AI interview assistants compared in 2026

We make one of the six tools on this page, so read it the way you would read any comparison written by a competitor. What we can promise is that every figure below came off the vendor's own pricing page on 21 September 2026, read in a real browser, and that where a rival is better we say so.

The headline: five of these six are subscriptions that renew until you stop them. One is a pass that expires on its own, and it is also the cheapest per month of unlimited support.

The prices, side by side

The bolded row wins every line of this table.

Three vendors quote in rupees and two in dollars. We have not converted between them in the table, because rates move faster than pricing pages. One safe statement: $25 has not been worth less than about ₹2,000 in recent years, so even the cheapest dollar-priced plan here is more than double ₹999.

Our prices are currently 50% off: ₹999 was ₹1,999, ₹1,999 was ₹3,999. Three rivals are running discounts of their own. Compare the standard rates as well as the promotional ones.

Where these numbers come from

Each company's own pricing page, on 21 September 2026, rather than the review sites. That matters more than it sounds: several third-party posts still quote Final Round AI at $149 a month, which is not what their page says. Three of these pricing pages keep their numbers behind tabs or a currency switcher, so it is worth opening all of them yourself.

Where a company's plan card disagreed with its own comparison table, we went with the comparison table and said so in the detailed write-up.

What we have not done: bought all five subscriptions and run interviews through them. Nothing here rates anyone's answer quality, including ours. This compares what is sold and what it costs, which is the part you can check yourself.

The thing five of them have and we refuse to build

Final Round AI, LockedIn AI, Sensei AI, Verve AI and Interview Sidekick all sell a stealth mode. Final Round AI's page says "100% invisible. 100% undetectable", on by default. LockedIn AI's runs "invisibly across taskbars, process monitors, and window switchers". Verve AI includes undetectable screen sharing on its free tier, and Interview Sidekick's is disguised in Activity Monitor and Task Manager under another process name.

InterviewShadow has no equivalent and is not building one. What appears is a short cue with its source shown beside it, in your own window, where anyone looking at your screen would see it.

Settle this before you compare a single price. If you want help nobody can detect, five of these tools are built for it and one is not, and picking us would be a mistake we would rather you avoid.

Priced for a year, or priced for your round

Every subscription here is priced on an assumption: that you will be interviewing for months, and that some people will forget to cancel. That is not an accusation, it is how the model funds the low monthly rate.

Sensei AI shows it most clearly. $24 a month looks like the best value on this page until you notice it requires $288 up front for twelve months. Pay month to month, as most people do, and it is $89, around seven times ₹999.

A pass cannot behave that way. ₹999 buys 30 days, ₹1,999 buys 90, and then it stops. No renewal, no retention flow, no cancellation to diary for a month after a job hunt you are trying to forget.

Each one, briefly

InterviewShadow

₹499 for two hours of live time, ₹999 for 30 days unlimited, ₹1,999 for 90 days unlimited. Transcripts and feedback on every plan, rehearsal included in the unlimited passes, nothing auto-renews, and 10 free minutes with no card.

Cheapest unlimited plan here at every duration, and the only one you do not have to cancel. Coding rounds are covered, in the same session as behavioural and technical ones. Weakest on breadth: no question bank, no resume tools, no stealth, English only, desktop app required, and passes expire on their date whether you used them or not.

Final Round AI

From $25 a month for unlimited live CoPilot, Stealth Mode, debriefs and practice interviews. Broad platform coverage: Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, HackerRank, CoderPad and phone screens via a second device. Its free plan is preparation only: their page states there is no free trial of live sessions, so you commit before you can judge it.

Worth it for its platform breadth and automatic debriefs. Full comparison.

LockedIn AI

The most expensive here: ₹9,760 a month standard for unlimited, ₹4,880 on promotion. The Credits tier at ₹12,426 standard adds Stealth Mode and LockedIn Duo, a human assisting remotely during your interview, but caps you at 400 Copilot minutes a month, so the unlimited plan and the fully featured plan are two different purchases. Credits never expire and there is a money-back guarantee, both better terms than ours.

Worth it if you specifically want a human in the loop. Full comparison.

Sensei AI

$89 a month, or $24 on a twelve-month commitment, the widest monthly-to-annual gap in the category. Browser-based with nothing to install, 30+ languages, and a coding copilot on PRO. The 15-minute free tier is a fair way to test the idea.

Worth it for non-English interviews or a locked-down laptop. Full comparison.

Verve AI

The most usable free plan here: three 15-minute copilot sessions, five mock interviews, fourteen side tools and stealth mode, free. Standard is ₹1,599.99 a month at the annual rate for five 60-minute sessions; Pro is ₹3,299.99 for unlimited. It sells sessions rather than time, so a 20-minute screening call costs the same as a 50-minute panel.

Worth it for heavy mock practice and the side tools. Full comparison.

Interview Sidekick

₹6,000 a month at list, ₹3,000 with the code on their pricing page, or ₹2,000 a month billed quarterly. A 10,000-question practice bank, Code Mode for live coding on CoderPad, HackerRank, LeetCode and CodeSignal, transcripts, and the widest platform list here, Lark/Feishu and Amazon Chime included. The free tier gives prep sessions plus a two-minute test of the live assistant.

Worth it for the 10,000-question practice bank. Full comparison.

Start with the free plans

Four of the six let you test the live feature for nothing, and they test different things. Verve AI's three sessions show whether a copilot helps in a real screening call. Sensei AI's fifteen minutes show whether you can read suggestions while someone is watching you. Interview Sidekick gives you two minutes, which shows the thing exists. Our ten show whether a cue from your own resume is enough to unstick you.

Final Round AI is the one that will not let you try before subscribing, which is worth weighing.

Spend an hour on the free tiers before paying anyone. What decides whether these tools work for you is not the feature count. It is whether you can take help in real time at all. Some people find the reading gets in the way of the talking, and are better off having rehearsed properly and walked in alone.

If you only take one thing

Match the billing shape to your search rather than the feature list to your nerves.

A month of unlimited support costs ₹999 here and between roughly ₹2,000 and ₹9,760 across the other five, and ours is the only one that ends by itself. Unless you need another language, a question bank, a human assistant, or help the interviewer cannot see, the cheaper and simpler option is also the better one.

Ten minutes are free, no card. Try it on one real question before you decide anything.