PiriPiri AI vs Cluely

The catch: Cluely charges $149.99/month for invisibility

Invisibility on screen share is not a luxury add-on for interview use — it is the whole point. Cluely gates it behind its most expensive tier. The cheaper $19.99/month Pro plan gives you the assistant but not the stealth that keeps it off a shared screen, which is exactly what you need the second an interviewer asks you to present.

PiriPiri AI does not split that feature out. The overlay is excluded from screen capture on every plan, including the 3 sessions you get free — there is no separate stealth tier to upgrade to.

Pay for one interview, not a whole month

Most people do not interview every month. They have a cluster of rounds over a week or two, then nothing for months. A subscription is built to bill you through the quiet stretches — Cluely’s $149.99/month stealth plan costs the same whether you take one interview or twenty.

PiriPiri AI sells sessions, not months: $2.50 buys an hour-long session of live transcription, in packs that never expire, and you start one only when you have an interview. One Thursday interview costs around $2.50, not $149.99.

A meeting tool versus an interview tool

Cluely has moved its pitch beyond interviews: its own site now sells it as an undetectable AI for meetings in general — sales calls, customer calls, lectures. That breadth is real, and it shapes the product. A general meeting assistant has to be ready for any conversation, so it cannot assume much about the one you are in.

PiriPiri AI assumes you are in an interview, and uses that. Before the call you pick the role you are interviewing for — software engineer, product manager, data and ML, consulting, finance, sales, design, healthcare, teaching and more — and attach your CV and the job description. Each role carries its own playbook of question types and answer shapes, so “tell me about a conflict with a teammate” gets a structured story built from your actual CV, and “design a URL shortener” gets an approach, the key components and the trade-offs.

During the call it detects when a question has been asked and starts drafting on its own, without a keypress. If the answer on screen is too short, one hotkey re-asks the same question for a detailed version; another reads a coding problem off your screen and writes the solution.

What is the same, and what you give up

Be clear-eyed: the core experience is similar. Both run an always-on-top overlay that hears both sides of the call and drafts answers in real time, and both stay hidden on screen share. Cluely is the bigger, better-funded brand and pitches itself well beyond interviews — sales calls, meetings, everything.

PiriPiri AI is narrower on purpose. It is built for interviews, runs on macOS and Windows, and competes on price and transparency rather than breadth. If you want one tool for every meeting you will ever take, Cluely casts a wider net. If you want to walk into a handful of interviews without a $150 monthly commitment, that is the trade PiriPiri AI is built for.

Which one should you choose?

Choose Cluely if you want a single assistant for every kind of call you take, all year, and the $149.99 stealth tier is a business expense you are comfortable carrying month after month.

Choose PiriPiri AI if you are job hunting. You will take a burst of interviews, you need the overlay hidden on every one of them, and you would rather pay about $2.50 per interview than subscribe to a meetings product to use it for three weeks. Try it first on 3 free sessions, no card required.

Is PiriPiri AI a cheaper Cluely alternative?

Yes. Cluely’s invisible-on-screen-share mode lives on its $149.99/month tier, while PiriPiri AI includes the invisible overlay on every plan and charges about $2.50 for an hour of live transcription. For a single interview, that is roughly $2.50 versus $149.99.

Does PiriPiri AI have Cluely’s invisible mode?

PiriPiri AI’s overlay is excluded from operating-system screen capture, so ordinary Zoom, Google Meet and Teams screen sharing omits it. Unlike Cluely, the screen-capture exclusion is included by default rather than gated behind a premium tier.

Is Cluely still built for job interviews?

Cluely now markets itself as an AI for meetings in general rather than for interviews specifically, though it still works on an interview call. PiriPiri AI is built only for interviews: you pick the role you are interviewing for, attach your CV and the job description, and every answer is shaped by both.

Can I use PiriPiri AI without a subscription?

Yes. No recurring plan is required. You buy sessions in one-time packs that never expire and start one only when you have an interview, beginning with 3 free sessions of 10 minutes each and no credit card.

Does PiriPiri AI run on Windows as well as Mac?

Yes. It runs on macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon and on Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit). On a Mac, hearing the interviewer’s side of the call needs macOS 14.2 or later.