Best Free AI Mock Interview Tools in 2026: What's Really Free

As of October 2026, six mock interview tools have a genuinely free tier. Verve AI gives five AI mock interviews and Yoodli five AI roleplays in total. Aced, formerly Exponent and Pramp, gives five mock interviews a month with other candidates. Parakeet AI gives one 10-minute AI mock interview, and YoodaAI's 20 free credits for new accounts cover one of up to 20 minutes. ChatGPT's free plan includes voice conversations you can turn into an interview. Two names that many lists still call free aren't: Final Round AI's practice interviews need a paid plan, and Google's Interview Warmup now redirects to a page of courses.

An AI mock interview is a practice interview run by software: it asks the questions a job is likely to bring, takes your answers and tells you how they land. We make YoodaAI (about us), one of the six. We checked every free tier on the vendor's own pricing or product page on October 7, 2026. YoodaAI's free allowance, a single 10-minute interview, is smaller than several of the others, and the list says so.

Free AI mock interview tools at a glance

Tool	What's free	After the free tier
Verve AI	5 AI mock interviews	Unlimited mocks from $16.99 a month, billed annually
Yoodli	Up to 5 AI roleplays in total	$8 a month billed annually, up to 10 roleplays a week
Aced	5 mock interviews a month with other candidates	Unlimited peer mocks for $12 a month, billed annually
YoodaAI	20 free credits: up to 20 minutes, with a report	1 credit a minute
Parakeet AI	1 AI mock interview, 10 minutes	Paid mocks run 30 minutes
ChatGPT	Voice conversations with limited use, set up by you	Paid plans raise the voice limits

Checked on each vendor's own page on October 7, 2026. Free tiers change often, so check again before you sign up.

1. Verve AI: five free AI mock interviews

Verve AI is an interview copilot that also sells practice. Its free plan includes five AI mock interviews, run by what it calls an interactive AI interviewer using question banks of top companies. The same free plan adds three 15-minute sessions of its live copilot and 14 smaller AI tools, such as a resume builder and an ATS checker. Unlimited mock interviews start with its Standard plan, $16.99 a month billed annually (Verve AI pricing).

Best for: several free AI mock interviews in one place, if you don't mind an account built around a copilot.

2. Yoodli: five free roleplays, with feedback on delivery

Yoodli is an AI speaking coach used for interviews, sales calls and presentations. Its free Starter plan allows up to five roleplays in total, includes live AI roleplays and needs no card. For interviews, Yoodli says its AI asks follow-up questions based on your answers and gives feedback on your answers and your delivery, including pace and clarity (Yoodli). Pro is $8 a month billed annually for up to 10 roleplays a week (Yoodli pricing).

Best for: working on delivery, meaning how fast and how clearly you speak, as well as what you say.

3. Aced (formerly Exponent and Pramp): free practice with real people

Aced is the interview prep company formerly called Exponent, and Pramp's free peer mock interviews now run there. Its free Basic plan includes five peer mock interviews a month and needs no card. You're matched with another candidate preparing for the same kind of interview, and you take turns as interviewer and interviewee over video. Sessions cover product management, data structures and algorithms, system design, behavioural, SQL, data science and frontend, among others (Aced).

The interviewer is a person, not an AI. Aced's AI mock interviews and AI interview feedback come with its Expert plan, $20 a month billed annually, while unlimited peer mocks cost $12 a month billed annually (Aced pricing).

Best for: tech interviews, and practising in front of someone who can react.

4. YoodaAI: 20 free credits, with feedback on every answer

YoodaAI is ours. New accounts get 20 free credits with no card, enough for a mock interview of up to 20 minutes. You enter the job title, choose a level from Intern to Principal and pick what to cover: technical, behavioural, system design or situational. You can paste the job posting so the questions follow it. An AI interviewer then asks one question at a time out loud and follows up on what you said, pushing a vague answer for an example, a number or your own part. You answer by speaking, or by typing in the chat.

The interview ends with a report: a hiring verdict from Strong hire to No hire, a score out of 100, and a five-part rubric covering content, structure, clarity, expertise and communication, where each score quotes your own words. It also lists your strengths, the one change that would help most under "Fix this first", feedback on each question with a stronger answer, and the full transcript. Interviews run in 50 languages, English and Turkish included. After the free one, an interview costs 1 credit a minute, so a 20-minute interview uses 20 credits. On the Unlimited plan, mock interviews are free up to 30 a month. Pack credits never expire. See what the report shows.

Best for: finding exactly where an answer falls short, with follow-up questions and a score you can compare from one interview to the next.

5. Parakeet AI: a free 10-minute mock with its copilot running

Parakeet AI is an interview copilot whose mock interviews pair an AI interviewer with its own answer suggestions. The AI asks and listens while Parakeet drafts answers beside you, as it would in a real interview. The first mock is free and needs no card, but it lasts 10 minutes, against 30 minutes for a paid one, and a mock can't be extended or restarted once it begins (Parakeet AI).

Best for: trying Parakeet's copilot before you rely on it in an interview.

6. ChatGPT: a do-it-yourself interviewer

Any chatbot with a voice mode can play interviewer if you tell it how. ChatGPT's free plan includes voice conversations with limited use, on the web and in its apps (OpenAI Help). Set the rules in your first message, for example: "Interview me for a mid-level product manager role. Ask one question at a time, wait for my answer, then score it out of 10 and tell me one thing to improve."

The catch is consistency. A chatbot improvises different questions and feedback every time, and there is no fixed scale to compare one attempt with the next.

Best for: carrying on practising after the free tiers above run out, within ChatGPT's daily limits.

Two "free" tools that aren't

Final Round AI. It appears on many lists of free mock interview tools, but its own FAQ says otherwise. You can set goals and upload your resume without a subscription, but "the practice rounds themselves are a paid feature," and they run in its desktop app (Final Round AI). Its free plan includes a basic AI interview report. Paid plans run from $25 a month billed yearly to $150 month to month (Final Round AI plans).

Google Interview Warmup. Google's free practice tool was a common recommendation and still appears in roundups. On October 7, 2026, its address redirected to Grow with Google's page of courses and tools.

Which free tool should you use?

Several AI interviews for nothing: Verve AI's five or Yoodli's five.
A real person on the other side: Aced's five peer mock interviews a month.
To know exactly what to fix in each answer: YoodaAI, with 20 free credits to start, then 1 credit a minute.
To rehearse with a copilot running: Parakeet AI's 10-minute mock.
To keep going once the free tiers run out: ChatGPT's voice mode, set up as an interviewer.

They also combine well. A peer mock on Aced and a spoken AI interview on YoodaAI test different things, and both are free.

How to get the most from a free session

Most free tiers give you between one and five sessions, so make each one count:

Use the real role and level. Paste the job posting where the tool allows it, so the questions are the ones you will actually face.
Answer out loud. Saying an answer exposes gaps that typing hides, and it's what the interview will ask of you.
Redo your weakest answer before the next session. Use the feedback as a guide, not a script, and put the answer in your own words.
Space the sessions out. A few short sessions over several days beat one long one. Our guide on how to practise for an interview explains why.

For what separates a useful mock interview tool from a question list, see what actually makes an AI mock interview tool useful.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a completely free AI mock interview?

Not an unlimited one among the dedicated tools we checked. Verve AI gives five free AI mock interviews, Yoodli five roleplays in total, Parakeet AI one 10-minute interview, and YoodaAI's 20 free credits cover up to 20 minutes. ChatGPT's free voice mode can be used as often as its daily limits allow, if you set up the interview yourself.

Is Google Interview Warmup still available?

Not at its old address. On October 7, 2026, it redirected to Grow with Google's page of courses and tools.

Is Final Round AI's mock interview free?

No. Final Round AI's FAQ says starting a practice interview needs an active plan. Its free plan includes a basic AI interview report.

Can I practise a mock interview out loud for free?

Yes. In YoodaAI's free interview the interviewer speaks and you answer out loud, Yoodli's roleplays and Parakeet AI's mock are spoken, Aced's peer mocks are live video calls, and ChatGPT's free plan includes voice.

The short version

The most free AI interviews: Verve AI (five) and Yoodli (five in total).
Free practice with people: Aced, five peer mock interviews a month.
Free credits or one free mock: YoodaAI's 20 free credits cover up to 20 minutes with a full report, and Parakeet AI gives one 10-minute mock with its copilot running.
Not free: Final Round AI's practice rounds. Google Interview Warmup now redirects.

Start your free YoodaAI mock interview: 20 free credits for an AI interviewer for your role, a report scored out of 100, and no card needed.