Is Stealth Interview a Verve AI alternative?

For the technical rounds, yes, and without the session clock. Stealth Interview is a macOS and Windows desktop app that reads the coding problem on your screen, returns a working solution with a step-by-step explanation and its time and space complexity, transcribes interviewer audio in real time, and stays invisible to screen sharing. Nothing is metered on any plan. It does not produce post-interview reports and it does not run on a phone.

Does Stealth Interview limit how long a session can run?

No. Starter, Premium and Hunter all include unlimited usage. There is no session clock and no cap on the number of interviews.

Does it work with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and Webex?

Yes. The app is not captured by screen-sharing or meeting software, including Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex, and it stays hidden on the coding platforms interviewers use: CoderPad, HackerRank, CodeSignal and LeetCode.

Which AI models can I use?

You choose. Starter includes GPT-6 Luna and GPT-6.1 Terra; Premium and Hunter add GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5.

What does Stealth Interview cost?

Starter is $49 per month, Premium is $150 for six months and Hunter is $250 for a year, with unlimited usage on all three.

Verve AI Alternative: No Session Clock

Verve AI's pricing page (August 2026) caps every copilot session at 15, 60 or 90 minutes. A coding round doesn't end on a plan boundary, and Stealth Interview runs no clock on any plan.

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"Okay, next one. Given a string, return the length of the longest substring that has no repeating characters. Walk me through your approach before you code it."

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def length_of_longest_substring(s: str) -> int:    last_seen = {}                    # char -> index    left = best = 0    for right, ch in enumerate(s):        if ch in last_seen and last_seen[ch] >= left:            left = last_seen[ch] + 1  # jump past it        last_seen[ch] = right        best = max(best, right - left + 1)    return best    last_seen = {}                    # char -> index

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left r = max (left r -1, last[s r] + 1)

Time O(n): each character enters and leaves the window once.
Space O(min(n, k)): k is the size of the character set.

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"Okay, next one. Given a string, return the length of the longest substring that has no repeating characters. Walk me through your approach before you code it."

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def length_of_longest_substring(s: str) -> int:    last_seen = {}                    # char -> index    left = best = 0    for right, ch in enumerate(s):        if ch in last_seen and last_seen[ch] >= left:            left = last_seen[ch] + 1  # jump past it        last_seen[ch] = right        best = max(best, right - left + 1)    return best    last_seen = {}                    # char -> index

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At each index r, the window's left edge is:

left r = max (left r -1, last[s r] + 1)

Time O(n): each character enters and leaves the window once.
Space O(min(n, k)): k is the size of the character set.

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"Okay, next one. Given a string, return the length of the longest substring that has no repeating characters. Walk me through your approach before you code it."

python

def length_of_longest_substring(s: str) -> int:    last_seen = {}                    # char -> index    left = best = 0    for right, ch in enumerate(s):        if ch in last_seen and last_seen[ch] >= left:            left = last_seen[ch] + 1  # jump past it        last_seen[ch] = right        best = max(best, right - left + 1)    return best    last_seen = {}                    # char -> index

Approach

At each index r, the window's left edge is:

left r = max (left r -1, last[s r] + 1)

Time O(n): each character enters and leaves the window once.
Space O(min(n, k)): k is the size of the character set.

Type your message...

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Works with

Zoom
Meet
Teams
Webex
CoderPad
HackerRank
CodeSignal
LeetCode

Reviewed August 2026

The row that decides itSession length

Stealth Interview: Not metered — unlimited usage on every plan
Verve AI: 15 minutes on Free, 60 on Standard, 90 on Pro (their pricing page)

Stealth Interview compared with Verve AI across 9 capabilities.
Capability	Stealth InterviewLive technical interview copilot	Verve AIWhole-interview copilot
Native desktop appA macOS and Windows application, not a browser tab.	macOS and Windows	Browser, macOS, Windows, iPhone
Built for the live roundAnswers during the interview itself, not a practice session after it.	Yes	Yes
Reads the problem off your screenCapture the question where it appears and get a working solution back.	Yes	Snap-and-solve
Full explanation and complexityEvery solution arrives with the reasoning and its time and space cost.	Yes	Not stated
System design and OODArchitecture answers with a diagram, not only algorithm problems.	Yes	Not stated
Live interviewer audioWhat is asked out loud is transcribed and used as context for the answer.	Yes	Transcript in the report
Named assessment platformsThe tools interviewers actually run problems in.	CoderPad, HackerRank, CodeSignal, LeetCode	Not stated
Choose your modelPick the engine per question instead of taking one fixed model.	6 models across the plans	Not stated
Published priceWhat the vendor's own pricing page showed when it was read.	$49 / month · $150 / 6 months · $250 / year	Not stated

NoteWe filled in their column from their own website, so “Not stated” means we could not find it — not that it is missing. Prices and features change, so check theirs before you buy. Last reviewed August 2026. Sources: vervecopilot.com.

What Verve AI actually is

Verve AI's home page (August 2026) presents an AI interview assistant for live interviews — real-time support for job seekers while an online interview is happening.

Verve AI is a live interview copilot covering coding, behavioural, online-assessment and skills-based rounds. Per its home page (August 2026) it runs in the browser, as a desktop app for macOS and Windows, and as an iPhone app, and it names Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex as compatible meeting software.

The same page describes a snap-and-solve flow that captures the problem from your screen, a Stealth Mode it says stays invisible to the interviewer during screen sharing, interview reports containing a transcript and performance analytics, support for 55+ languages, and customisation from your own prompts and materials.

Its pricing page (August 2026) lists three tiers — Free, Standard and Pro — separated less by features than by limits: session length runs 15 minutes on Free, 60 on Standard and 90 on Pro, with copilot session counts, mock interviews, interview reports and question-bank access scaling alongside.

Everything about Verve AI on this page was read on its own site (opens in a new tab) in August 2026. Where its pages are silent we say so; we don't test rivals' software or guess what it does.

Where it costs you in the round

The clock is the plan. Per its pricing page (August 2026), a copilot session runs 15 minutes on Free, 60 on Standard and 90 on Pro. A round that runs long on follow-ups leaves you watching a meter as well as the interviewer.
The number of sessions is capped too: three on Free, five on Standard. Only Pro is unlimited.
Limits printed, prices not. Its pricing page listed the session caps but rendered no amounts when we read it in August 2026.
Coding is one of four interview types in scope, beside behavioural, online-assessment and skills-based rounds. Here, the coding round is the whole brief.

Credit where it's due

Four interview types are in scope by name: coding, behavioural, online assessment and skills-based.
Desktop, browser and iPhone builds, so the product travels between machines.
Interview reports with a transcript and performance analytics after the round — a genuine post-interview artefact.
Customisation from your own resume, notes and prompts, so answers can be steered toward your actual history.
A free tier exists, which means you can see the flow before paying anything.

How the two are built

Both products ship a desktop build for macOS and Windows, so the binary is not the story. The meter is: Verve AI's pricing page runs a clock on every session, on every tier, and ours runs no clock at all.

Verve AI's pricing page meters a copilot session in wall-clock minutes: fifteen, sixty or ninety by tier. That is a coherent design for a product whose centre of gravity is a conversation, where a session maps neatly onto a scheduled call. Stealth Interview meters nothing, because a coding round is not predictable in length: one problem becomes three follow-ups becomes a debugging detour, and a countdown running during that is a second thing to think about at the worst possible moment.

The output differs in shape as well. A conversation copilot optimises for a talking point you can say in your own words within a second or two. A coding copilot optimises for something you can compile: a full solution, an explanation of why it works, and the complexity you will be asked to defend. Neither is a better answer in general; they are answers to different questions.

Nothing here is a claim about what Verve AI's Stealth Mode does or does not do in a proctored environment. We have not tested it and could not verify it if we tried. The observable difference is metering and output shape, which both companies publish.

What the platforms actually document

It helps to separate the two situations people lump together as detection. In a live round with a human interviewer on Zoom, Meet, Teams or Webex, nothing is scanning your machine — the interviewer sees a shared screen and hears a voice. What gives candidates away there is behavioural: the four-second pause before every answer, code that appears faster than anyone types, a variable naming convention that changes halfway down the file.

A proctored assessment is a different regime with actual software behind it. HackerRank documents Secure Mode as enforcing full screen, blocking copy and paste, preventing multiple monitors and flagging tab switches; Proctor Mode adds screenshot analysis, plagiarism detection and webcam anomaly detection; and its Desktop App Mode installs an application that blocks and closes other programs, prevents screen sharing and screenshots, checks for multiple monitors and screen mirroring, and refuses to run in a virtual machine (HackerRank knowledge base, August 2026).

Those are documented platform behaviours, not marketing claims from either vendor, and they are the part of this topic you can actually verify before an interview. When the invitation names a proctored desktop assessment, the correct move is preparation, not tooling.

The test is in a tab. The answer isn't.

Unless Desktop App Mode is on, a HackerRank test is a web page. Stealth Interview runs outside it, in a desktop window set to be excluded from screen capture.

It doesn't change what the webcam sees, the editor's own record of pastes and typing, or a browser noticing focus leave the test, and we haven't tested every browser and OS version a test runs on. Desktop App Mode is HackerRank's own native app, documented to close other programs: plan on Stealth Interview not running beside it, and prepare with the two pointers pattern instead.

What each HackerRank mode records

No clock, no count

Unlimited usage on Starter, Premium and Hunter. No session clock, no session count — a forty-minute problem that turns into ninety minutes of follow-ups is just a longer interview.

Complexity comes with the answer
Every solution arrives with a step-by-step explanation and its time and space complexity, because the next question in a coding round is almost always why it is O(n log n) and not O(n).
Desktop-native, on two operating systems
macOS and Windows, drawing its own window, not captured by screen-sharing or meeting software.
Live transcription of the interviewer
Spoken follow-ups are transcribed as they happen and answered with the problem already in context.
Model choice on the plan, not in the fine print
Starter ships GPT-6 Luna and GPT-6.1 Terra; Premium and Hunter add GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5.

When Verve AI is the better buy

Your hardest round is the conversation, not the algorithm: Verve AI puts behavioural and skills-based interviews on equal footing with coding, and customises answers from material you upload. If the round you are worried about is the one where someone asks about a project that went wrong, that is a better-shaped product than a tool built around a problem statement on screen.
You want something to review afterwards: Its home page describes an interview report with a transcript and performance analytics. Stealth Interview produces nothing after the fact — when the call ends, it is done. If you are running a long search and want to see your own patterns across a dozen rounds, that gap is real.
You interview from a phone or a borrowed machine: Verve AI lists a browser build and an iPhone app. Stealth Interview installs on macOS or Windows and runs there only. On a machine you cannot install software on, an installed app is not an option at any price.

What the round is worth

Every plan on this page costs less than one offer is worth. The question is which one was built for the round.

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GPT-6 Luna and GPT-6.1 Terra models
Desktop app for macOS and Windows
Conversational AI with follow-ups
Real-time interviewer audio transcription
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$150/ 6 months

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Everything in Starter, plus:

GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5
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Not stated

No amount rendered on their page when we read it. Ours are printed above.

Note

Verve AI's pricing page listed Free, Standard and Pro with their session limits but no amounts when we read it in August 2026. We are not going to fill that column from a third-party blog: check their pricing page for the current numbers and compare them against ours below.

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Verve AI alternative: common questions

Is Stealth Interview a Verve AI alternative?: For the technical rounds, yes, and without the session clock. Stealth Interview is a macOS and Windows desktop app that reads the coding problem on your screen, returns a working solution with a step-by-step explanation and its time and space complexity, transcribes interviewer audio in real time, and stays invisible to screen sharing. Nothing is metered on any plan. It does not produce post-interview reports and it does not run on a phone.
Does Stealth Interview limit how long a session can run?: No. Starter, Premium and Hunter all include unlimited usage. There is no session clock and no cap on the number of interviews.
Does it work with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and Webex?: Yes. The app is not captured by screen-sharing or meeting software, including Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex, and it stays hidden on the coding platforms interviewers use: CoderPad, HackerRank, CodeSignal and LeetCode.
Which AI models can I use?: You choose. Starter includes GPT-6 Luna and GPT-6.1 Terra; Premium and Hunter add GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5.
What does Stealth Interview cost?: Starter is $49 per month, Premium is $150 for six months and Hunter is $250 for a year, with unlimited usage on all three.

Approach

Approach

Approach

What Verve AI actually is

Where it costs you in the round

Credit where it's due

How the two are built

What the platforms actually document

The test is in a tab. The answer isn't.

No clock, no count

Complexity comes with the answer

Desktop-native, on two operating systems

Live transcription of the interviewer

Model choice on the plan, not in the fine print

When Verve AI is the better buy

What the round is worth

Every plan includes unlimited usage

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Premium

Hunter

Verve AI

Verve AI alternative: common questions

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