Interview Clozo vs Cluely: price, free plan, trial and refunds
Interview Clozo is a native Mac AI interview copilot for real interview rounds: it listens to your live interview and, about a second after it has each question, shows a ready-to-speak answer built from your résumé and the job description. Cluely is a desktop AI assistant for meetings, homework and sales calls, with a free Starter plan and two paid tiers (cluely.com/pricing, read October 2026). Below: what it costs, whether it is free, how its refunds work and why Interview Clozo ranks #1, every fact dated and linked; the full field is on the AI interview copilot comparison hub.
Stealth that holds in a real round. Interview Clozo’s cockpit is excluded from screen sharing by macOS itself, at the window level, and stealth is included on every paid plan (how stealth holds in a real round). Cluely’s homepage says “#1 Undetectable AI for Meetings” and its pricing page lists “Undetectable during screen share” only on the $149.99/month tier (read October 2026). HackerRank’s Desktop App Mode documentation lists “tools such as Cluely” among the applications it blocks (read October 2026), and The Verge timed an answer at 90 seconds. The gap between the slogan and the fine print is the whole comparison.
Checked 24 October 2026: Cluely’s prices, free plan, refund policy, Trustpilot profile and homepage, its support article on undetectability and HackerRank’s Desktop App Mode documentation. Its other help-centre pages and the press tests were last read in August 2026 or carry their own date; every other fact carries the date printed beside it, or is covered by this line.
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- Stealth that holds in a real round. The cockpit is excluded from screen sharing by macOS itself, at the window level, and stealth is included on every paid plan, not a $149.99/month add-on. See the Undetectability Matrix, with every stealth axis sourced.
- The best AI interview copilot for Mac. Interview Clozo is a native macOS interview copilot built for the live round, not a general meeting assistant.
- It hears the question for you. About a second after it has each question, a ready-to-speak answer is on your screen; there is no key to press; see how Interview Clozo works from question to on-screen answer.
- One card per question. A stale answer from the previous question can never overwrite one you are still reading.
- Two plans, no top tier to climb. Monthly at
$199 or Yearly at $999, the same product on both. See Interview Clozo pricing:$199 Monthly or$999 Yearly and the 2026 copilot pricing comparison. - A guarantee you can actually use. 14 days on Monthly, 30 on Yearly, valid after real interviews.
- Rehearse first. Mock Meetings, its practice feature, lets you rehearse a round out loud with a voiced AI interviewer first.
How we rank: staying off the shared screen comes first, then price clarity, refund terms and what each vendor publishes about itself. The full field is in the best AI interview copilots list.
Stealth that holds in a real round
They share their screen; your cockpit is not on it, because macOS leaves it out of screen sharing at the window level.
- Off the shared screen. Window share, entire-screen share and recordings are all covered, and no overlay needs redrawing. Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, HackerRank and CoderPad are covered the same way.
- Included on every paid plan. Cluely lists “Undetectable during screen share” only on its $149.99/month tier; here stealth is not a separate tier.
- Nothing joins the meeting, nothing in the browser. No bot, no extra participant, no tab, no extension.
- Verified live. The protection state is shown in the app and reads Protected before you go live.
More: Stealth interview AI: how Interview Clozo stays invisible.
Cluely’s version of the same promise: its homepage says “#1 Undetectable AI for Meetings” and “Invisible to screen share” (cluely.com, read October 2026), yet its CEO told TechCrunch “The invisibility function is not a core feature of Cluely. It’s a nifty add-on” (TechCrunch, July 2025). Its own support article (dated December 2025, read October 2026) says Zoom is “Not Undetectable by Default”, that Teams is detectable on Windows 10 and Windows 11 Home when sharing the entire screen, that click events “will be detected by active browser checkers,” and that Cluely “cannot guarantee undetectability” where proctoring software is used (Cluely support).
HackerRank’s Desktop App Mode documentation lists “tools such as Cluely” among the applications it blocks (HackerRank Support, read October 2026), and its refund policy excludes “detection by screen-sharing software” from refunds (read October 2026). Interview Clozo’s answer on screen share is the architecture above, with each stealth axis sourced on the Undetectability Matrix; on a call, see Interview Clozo on Zoom: stealth on the screen you share.
Interview Clozo or Cluely — which is better for live interviews?
Cluely is the better buy if what you want is a cheap meeting notetaker at $19.99/month; Interview Clozo is the better buy if the money is going toward a live interview and you will be interviewing for more than a few months: Cluely’s top tier, the one whose line on cluely.com/pricing reads “Undetectable during screen share” (read October 2026), costs $149.99/month, and twelve monthly payments of $149.99 come to $1,799.88, against $999 for our Yearly plan. Month to month, theirs is the lower price.
Cluely’s own help centre (read August 2026) also says Smart Mode “will take about 8–20 seconds to respond on average,” and its refund policy runs 24 hours, requires video evidence, and states that slowness in solution generation is not refundable (read October 2026). Interview Clozo is a native macOS app at $199/month or $999/yr, with a free trial that includes real AI and a money-back guarantee — 14 days on Monthly, 30 on Yearly. Stealth is the other difference: with Interview Clozo the cockpit is excluded from screen sharing by macOS itself and stealth is included on every paid plan, rather than reserved for a $149.99/month tier (the Undetectability Matrix). Still surveying the market? See Cluely alternatives.
Fair first. Then facts.
What they’re genuinely good at
Credit where due. Cluely built the category’s defining brand, and its pricing page lists “Undetectable during screen share” on the top tier (cluely.com/pricing, read October 2026). Nothing joins your call, so there is no bot to make invisible and no guest-list entry. Setup takes minutes, the overlay UX is polished, cross-meeting memory (“ask about all past meetings”) is a real differentiator, and the shipping cadence is aggressive. We are not going to pretend otherwise.
Where they fall short
The homepage advertises a response-time tile (read October 2026); independent tests report 3–10 seconds, up to 90. Answers are trigger-based — reviewers report you must prompt it. “Undetectable during screen share” appears only on the $149.99/mo tier (cluely.com/pricing, read October 2026), and its own support article (dated December 2025, read October 2026) lists Zoom and Teams caveats while HackerRank’s documentation lists “tools such as Cluely” among the applications it blocks (read October 2026). The refund policy excludes two named complaints — detection and slowness — from refunds (read October 2026). And in March 2026 the CEO formally retracted a fabricated revenue claim.
What we do differently
We publish capability state, not slogans: documented macOS capture protection applied at the window level excludes the cockpit from screen sharing and recordings, verified live in the app and reported honestly, and stealth is included on every paid plan. A question pipeline built for how interviewers actually talk — revisions, interruptions, follow-ups — with immutable context snapshots, so a stale answer from the previous question can never reach your screen. A free trial with real AI. And a money-back guarantee on every paid plan — 14 days on Monthly, 30 on Yearly.
How much does Cluely cost?
Cluely’s pricing page lists Pro at $19.99 a month and its top tier, the one that adds the screen-share feature, at $149.99 a month (cluely.com/pricing, read October 2026); an annual toggle on the same page brings Pro from $11.99 a month. Twelve monthly payments of $149.99 come to $1,799.88. Interview Clozo is $199 a month or $999 a year, the same product on both; the Interview Clozo FAQ on trial, billing and refunds answers the rest in one place.
Is Cluely free? Is there a free version?
Partly. Its pricing page lists a free Starter plan with limited AI responses and limited meeting notetaking (cluely.com/pricing, read October 2026); unlimited responses start on Pro. Interview Clozo’s free trial runs real AI on your real interviews. Your next 3 interviews are on us. Every feature unlocked, within 14 days.
Is Cluely legit?
Its Trustpilot profile is poor: 1.6 from 23 reviews, with 96% of them one-star, on an unclaimed profile (Trustpilot: cluely.com, read October 2026). The recent complaints are about billing and refunds, listed below with their sources.
Can Cluely see my screen?
Its homepage demo shows the prompt “Ask about your screen or conversation” and says “Invisible to screen share. Cluely never shows up in shared screens, recordings, or external meeting tools” (cluely.com, read October 2026). We have not recorded a source for what Cluely captures beyond those lines. For Interview Clozo the cockpit is excluded from screen sharing by macOS itself, at the window level; nothing joins the meeting; the app shows the protection state before you go live. Stealth interview AI: how Interview Clozo stays invisible.
Is Cluely detectable by Zoom?
Its own support article (dated December 2025, read October 2026) says “Zoom: Not Undetectable by Default”: it needs Zoom 6.16 or older, or a Zoom capture setting turned on; and Teams is detectable on Windows 10 and Windows 11 Home when sharing the entire screen (Cluely support). We have not recorded a third-party test of Cluely on Zoom. Interview Clozo is excluded from Zoom, Teams, Meet and Webex screen shares by macOS itself, joins nothing and confirms protection live before the round: Interview Clozo on Zoom: stealth on the screen you share.
Is Cluely undetectable? What it claims
“#1 Undetectable AI for Meetings” is the homepage heading (read October 2026); the pricing page lists “Undetectable during screen share” only on the $149.99/month tier; its CEO called the invisibility function “a nifty add-on” (TechCrunch, July 2025); its support article says it “cannot guarantee undetectability” with proctoring software; and HackerRank’s Desktop App Mode documentation lists “tools such as Cluely” among the applications it blocks (read October 2026). For Interview Clozo, stealth is a core feature on every paid plan: window-level capture protection, nothing joins the meeting, a live Protected state — how stealth works.
Cluely refund terms
Its refund policy offers 24 hours, only with video evidence that the software is not working on your computer, and states that concerns like detection by screen-sharing software, or slowness in solution generation, are not refundable (cluely.com/terms/refund-policy, “Last updated on 20th of April, 2025”, read October 2026). Interview Clozo’s money-back guarantee is 14 days on Monthly and 30 on Yearly, and it stays valid after real use.
Where Cluely falls short
- Trustpilot rates it 1.6 from 23 reviews, 96% one-star (Trustpilot: cluely.com, read October 2026).
- A reviewer (September 2026) writes that after selecting a one-month trial “they default to annual” (Trustpilot: cluely.com, read October 2026).
- A reviewer (October 2026) reports a $100 renewal charge and writes “I had not seen any option for auto-renewal at the time of the subscription” (Trustpilot: cluely.com, read October 2026).
- A reviewer (September 2026) says the card was charged for a year without the product being used (Trustpilot: cluely.com, read October 2026).
- Two reviewers (September and October 2026) say their refund requests were refused (Trustpilot: cluely.com, read October 2026).
- Its refund policy allows 24 hours, only with video evidence, and excludes detection and slowness (refund policy, last updated 20 April 2025, read October 2026).
- Twelve monthly payments of $149.99, the price of its top tier, whose line reads “Undetectable during screen share”, come to $1,799.88, against $999 for Interview Clozo Yearly, which includes stealth (cluely.com/pricing, read October 2026).
- Its homepage says “#1 Undetectable AI for Meetings” and “Invisible to screen share”, while the pricing page lists “Undetectable during screen share” only on the $149.99/month tier and Pro at $19.99 lists neither (cluely.com, read October 2026).
- Its support article (dated December 2025) says Zoom is “Not Undetectable by Default”, Teams is detectable on Windows 10 and Windows 11 Home when sharing the entire screen, and click events “will be detected by active browser checkers” (Cluely support, read October 2026).
- HackerRank’s Desktop App Mode documentation lists “tools such as Cluely” among the applications it blocks during a test (HackerRank Support, read October 2026).
- Its CEO told TechCrunch “The invisibility function is not a core feature of Cluely. It’s a nifty add-on” (TechCrunch, July 2025, read October 2026); for Interview Clozo, stealth is a core feature.
“Behavioral, coding, system design” — shown, not listed.
Round coverage is the first thing to test. Cluely markets itself for meetings, sales and interviews, and its per-round depth is not documented. Here is one round in Interview Clozo: five questions and five kinds of answer, each on its own card, about a second after it has the question.
- What this demo shows: one continuous interview in Interview Clozo, five questions, each on its own card, about a second after it has the question.
- “Tell me about a time something went wrong on a project you owned.” Already answered when the round opens: a first-person Short Answer built from the candidate’s own resume.
- “How would you architect a link shortener?” System Design Clarifying Questions appear above the Short Answer, then the Diagram pane draws the architecture.
- “You mentioned the edge cache. What if one link goes viral?” A technical follow-up built on what the candidate just said.
- “Write a function that merges overlapping intervals.” The approach to say first, then a Python listing with a comment on every line and a complexity line.
- “Rough numbers — how much storage for a billion links?” The Math pane works the estimate step by step.
- Shift and the left arrow walk back through every question to the first; every answer is still there.
That’s a whole round. Make it your next one.
The full receipt.
| Capability | Cluely | Interview Clozo |
|---|---|---|
| Round coverage | Its pricing page names meetings, homework and sales calls (read October 2026); per-type interview depth not documented | Behavioral, coding, system design, case, finance |
| Answer latency | Claims 300 ms; independent reports of 3–10s, Smart Mode 8–20s, one Verge test hit 90s | Low-latency inference architecture with streaming first-token rendering |
| Interaction model | Trigger-based — reviewers: “must prompt it if you want an answer” | Continuous question detection; revisions refine instead of corrupt |
| Fragmented & rapid-fire questions | Handling of incomplete questions and follow-up queues not publicly documented | Immutable snapshot per revision; each question its own card, Short Answer first; stale work is discarded before it reaches you |
| Free way to evaluate | A free Starter plan: limited AI responses and limited meeting notetaking (checked October 2026) | Three full 50-minute interviews with real AI generations |
| Stealth claim | “#1 Undetectable” (homepage, read October 2026) — while its support article (December 2025, read October 2026) lists Zoom and Teams caveats and HackerRank’s documentation lists tools such as Cluely among those it blocks (read October 2026) | Excluded from screen sharing and recordings by macOS itself, at the window level; nothing joins the meeting; included on every paid plan (how Interview Clozo stays invisible) |
| Capture protection | “Undetectable during screen share” listed only on the $149.99/mo tier (cluely.com/pricing, read October 2026) | Documented OS-level window protection, live-verified in the app; no add-on tier |
| Monthly price | $19.99/mo Pro; $149.99/mo for the top tier, whose line reads “Undetectable during screen share” (read October 2026) | |
| Refund policy | 24 hours, video evidence required; detection & slowness explicitly non-refundable (checked October 2026) | money-back guarantee on every paid plan — 14 days on Monthly, 30 on Yearly |
| Reliability | Trustpilot reviews (Jan 2026): crashes in proctored tests, transcription dying mid-conversation | Built for live rounds: one card per question, stale work discarded |
| Cross-meeting memory | Genuine strength — ask AI about past meetings, People Search | Full-interview memory: transcript, earlier Q&A, screenshots, resume context |
| Meeting coverage | No bot joins the call — same architecture as ours | No bot. No virtual audio device: it listens to your Mac’s own audio — Zoom, Teams, Webex, Meet and browser coding platforms |
The 300 ms claim meets the stopwatch.
Cluely’s homepage promises “300 ms response time” and “the fastest live transcription available.” Its own help center tells a different story for the mode that matters in technical rounds: Smart Mode “will take about 8–20 seconds to respond on average.” Independent tests land in between and beyond — the SF Standard measured 3–5 seconds in a mock interview, verified reviewers report 5–10 second lags that “kill conversational flow,” and The Verge watched one answer take 90 seconds.
Interview Clozo is engineered as a highly optimized real-time intelligence system: streaming transcription flows directly into question revisions, and answers render from the first token as they stream — you read while it thinks, instead of staring at a spinner. And because a slow answer that arrives after the follow-up is worse than no answer, a stale answer from the previous question can never reach your screen: if a newer question supersedes an older one, that outdated result is discarded before it can clutter your view.
“It’s hard to look smart when the AI can take two whole minutes to digest a conversation… I’d ended up working harder to be worse at my job than I usually am.”
Victoria Song, The Verge, Apr 2025 — hands-on with Cluely
Interviewers don’t speak in clean questions.
Real interviewers fragment. They start a question, pause, backtrack, and finish it ten words later — then fire a follow-up before you’ve answered the first one. Cluely’s docs (read August 2026) describe a trigger-based model: detected questions surface as cards you click or Tab through, and reviewers confirm nothing is captured automatically. How it handles an incomplete question, a mid-sentence revision, or two questions in flight is simply not publicly documented.
Interview Clozo treats question revision as a first-class problem. Every revision commits with an immutable context snapshot, so a partial question refines instead of corrupting what came before. Each question gets its own card: the Short Answer lands first and the other panes build right behind it, and a newer question supersedes its own stale work without cancelling unrelated answers. And you can jump back to any earlier question with global hotkeys while new ones keep arriving, with answers drawing on the full interview: transcript, earlier Q&A, screenshots, and your resume context.
“No auto-capture. Must prompt it if you want an answer.”
Reviewer finding in a teardown of Cluely’s own docs, Jan 2026
“Completely undetectable” — terms and conditions apply.
The homepage says “#1 Undetectable AI for Meetings” (homepage, read October 2026). The support article on undetectability (dated December 2025, read October 2026) says Zoom is “Not Undetectable by Default” — it needs version 6.16 or older (or advanced capture settings) — that Teams is “known to be detectable” on Windows 10 and 11 Home when sharing the entire screen, that click events “will be detected by active browser checkers,” and, in its proctoring answer, that Cluely “cannot guarantee undetectability.”
HackerRank’s Desktop App Mode documentation lists “tools such as Cluely” among the applications it blocks (read October 2026). Users report the overlay visible on Google Meet entire-screen shares (May 2025). Separately, its pricing page describes only the $149.99 top tier as “Undetectable during screen share” (read October 2026), and its CEO called the invisibility function “a nifty add-on” (TechCrunch, July 2025).
We took a different position: for Interview Clozo invisibility is a core feature, not an add-on, and it comes on every paid plan. Documented macOS capture protection applied at the window level keeps the cockpit off the screen you share — the same class of protection third-party teardowns identify in Cluely — and we verify it live in the app and report the capability state honestly, including when conditions change; no absolute claims, ever. If a vendor’s slogan and its own support pages disagree, believe the support pages.
“The Cluely app was 100% detectable as separate window - during the test test ended since it detected Cluely.”
Trustpilot review, Jan 2026
No key to press. It hears the question by itself.
Reviewers say Cluely has to be prompted. Watch the start of a call: “Thanks for joining.” clears without a question card, and the first question gets its own card — no key pressed.
- What this demo shows: how it listens, in real time and uncut.
- The interviewer says “Thanks for joining.” The words appear in the listening view and clear — no question card is created.
- “What’s the difference between a process and a thread?” The question becomes a card, the Short Answer is ready about a second after it has the question, and Long Answer and Technical Details show Queued, then fill in.
Its top tier is $149.99, not $19.99.
Then weigh the terms: their 24-hour, video-evidence refund that excludes detection and slowness, against our money-back guarantee on every paid plan — 14 days on Monthly, 30 on Yearly — and a free trial of three full interviews with real AI generations.
Don’t take our word. Take theirs.
Every competitor claim on this page traces to Cluely’s own pages or independent reporting, fetched or published as noted. Quotes are verbatim.
- Cluely Pricing — free Starter plan, $19.99 Pro, $149.99 top tier (read October 2026)
- Cluely Refund Policy — 24-hour window, video evidence required; “detection… or slowness… are not refundable”
- Cluely Help Center: Undetectability Support Matrix — their own Zoom, Teams, browser-checker and proctoring caveats (article dated December 2025, read October 2026)
- Cluely Help Center: Smart Mode — “about 8–20 seconds to respond on average”
- HackerRank Support: Desktop App Mode — first-party doc listing “tools such as Cluely” among the applications Desktop App Mode blocks (read October 2026)
- TechCrunch, Jul 2025 — the CEO on the invisibility function: “not a core feature of Cluely. It’s a nifty add-on”
- Cluely homepage — “#1 Undetectable AI for Meetings”, “Invisible to screen share” (read October 2026)
- The Verge, Apr 2025 — hands-on; one answer took 90 seconds
- SF Standard, Jul 2025 — mock-interview test; 3–5s delays, wrong answers
- Trustpilot: Cluely reviews — detection, transcription failures, billing complaints
- r/Cluely, May 2025 — overlay visible on Google Meet “entire screen” share
- Teardown of Cluely’s docs, Jan 2026 — trigger-based interaction; “no auto-capture”
- TechCrunch, Mar 2026 — CEO formally retracts fabricated $7M ARR claim
Guarantee
Our 14-day guarantee vs their 24-hour technicality
Cluely’s refund policy, verbatim: “Concerns like detection by screen-sharing software, or slowness in solution generation are not refundable.” Read that again — the two most documented complaints about the product are the two things you can never get your money back for. You also get 24 hours, and only with video evidence.
With Interview Clozo, use the product in real prep and real loops — 14 days on Monthly, 30 days on Yearly. If you are not noticeably sharper, email us and we refund every cent. Every paid plan, having used fewer than 200 generations. No video evidence, no carve-outs for the features we market.
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Cluely vs Interview Clozo — FAQ.
Cluely’s homepage demo shows the prompt “Ask about your screen or conversation,” and the page says “Invisible to screen share. Cluely never shows up in shared screens, recordings, or external meeting tools” (homepage, read October 2026). We have not recorded a source for what Cluely captures beyond those lines. Interview Clozo’s cockpit is excluded from screen sharing by macOS itself, at the window level, entire-screen share and recordings alike; nothing joins the meeting; and the app shows the protection state before you go live. Details are on our stealth page.
Cluely’s own support article on undetectability (dated December 2025, read October 2026) says “Zoom: Not Undetectable by Default,” and that it needs Zoom 6.16 or older, or a Zoom capture setting turned on. It also says Microsoft Teams is detectable on Windows 10 and Windows 11 Home when sharing the entire screen. We have not recorded a third-party test of Cluely on Zoom. Interview Clozo’s cockpit is excluded from Zoom, Teams, Meet and Webex screen shares by macOS itself, at the window level (window share, entire-screen share and recordings alike); nothing joins the meeting; and the app confirms protection is live before the round starts. Details are on our stealth page.
Cluely’s homepage says “#1 Undetectable AI for Meetings” (read October 2026), and its pricing page lists “Undetectable during screen share” only on the $149.99/month tier. Cluely’s own support article on undetectability (dated December 2025, read October 2026) lists caveats: Zoom is “Not Undetectable by Default” and requires version 6.16 or older or advanced capture settings, Microsoft Teams is described as detectable on Windows 10 and Windows 11 Home when sharing the entire screen, and click events “will be detected by active browser checkers.”
It also says Cluely “cannot guarantee undetectability” where proctoring software is used. HackerRank’s Desktop App Mode documentation (read October 2026) lists “tools such as Cluely” among the applications it blocks. Interview Clozo’s cockpit is excluded from screen sharing by macOS itself, with documented macOS capture protection applied at the window level, entire-screen share and recordings included; nothing joins the meeting, and the app confirms protection is live before the round starts. Stealth is included on every paid plan, not a $149.99/month tier.
As of 24 October 2026, Cluely’s Pro plan is $19.99/month and its top tier, the one that lists “Undetectable during screen share” on cluely.com/pricing (read October 2026), is $149.99/month; twelve monthly payments of $149.99 come to $1,799.88. Interview Clozo’s Monthly plan is $199/month and its Yearly plan is $999 a year, with capture protection included and a money-back guarantee on every paid plan — 14 days on Monthly, 30 on Yearly.
Cluely’s published refund policy offers a 24-hour refund only with video evidence that the software is not working on your computer, and states verbatim that concerns like detection by screen-sharing software, or slowness in solution generation are not refundable. Interview Clozo offers a money-back guarantee on every paid plan — 14 days on Monthly, 30 on Yearly.
Cluely’s homepage claims a 300 ms response time. Independent reporting tells a different story: The Verge timed one answer at 90 seconds, the SF Standard measured 3-5 seconds in a mock interview, verified reviews report 5-10 second lags, and Cluely’s own help center says Smart Mode takes 8-20 seconds on average.
Yes: as of 24 October 2026 its pricing page lists a free Starter plan with limited AI responses and limited meeting notetaking. Interview Clozo’s free Trial is three full 50-minute interviews with real AI generations.
Cluely is rarely the only tab open.
If you have already decided to leave, the Cluely alternatives roundup ranks the whole field by free-tier depth and refund terms. If you are still shortlisting, these three come up most often alongside it.
Final Round AI vs Interview Clozo
The other big prep-suite brand — a polished question library, a live copilot, and a 72-hour refund window that voids after two sessions over 30 minutes.
LockedIn AI vs Interview Clozo
Its refund policy reads “Non-refundable once started.” (lockedinai.com/refund-policy, last updated 14 October 2026, read October 2026), and its pricing page prints no dollar amount.
Verve AI vs Interview Clozo
The lowest monthly sticker among the broad copilots — $44.99 Standard, $84.99 Pro month to month (Oct 2026) — set against a free plan of three 15-minute sessions a month.
Alternatives to Cluely
Interview Clozo is the top pick. The Cluely alternatives page ranks six copilots by price, trial and refunds, and Final Round AI vs Parakeet AI compares two other names that come up beside it.
How we checked
Each Cluely figure above was read from the vendor’s own page, from Trustpilot or from the linked source on the date shown: the pricing page, the free plan, the refund policy, the Trustpilot profile, the homepage, the support article on undetectability and HackerRank’s Desktop App Mode documentation on 24 October 2026; every other fact carries the read date printed beside it (August 2026 or earlier). Trustpilot review dates are printed as months because Trustpilot shows them in the reader’s time zone.
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· Change note: new title, H1 and definition opening; added a “Stealth that holds in a real round” section, the questions “Can Cluely see my screen?”, “Is Cluely detectable by Zoom?” and “Is Cluely undetectable? What it claims” and a stealth FAQ, with Cluely’s own stealth wording quoted and dated; added “Why Interview Clozo is #1”, price, free plan, legitimacy and refund sections and “Where Cluely falls short”, each fact dated and linked.