InterviewShadow vs LockedIn AI

These two are priced in the same currency, which makes this the cleanest comparison in the category. No exchange rates, no annual-commitment asterisks.

LockedIn AI's cheapest unlimited plan is ₹4,880 a month on its current promotion, or ₹9,760 at the standard rate. Ours is ₹999 for 30 days of unlimited live support, and it does not renew.

That is roughly five times the price for the promotional rate, and nearly ten for the standard one. The rest of this page is about whether anything in LockedIn AI's feature list closes a gap that size. Mostly it does not.

The short version

Choose InterviewShadow if you want unlimited live interview support for a month at ₹999, with transcripts and feedback included, nothing auto-renewing, and ten free minutes to test it first.

Choose LockedIn AI if you need a human assisting you remotely during the interview, or you want the help hidden from screen sharing. Those two things are real, they are theirs, and we sell neither.

At a glance

Both vendors quoted us in rupees, so these figures sit side by side with nothing hidden in a conversion.

Where these numbers come from

Their own pricing page on 21 September 2026, with each plan tab checked, not a review site. Their page has three tabs and two personas, and the plan most people would click is not the one carrying the features the site advertises hardest, so it is worth opening all of them before you buy.

Both of us are discounting right now. Theirs is 50% off behind a code and a countdown. Ours is 50% off too, ₹999 down from ₹1,999. Neither number is the permanent one, so the standard rates are the fairer comparison: ₹9,760 against ₹1,999.

We have not subscribed to LockedIn AI and run interviews through it. This compares what each of us sells and charges, not whose answers are better.

Three months, which is what a real search costs

A month is the wrong unit. Almost nobody finishes a job hunt inside one.

Ninety days on LockedIn AI's quarterly plan is ₹3,549.33 a month, so about ₹10,648 for the quarter at the promotional rate. Ninety days on ours is Unlimited+ at ₹1,999. Once. Unlimited live support and unlimited rehearsal for the whole quarter, transcripts and feedback included, and on day 91 it stops without asking.

That is more than five times cheaper for the same span of time, and ours is the one that cannot quietly bill you in month four.

If your search is shorter, the gap gets worse for them rather than better: ₹999 for a month, or ₹499 for two hours of live time if you have a single round to get through.

What ₹4,880 a month buys that ₹999 does not

Worth being straight about, because two of these are real.

LockedIn Duo puts a human on remote assist during your interview. We have no equivalent and no plan for one.

Stealth Mode, on the Credits tier, described on their page as running "invisibly across taskbars, process monitors, and window switchers, so nothing shows up while you share your screen."

Beyond those: online-assessment help, a choice of frontier models, and a money-back guarantee. The models point is thinner than it sounds, because every tool in this category runs frontier models, ours included. Coding rounds are covered on both sides, so that one is a draw rather than a reason to pay five times more.

Note also that the tier with Stealth Mode and Duo is not the ₹4,880 one. It is Credits at ₹12,426 standard, ₹6,213 on promotion, and it is capped at 400 Copilot minutes a month rather than unlimited. The headline unlimited plan and the plan with the headline features are two different purchases.

The fork worth deciding first

LockedIn AI's Credits plans are built so that nothing shows while you share your screen, down to the process list.

Ours is built the other way. What appears is a short cue with its source attached, in your own window, where it would be visible to anyone watching. It gives cues only when you ask, flags gaps in your profile rather than filling them, and never invents an achievement you did not supply.

That is a deliberate position rather than a missing feature, and it is the one place where the cheaper tool is not automatically the better one for you. Decide which side you are on before you compare anything else, because if you want undetectable help then price is irrelevant and you should buy theirs.

Honest limitations

Ours: no online-assessment help, no human assist, no stealth, English only, and a desktop app you have to install. A pass expires on its date whether you used it or not.

Theirs: five to ten times the price, a subscription running behind it, and a pricing page that takes real effort to read.

Questions people ask

Is ₹999 for a month really unlimited? Unlimited live interview support and unlimited rehearsal for 30 days, with transcripts and feedback, and nothing auto-renews. It ends rather than bills.

What does LockedIn AI cost for a three-month search? About ₹10,648 on the quarterly promotional rate. Ours is ₹1,999 for the same 90 days.

Do I have to cancel InterviewShadow? No. There is no subscription to cancel. The pass expires on its own and you are never auto-charged.

So which one

If you want a human whispering in your ear, or help the interviewer cannot detect, LockedIn AI sells both and we sell neither.

For everything else, InterviewShadow does the same job for about a fifth of the money: unlimited support for a month or a quarter, coding rounds included, transcripts included, no subscription and no cancellation to remember. Ten minutes are free with no card, which is more than enough to check that claim.

The rest of the category

• InterviewShadow vs Final Round AI
• InterviewShadow vs Sensei AI
• InterviewShadow vs Verve AI
• InterviewShadow vs Interview Sidekick
• All six compared side by side, with every price checked on the same day.