Assessly vs Willo: an honest comparison
People arriving here want one-way video interviews: send a link, let candidates record when they can, watch later without scheduling anything.
A recorded answer, read back
Describe the largest deal you have closed. How did the opportunity arise, who were the decision makers, what objections came up and what did you do to bring the contract to signature?
What each one costs to start
Assessly
From $29 a month
Or free: 20 answers a month
Priced per account, not per open role, and there is no cap on candidates per role. The free plan sends real assessments.
Willo
From $59 per live role a month
Willo Lite, pay as you go, up to 5 live roles and 150 assessed candidates per role. Enterprise from $3,799 a year. No free plan; a 14-day trial.
Both prices as published by each company on the date the comparison was checked, in the currency they publish. Willo may offer other terms on request; so do we above the Business plan.
103 video interviews already written
Organised by job title, plus a set on competencies like resilience and handling conflict. So you are not writing interview questions at nine at night. Open any of them and read the questions before you use it.
- Agile Decision-Making
- Communicating Effectively
- Developing Others
- Embracing Innovation
- Handling Conflict
- Navigating Ambiguity
- Planning and Prioritizing
- Self-Development
- Strategic Perspective
Answers come back read, not just recorded
Video and audio are transcribed and scored per answer with the reasoning written out, so a shortlist is something you review rather than something you build from scratch.
84Score from 0 to 100, per answerA candidate can stop and come back
Progress is saved as they go, so a dropped connection or an interrupted evening does not cost them the attempt.
62%Saved as the candidate goes
Assessly and Willo, side by side
Both columns are read at the first paid plan of each tool, ours at Starter for $29 a month, theirs at the plan named in the header. Our column comes from the plans the product enforces, so it cannot be tidied by hand. Theirs is read from their public pages on the date below. Where only a dearer plan carries something, the cell names that plan and its price. A question mark means we could not verify it there, not that it is missing.
| What you are weighing | AssesslyStarter, $29 a month, no yearly contract | WilloLite, $59 per live role a month |
|---|---|---|
| A free plan you can actually hire from | Yes20 answers a month, no card | No14-day trial |
| Monthly billing, published price | Yes | YesPer live role on Lite |
| Read the real questions before you pay | YesSample questions on every template page | Not verifiedLibrary visible after trial signup |
| AI score with the reasoning written out, per answer | Yes | With a caveatMultiple choice scored; video ranked by a beta feature |
| Recorded video answers | Yes | Yes |
| Video and audio transcribed | Yes | Yes |
| Code run against test cases | With a caveatFrom Pro, $99 a month, metered past the allowance | No |
| Job simulations | YesWritten as questions, not a sandbox | NoMultiple-choice tests and surveys |
| The assessment itself in several languages | Yes12 languages, the questions themselves | Yes18 or more candidate languages |
| Behavioral or personality inventory | YesBig Five, scored per trait | No |
| Integrity signals: paste, tab focus, typing, AI text | YesReported, never acted on automatically | With a caveatAn authenticity flag on spoken answers |
| Camera proctoring of the candidate | NoBy design | Not verified |
| Positions and a candidate pipeline | Yes | With a caveatStages inside a role; feeds an ATS |
| Public API and webhooks | Yes | With a caveatEnterprise, from $3,799 a year |
| No account or install for the candidate | Yes | Yes |
Checked against the public pages of Willo on September 17, 2026. If something has changed since, tell us and we will correct it.
Sources: Willo pricing, Willo Intelligence, Capterra reviews
Where Willo is stronger
- Candidate experience at volume: works on low bandwidth, localised for 18 or more candidate languages, with 24/7 candidate support.
- Identity and right-to-work checks built in, on the Enterprise plan.
- A larger interview and question library, and native integrations with Workday, Greenhouse, Ashby and others on Enterprise.
- ISO 27001 certification and a long record of one-way video hiring.
Where Assessly is stronger
- A score with the reasoning written out on every open answer. Willo scores multiple choice and ranks video against a role blueprint; the substantive read of a video answer is still yours to do.
- Video is one of {types} question types. An interview can carry a written answer, a ranking, a simulation step and a code question in the same flow.
- Job simulations and a Big Five inventory, which a video-only tool does not offer.
- No cap on candidates per role and no per-role fee, so a popular opening does not cost more to screen.
- A free plan, with {freeSubmissions} answers a month, rather than a trial that ends.
So which one?
Pick Willo if
You screen large volumes on one-way video, want identity checks and ATS-native integrations, and your team is happy to watch and judge the answers itself.
Pick Assessly if
You want the answers to come back scored with their reasoning, want to mix video with written and practical questions, and would rather pay per account than per role.
How a video interview runs
- 1
Pick the role
Open the interview written for that job title and read the questions first.
- 2
Send one link
The candidate records from a browser, on a phone if that is what they have, with no install.
- 3
Answers arrive transcribed
Video and audio come back as text you can read and search, in the candidate language.
- 4
Watch only what earns it
Each answer is scored with its reasoning, so you spend the hour on the shortlist rather than on the pile.
Worth asking of any video interview tool
- Are the questions written for you, or do you write every one?
- Is the answer transcribed and scored, or do you watch every minute yourself?
- What happens when a candidate loses their connection halfway through?
- Can a candidate take it on a phone without installing anything?
Where Assessly stops
- Video and audio questions need the Starter plan. The free plan covers 15 of the 18 question types, text and choice among them.
- Interviews are one way: the candidate records and you watch later.
Interviews already written, by role
Six of the 103. Open one and read its questions.
2 real interview questions
Taken from Account Executive, exactly as a candidate reads them.
- 1.Long text
Describe the largest deal you have closed. How did the opportunity arise, who were the decision makers, what objections came up and what did you do to bring the contract to signature?
- 2.Long text
Tell us about an account that was at risk of churning or not renewing. How did you spot the risk, what did you do to turn it around and what was the outcome?
Questions people ask us
Do I have to write the interview questions?
No. There are 103 video interviews already written, organised by job title and by competency. Open one and read its questions before you use it.
Can a candidate answer on a phone?
Yes, from the browser, with nothing to install. They can stop and come back, because progress is saved as they go.
What happens if the connection drops halfway through?
The attempt is not lost. Progress is saved as the candidate answers, so they resume rather than start again.
Do I still have to watch every answer?
No. Video and audio are transcribed and scored per answer with the reasoning written out, so you review a shortlist instead of building one.
Which plan do video questions need?
Starter. The free plan covers 15 of the 18 question types, text and choice among them, with 20 answers a month.
Can Assessly run a live interview?
Interviews here are asynchronous by design: the candidate records when they can and you watch later, which is the whole reason nothing has to be scheduled. If a live conversation is the point of the tool for you, that is worth weighing before you start.
This is our own site, so read it that way. What we say about the other tool is read from its public pages on the date shown beside the table, with the sources linked, and we name where it beats us before we name where we win. Every number about Assessly is read from the product rather than written by hand. If we got something about them wrong, write to us and we will fix it.
Try it on one opening before you decide
Take a ready-made template, send the link to three candidates and read what comes back. 20 submissions a month cost nothing and need no card.
