One clear price vs a maze of credits, tiers, and upsells
LockedIn AI's pricing page is a project. Credit packs from $35 to $70. Unlimited plans split by which AI model you get. A lifetime license near $1,499. A cheaper unlimited tier that quietly leaves out the desktop app. You can spend an evening just working out what to buy. LiveCue's answer fits in one line: $59 once covers your whole search, every feature included, and your audio never leaves your computer.
Last updated July 2026
The bottom line
LiveCue is the better choice. Every plan includes the desktop app, the invisible overlay, and your prep context, so the only decision is minutes. LockedIn gates its desktop app to higher tiers, meters credits during your calls, and processes everything in the cloud. A 60-day search costs $59 once on LiveCue against a running monthly bill on LockedIn.
Feature and pricing notes based on publicly listed information as of July 2026. Competitor details change — verify on their site before you buy.
| LiveCue | LockedIn AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Core features | Invisible overlay, hears the interviewer through system audio, streams answers in real time, pulls from your own prep notes and resume, reads on-screen problems, and writes up a summary after every call. | Live suggestions, transcription, coding help, templates, session analytics, AI model tiers. |
| Pricing | Free (10 min/mo, no card), Lite $19/mo (200 min), Job-Pack $59 one-time (600 min over 60 days, no auto-renew), Max $89/mo (1,000 min). | Credit plans ~$35–$70/mo, unlimited plans from ~$49.99/mo split by model tier, lifetime ~$1,499. Trial: 10 credits. |
| How usage is counted | Plain minutes. Sessions never cut off mid-call. | Credits consumed as you go on credit plans. |
| Desktop app | Included on every plan, free tier too. | Reportedly excluded from the cheaper unlimited plan. |
| Free tier | 10 minutes of the full copilot every month. No credit card, no trial expiry, stealth included. | 10 trial credits on the general model. |
| Where audio goes | Speech is transcribed on your own computer by default. Cloud transcription with 99+ languages is available on every paid plan. | Cloud transcription and processing. |
| Prep context | Your prep notes, resume, and project stories are indexed on your device, so answers sound like you and cite your real work. | Resume and job-description upload, processed server-side. |
| Privacy | Interview audio is processed on your machine by default. Your documents stay on your device. We don't store your transcripts. | Cloud pipeline; check their data-retention terms. |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows, and Linux. | Web app; desktop for macOS and Windows on qualifying plans. No Linux. |
| Post-call notes | Automatic summary after every call: key points, action items, and what to follow up on. | Session analytics dashboards. |
The differences that decide your interview day.
Buying LockedIn means answering a chain of questions. Credits or unlimited? Which model tier? Does my plan include the desktop app? Is the lifetime deal worth $1,499 if I might land in six weeks? Each answer changes the price, and getting one wrong means either overpaying or discovering mid-search that the feature you needed lives one tier up.
LiveCue removed the quiz. Free gets you 10 minutes a month. Lite is $19 for 200 minutes. The Job-Pack is $59 once for 600 minutes over 60 days. Max is $89 for heavy daily use. Same app, same invisible overlay, same prep context on all of them. Pick your minutes, done.
Credits sound flexible until you're forty minutes into a final round doing arithmetic about your balance. And credit systems all share a failure mode: what happens when the balance hits zero mid-call? Nothing good.
LiveCue meters minutes but never enforces the limit during a live call. Hit your quota mid-session and the session finishes anyway. You top up afterward. Getting cut off in front of an interviewer is the one failure this kind of tool can't apologize for, so we made it impossible.
LockedIn markets sub-second responses, and cloud tools have gotten quick. But every cloud copilot carries the same tax: your audio has to travel up, get transcribed, get answered, and come back down, over whatever Wi-Fi you have while a video call is eating your bandwidth.
LiveCue transcribes on your own machine, so there's no audio upload at all. Only the question text goes out, and the answer streams back word by word. In practice you're reading the start of an answer while the interviewer is still finishing the question.
LockedIn personalizes from an uploaded resume. That gets you plausible answers. The problem is that plausible and specific are different things, and interviewers can hear the difference immediately.
LiveCue indexes what you've actually written: project retrospectives, stories about hard decisions, notes on why you left your last job. When the question is 'tell me about a time you disagreed with your manager,' the answer on your screen is your incident, with the real stakes and the real outcome. A resume can't do that, no matter which model tier processes it.
Screen-capture protected and off the taskbar — on every plan.
Answers cite your real projects and stories, not generic filler.
Speech is transcribed on your own computer. Transcripts aren't stored.
Key points, action items, and decisions captured after every call.
LiveCue. Every plan includes the desktop app, the invisible overlay, and prep-aware answers, while LockedIn gates features across credit packs and model tiers. LiveCue also processes audio on your own machine and never cuts off a live call at the quota line. A 60-day search is one $59 charge.
For a typical search, yes. LockedIn's credit plans run about $35–$70 a month and its unlimited plans start near $50 a month, with a lifetime option around $1,499. LiveCue covers a full 60-day loop for $59 once, or $19/month on Lite. The free tier is 10 minutes a month with no card.
No meaningful difference in practice. LockedIn advertises sub-second cloud responses. LiveCue skips the audio upload entirely by transcribing on your machine and streams answers as they generate, so text appears while the interviewer is still talking. The real differences are pricing clarity and where your audio goes.
Nothing, the call keeps going. LiveCue never stops an active session at the quota line. You finish the interview, then top up or upgrade. Credit-metered tools can't make that promise structurally.
LiveCue's desktop app is on every plan including free, for macOS, Windows, and Linux. LockedIn's desktop app is reportedly not included on its cheaper unlimited plan, so check what you're buying carefully.
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