AI Interview Coach: 7 Practice Tools Priced, and the Copilots I Left Out

If your interview is on Thursday, the most useful thing you can do tonight is say your answers out loud to something that pushes back (nobody's first take of "tell me about yourself" is the good one).

An AI interview coach is a practice tool. It asks realistic questions, you answer out loud, often on camera, and it tells you what to fix. Two of the seven picks put a person on the other side instead.

This guide covers practice. Tools that feed you answers during the real interview are left out on purpose, and the copilot section says why. I read every coach's pricing and product pages on 16 October 2026.

Here for Google's Interview Warmup? It is gone; here is what happened. Everything around the interview, from company research to tracking applications, is in the rest of your job search.

How I compared them

I put the same five questions to every tool's own pages:

• Who is on the other side? An AI, a peer who swaps roles with you, or an interviewer you pay.
• Do you speak, and on camera? Real interviews are spoken, so I picked tools that let you answer out loud.
• What does free actually give you? Counted from each vendor's own page.
• What happens to your recording? Where the pages say, I quote them.
• Does it sell help during the real interview? If so, it is not on this list.

Prices are in US dollars as each vendor's own page showed them on 16 October 2026, with the default billing state noted. Nothing was tested hands-on, so every feature claim below is the vendor's own.

Quick comparison

Sorted from an AI across the table to a paid human. My own product is last.

Prices in USD, in each page's default billing state. Live interview copilots such as Final Round AI are left out on purpose; see below.

1. Huru: best free AI mock interview

Huru's pricing section has one headline: "Huru is free for everyone." The free card says "No subscription", and only Enterprise, sold to universities and hiring teams, costs money.

You answer out loud, on camera, for any of the "242+ career roles" Huru lists. Huru says its scoring model rates every answer on "relevance, structure, specificity, impact and articulation", then tells you what to change.

What you get for $0

You get unlimited mock interviews with a full feedback report on each, on iOS, on the web or through a Chrome extension that turns a job post into a mock interview. The FAQ is candid about limits: the scores are "coaching signals, not hiring decisions or guarantees."

Best for

A zero budget and an interview coming up.

Pricing

Free for job seekers; Enterprise priced per organisation. As of October 2026.

Free tier

Every job-seeker feature.

2. Interviews by AI: best for practising from the job description

The pitch is one line: "Paste a job description and get realistic behavioral and technical questions tailored to the role." You answer out loud or in writing, and the feedback follows STAR-style structure and includes a stronger sample answer.

The free Basic plan counts questions, not interviews: 3 a month, no card. Pro adds unlimited questions and resume upload, month-to-month.

Where your recording goes

The FAQ gives the plainest data answer I read: audio recordings are "deleted immediately after transcription; we never store them." Log in, and your interview history is saved to a dashboard you can revisit.

Best for

An interview already on the calendar, job description in hand.

Pricing

Basic $0 (3 questions a month); Pro $9 a month, cancel anytime. As of October 2026.

Free tier

3 questions a month.

Verdict

Buy one month of Pro the week of the interview, then cancel.

3. InterviewCoach.AI: best for an AI interviewer on camera

It puts an AI interviewer on a video call. The homepage promises "a lifelike AI video interviewer", with feedback on clarity, pacing, filler words and confidence. Its "Real-Time Interview Coaching" block means feedback while you practise.

Counting the free sessions

The homepage offers "8 Free Mock Interviews". The pricing card shows what the 8 are: 3 AI video interviews and 5 audio practice interviews.

Paid plans cap video interviews every month, at 8 on Starter, 15 on Pro and 25 on Premium. On data, the FAQ says responses are "securely stored and used only to improve your interview experience."

Best for

Rehearsing on camera with an AI playing the interviewer.

Pricing

Starter $9.99, Pro $29 and Premium $59 a month on monthly billing, or $24, $70 and $140 a quarter. As of October 2026.

Free tier

3 AI video interviews and 5 audio practice interviews, no card.

Verdict

The free sessions will tell you whether you freeze on camera.

4. Big Interview: best if you want lessons before practice

Big Interview teaches before it tests. It pairs 170 video lessons with practice. The homepage adds "Co-created with Pamela Skillings, top career coach". You also answer video-based questions and get AI feedback on your delivery, body language and content.

There is no free tier. BootCamp is $39 for 30 days, Accelerator is $99 for three months and adds LinkedIn profile and resume help, and Interview Pro is one $299 fee for lifetime access. The site promises: "If you don't see the results within 30 days, we will give you a 100% refund." BootCamp's 30 days sit inside that window.

Check whether your school already pays

Big Interview also sells to universities, government agencies and workforce programmes. Ask your career centre before you spend $39.

5. Yoodli: best for delivery, not answers

Yoodli's banner now pitches "the AI Platform for Human Skills" at revenue teams first. Interview prep is one of three uses in its section for individuals.

What counts as a roleplay

You practise in roleplays, live conversations with Yoodli's AI, and "live" here still means practice. Any session over 30 seconds counts as one, including feedback on a recording you upload.

The page opens on annual billing. Pro is $8 a month billed annually, or $11 billed monthly, for up to 10 roleplays a week that do not roll over. Advanced is $20 a month billed annually, or $28 monthly, for unlimited roleplays, and Yoodli lists it as "Reimbursable as a learning benefit". Starter is free, with no card, for 5 roleplays in total.

Check the data terms before you choose. On Advanced, Team and Enterprise, Yoodli's FAQ says "your roleplay data is excluded from AI training by default"; on Starter and Pro, "session data may be used to improve the platform."

6. Aced Practice: best free practice with a real person

A person, for $0. Every tool above puts an AI across the table; Aced Practice puts a human there.

Pramp's free peer mocks moved here

Pramp's own site says it plainly: "As of July 2024, all new Pramp sessions are hosted on Aced Practice." Aced is the company formerly called Exponent. You and a peer interview each other over video for 30 to 45 minutes, then swap feedback. The focus is tech and business interviews, investment banking included.

Best for

Tech and business candidates who want a person on the other side.

Pricing

Basic $0. Pro $12 and Expert $20 a month billed annually ($79 and $99 month-to-month), as shown on Aced's pricing page on 16 October 2026. Full refunds within 5 days of purchase.

Free tier

5 peer mock interviews a month, with people. No AI mock interviews.

Verdict

The cheapest way to be interviewed by someone who can raise an eyebrow.

7. interviewing.io: best for engineers who want a FAANG interviewer

This one is for engineers. interviewing.io sells "Anonymous mock interviews with engineers from Meta, Google, OpenAI, Amazon, and other top companies" for technical rounds such as coding and system design. There is no pricing page; the FAQ says "Interviews start at $179, but the price varies depending on the subject matter and whether you want an interviewer from a specific company."

Who sits across from you

Every interviewer has worked at a FAANG or FAANG-adjacent company, has at least 4 years of experience and has run at least 20 interviews for that company. Sessions have voice but no video, and an unhappy session is refunded in full.

Start with the free AI Interviewer: it "simulates a FAANG-style interview" for coding and system design, with feedback at the end. Book a paid session when you want an engineer's judgement before the real loop.

8. Gravity: best for the research before you practise

This is my product, so weigh this section with that in mind. It runs no mock interviews, hears no answers and scores nothing, because Gravity is not an interview coach.

What it does before the mock interview

An agent drafts the company research, likely questions from the job description and STAR stories from your own notes, and you rehearse them out loud in one of the tools above. Company research before an interview is the same job as the brief before the call, and an AI research assistant covers the wider category.

Best for

The company and role research before a practice session.

Pricing

Basic free with one agent, no card. Pro $5 a month during the beta (up to three agents, usage included); Max $20 a month. Buy more usage if you run out. As of October 2026.

Free tier

Yes, one agent, no card.

Can ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini run a mock interview?

Yes, as a spoken role-play. On their pricing pages as of 13 and 14 October 2026, ChatGPT Free includes "Limited voice chats" (Plus is $20 a month; see ChatGPT pricing for every plan). Claude lists voice mode on every individual plan, Free included (Pro is $20 monthly or $17 a month billed annually), and Gemini's free tier lists Gemini Live.

A dedicated tool adds a score on every answer, video to watch back and a session history. Check one setting first: on ChatGPT's individual plans (Free, Plus, Pro), OpenAI says "we may use your content to train our models" unless you turn off "Improve the model for everyone" under Settings > Data controls.

What happened to Google Interview Warmup?

As a tool you can use, it is gone. On 16 October 2026, Google's own address for it, grow.google/certificates/interview-warmup/, redirected to a Grow with Google article titled "How to Prepare for an Interview", dated December 11, 2025. The article never mentions Interview Warmup. For AI practice, it points to Gemini Live, which it says you can use "to simulate a real-time, conversational interview".

Search has not caught up. That same day, Google's AI Overview for "google interview warmup" still described it as a free practice tool, and a vendor roundup updated in October 2026 still named it the best free option. Neither the redirect nor the article gives a shutdown date, so I give none.

For a free replacement, use Huru, Interviews by AI's Basic plan or Gemini Live on Gemini's free tier.

What about AI interview copilots?

A copilot works during the real interview. Final Round AI's homepage describes its Interview CoPilot as "an AI interview assistant that listens to your live interview and delivers real-time answers in a private window only you can see." The page says "Stealth Mode is on by default" and calls it "100% invisible. 100% undetectable." Those are its words; I make no claim about them.

Its prices move. On 16 October 2026 its own pages showed live-copilot plans from $25 a month billed annually to $150 a month billed monthly, a different set of plans on another load, and "A fresh discount every day". Practice interviews come only inside the paid copilot plan, and the other vendor pages that rank for "ai interview copilot" sell the same live help.

On the employer side, the clearest written rule I have read is Anthropic's. Its candidate guidance, last updated July 10, 2025, encourages using Claude to "research Anthropic, practice your answers, and prepare questions for us", but live interviews get "no AI assistance unless we indicate otherwise." Anthropic makes Claude, and it is one employer, so I would not stretch its rule further.

Gartner's release of July 31, 2025 points the same way: 39% of candidates in its 4Q24 survey said they used AI during the application process, and it advised employers to define acceptable AI use and add safeguards "such as conducting in-person interviews".

My line: practise with AI as much as you like. In the real interview, use it only if the employer says you may, and ask the recruiter if you are not sure. If an employer has said no, hidden help breaks a rule you agreed to.

Which one should you choose?

I would pick by the problem in front of you this week.

No budget: Huru. You can be answering out loud tonight.

An interview this week, job description in hand: Interviews by AI. Pay $9 for one month of Pro, then cancel.

An AI interviewer on camera: InterviewCoach.AI. Its free video interviews show whether the paid plans are worth it.

Starting from zero: Big Interview, for the lessons. Ask your career centre first.

Delivery is what trips you up: Yoodli. Spend its 5 free roleplays on the answers you stumble over.

A human on the other side: Aced Practice for free peer mocks. Engineers heading into a FAANG-style loop can add interviewing.io, from $179.

Already paying for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: try its voice mode first. It costs nothing extra.

Gravity goes last on purpose: use it for the research, then practise in a tool above. Practice is one stage of the search, and AI agents for job seekers covers the rest of it.

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