A private Mercer Mettl alternative — without the webcam surveillance.
Mercer Mettl is a powerful enterprise assessment suite — and priced and onboarded like one (sales calls, per-candidate pricing, webcam proctoring). For a teacher or coaching centre that just needs to run secure tests this week, it is heavy and expensive.
ExamGuard vs. Mercer Mettl
| Feature | ExamGuard | Mercer Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Per-exam / per-candidate pricing | ||
| Sales call + onboarding before you can try it | ||
| Webcam / biometric proctoring | ||
| Free tier you can start in 2 minutes | ||
| One shared link, no student install | ||
| Auto-grade + manual review queue | ||
| Local-first / self-host (data never leaves campus) | ||
| Privacy-first (no camera, no biometrics) |
Run a secure exam today, for free
Instead of recording students, ExamGuard scores risky in-browser behaviour — tab-switching, copy/paste, right-click, screenshot key presses, fullscreen exits — into a per-student integrity timeline you review. Every screen is tiled with the student's name and roll number, so any leaked screenshot traces back to the source. It raises the cost of cheating honestly, without treating every student like a suspect.
And it is honest about its limits: no browser tool stops every form of cheating, and we say so plainly. What you get is a fair, private layer of integrity students actually accept — and that keeps your institution out of the surveillance-and-privacy headlines.
Switch in minutes, not months.
No student install, no IT project. Build an exam, share one link, done. Free to start.
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