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InterviewMan vs. LockedIn AI

Last updated: March 5, 2026|6 min read|By InterviewMan Team

Overview

InterviewMan and LockedIn AI are two AI interview assistants on the market today, but which is the best choice for a given loop. LockedIn AI is the speed-first option, priced through tiered monthly plans, scoped tightly around raw in-session response speed, and built around a Chrome extension paired with a desktop application that leans on a 116ms response time. InterviewMan is the broader subscription, billed monthly or annually, with the entire interview loop in scope from behavioral questions through system design.

Both products come with various features to help a candidate manage a live interview. An important note. LockedIn AI offers one product positioned around fast technical responses, with a hard 90-minute session cap. InterviewMan offers a single product covering the entire loop including behavioral questions, technical discussions, coding screens, plus system design.

LockedIn AI routes answers across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek depending on the question type. Language coverage reaches 42 languages. A feature called LockedIn Duo lets a candidate bring a second participant into a shared session. The pricing page advertises a money-back guarantee. The hard ceiling is the 90 minute session cap, after which the tool stops returning answers regardless of whether the interviewer keeps asking questions.

The InterviewMan platform stack is wider. One product runs on Windows and macOS, with mobile clients for Android and iOS, plus a Chrome client for browser-only setups. Vendor figures cite around 57,000 candidates and a 4.8 star average over 257 reviews on publicly searchable platforms. A single install carries the candidate through behavioral screens, technical conversations, system design discussions and live coding rounds with no tool swap between rounds.

Pricing

LockedIn AI lists three tiers per published pricing, with the headline monthly plan at $119.99 per month. InterviewMan runs $12 per month on the annual plan, or $29.99 month to month.

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LockedIn AI offers a quarterly plan at $79.99 per month, billed every three months, which puts the effective annual cost at roughly $960. The quarterly plan is labeled the most popular tier on the pricing page. The monthly tier on its own compounds to roughly $1,440 across a full year. None of the LockedIn AI tiers remove the 90 minute session cap, and none extend the product onto native mobile.

InterviewMan does not run a quarterly tier. The annual plan covers unlimited session minutes with no per-session caps and no separate metering on the longer system design rounds. The annual total comes to $144.

That puts the annual gap at least $815.88 per year against the LockedIn AI quarterly tier, and over $1,295 per year against the monthly tier. The $12-versus-$119.99 monthly comparison still holds even after the money-back window on LockedIn AI closes, with the cheaper option sitting at less than a third of the LockedIn AI monthly price. A like-for-like value comparison is harder than the sticker prices suggest, since one product covers behavioral, technical conversation, system design and coding rounds while the other is scoped around fast technical responses inside a 90-minute window.

Features

LockedIn AI puts its weight on a narrow set of capabilities on the in-session response side. The one hundred and sixteen millisecond response time runs fast inside a live coding round, the multi-model routing across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek keeps the answer engine off a single provider, and the forty two language coverage extends broad. The shared LockedIn Duo session is a feature few competitors match.

None of those extends the ninety minute cap. Once the cap is reached the response time, the language coverage and the model routing all stop mattering inside that session. Behavioral coverage runs thinner than the technical side as well, with several user reports describing little useful output during behavioral rounds and leadership-style questions where the product's optimization toward quick technical responses turns into a poor fit.

Across a complete interview loop that mixes recruiter screens, behavioral and technical rounds, the tool covers the technical portion and leaves the rest of the loop without much help.

InterviewMan, on the other side, offers a wider feature set across the same interview types. It runs on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, and offers a Chrome integration alongside the native applications. The meeting platform list includes Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Amazon Chime, Cisco Webex and Lark. Coding assessment coverage extends to HackerRank, CoderPad and Codility. The product also reports support for system design and other technical formats on every plan, with audio input that listens to the live interview rather than asking the candidate to type each prompt manually. There is no built-in session timer, and recruiter screens together with free-form project conversations are covered.

Stealth handling further separates the two products. Running as a Chrome extension paired with a desktop application, LockedIn AI does not publish a detailed countermeasure list. There is no public account of WebRTC leak handling, of process name masking, or of screen-capture concealment comparable to the twenty-plus catalog InterviewMan publishes. Users running the Chrome extension inside proctored coding assessments have reported uncertainty about whether the extension icon could surface inside the proctor's view.

InterviewMan publishes a fuller account of its stealth handling, with the product running as its own desktop or mobile application that keeps it off screen recordings, off the dock, and off the Activity Monitor process list. Stealth ships on every plan rather than as a separate add-on, and the platform reports zero confirmed detections across the installed base.

Platform coverage is the other practical difference between the two products. LockedIn AI requires Chrome on one side or the desktop application on the other, with no native mobile build, no iOS application, and no Android application available. A phone screen taken from a parking garage or a quiet space away from a desktop sits outside the product's reach. InterviewMan, on the flip side, runs on Windows, macOS, Android phones and iOS phones, and also runs inside Chrome when that fits the interview format. The spread covers the realistic mix of interview formats most candidates encounter across a full job search.

Conclusion

For most candidates running full interview loops, InterviewMan covers behavioral, technical, and coding rounds at $12/mo annual. Candidates also weighing a general meeting copilot can use our current LockedIn AI vs Cluely comparison. See the InterviewMan vs ShadeCoder comparison for another coding-focused breakdown.

InterviewMan vs LockedIn AI — At a Glance

PRICING

Monthly price

InterviewMan

$30/mo

LockedIn AI

$119.99/mo (Professional)

Cheapest subscription

InterviewMan

$12/mo (annual)

LockedIn AI

$79.99/mo (quarterly billing)

Lifetime Pro

InterviewMan

N/A

LockedIn AI

$1,999 one-time

Free trial

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Refund policy

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Money back guarantee

Session time limit

InterviewMan

Unlimited

LockedIn AI

90 minutes max
STEALTH & DETECTION

Invisible on dock

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Invisible in Activity Monitor

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Screen recording proof

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

WebRTC leak blocking

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Process name masking

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

FEATURES

All interview types

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Coding interviews

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Language support

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

42 languages

Response time

InterviewMan

Real-time

LockedIn AI

116ms claimed

Session length

InterviewMan

Unlimited

LockedIn AI

90 minutes max
PLATFORMS

Windows

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

macOS

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Android

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

iOS

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Chrome extension

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

InterviewMan costs $12/month on the annual plan ($144/year). LockedIn AI costs $119.99/month on their Professional plan or $79.99/month billed quarterly. That saves you $815.88 to $1,295.88 per year.

Yes. LockedIn AI caps individual sessions at 90 minutes. InterviewMan has no session time limit, which matters for technical and system design rounds that regularly stretch past an hour.

InterviewMan includes 20+ stealth features -- invisible dock, Activity Monitor hiding, screen recording bypass, WebRTC blocking, and process name masking. LockedIn AI does not publish a comparable stealth feature list.

LockedIn AI offers a Chrome extension and desktop app. InterviewMan supports Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and Chrome for full mobile and desktop coverage.

LockedIn AI supports 42 languages. InterviewMan supports all major interview types across multiple platforms. Both tools have broad language coverage.

LockedIn AI has no published stealth feature list, which means there is no evidence it can evade proctoring software on platforms like HackerRank, Codility, and CoderPad. InterviewMan's Stealth Mode is built specifically for these platforms -- it has zero confirmed detections with 20+ OS-level stealth features, zero confirmed detections across 57,000+ users, and native integration with HackerRank, CoderPad, and Codility.

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