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Cluely and Raven are the two tools that actually help you live, during a call — real-time answers in an overlay the people you’re meeting with can’t see. The difference is what that costs and where your data goes: Cluely puts its signature invisibility behind a $149.99/mo tier and stores your meetings in its cloud; Raven ships stealth free, keeps everything in a local database, and is open source.

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At a glance

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Price

Cluely’s headline feature — the overlay staying hidden during screen share — is only on the $149.99/mo Pro + Undetectability plan ($44.99/mo if you pay a year up front, i.e. $539.88/year). Pro without invisibility is $19.99/mo. Raven includes stealth for $0. You bring your own API keys, so you pay Deepgram/AssemblyAI and Anthropic/OpenAI directly for usage — typically a few dollars a month, and nothing when you’re idle. No per-seat fee, no tier gating the core feature.

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Where your meetings live

Cluely is a cloud product: you create an account, and your notes and past-meeting history live on its servers (its free tier even advertises “Ask AI about all your past meetings”). Raven has no account and no server — transcripts, notes, and the Ask index sit in a local SQLite database on your machine. Audio goes only to the transcription/AI providers you chose with your own keys. Because Raven is open source, “it’s private” is something you can verify in the code, not just a promise.

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What Cluely does better (honestly)

  • A polished mobile app and a very refined onboarding.
  • One bundled subscription — no thinking about API keys or provider billing.
If you want a turnkey hosted product and don’t mind the cloud or the price, Cluely is well-built.

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When Raven wins

  • You don’t want to pay $149.99/mo for invisibility that’s free here.
  • You want meetings on your machine, not a vendor’s cloud.
  • You want to audit the tool that sits in your calls (open source).
  • You’d rather pay your AI provider cents than a flat subscription.

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Switching from Cluely

  1. Download Raven (Mac or Windows) and add your API keys on first launch.
  2. Run both during your next few calls to compare the live assist and the notes.
  3. Cancel Cluely once Raven covers your daily habit. (History importers are on the roadmap; today, export anything you need from Cluely first.)

Download Raven

Free, open source, Mac + Windows. Bring your own keys.

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Audit exactly what leaves your machine.
Cluely pricing verified August 2026 (cluely.com/pricing). Vendors change pricing often — confirm before relying on a figure.