agree with each other either. Their comparison pages promise 3x more interview capacity. The Ivy product page says 10x. Same site, same day.
And on the thing they market hardest: the homepage addresses "deepfake identities bypassing verification" and "proxy test-taker networks," but their Candidate Verification page names face matching, voice verification, multi-face and no-face detection, device switching and ID checks against third party and AML databases, without naming deepfake detection or AI assistant misuse detection. Identity verification is also a separate product from Ivy rather than something built into the interview. If deepfakes are why you're buying, ask them to walk you through exactly which signal catches one.
None of that makes Talview a bad product. It makes their documentation older and looser than a company of their size should be shipping, and those are fair questions for a renewal call.
The thing nobody in this category publishes
Not one vendor here, ours included, publishes an India data residency commitment. We checked the security, trust and privacy pages of 19 vendors in September 2026. Talview's CIO page cites GDPR and CCPA and doesn't mention DPDP, and their /en/security URL returns a 404. Several vendors display DPDP badges with nothing behind them. HackerEarth's privacy policy names five other regimes and not India's, despite a Bengaluru entity.
Ask for the region in writing. It's a reasonable question and most vendors will answer it. Nobody has written it down.
FAQ
What is the best Talview alternative?
Depends which half you're replacing. For AI interviewing in hiring: HackerRank if the job is technical screening, HirePro or InCruiter or BerriBot if fraud detection is the driver, iMocha if an Indian contracting entity matters. For exam and certification proctoring: Proctorio, Honorlock, Examity, Inspera or Mercer Mettl in India.
Is Talview good for exam proctoring?
Yes. It's the strongest part of the company. Four proctoring modes including live human and in centre, a lockdown browser, secondary camera monitoring, an integrity score and a proctoring API. Their customers in this market include Cambridge Assessment, ETS, City and Guilds, GMAT and Kaplan, and most of their published case studies with hard numbers are exam delivery or proctoring engagements.
Does Talview detect deepfakes?
Their homepage addresses deepfake identities and proxy test-taker networks as problems. Their Candidate Verification page describes face matching, voice verification, multi-face and no-face detection, device and connection monitoring, and ID checks against third party and AML databases. As of September 2026 it does not name deepfake detection specifically.
What does Talview cost?
Talview doesn't publish prices. Their pricing page describes a unit based model where you pay per feature used, with a stated minimum commitment of roughly 150 to 200 candidates. Everything past that is a quote.
Is Talview ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified?
Their trust centre lists ISO 27001 among frameworks they're "compliant" with, and does not mention SOC 2. A separate compliance page names SOC 2 Type II and does not mention ISO 27001, and that page was last updated in April 2022. Neither page publishes certificate numbers or audit dates. Ask for the certificates directly.
Is Talview an Indian company?
It was founded in India, by IIT Bombay classmates in 2012 as Interview Master, with Talview Inc formally established in 2017. Crunchbase lists the HQ as San Mateo, California. They have India operations and a Bangalore contact number, and named Indian customers including TCS, Cognizant, Reliance Industries and HCLTech. They publish no India data residency statement.
