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InterviewMan vs. LockedIn AI

Last updated: October 11, 2026|6 min read|By Alexandra Moore
InterviewMan vs. LockedIn AI

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 plans, scoped tightly around raw in-session response speed, and built around a desktop application, a web version and a phone app that lean 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 two hour session cap and stealth only on its top plan. 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. It also offers help with online assessments. The hard ceiling is the two hour 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 570,000 candidates and a 4.9 star average over 4025 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 a free plan and two paid plans, Basic and Professional. Only Professional includes stealth, and it sells at $119.99 per month on sale (the regular price is $239.98). Basic is $54.99 per month on sale ($109.98 regular), or $39.99 per month billed every three months, but it has no stealth at all. The free plan allows unlimited 5-minute sessions, up to 60 minutes a day, also without stealth. InterviewMan runs $12 per month on the annual plan, or $30 month to month, with stealth on both.

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For Professional, LockedIn AI offers a quarterly option at $79.99 per month, billed every three months, which puts the effective annual cost at roughly $960. The monthly Professional price on its own compounds to roughly $1,440 across a full year. None of the LockedIn AI plans remove the two hour session cap. 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. Month to month, InterviewMan's $30 sits at about a quarter of the $119.99 LockedIn AI charges for its stealth plan. 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 two hour 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 two hour 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. LockedIn AI keeps its stealth behind the Professional plan, so a candidate on the free or Basic plan has nothing hiding the tool during a shared screen. Even on Professional, 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.

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 close between the two products. LockedIn AI runs as a desktop application, in the browser and as a phone app. InterviewMan runs on Windows, macOS, Android phones and iOS phones, and also runs inside Chrome when that fits the interview format. The practical difference is the price of hiding the tool: InterviewMan includes stealth on every plan, while LockedIn AI charges its top rate for it.

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, on sale from $239.98)

Cheapest subscription

InterviewMan

$12/mo (annual)

LockedIn AI

$39.99/mo (Basic, billed every 3 months, no stealth)

Cheapest plan with stealth

InterviewMan

$12/mo (annual)

LockedIn AI

$79.99/mo (Professional, billed every 3 months)

Lifetime Pro

InterviewMan

N/A

LockedIn AI

$1,999 one-time

Free trial

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Free plan: 5-minute sessions, no stealth

Refund policy

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Money back guarantee

Session time limit

InterviewMan

Unlimited

LockedIn AI

2 hours 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

2 hours max
PLATFORMS

Windows

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

macOS

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Android

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Phone app

iOS

InterviewMan

LockedIn AI

Phone app

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 (on sale from $239.98) or $79.99/month billed every 3 months, and Professional is the plan that includes stealth. That saves you $815.88 to $1,295.88 per year.

Yes. LockedIn AI caps individual sessions at 2 hours, and its free plan is tighter still: 5-minute sessions, up to 60 minutes a day. InterviewMan has no session time limit, so a long technical round or a back-to-back loop never gets cut off.

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

LockedIn AI offers a desktop app, a web version, and a phone app, but stealth requires the Professional plan. InterviewMan supports Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and Chrome, with stealth on every plan.

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

LockedIn AI only includes stealth on its Professional plan and publishes no stealth feature list, so Basic and free users get no protection from proctoring software on platforms like HackerRank, Codility, and CoderPad. InterviewMan's Stealth Mode is built specifically for these platforms -- it has 20+ OS-level stealth features, zero confirmed detections across 570,000+ users, and native integration with HackerRank, CoderPad, and Codility.

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