6 interviewing.io alternatives for cheaper coding and behavioral mocks
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Mock Interview Pro is the interviewing.io alternative we recommend for every round except live coding, at $39 once instead of $179 a session. It builds 3 voice mock interviews from your posting, follows up on your answers, and debriefs you in about a minute, with a 14-day refund. For coding, Aced gives 5 free peer mocks a month with a code editor, and interviewing.io stays the pick for a senior engineer's verdict. ChatGPT Voice, Yoodli and Interviews by AI are free starting points, and Big Interview fits new graduates whose school pays. Prices as of September 18, 2026.
Free: your company's interview rounds and a practice plan, before any payment.
The tools side by side
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | Free option |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mock Interview Pro | Best overall: rehearse every round but live coding, paid once | $39 one time | Typed practice answers with AI feedback on public question pages, plus a free interview plan; spoken mock interviews are paid |
| Aced (formerly Exponent) | Best free human practice for coding rounds | $12 a month billed yearly (Pro) | Basic plan with 5 peer mocks a month, sample lessons and questions, no card; voice Practice with AI opened on a Basic account in our test |
| ChatGPT | Best free partner for talking through answers | $20 a month for Plus, billed monthly | Limited voice access on the free plan; OpenAI publishes no fixed limit |
| Yoodli | Best free behavioral practice with follow-ups | $8 a month billed yearly, or $11 month to month | Starter plan with up to 5 roleplays in total (lifetime), no credit card required |
| Interviews by AI | Best near-free option for any role | $9 a month, month to month | Basic plan with 3 practice questions a month, audio or text answers and instant feedback, no card required |
| Big Interview | New graduates whose school provides it | $39 for a 30-day subscription that renews | No free plan for individuals; free access comes through partner universities and agencies, plus a free email course |
Build your free interview plan: See your company's interview rounds before you decide on any tool.
Why do candidates look beyond interviewing.io?
Most people who search for interviewing.io alternatives want more practice for less money, or practice for a role interviewing.io does not serve. These are the reasons we found in its own pages, user discussions and our test on September 18, 2026.
- Each human session is a significant expense. The FAQ says interviews start at $179 and cost more for a specific company's interviewer; the default Senior+ algorithms mock showed $189 in our test. Users have said so for years: "$120 to $180 is a little high" in r/leetcode, and a Blind poster called it "Expensive and quality of interviewers varies between poor and average". The deferred payment option is unavailable: the Pay Later program was paused in September 2022.
- It is built for software engineers. In our test, onboarding asked "How many years of experience do you have as a software engineer?", and the free AI Interviewer offered only coding and system design. Our product manager questions had nowhere to go, and sales, marketing, operations and finance candidates face the same wall.
- Free peer practice is good enough for many engineers. A Googler on Blind used Pramp for volume and interviewing.io for clearer feedback, and another reply said "Just use pramp instead. Pramp is free". Pramp's peer sessions now run inside Aced (formerly Exponent).
- Setup asks for a LinkedIn profile, and sessions have no video. In our test, onboarding kept its Get started button disabled while the LinkedIn field was empty, and sessions are audio plus chat. Our interviewing.io review covers what we saw.
Nothing on this list replaces what interviewing.io does best: a Senior, Staff or Principal engineer who has run 20+ real interviews at their company, judging you in a shared coding environment, with a full refund if you are unhappy. We have not yet covered paid human mock services such as IGotAnOffer and Prepfully, so they are not on this list.
What should you weigh when replacing interviewing.io?
Weigh who interviews you first, because calibration against a hiring bar only comes from a senior engineer; then compare the columns in the table above.
- Who interviews you: a senior engineer, a peer candidate, or an AI.
- Round coverage: coding and system design with a real editor, or behavioral, hiring manager and role questions for any job.
- Cost per rep: divide the price by the number of full mock interviews you will actually do before the loop.
- Free option: what you can do before paying, and whether it resets monthly.
- Billing terms: pay per session, pay once, or a subscription that renews, and the refund window.
Which interviewing.io alternative fits your next round?
Mock Interview Pro fits every round below except live coding, where a code editor and a human judge matter most. Prices are as of September 18, 2026.
- A behavioral or hiring manager round at a big tech company: Mock Interview Pro builds voice mock interviews from the posting and that company's rounds, 3 for $39 once.
- A product, sales, operations or finance role: Mock Interview Pro works for any posting you paste, where interviewing.io serves engineers only.
- A recruiter screen before the technical loop: Mock Interview Pro runs that round too, with a verdict on whether it would advance you.
- An engineer who wants many behavioral reps before one calibration session: Mock Interview Pro's $59 1-Year Pass gives unlimited voice interviews for 365 days, then book one interviewing.io session near the end.
- Coding or system design on a small budget: Aced peer mocks give you 5 free sessions a month with a code editor; keep interviewing.io's free AI Interviewer for solo reps.
- A budget of zero: ChatGPT Voice for spoken rehearsal, Yoodli for 5 free roleplays with follow-ups, and Interviews by AI for 3 free questions a month.
- You are a student or new graduate: ask your career center about Big Interview before paying anyone.
- A senior loop where you need to know if your coding would pass: stay with interviewing.io for one session at the end.
Which practice can you fit in before a loop this week?
Rehearse every round you can out loud, and save the expensive booking for coding. For the behavioral and hiring manager rounds, run a Mock Interview Pro voice interview built from the posting tonight on the $39 pass, read the debrief a minute later, and run the second one tomorrow on its one focus. For a coding round, solve two problems in interviewing.io's free AI Interviewer while narrating your thinking, and look for an open Aced peer slot. If you are spending nothing, run your two strongest stories through ChatGPT Voice or a free Yoodli roleplay, and type your weakest answer into our free interview question pages for a score and a rewrite. Our AI mock interview tools roundup compares more options tested with one script.
1. Mock Interview Pro (Our product)
Mock Interview Pro, an AI mock interview platform made by us, rehearses the rounds around the coding interview: the recruiter screen, the behavioral and hiring manager rounds, and every round of a role outside engineering, each built from your posting, the company and the round. That covers two groups interviewing.io serves poorly. The first is anyone outside engineering, such as product managers, sales, operations or finance candidates, since interviewing.io's onboarding asks for your years as a software engineer. The second is an engineer who needs many reps on the behavioral side of a loop, where each $179 session is a single rep. The voice interviewer follows up on what you say, every answer gets its weakest sentence highlighted and rewritten, and the debrief scores each competency the round tests with quotes from your answers. The $39 1-Month Pass covers 30 days and 3 voice mock interviews; the $59 1-Year Pass covers 365 days of unlimited voice, 3 video sessions and the full company research report. Passes never renew and carry a 14-day refund, and the free interview plan researches the company's rounds before you pay. Prices as of September 18, 2026. Read Mock Interview Pro vs interviewing.io.
What we observed
In a paid voice session for an Airbnb software engineer recruiter screen on our founder's account, the interviewer pressed his infrastructure answer for his "specific role", then summarized it back: "Got it, so you were leading both the coordination with non-technical teams and also designing and implementing the observability solutions." The debrief took 39 seconds and named one fix: "start with a specific project and clearly outline your role, the actions you took, and the results achieved."
What works
- Questions are built from your job posting, company and interview round, and the free plan researches the company's rounds before you pay
- A live voice interviewer that asks follow-up questions on what you just said, and a video interviewer that reacts to what you say and what it sees
- Every answer gets its weakest sentence highlighted and rewritten, each competency is scored, and the debrief arrives in about a minute
- Video sessions score on-camera presence such as eye contact
- Pay once with no subscription or auto-renewal, and a 14-day refund
- Runs in any phone or laptop browser with nothing to install
What falls short
- No live coding environment, so coding rounds need another tool
Starting price: $39 one time. Free option: Typed practice answers with AI feedback on public question pages, plus a free interview plan; spoken mock interviews are paid. Prices checked September 18, 2026.
2. Aced (formerly Exponent)
Aced (formerly Exponent) is where an engineer priced out of interviewing.io usually lands for free live practice: its peer mock network, the one that used to be Pramp, pairs you with another candidate over video, and you take turns interviewing each other for about 30 minutes with a shared code editor for Python, Java, C++ and more. Aced is run by Exponent Labs, LLC and also sells courses, a question database, AI mock interviews and paid human coaching. The free Basic plan includes 5 peer mocks a month with no card. Pro, with unlimited peer mocks, courses and the full question database, costs $79 a month or $12 a month billed yearly; Expert adds AI mock interviews for $99 a month or $20 billed yearly, as of September 18, 2026. The trade-off is the interviewer: a peer is another candidate, not a Staff engineer who has run 20+ real interviews. Memberships renew automatically and refunds close 5 days after purchase. The AI mocks are a beta that skips coding. Read our Aced (formerly Exponent) review and Mock Interview Pro vs Aced.
What we observed
Our automated, headless browser failed the human check at email signup twice on September 18, 2026, as our own site's check did in that kind of browser. In a regular Chrome window we got in on the free Basic plan and opened its AI interviewer at no charge, but it only takes spoken answers, so we practiced no answer. The practice page listed scheduled peer sessions by track.
What works
- Free Basic plan includes 5 live peer mock interviews a month with no credit card
- Deep course library and candidate-reported question database for PM, engineering, data science and system design
- Peer mocks include a collaborative code editor, so coding and system design rounds can be practiced with a human
- Human coaches are available when you want feedback from someone experienced
- Annual billing brings Pro to $12 a month
What falls short
- Monthly prices are high at $79 for Pro and $99 for Expert
- Refunds only within 5 days of purchase, and memberships renew automatically
- AI mock interviews are a voice-only beta that uses one bank question per session and skips technical rounds; the pricing page lists AI mocks and AI feedback on Expert
- Questions come from the bank rather than your specific job posting, and there is no body language feedback
- Peer partner quality varies, according to users on Blind
Starting price: $12 a month billed yearly (Pro). Free option: Basic plan with 5 peer mocks a month, sample lessons and questions, no card; voice Practice with AI opened on a Basic account in our test. Prices checked September 18, 2026.
3. ChatGPT
ChatGPT Voice, the spoken mode of OpenAI's ChatGPT assistant, covers the ground interviewing.io's free AI Interviewer does not: behavioral questions, "tell me about a project" deep dives, and talking through a system design out loud before you draw it. It runs on the web and in the mobile apps. Paste the job description, ask for a tough interviewer who follows up, and ask for critical feedback on the transcript afterward. The free plan includes limited voice chats with no published cap; Plus costs $20 a month billed monthly, with 3 hours of Live voice per rolling 24 hours, as of September 18, 2026. The limits are clear. There is no shared code editor in a voice conversation, no rubric or score history, and no calibration against a hiring bar, so it cannot tell you whether you would pass a senior loop. OpenAI says voice transcripts are not verbatim and suggests telling Live to wait while you think. We did not run our test script on ChatGPT for this page.
What works
- A legitimate free option for spoken practice, with limited voice access on the free plan
- Works on the web as well as the iOS and Android apps
- You can paste a job description and ask for questions tailored to it, and ask for a tougher interviewer
- Natural turn taking in Live voice, with the transcript saved to the chat for review
What falls short
- No structured interview scoring, rubric or score history across sessions
- Results depend on how well you write the interviewer prompt
- Can be more encouraging than a real interviewer unless you ask for critical feedback
- Transcripts are not verbatim, so feedback on exact wording can be off
- No timed one-way format for HireVue-style rehearsal
Starting price: $20 a month for Plus, billed monthly. Free option: Limited voice access on the free plan; OpenAI publishes no fixed limit. Prices checked September 18, 2026.
4. Yoodli
Yoodli, an AI speech and roleplay coach from Yoodli, Inc. in Seattle, fills the behavioral gap that interviewing.io's free AI Interviewer leaves open, since that tool offers only coding and system design. Its interview mode builds a roleplay from a pasted job description and mixes preset questions with follow-ups based on your answers. Engineers who ramble through "tell me about a conflict" answers get concrete analytics on conciseness, pace and filler words. The free Starter plan allows 5 roleplays in total with no card; Pro costs $11 a month or $8 billed yearly, and Advanced $28 or $20, as of September 18, 2026. It has no coding or system design practice, no refunds on cancellation, and Starter and Pro recordings can be used for AI training. Its homepage now leads with sales training, since the company sells mainly to enterprises. Read our Yoodli review and Mock Interview Pro vs Yoodli.
What we observed
In our September 18, 2026 test the interviewer asked three follow-ups in about 2.5 minutes that were specific to our story, and feedback came 13 and about 24 seconds after we saved. Treat our 22% and 30% scores with caution: the recorded answer we played looped, so no follow-up got a proper answer.
What works
- Instant delivery analytics on pacing, filler words, conciseness and sentence starters
- Interview mode mixes preset questions with follow-ups based on what you said
- Free Starter plan needs no credit card, and paid plans start at $8 a month billed yearly
- Works beyond interviews, for presentations, pitches and hard conversations
What falls short
- Reviewers say it judges how you speak more than the substance of your answers
- No refunds on cancellation
- The free plan is 5 roleplays in total, and Pro caps practice at 10 roleplays a week
- No coding or system design interview practice
- Starter and Pro recordings can be used for AI training
Starting price: $8 a month billed yearly, or $11 month to month. Free option: Starter plan with up to 5 roleplays in total (lifetime), no credit card required. Prices checked September 18, 2026.
5. Interviews by AI
Interviews by AI, a lightweight web tool from Jake Rosenthal and Chloe Pappas, is for the reader who found interviewing.io while searching for a mock interview and then learned it serves engineers only. Paste any posting, in any industry, and it writes questions you answer out loud or in writing, with written feedback and a sample answer for each. It costs almost nothing: the free Basic plan gives 3 questions a month that reset monthly, and the first 3 need no account; Pro costs $9 a month for unlimited questions and resume upload, as of September 18, 2026. It is the opposite of interviewing.io in depth. There is one question at a time, no follow-up, no score, no coding, and no person, so it helps you rehearse content, not measure yourself against a bar. No refund policy is published, though canceling keeps access to the end of the period. Read our Interviews by AI review.
What we observed
On September 18, 2026 we got from the homepage to a question written from our posting in about 30 seconds, with no account. Typed answers drew feedback and a sample answer in about 4 seconds that pointed out missing metrics, but one comment quoted a hedge ("I think") we never wrote. A Google sign-in blocked question 4.
What works
- Generates role-specific questions from any pasted job description, for any industry
- Written feedback plus a sample response on every question, returned about 4 seconds after a typed answer in our test
- No account, card or install needed for the first 3 questions; you can speak or type each answer
- Free plan with 3 questions a month and no card, and Pro costs $9 a month
- Audio recordings are deleted right after transcription
What falls short
- One question at a time with no follow-up questions, so it does not feel like a real interview
- No video, delivery or body language feedback
- The free plan allows only 3 questions a month, and resume-based feedback is Pro only
- No refund policy is published
- A reviewer found the answer time limit too short
- No score and no visible STAR breakdown in our test, and feedback praised clarity on a failed two word transcript
Starting price: $9 a month, month to month. Free option: Basic plan with 3 practice questions a month, audio or text answers and instant feedback, no card required. Prices checked September 18, 2026.
6. Big Interview
Big Interview, a lessons and practice simulator package from Skillful Communications co-founded by career coach Pamela Skillings, is the first thing to check if you are a student or new graduate who looked at interviewing.io's prices and balked, because many university career centers and workforce agencies already pay for it. It pairs 170 video lessons on how to structure an answer with a question library filtered by industry, role and seniority, and AI feedback on answer quality plus pace, filler words and eye contact. Bought directly, Interview BootCamp costs $39 for a 30-day subscription that renews until canceled, Interview Accelerator $99 for 3 months and renews, and Interview Pro $299 once for lifetime access, as of September 18, 2026, with a 100% refund within 30 days if you do not see results. There is no free plan for individuals, no coding or system design practice, and reviewers find the lessons introductory for experienced candidates. Read our Big Interview review.
What we observed
On September 18, 2026 account creation led straight to a plan picker with three paid options billed that day. We did not pay, so we could not try a lesson, the simulator or the AI feedback.
What works
- A structured curriculum of 170 video lessons that teaches answer structure from scratch
- Large question library filtered by industry, role and seniority
- AI feedback covers delivery, pace, filler words, eye contact and body language as well as answer quality
- A $299 lifetime option and a 30 day no questions asked refund
- Many universities and workforce agencies provide it free to their members
What falls short
- Its feature pages do not say the practice interviewer asks follow-up questions, and nothing can be tried before paying
- PracticeAI says it personalizes questions from a resume or job description, but nothing we found builds practice around one company's interview rounds
- No free plan for individuals, and the $39 and $99 plans renew until cancelled
- Reviewers find the curriculum introductory for experienced candidates
- No coding or system design practice environment
Starting price: $39 for a 30-day subscription that renews. Free option: No free plan for individuals; free access comes through partner universities and agencies, plus a free email course. Prices checked September 18, 2026.
Questions people ask
Is there a free alternative to interviewing.io for coding interviews?
Yes, three. interviewing.io's own AI Interviewer is free for coding and system design, with 200+ problems, and per its booking form, as of September 18, 2026, its peer-to-peer mocks are free with quality "not guaranteed". Outside the platform, the free Basic plan of Aced (formerly Exponent) includes 5 live peer mocks a month with a shared code editor. None of these gives you a senior engineer's calibrated verdict, which is what the $179 sessions sell.
Is Pramp still a free alternative to interviewing.io?
Yes, under a new name. Pramp's banner says that as of July 2024 all new Pramp sessions are hosted on Exponent Practice, and Exponent is now Aced (formerly Exponent), whose free Basic plan includes 5 peer mocks a month with a shared code editor, as of September 18, 2026. Your partner is another candidate, not a senior interviewer, so it gives volume rather than a hiring bar verdict.
How much cheaper is AI practice than one interviewing.io session?
As of September 18, 2026, one human session starts at $179, and the default Senior+ algorithms mock showed $189 in our test. For less than one session, Mock Interview Pro's $39 pass gives 3 voice mock interviews and its $59 pass a year of unlimited voice; Aced Pro is $12 a month billed yearly; ChatGPT Voice is free with limits. None of them replaces a senior interviewer's judgment.
Do any of these alternatives give feedback on video or body language?
interviewing.io is audio and chat only. Mock Interview Pro's video sessions, on the $59 and $249 passes, put an interviewer on screen and score presence across 20 dimensions such as eye contact; a paid session on our founder's account scored 78. Big Interview's AI feedback lists eye contact and body language, which we did not verify. Aced's peer mocks run on live video, so your partner can comment on how you come across.
Should I still book one interviewing.io session if I practice elsewhere?
If you are an engineer aiming at a FAANG-level loop, one session near the end is a reasonable plan: practice volume cheaply elsewhere, then pay once for a Senior or Staff engineer to tell you where you stand. The FAQ promises a full refund if you are unhappy with an interview, which lowers the risk of that single purchase.
How we tested
On September 18, 2026 we opened a free interviewing.io account in an automated, headless desktop browser as a Senior Product Manager candidate, without paying, and recorded prices from its FAQ, gift page and booking form. We ran the same script on the free tiers of Yoodli, Interviews by AI and Mock Interview Pro. Aced blocked our automated browser at signup; a regular Chrome window got us into its free plan, but its AI interviewer takes spoken answers only and we practiced none. Big Interview offered only paid plans. For both we report what we could see and their public pages. We checked where pramp.com now sends visitors. Mock Interview Pro's paid voice and video sessions are described from our founder's own sessions on production, reviewed September 19, 2026. We did not test ChatGPT Voice and describe it from OpenAI's help center. Switching reasons come from interviewing.io's FAQ, our test, Blind and Reddit as linked. We make Mock Interview Pro, one of the picks.
On September 18, 2026 we used interviewing.io's free account in an automated, headless Chromium browser, as a Senior Product Manager candidate, without paying. We signed up with email; an activation email arrived in about a minute and led to a registration form. The dashboard then opened behind a Welcome onboarding modal asking for a company, years of experience as a software engineer and a LinkedIn profile. Get started stayed disabled with LinkedIn empty, so we did not finish onboarding. Behind the modal, the default booking (professional interviewer, algorithms and data structures, Senior+) showed a price of $189 and the promise of a full refund if you are unhappy. The free AI Interviewer offered only coding (CoderPad) and system design (Excalidraw) interviews, with a $20 a month Premium upsell to save sessions, and no behavioral or product manager option, so none of our script questions could be practiced and we did not start a session. The FAQ and gift page list $179 as the starting price. We could not test the booking flow past onboarding, peer-to-peer mocks, any paid human session, the quality of human feedback or the AI Interviewer's feedback.
Read our full testing methodHear your answer before the interviewer does
Tell us the role and company, see the interview rounds you will face, then rehearse them out loud with feedback and a rewrite of every answer.
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- interviewing.io FAQ and pricing
- interviewing.io gift mock interviews
- interviewing.io, pausing the Pay Later program
- Blind, Is interviewing.io worth the money?
- Blind, What do people think of interviewing.io?
- Reddit r/leetcode, For those who used interviewing.io or exponent
- Pramp homepage, sessions moved to Exponent Practice
- Aced pricing
- Aced peer practice
- OpenAI Help Center, ChatGPT Voice
- Yoodli pricing
- Interviews by AI pricing
- Big Interview personal pricing
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