{"id":1009,"date":"2026-07-07T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastroundai.com\/blog\/?post_type=competitor&p=1009"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:08:37","slug":"vs-lastround-ai","status":"publish","type":"competitor","link":"https:\/\/lastroundai.com\/compare\/cluely\/vs-lastround-ai","title":{"rendered":"Cluely vs LastRound AI: Which Real-Time AI Copilot Fits Your Interview?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our verdict<\/span>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Cheapest plan with stealth<\/span><\/p>\n

Cluely: $149.99\/mo ($44.99\/mo billed annually). LastRound AI: $19\/mo, stealth included from day one on every paid plan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n Best for<\/span><\/p>\n

Cluely: professionals who want AI across meetings, sales calls, and general daily work. LastRound AI: candidates in an active interview cycle who need undetectability and interview-specific features without paying enterprise rates.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n Bottom line<\/span><\/p>\n

Cluely is a genuinely good product with a functional free tier and polished general-purpose AI. But the stealth feature interview candidates actually need costs $149.99\/mo at Cluely. That same feature is included in LastRound AI’s $19\/mo Starter plan, which is also purpose-built for coding, behavioral, and system design rounds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Cluely and LastRound AI both offer real-time AI assistance during live calls. That is where the overlap ends.<\/p>\n

Cluely was built for a broad audience: meetings, sales pitches, homework help, interviews. It is a general AI overlay with a polished interface, a genuinely functional free tier, and backing that has fueled aggressive growth. LastRound AI was built for one scenario, the job interview. Not AI during a weekly standup, but AI during the forty-five-minute technical screen or behavioral panel where your next offer gets decided.<\/p>\n

Both are real tools. But if you are preparing for interviews, the gap in stealth pricing is large enough to examine closely before you spend anything.<\/p>\n

What Cluely is<\/h2>\n

Cluely describes itself as AI for “meetings, sales, homework, interviews.” The product runs as a Mac desktop application with a companion mobile experience. Its overlay listens to live audio, transcribes the conversation in real time, and surfaces AI-generated responses or notes in a panel the caller on the other side is not supposed to see.<\/p>\n

The free Starter plan covers limited responses and basic features. The Pro plan, at $19.99\/mo or $11.99\/mo billed annually, unlocks unlimited responses, unlimited notetaking, access to multiple AI models, and priority support. That is a fair price for a general meeting assistant.<\/p>\n

The undetectability feature, Cluely’s version of stealth mode, is a separate tier entirely: $149.99\/mo, or $44.99\/mo on an annual plan. The product page calls it “completely hidden to screen-sharing software.” That is the version interview candidates actually need, because standard screen-share detection is exactly how an interviewer would spot an overlay if it were visible.<\/p>\n

Cluely vs LastRound AI: side by side<\/h2>\n
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Feature<\/th>\nCluely<\/th>\nLastRound AI<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Positioning<\/td>\nGeneral AI assistant (meetings, sales, homework, interviews)<\/td>\nPurpose-built interview copilot (coding, behavioral, system design)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Free tier<\/td>\nStarter: limited responses, basic features<\/td>\n15 free credits per month, reset monthly; desktop app access included<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cheapest paid plan<\/td>\nPro: $19.99\/mo ($11.99\/mo annually). No stealth.<\/td>\nStarter: $19\/mo, 90 credits, stealth included<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cheapest plan with stealth<\/td>\nPro + Undetectability: $149.99\/mo ($44.99\/mo annually)<\/td>\n$19\/mo Starter (stealth on every paid plan)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stealth \/ undetectability<\/td>\nTop tier only, at $149.99\/mo monthly<\/td>\nIncluded from $19\/mo, no add-on required<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Real-time answer latency<\/td>\nNot publicly specified<\/td>\nSub-200ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Languages supported<\/td>\nNot publicly specified<\/td>\n50+<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Resume builder + ATS scoring<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nYes, included with paid plans<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Voice mock interviews<\/td>\nNo dedicated practice mode<\/td>\nYes, with scoring and structured feedback<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Interview type coverage<\/td>\nGeneral conversational AI; no specialized coding or system design mode<\/td>\nBehavioral, coding, system design<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Desktop platform<\/td>\nMac only<\/td>\nWindows and macOS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mobile<\/td>\nMobile companion app<\/td>\nNo native app; mobile-compatible web (works in any browser)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Purpose: a generalist vs a specialist<\/h3>\n

Cluely’s product expands in every direction. Its marketing targets anyone who has a meeting, a sales call, or a class. That is the right product for a large general audience, and it shows in how the features are prioritized: unlimited notetaking, multi-model access, meeting summaries. Those are useful features. At $11.99\/mo annually, they are reasonably priced for anyone who wants AI woven into daily work conversations.<\/p>\n

LastRound AI does one thing. The interview copilot is built specifically for the window where an offer gets decided: the technical screen, the behavioral panel, the system design round. The question bank covers behavioral frameworks, coding challenges, and system design scenarios with real-time suggestions tied to an uploaded resume and target job description. If your use case is anything other than a job interview, LastRound AI is not the right tool, and it does not try to be.<\/p>\n

That clarity matters. Candidates often assume a general meeting AI will work equally well in an interview context. Cluely can help in an interview. The question is whether it is built to help in that specific context at the feature and pricing level that interview candidates need.<\/p>\n

Stealth pricing: $149.99 versus $19<\/h3>\n

This is the number that matters most for candidates comparing the two products.<\/p>\n

Cluely’s Pro plan at $19.99\/mo does not include undetectability. At that tier, the overlay is visible to screen-sharing software. To hide Cluely from an interviewer’s screen capture, you need the Pro + Undetectability plan at $149.99\/mo. Billed annually, that drops to $44.99\/mo, still well above what LastRound AI charges for a plan that already ships stealth as a standard feature.<\/p>\n

LastRound AI’s Starter plan is $19\/mo. Stealth is included. Not as an upgrade, not as an add-on. Every paid tier ships with it.<\/p>\n

On a monthly basis, getting real-time AI with screen-share undetectability costs $149.99 at Cluely and $19 at LastRound AI. That is roughly eight times the price for the same outcome at the feature level. Annual plans narrow the gap somewhat, $44.99\/mo at Cluely versus $19\/mo flat at LastRound AI, but the gap stays large.<\/p>\n

Interview-specific features<\/h3>\n

Cluely’s strength is breadth. Its gap in an interview context is that the product does not specialize in what makes technical and behavioral rounds distinct from a standard sales call. There is no dedicated coding-question mode, no system design scenario library, no behavioral answer structuring tied to STAR format. It is real-time AI during a conversation, which helps, but it does not go deeper than that.<\/p>\n

LastRound AI’s interview copilot<\/a> handles coding rounds alongside platforms like HackerRank and LeetCode, behavioral questions with structured response scaffolding, and system design scenarios with follow-up handling in real time. The voice mock interview tool<\/a> runs practice sessions across all three formats and returns scoring. The resume builder<\/a> includes ATS scoring and is tied directly to the copilot’s session context. None of that exists in Cluely’s product line.<\/p>\n

One more thing the table reflects: Cluely is Mac-only on desktop. Candidates on Windows need that context before downloading anything.<\/p>\n

Pricing breakdown<\/h3>\n

Cluely’s plans, per their public pricing page<\/a>:<\/p>\n