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Arena
✓ verifiedFreemium
Engagement suite adding live chat, comments, polls and live blogs to publisher and brand sites to grow and monetize audiences.
145K visits/mo
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Interviews Chat
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AI interview copilot delivering real-time answer suggestions and live transcription across video, phone and coding interviews.
120K visits/mo6.2K saves
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Interview Coder
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Undetectable desktop AI assistant that feeds real-time answers during coding and technical interviews.
167K visits/mo
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LightOn
✓ verifiedFreemium
Production RAG API for developers: parse, extract and search documents with SOTA OCR and cited retrieval, cloud or on-prem.
29K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0/mo
Starter: $49/mo
Professional: $249/mo
Business: $999/mo
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Starter: Free + usage (parsing €0.002/page)
Business: €149/mo + usage (100 GB storage, unlimited users)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Threaded comments
- ✦Real-time group chat
- ✦Live blog streams
- ✦AI polls and moderation
- ✦First-party data capture
- ✦No-code website embed
- ✦Real-time answer suggestions
- ✦Live interview transcription
- ✦STAR and bullet response formats
- ✦Chrome extension for online assessments
- ✦AI interview prep and mock interviews
- ✦Multiple AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini)
- ✦Real-time AI answers during technical interviews
- ✦Invisible to screen sharing and recording
- ✦Hidden from dock, tray and activity monitor
- ✦Click-through overlay
- ✦Live audio capture and transcription
- ✦Lifetime unlimited access license
- ✦Parse endpoint with SOTA OCR (LightOnOCR-2)
- ✦Extract endpoint for schema-based JSON
- ✦Search endpoint with hybrid retrieval and citations
- ✦MCP-native and LLM-agnostic
- ✦Workspaces and chunk-level access control
- ✦On-prem, VPC or air-gapped deployment
Use cases
- →Live event coverage
- →Growing on-site community
- →Monetizing audience with ads
- →Capturing first-party data
- →Getting live help during interviews
- →Answering online coding assessments
- →Practising with AI-generated questions
- →Handling phone and video interviews
- →Getting live help on coding interview problems
- →Answering technical questions in real time
- →Avoiding detection during screen-shared interviews
- →Build production RAG without a long in-house pipeline
- →OCR and structure scanned documents
- →Grounded document search with citations for agents
- →Deploy secure enterprise document intelligence
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