# What does it cost to screen home care applicants with an AI interviewer?

*Last reviewed 2026-08-12 by Ross Overstreet, Talent Pronto*

> As low as $1.00 per completed interview. Talent Pronto charges for interviews that actually happen, not per seat, per job, or per applicant, and every plan starts with a 30-day free trial with no credit card and no automatic charge. The comparison that matters is what screening costs you now, in office hours spent dialing applicants who never pick up.

Source: https://www.talentpronto.ai/answers/cost-to-screen-caregiver-applicants

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## What screening costs you today

Before comparing tools, price your current process. A caregiver posting pulls a hundred applications. Someone in your office, [often the owner](https://www.talentpronto.ai/answers/hire-caregivers-without-a-recruiter), spends parts of several days dialing: most calls hit voicemail, callbacks come in during dinner, and the applicants who do connect take twenty minutes each to ask about [certificate, car, background, and shifts](https://www.talentpronto.ai/answers/verify-caregiver-certifications-before-interview). Ten hours of skilled office time per posting is a conservative figure, and it buys you conversations with a fraction of the pile while [the fastest-moving applicants take other jobs](https://www.talentpronto.ai/answers/caregiver-applicants-ghosting).

That's the real baseline: hours you're already paying for, spent mostly on not-reaching people.

## How Talent Pronto prices

One number: **per completed interview, as low as $1.00 each**. The meter runs only when an applicant actually finishes a conversation with [Anna](https://www.talentpronto.ai/how-anna-works):

- **Applicants who never engage cost nothing.** The forty-jobs clicker who ignores the text doesn't show up on a bill.
- **No per-seat or per-job fees.** Unlimited seats, as many postings as you have open.
- **No setup fees, nothing to install.** You describe the job and share a link, or Anna [works inside your ATS](https://www.talentpronto.ai/answers/greenhouse-screening-integration) if you have one; the integration is free.

So a posting that draws a hundred applications and sixty completed interviews costs you sixty interviews. Every one of those sixty is a screened, scored conversation with the transcript attached, covering people you would never have reached by phone.

## Try it before any of this matters

The first 30 days are free: unlimited interviews, no credit card, and never an automatic charge. The recommended start is one caregiver posting, compared honestly against what your current process produces on the same job. Details are on the [pricing page](https://www.talentpronto.ai/pricing), and the agency-specific picture is on the [home care page](https://www.talentpronto.ai/industries/home-care).

## Common follow-up questions

### What counts as a completed interview?

An applicant finishing the screening conversation: your questions asked and answered, scored against your requirements. Partial conversations, where someone answers two questions and disappears, don't bill as completed.

### What drives the price above $1.00?

Volume and configuration; $1.00 is the floor, not a teaser. Interviewing at serious volume, or in government or enterprise settings, gets custom pricing through the [contact page](https://www.talentpronto.ai/contact).

### Is there a contract or minimum?

The trial has neither a credit card nor an automatic charge; before it ends, we walk you through plans and you decide. Nothing converts silently.

### How does this compare to an answering service or a part-time screener?

A person can only screen serially, during business hours, one call at a time; you pay for their hours whether applicants pick up or not. Anna interviews [everyone at once, the moment they apply, around the clock](https://www.talentpronto.ai/answers/interview-applicants-around-the-clock), and you pay only for conversations that completed.