Key takeaway: $179 is the starting price of an interviewing.io mock interview. Its FAQ, read on 28 October 2026, says "Interviews start at $179," with the price varying by subject and by whether you want an interviewer from a specific company. Four or more interviews are 10% off ($161.10 each), and the AI Interviewer is free. Employers pay a different price: $500 a month plus 15% of first-year base salary on each hire, per the employer FAQ.
interviewing.io sells to two buyers. Software engineers pay for anonymous practice interviews with senior engineers from large tech companies. Employers pay to meet the engineers who performed best in those interviews. The site has no pricing page (interviewing.io/pricing returned a 404 on 28 October 2026), so every price below comes from the FAQ, the gift checkout and the employer FAQ, read in a rendered browser that day.
The two prices sit far apart. A candidate's first mock interview costs $179. An employer hiring one software developer at the May 2025 BLS median wage of $135,980 would owe a $20,397 placement fee on top of the monthly charge, by our arithmetic from a script committed with this article.
This page is for recruiters and engineering leaders weighing interviewing.io as a hiring channel, and for anyone checking what a mock interview costs.
How much does interviewing.io cost?
| interviewing.io price (checked 28 Oct 2026) | Amount | Where it is published |
|---|---|---|
| Human mock interview | From $179 each | FAQ, gift page |
| Four or more interviews | 10% off, $161.10 each | Gift page |
| AI Interviewer (coding and system design) | Free | FAQ, homepage |
| Employer platform fee | $500 a month | Employer FAQ |
| Employer hire fee | 15% of first year's base salary | Employer FAQ |
| Amazon, Google or Meta coaching (3, 5 or 10 sessions) | Not published | Homepage |
The FAQ names two price drivers: "the subject matter and whether you want an interviewer from a specific company." Only the $179 floor is printed. The FAQ also promises that "if you're unhappy with your interview(s), we'll issue a full refund."
How much is an interviewing.io mock interview?
The gift checkout is the only page that prices a bundle. We set the "Number of interviews" field from 1 to 50 and read the total each time.
| Interviews bought (gift page, 28 Oct 2026) | Total | Per interview | Saving vs $179 each |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $179 | $179.00 | $0 |
| 3 | $537 | $179.00 | $0 |
| 4 | $644.40 | $161.10 | $71.60 |
| 5 | $805.50 | $161.10 | $89.50 |
| 10 | $1,611 | $161.10 | $179 |
| 50 (field maximum) | $8,055 | $161.10 | $895 |
The discount is flat. There is no extra break past four, so ten interviews save exactly the price of one. The gift page prices interviews at the $179 base rate; company-specific or specialist sessions can cost more, and the site does not list those rates.
Sessions are audio and chat only. The FAQ says "Interviews have voice but no video, and your interviewer will not have access to any of your info." The homepage promises feedback "from the same people who conduct these interviews at the world's best companies."
What do employers pay to hire through interviewing.io?
The employer FAQ answers in one line: "$500/month and 15% of first year's base salary on hire." Every $10,000 of base salary adds $1,500 to the fee.
| One software developer hire at $135,980 (BLS median) | Platform fee | Hire fee | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hired in month 3 | $1,500 | $20,397 | $21,897 |
| Hired in month 6 | $3,000 | $20,397 | $23,397 |
| Hired in month 12 | $6,000 | $20,397 | $26,397 |
| Two hires in 12 months | $6,000 | $40,794 | $46,794 |
These are our example timelines on the published rates, not quotes. Two details matter when you budget. The employers page says "You only pay us when candidates pass your technical bar," while the FAQ lists the $500 monthly fee, so ask how the monthly charge applies before you sign. And the FAQ is explicit about scope: interviewing.io does the technical validation but does not "screen for culture fit, communication style, or alignment with your company's specific values," so your normal interview loop still runs.
The model is candidate-driven. interviewing.io publishes your listing, "Only qualified candidates will be able to see it," and interested candidates request intros to you. The FAQ calls the price "typically half of what agencies charge"; that comparison is interviewing.io's claim, not a figure we verified. For how per-hire fees stack up against other channels, see our cost per hire benchmarks and the AI agent vs recruiting agency cost breakdown.
What does interviewing.io offer for free?
Three things cost nothing. The AI Interviewer runs coding and system design interviews "in the style of a FAANG mock interview," and the homepage says "You'll get detailed, actionable feedback at the end." The homepage says you can work "over 200 problems from Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview for free." And the mocks library hosts mock interview replays with engineers from Google, Facebook, Netflix and more.
The FAQ points nervous first-timers to the free AI Interviewer before a paid session: "if you just want to de-rust a bit before interviewing with a human, try out our AI Interviewer."
How does interviewing.io compare to Hello Interview and IGotAnOffer?
All three publish prices on their own sites, read rendered on 28 October 2026. They sell different formats (human interviewers, AI-run sessions, coaching credits), so compare the unit, not just the number.
| Service (checked 28 Oct 2026) | Format | Published price | Per session |
|---|---|---|---|
| interviewing.io | Human mock interview, anonymous | From $179; 10% off at 4+ | $161.10 to $179+ |
| interviewing.io AI Interviewer | AI-run coding and system design | Free | $0 |
| Hello Interview Live Practice | AI-run 35-minute interview | $10 for 1, $26 for 3, $46 for 6 (sale; list $25, $65, $115) | $7.67 to $10 |
| Hello Interview Premium | Courses plus 1, 2 or 10 Live Practice interviews | $47 a month, $89 a year, $299 lifetime (sale) | Bundle |
| IGotAnOffer | Human coach, 1 hour | 1 credit about $50; coaches charge 2 to 5 credits | About $100 to $250 |
interviewing.io's base session costs 17.9 times Hello Interview's single AI interview at its current sale price, and it sits inside IGotAnOffer's $100 to $250 coaching range. The difference is who is on the other side: interviewing.io matches you with a senior engineer for an anonymous, realistic interview, while Hello Interview Live Practice is AI-run.
Is interviewing.io worth it for recruiting teams?
For engineers, the free AI Interviewer is the cheap first step, and the $179 human session is priced like a coaching hour with a refund promise. For employers, interviewing.io is closer to a contingency channel than a software subscription: the 15% fee is the bulk of the cost, and you only meet engineers who chose to request an intro.
That makes it a complement to, not a replacement for, your own pipeline. If you already test candidates in-house, per-candidate assessment tools cost far less per unit: compare CodeSignal pricing, HackerRank pricing and CoderPad pricing. For running fair technical loops, see our guide to technical recruiting interviews.
How does Noon fit next to interviewing.io?
interviewing.io charges per hire from a pool of engineers who practiced on its platform. Noon builds your own pipeline instead: an AI recruiter that searches the whole web for candidates, not just LinkedIn, evaluates and ranks them against your role's criteria, runs personalised email and SMS outreach and books interviews, with 20+ ATS integrations. Its voice AI Interviewer runs screening conversations with a full transcript and a next-round recommendation.
There is no placement fee. Noon sells one plan with unlimited sourcing, unlimited email enrichment, unlimited contacts, unlimited agents and unlimited seats, so the cost does not rise with each engineer you hire. Noon does not publish a dollar price; the pricing page explains how to get a quote.
Sources and methodology
- interviewing.io FAQ, gift checkout, employer FAQ, employers page and homepage, read rendered in Chrome via Playwright on 28 October 2026. On the gift page the interview count was set to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 20 and 50 and the total read after each change. interviewing.io/pricing returned a 404.
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, software developers, read 28 October 2026: median annual wage $135,980 in May 2025, used only for the hire-fee example.
- Hello Interview pricing and Live Practice, and IGotAnOffer coaching, read rendered on 28 October 2026. On Hello Interview, struck-through prices were read as list prices and the others as current sale prices.
- Demand check: DataForSEO Google Ads volume, US, 28 October 2026: 70 searches a month each for "interviewing.io pricing," "interviewing io pricing" and "interviewing.io price."
- Bundle totals, per-interview prices, the hire-fee examples and the comparison ratios come from
seo/research/stats/interviewing-io-pricing-2026/compute.py. Exact quotes and fetch times are in the committedsources.json.
Limitations
- interviewing.io publishes only a starting price for mock interviews. Specialist and company-specific sessions, and the 3, 5 and 10-session coaching packages, have no published price.
- The employer examples apply the published 15% to one wage figure, the BLS median for software developers. Real offers vary by level and location, and interviewing.io may negotiate terms.
- The employers page and the employer FAQ describe payment differently; we report both as written.
- No buyer-reported figure exists: Vendr has no interviewing.io listing (404 on 28 October 2026).
- Hello Interview prices were marked as a limited-time sale on the check date. All prices are point-in-time, in US dollars.
FAQ
How much does interviewing.io cost per session?
Mock interviews start at $179 each, per interviewing.io's FAQ on 28 October 2026. The price rises with the subject and if you request an interviewer from a specific company.
Does interviewing.io offer discounts?
Yes. The gift checkout applies 10% off for four or more interviews, so each costs $161.10. There is no larger discount for bigger bundles.
Is interviewing.io free?
The AI Interviewer is free, and so are the recorded mock interviews in the public library. Sessions with a human interviewer are paid.
How much does interviewing.io charge employers?
$500 a month plus 15% of the hire's first-year base salary, per the employer FAQ. On a $135,980 salary the hire fee is $20,397.
Does interviewing.io give refunds?
The FAQ says, "If you're unhappy with your interview(s), we'll issue a full refund."
Is interviewing.io cheaper than a recruiting agency?
interviewing.io says its fee is "typically half of what agencies charge." That is the vendor's claim; compare it against the fee terms in any agency contract you have.
About the author
Rey Sivji is Head of Growth at Noon AI and checked these prices on 28 October 2026. Spotted a price change or a figure we should add? Email rey@noon.ai.
