interviewing.io Pricing (2026): Plans, Free Access, and What You Get

interviewing.io is partly free. Its AI Interviewer and more than 200 problems from Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview cost nothing, but its live mocks with senior engineers from FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies are paid per session. As of October 2026 its FAQ says expert interviews start at $179, with the price varying above that floor by subject and for a specific company's interviewer. Its public site shows no subscription, so five sessions cost at least $895. The cheaper start is rehearsing real company questions on PracHub, where most questions are free.

Pricing and product details were checked on October 14, 2026.

Quick Verdict

Choose interviewing.io when you are weeks from a FAANG onsite, can already solve the problems, and need one or two pressure sessions with a senior interviewer who writes hiring-style feedback. Budget at least $179 a session.

Choose PracHub when you are still building the material: you want to see what Google, Meta or Amazon asked recently and work through those questions before paying anyone to watch you. PracHub is free to start, with an optional paid tier.

interviewing.io Plans and Prices (2026)

Source: interviewing.io's FAQ, gift page and homepage, read on October 14, 2026.

Beyond the $179 floor, most of what you would actually pay is missing from that table.

The full price list sits behind a login. The FAQ gives a floor and nothing else. interviewing.io/pricing returned a 404 when checked, and the booking app at start.interviewing.io shows prices only after you sign in. What a system design or machine learning session costs, and what a Google-specific interviewer adds, is not public.

No bundle is shown for your own sessions. Each expert session is billed on its own, so cost scales linearly with practice:

Coaching has no public price at all. The homepage calls dedicated coaching the best way to prepare for Amazon, Google or Meta and lists no figure anywhere. The public numbers are candidate posts: a 10-session FAANG package listed at $4,000 with a $500 limited-time discount (Blind, December 2021), a quote of about $2.8K for five lessons from a new-grad candidate (Taro, around 2024), and a reply citing $1,349 or more for coaching aimed at Amazon (Blind, May 2025). Read those as an order of magnitude, not as today's price.

What You Get for Free

As of October 14, 2026 the free side included:

• The AI Interviewer. A FAANG-style coding or system design interview with feedback at the end. The site says it is free and states no usage limit.
• Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview material. interviewing.io co-wrote the sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview, gives nine chapters away and lets you work more than 200 of its problems for free.
• The replay library. Recorded mock interviews are free to watch. Depth is uneven: its learn page lists 45 Google replays, 32 Meta and 33 Amazon, but 4 for Netflix, 3 each for Apple and Airbnb, and 27 of the 53 companies under "By Company" have a guide page with no replays at all.
• Company guides and a question bank, both on public pages.

What is gated is the human: every session with a professional interviewer is paid. Whether you get any free peer mocks, and how many, is not described on the public pages. The one recent data point is not encouraging: candidates report many more no-shows on the free peer tier than three years earlier (Blind, September 2025).

The jobs portal with warm employer intros is conditional too: per the FAQ, access comes when you do well in practice, by a bar it does not publish.

Hidden Costs and Billing Terms

The refund policy is one sentence. The FAQ says that if you are unhappy with your interview, it will issue a full refund. That is the whole policy: it states no time window, conditions or process. The Terms of Use, effective November 2, 2018, contain no refund, cancellation, rescheduling or no-show clause, and interviewing.io/refund returned a 404 when checked on October 14, 2026. Nothing public says whether a coaching package is refundable halfway through, or what happens when either side misses a session. Before buying more than one session, get the refund terms from support by email.

The company paused Pay Later, and that explains the distrust. Per its pause post, read on October 14, 2026 (the post itself shows no publication date), the program let you defer payment until you landed a job, with $512 or $1,024 in credits. The same post admits the two-click enrollment glossed over how payback worked and that users were justifiably shocked when the bills arrived. One enrollee on Blind (January 2023) used a single mock of roughly $400 from a $1,024 credit, did not get a job, was refused the promised extension and was charged the full $1,024 after four months. Other posters in the same thread said support refunded them quickly. Whether Pay Later is still paused today is unknown.

The Terms give it rights to your sessions. You keep ownership of your interview content but grant interviewing.io a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sublicensable license to it. Disputes go to binding arbitration with a class-action waiver (30-day email opt-out), and the Terms name stopping use of the service as your sole and exclusive remedy. Next to a one-line refund policy, in practice your first recourse after paying is the support inbox.

It is voice only. Sessions are audio plus chat and a shared editor, with no video. That protects your anonymity, but it does not rehearse the on-camera part of a real video round.

Discounts are mostly off the page. The only discount printed on the public site as of October 14, 2026 is 10% off four or more gift mocks. Candidates report limited-time coaching discounts instead (the $500 off in the December 2021 Blind thread above), and a buyer there said they come often enough that waiting is viable.

Is interviewing.io Worth the Price?

It is worth $179 when your problem is no longer solving the question but how you come across to the person deciding. Its interviewers are Senior, Staff or Principal engineers or managers who make hiring decisions at FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies, and each session ends with written feedback, including how to avoid being down-leveled. A week before an onsite, one or two sessions buy what a question bank cannot: a stranger's honest read on your pacing, communication and level.

It is not worth it as a way to learn the material. At $179 or more a session it is expensive tutoring, and if you cannot yet get through a medium coding problem, a paid mock mostly confirms what you already suspect. The FAQ also centers on fundamentals, algorithms and system design for backend and full-stack roles; SQL, data science, analytics and product practice are not described. Our interviewing.io review goes deeper on session quality and on who gets the most out of it.

When interviewing.io wins

• You want a live mock with someone who actually interviews at Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft or Netflix, and $179 or more per session fits your budget.
• You are senior, staff or an engineering manager and need calibration on behavioral, system design or leveling from someone who has made those calls.
• You want an interviewer from one specific company, or a multi-session plan for Amazon, Google or Meta.
• You want a free simulated interviewer: the AI Interviewer costs nothing.
• You want salary negotiation help after an offer, which most question banks do not provide.

Cheaper Ways to Get the Same Outcome

What you are paying for is walking into the onsite having seen the kind of question you will get and said your answer out loud. Most of that needs no paid interviewer.

As of October 2026, PracHub lists more than 12,000 interview questions reported from real interviews at more than 550 companies. More than 8,000 of them are free to read, and more than 7,000 have a written solution. It is free to start, with an optional paid tier; current options are on the PracHub pricing page. For the coding and system design rounds interviewing.io sells, it carries more than 4,000 coding and algorithms questions and more than 1,500 system design questions.

Asked at Meta: Design a Notification System That Delivers Events to Users at Scale Turn events from comments, reactions, friend requests and messages into mobile push and in-app notifications for a large social platform, and decide whether email or SMS belong in scope at all. Settling the channels before drawing boxes is half the round.

Asked at Google: Median of All Values Across Several Sorted Integer Arrays It opens as the median of two sorted arrays and then generalizes to any number of arrays. The follow-up separates candidates who understand the two-array approach from those who memorized it.

A workflow that keeps the $179 in your pocket until you know what to spend it on:

1. Open your target company's page (Google, Meta or Amazon; as of October 2026 there are more than 600, more than 1,200 and more than 850 questions on them) and read what was asked in the last few months.
2. Solve the free questions on a timer, talking out loud, and write your answer before you open any solution.
3. List the rounds where you still stall, and run them on interviewing.io's free AI Interviewer.
4. Book one or two expert mocks for those rounds, and get the refund terms in writing before you buy a package.

Practice these on PracHub

interviewing.io sells coding and system design mocks above all, so start in those two categories. Each question below was reported from a real interview and is free to read.

Coding (Merge Overlapping Collinear Lane Segments Given as Integer Point Lists · Maximize total catch over K hours from ponds whose yield drops after each hour); more in the coding questions.

System design (Idempotent Kafka Consumer: Duplicate Writes, Offset Commits and a Second Database · Design a Real-Time Trivia Battle Royale Platform with Live Spectating); more in the system design questions.

For the full set, browse the software engineer interview questions or pick your target from the company list.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is interviewing.io free?

Partly. As of October 14, 2026 its AI Interviewer for coding and system design is free with no stated cap, and more than 200 Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview problems and its recorded replays are free. Every live session with a professional interviewer is paid.

How much does an interviewing.io mock interview cost in 2026?

Its FAQ says expert mock interviews start at $179 per session as of October 2026, with the price varying above that floor by subject and if you request an interviewer from a specific company. The exact price shows only after login. Its public site shows no subscription, and coaching packages of 3, 5 or 10 sessions have no public price.

Does interviewing.io offer refunds?

Its FAQ says it will issue a full refund if you are unhappy with your interview. That sentence is the whole public policy: no time window or process, no refund clause in its Terms of Use, and interviewing.io/refund returned a 404 when checked on October 14, 2026.

Is there an interviewing.io promo code or discount?

The only discount printed on its public site, as of October 14, 2026, is 10% off when you buy four or more gift mock interviews at $179 each. Candidates report limited-time discounts on coaching packages, such as $500 off a 10-session package listed at $4,000 (Blind, December 2021), so check for a current offer before you buy.

What happened to interviewing.io Pay Later?

Per the company's pause post, read on October 14, 2026 (the post itself shows no publication date), Pay Later let you defer payment for $512 or $1,024 in mock-interview credits until you got a job. The company paused it, and the same post says the two-click enrollment glossed over how payback worked. Whether it is still paused today is not stated on its site.

What is a free alternative to interviewing.io?

For learning the material, PracHub is free to start with an optional paid tier. As of October 2026 it lists more than 12,000 questions from real interviews at more than 550 companies, and most questions are free to read. It does not replace a live human mock.

Final Verdict

interviewing.io charges from $179 per expert mock as of October 2026, shows the real price for your subject and company only after login, publishes no coaching prices and shows no subscription on its public site. The free AI Interviewer and replays are a good free tier. The paid product comes with thin billing terms: a one-sentence refund policy, no written cancellation or no-show rules, and a Pay Later program it paused after billing confused buyers.

Pay for it at the end of your preparation, for one or two sessions aimed at rounds you already know are weak. Do the learning before that, on real questions, for free: start with the PracHub question bank.