Sensei AI vs Hedy AI (2026): Live Copilot or Meeting Coach, Price and Which to Pick

Pick Sensei AI if you want a browser copilot that writes a full suggested answer to each interview question from your résumé and your own stories, and you accept $89 a month (or $24 a month billed yearly) with no refunds. Pick Hedy AI if you want an inexpensive coach for every kind of conversation, on every device, that offers a few suggestions every couple of minutes instead of scripting each answer; Pro is $12.99 a month. For most job seekers who want rehearsal and live help in one app, CoPilot Interview is our pick, with a free plan of 15 minutes a day; we make it, so weigh that.

Prices and terms below are as each vendor listed them on November 13, 2026. The two tools are built for different jobs, so the right choice depends less on features than on how you want help to arrive.

Sensei AI vs Hedy AI at a glance

Sensei AI is an interview copilot that lives in a browser tab; Hedy AI is a conversation coach with a job-interview mode. Competitor prices and terms are as listed on each vendor's own site on November 13, 2026 unless the cell says otherwise; they change often, so check before you pay. CoPilot Interview is ours and is marked as our pick.

A full answer per question, or a nudge every few minutes

Sensei AI is built around one moment: the interviewer finishes a question and you want something to say. You create a job (industry, company, role and, optionally, the job description), load your résumé and write a few personal stories in its AI Story Editor. You connect the interview through a sharing step in the browser, and Sensei listens, detects each question and writes a suggested answer from your material. Its homepage describes the experience as hands-free, claims under one second of latency and lists 30+ languages; those figures are the vendor's own. A Coding Copilot and industry knowledge bases for finance, consulting, marketing, data science, software engineering and sales sit on both the free and Pro plans. Our CoPilot Interview vs Sensei AI comparison covers the setup in more depth.

Hedy AI is not an answer generator first. It is a coach for meetings, classes, sales calls and interviews that you switch into its Job Interview (Candidate) session type. It hears your microphone and the computer's audio, transcribes on your device by default, and after a couple of minutes starts offering one to three suggestions at a time: a stronger angle, a selling point you missed, a question worth asking. You tap a quick prompt when you want a STAR outline on demand. A Topic per company keeps every round's context together, so the second interview knows what you said in the first. See how Hedy AI works for each step.

Which one fits your interview

• A 45-minute final round on the free plan: Sensei's free sessions end at 15 minutes and must be restarted; Hedy's free plan keeps listening but its live suggestions stop after 30 minutes of the session. On Hedy Pro they run for the first 120 minutes.
• Several rounds with the same company: Hedy, because Topics carry context and recaps from one round to the next.
• Behavioral rounds built on your own stories: Sensei, whose Story Editor and résumé builder exist to feed exactly that.
• Technical questions: Sensei lists a Coding Copilot; Hedy describes no coding or screen-reading mode, only files and photos you add as context.
• No laptop to install on: Sensei runs in Chrome; Hedy has native apps for iPhone, Android and Apple Watch as well as a web app.
• Proctored tests and AI-led video rounds: neither, because those forbid outside help. Practice for them instead.

Pricing in detail

Prices for Sensei AI and Hedy AI as listed on their own sites on November 13, 2026, in US dollars.

Our arithmetic: Sensei's yearly plan is $288 paid upfront, and two months on its monthly plan cost $178. Two months of Hedy Pro cost $25.98, and its lifetime licence costs about as much as three and a third months of Sensei. For more on Sensei's billing, see our Sensei AI pricing guide.

Privacy and your data

Hedy AI publishes more about data handling than most tools in this category. Its help centre (read November 12, 2026) says speech recognition runs on your device by default and audio is not stored on its servers unless you turn on optional recording; transcript text goes to AI providers for suggestions in the default cloud mode, and a Local AI Processing option keeps that analysis on capable devices. You choose a US or EU data region at sign-up, and sessions stay until you delete them.

Sensei AI's privacy policy now loads only inside its web app. When we read it in October 2026, it said personal information is deleted within 30 days of an account deletion and that Sensei aims to keep customer data in Canada while using service providers in the US, the European Economic Area and the UK. It does not name the AI models it uses.

Limits to know before you pay

• Sensei AI offers no refunds at all, so test it on a practice call during the free sessions first.
• Sensei AI lists no mock interview, no scored practice report and no native app.
• Hedy AI coaches rather than answers: on a fast question-and-answer round, a nudge every few minutes may arrive too late to help.
• Hedy AI's live suggestions stop after 30 minutes of a free session and 120 minutes of a Pro session.
• Reputation is thin on review sites: on November 13, 2026, Sensei AI had 3 reviews on Trustpilot (TrustScore 2.8), while Hedy AI's iPhone app averaged 4.9 stars from 200 ratings on the App Store.

Where CoPilot Interview fits

★ Best choice for candidates choosing between Sensei AI and Hedy AI: CoPilot Interview. CoPilot Interview is an interview copilot built as a desktop app for Windows 10 and 11 and macOS 12 or later. It listens to the call and your microphone and shows a structured answer in about two seconds, and its AI mock interview builds questions from your résumé and the job description, reads them aloud and scores each spoken answer out of 10. The free plan gives 15 minutes a day of live help in sessions of up to 15 minutes, with AI mock interviews included. Standard is $24.99 a month and Pro $39.99 a month, hour packs cost $9.99, $29.99 or $49.99, and the first payment of a new subscription has a 14-day money-back guarantee if you used under 30 minutes of live session time (refund policy). It sits between the two: a structured answer to each question like Sensei, but in a native desktop app, with free scored mock interviews that neither rival lists and a refund window that Sensei does not offer. Hedy remains cheaper per month and runs on more devices. Practice is the use nobody objects to; before using any assistant live, follow your employer's rules, and remember that online assessments and AI-led rounds forbid outside help.

Also consider: Hedy AI if you want one coach for interviews and the rest of your working life, and Sensei AI if you can only use a browser. For the wider field, see our full comparison of AI interview assistants.

Disclosure: CoPilot Interview is our product, so weigh what we say about it accordingly.

Frequently asked questions

Is Sensei AI or Hedy AI cheaper?

Hedy AI. As listed on November 13, 2026, Hedy Pro is $12.99 a month, $99.99 a year or $299 for life, while Sensei AI Pro is $89 a month or $24 a month billed yearly ($288 upfront).

Does Hedy AI write a full answer to each question like Sensei AI?

No. Hedy offers one to three coaching suggestions every couple of minutes, plus quick prompts such as a STAR outline when you tap them. Sensei AI writes a suggested answer to each detected question.

Can I get a refund from Sensei AI or Hedy AI?

Sensei AI's FAQ says it does not offer refunds; you can cancel and keep access to the end of the period. Hedy AI refunds website purchases requested within 14 days, while Apple and Google handle refunds for app-store purchases.

Do Sensei AI or Hedy AI offer mock interviews?

Neither lists a mock interview with scored answers. Sensei has a Playground chat to test responses; Hedy coaches live conversations. CoPilot Interview's free plan includes an AI mock interview that scores each spoken answer out of 10.