Alva Labs

Name: Alva Labs
Brand: Alva Labs
Rating: 4.6 (428 reviews)

Hire people, not CVs.

Est 2017|Valuation $73M|Raised $14.6M|45 Ref Customers

LinkedIn 13K|Web traffic 117K|FTEs 60|HQ Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

MarketsInterviewing & Assessment

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Areas of relative strength: - Focus on psychometric instruments combined with structured interviewing workflows. - Emphasis on candidate experience and completion rates in vendor materials and customer comments. - Positive feedback on customer support and onboarding in several reviews. Areas where competitors may offer advantages: - Broader libraries of job-specific skills tests and greater customization options (e.g., TestGorilla). - Video interviewing workflows and enterprise automation (e.g., HireVue). - Deep technical assessment ecosystems for software engineering hiring (e.g., HackerRank). Market signal notes: - Review platform comparisons indicate the vendor is very highly rated on G2 but shows fewer public reviews than some larger competitors, which may reflect differences in installed base or customer mix.

	Alva Labs	TestGorilla	HireVue
Starting Price	Pay As You Go: per-hire pricing at a modest per-hire level (public); other tiers vary and may require vendor engagement	Free plan available; paid tiers vary	No list price; demo/quote for Essential/Enterprise/Premium
Primary use case	Organizations seeking psychometrics combined with structured interviewing workflows and vendor support	Teams seeking a broad library of skills tests and custom assessments	Enterprises focused on video interviewing and associated assessment workflows
Key focus	Science-focused personality and cognitive assessments, structured interview templates, and candidate-facing reporting	Breadth of tests and customization options for job-specific assessments	Video interviewing workflows, enterprise hiring automation, and assessment integration
Limitations noted	Limited breadth of job-specific tests compared with some competitors; candidate concerns about cognitive tests; integration maturity varies by ATS	More skills-test oriented than deep psychometrics in some cases; test quality can vary by type	Pricing opacity; variable acceptance of video interviews in different markets; concerns about AI-based evaluation in some regions

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Areas of relative strength:

Focus on psychometric instruments combined with structured interviewing workflows.
Emphasis on candidate experience and completion rates in vendor materials and customer comments.
Positive feedback on customer support and onboarding in several reviews.

Areas where competitors may offer advantages:

Broader libraries of job-specific skills tests and greater customization options (e.g., TestGorilla).
Video interviewing workflows and enterprise automation (e.g., HireVue).
Deep technical assessment ecosystems for software engineering hiring (e.g., HackerRank).

Market signal notes:

Review platform comparisons indicate the vendor is very highly rated on G2 but shows fewer public reviews than some larger competitors, which may reflect differences in installed base or customer mix.

	Alva Labs	TestGorilla	HireVue
Starting Price	Pay As You Go: per-hire pricing at a modest per-hire level (public); other tiers vary and may require vendor engagement	Free plan available; paid tiers vary	No list price; demo/quote for Essential/Enterprise/Premium
Primary use case	Organizations seeking psychometrics combined with structured interviewing workflows and vendor support	Teams seeking a broad library of skills tests and custom assessments	Enterprises focused on video interviewing and associated assessment workflows
Key focus	Science-focused personality and cognitive assessments, structured interview templates, and candidate-facing reporting	Breadth of tests and customization options for job-specific assessments	Video interviewing workflows, enterprise hiring automation, and assessment integration
Limitations noted	Limited breadth of job-specific tests compared with some competitors; candidate concerns about cognitive tests; integration maturity varies by ATS	More skills-test oriented than deep psychometrics in some cases; test quality can vary by type	Pricing opacity; variable acceptance of video interviews in different markets; concerns about AI-based evaluation in some regions