Pay-per-candidate skills assessments
ResearchedEquip
Skills-assessment platform for hiring — quizzes, coding, CEFR communication and psychometric tests with AI proctoring — charged at USD 1 per candidate per test with no subscription, bundled with a free ATS module and AI interviews.
The short answer
- Best for
- Teams with irregular hiring volume that want proctored skills tests without a subscription or seat count
- Not ideal for
- Teams that need results inside an ATS other than Lever, or a non-English interface
- Price
- USD 10 of credits free, then USD 1 per candidate per test; no subscription
- Closest alternative
- TestGorillaWhen a larger published test library and named ATS integrations matter more than the lowest per-candidate price
At a glance
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Ease of useFair
- ImplementationStrong
- Price transparencyStrong
- Value for moneyStrong
- ScalabilityFair
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Built for pre-employment screening: role-specific assessments, AI proctoring with a Trust Score, and a candidate pipeline, charged per candidate rather than per recruiter seat.
- Ease of useFair
- G2's summary of 975 reviews leads with ease of use, but validated reviewers also report slow page loads, missing authoring guides for SQL questions and limited customisation. We have not used it ourselves.
- ImplementationStrong
- Self-serve sign-up with USD 10 of free credits, unlimited recruiter accounts and no contract; G2's user-reported implementation time is under one month. Getting results into an ATS is the exception — see trade-offs.
- Price transparencyStrong
- Per-candidate, per-test prices, the free credit amount, the minimum purchase, the discount ceiling and the enterprise threshold are all published. The one gap is the API route, priced in a helpdesk article rather than on the pricing page.
- Value for moneyStrong
- USD 1 per candidate per test with proctoring included and no seat cost is hard to beat for low or uneven volume; the multiplier is tests per candidate, and one Capterra reviewer felt the total added up when running several hires.
- ScalabilityFair
- Volume discounts stop at 15 % and custom pricing starts above 10,000 credits, so the model survives volume; what is thinner is depth — a validated reviewer calls it a young startup still building features for power users, and integrations beyond Lever go through the API.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
- Apply
- Screen
- ATS
- Interview
The SourcrLab bottom line
The cheapest published entry point in this category that we have on file: USD 1 per candidate per test, USD 10 of credits free, no subscription, no per-recruiter cost, credits that never expire. Independent reviews are numerous and positive (4.8/5 across 975 on G2), but a visible share of them is incentivized or written by candidates rather than recruiters, and the recruiter-side criticisms — thin authoring guides, slow pages, limited customisation — point at a ten-person company still building depth. The pricing works because the product is narrow; the ATS integration story is where it shows.
Best fit
Teams that hire in bursts rather than continuously — a few engineers this quarter, a support cohort next — and want to pay only for the candidates who actually start a test, with proctoring included and no seat count to negotiate. Also worth a look for anyone comparing against a subscription assessment tool whose credit allowance they would not fill.
Think twice if
Teams that need results pushed into their ATS: the only named integration is Lever, the vendor's own site has no integrations page, and the API route carries a USD 500 setup and 500-credit monthly minimum per the helpdesk. Also anyone who needs the interface in a language other than English, or who wants a validated psychometric instrument rather than a test-bank question — neither is evidenced on the pages we read.
SourcrLab assessment
Everything on this page comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on the dates below. SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work, so you will not find a first-hand opinion here.
Why choose Equip?
Pay per candidate, per test, and nothing else
USD 1 per candidate per test for assessments; USD 1 for a one-way AI interview, USD 2 for a quick conversational one and USD 3 for the comprehensive format. No subscription, no per-recruiter cost, minimum purchase as low as USD 10, credits that never expire and unused credits that can be reclaimed — the vendor's own FAQ says you pay only for candidates who actually start a test.
A free start that is a working product
New accounts get USD 10 of credits, shared between assessments and AI interviews, with all features open — the vendor's pricing philosophy page states there is no feature tiering by plan. The ATS module (job applications, CV parsing, AI resume screening, pipeline) is described as free forever, with no time limit.
Proctoring is built in, from a company that started there
Equip's parent, Socratease, also runs AutoProctor, and the assessment module uses it: camera, microphone and screen tracking, a Trust Score per attempt, an auxiliary-device mode with a secondary phone camera, and ID verification with deepfake detection are named on the features page. There is no separate proctoring charge on the pricing page.
Tech and non-tech in one bank
The features page lists coding, aptitude, psychometric, CEFR English, SQL, Excel, CSS, sales, customer-service, situational-judgement, typing and attention-to-detail tests, plus custom quizzes and video responses. G2's product description adds that assessments draw from thousands of ready-made questions and that you can import your own.
A large, mostly positive independent review base
4.8/5 across 975 G2 reviews (852 five-star, 108 four-star, 13 three-star, 2 one-star), with G2's own summary leading on ease of use and time saved. Read with the caveat in the trade-offs: part of that base is incentivized or candidate-written.
Main trade-offs
ATS integration is thin, and the API route is not free
equip.co/integrations returns a 404. The only named ATS integration is Lever, announced in a July 2022 blog post that references a 'Premium Plan' that no longer appears on the pricing page. The pricing page says 'Free API access', but the helpdesk article on API integrations describes a USD 500 one-time setup (converted to 500 credits) and a 500-credit monthly minimum. Ask which is current before you assume results will land in your ATS.
Validated reviewers report rough edges in authoring and speed
A lead engineer at a small business (G2, 9 August 2024, 4/5) found no guide for writing custom SQL questions where one exists for coding, could not delete saved test cases without contacting support, and called the test-case UI on submitted assessments a letdown. A frontend developer (G2, 14 January 2026, 4.5/5) and a senior manager (G2, 7 August 2024, 4.5/5) both report pages that load slowly at times; G2's aggregated cons list leads with limited customisation and limited functionality.
The review base is large but not all of it is recruiters
Several G2 reviews are labelled 'Incentivized / Seller invite', and several others are written by candidates who sat a test — G2 marks these 'Guest users … not included in G2 scores'. The 4.8 average is real, but the share of it that reflects a recruiter running a hiring campaign is smaller than 975 suggests. Capterra's six reviews all rate 5.0, and one founder (29 September 2025) still notes the price feels high for smaller teams running multiple hires.
A ten-person company with unclear language support
Tracxn lists 10 employees as of June 2026 and a single USD 400K seed round in 2022. No supported-language list appears on the vendor site, and the G2 seller panel we could render did not show one. A validated CTO reviewer on Capterra (21 August 2025) puts it plainly: a young startup still working on advanced features for power users. Company counts on the vendor's own pages also drift — 700, 850+, 900+ and 1,000+ companies on different pages.
Pricing and buying reality
USD 10 of credits free, then USD 1 per candidate per test — no subscription
- Three modules: an AI-native ATS described as free forever; Assessments at USD 1 per candidate per test; AI Interviews at USD 1 (one-way), USD 2 (quick conversational) or USD 3 (comprehensive conversational) per candidate
- USD 10 of free credits on sign-up, shared between assessments and AI interviews
- One credit is one dollar; credits never expire and unused credits can be reclaimed
- Unlimited recruiter accounts at no additional cost; minimum purchase as low as USD 10
- Volume discounts up to 15 % applied automatically by credits purchased; a first-purchase discount for new customers; custom pricing above 10,000 credits
- Cards accepted; bank or wire transfer for amounts over USD 1,500
- The helpdesk prices the API route separately: USD 500 one-time setup converted to 500 credits, plus a 500-credit monthly minimum — this contradicts 'Free API access' on the pricing page
What we do not know
- Which is current for API access: free, per the pricing page, or USD 500 setup plus 500 credits a month, per the helpdesk
- The exact volume-discount tiers between USD 10 and 10,000 credits, and the size of the first-purchase discount
- Whether prices are billed in EUR or only in USD from Belgium, and whether VAT applies to card purchases
- How Capterra's listed 'INR 95 per user, per month' relates to the current model — nothing on the vendor's pricing page matches it
Checked on the vendor's pricing page, August 2026. Equip pricing page and FAQ
How it fits your stack
Works with
- Lever, via a native integration announced July 2022 that invites candidates from Lever and writes results back to the candidate profile; anything else via REST API (public Postman collection, API key), which the helpdesk prices separately
Likely replaces
- A subscription assessment tool whose monthly credit allowance you would not use up, and a separate proctoring service
May overlap with
- TestGorilla, iMocha, Toggl Hire and Mercer Mettl on the skills-test job; HackerRank and Codility on the coding-test part of it
- Its own free ATS module overlaps with any ATS you already run — it is a bundle, not a replacement for one
Check before buying
- Whether results can reach your ATS at all without the API route, and what the API route actually costs today
- How many tests a typical candidate sits in your process — the price is per test, so a three-test assessment is USD 3 per candidate, not USD 1
- Whether the candidate interface and proctoring consent flow are acceptable in your language and under GDPR for your candidate population; the vendor states GDPR and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, but the language list is not published
Equip vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Choose TestGorilla if a larger published test library (350+) and named ATS integrations matter more than the lowest per-candidate price; its free tier renews at 10 credits a month, and paid plans start at EUR 66 a month on an annual commitment.
Choose HackerRank if the screen has to be real code for engineering roles — a coding-first platform with a published entry price from USD 79 a month, rather than a coding test inside a general skills bank.
Consider Codility if you run steady, predictable engineering test volume and would rather buy a year of invite credits (from USD 1,200) than count dollars per candidate.
Consider SHL if the selection method itself has to be defensible — validated cognitive and personality instruments (Verify, OPQ) with decades of normative data — and you accept that nothing is priced publicly.
Consider Mercer Mettl if you are an enterprise running proctored assessment at campus or volume scale and want an incumbent with a large review base (4.4/5 across 506 on G2) behind it.
Used Equip?
Tell other recruiters what worked, what did not, and who it suits. Positive, mixed or critical — all useful.
Evidence
- Built by Socratease, Inc. (Delaware-registered; Bengaluru operations) as a skills-assessment, ATS and AI-interview platform for hiring — checked against a primary source: Equip Terms of Service (legal entity)
- USD 1 per candidate per test, USD 10 of free credits, no subscription, unlimited recruiter accounts, credits never expire — checked against a primary source: Equip pricing page and FAQ
- Volume discounts up to 15 %, custom pricing above 10,000 credits, wire transfer above USD 1,500 — vendor claim, not independently verified: Equip pricing page and FAQ
- API route priced at USD 500 one-time setup plus a 500-credit monthly minimum, contradicting 'Free API access' on the pricing page — vendor claim, not independently verified: Equip helpdesk: API integrations
- Lever is the only named ATS integration; equip.co/integrations returns a 404 — checked against a primary source: Equip blog: Lever ATS integration (July 2022)
- 4.8/5 across 975 G2 reviews (852 five-star, 108 four-star, 13 three-star, 0 two-star, 2 one-star); G2 lists 'Pay Per Candidate $1.00' — checked against a primary source: Equip reviews and product profile on G2
- Validated G2 reviewers report missing SQL authoring guides, undeletable test cases, slow page loads and limited customisation — checked against a primary source: Equip reviews and product profile on G2
- Capterra: 5.0 across 6 reviews; one founder (September 2025) finds pricing high for smaller teams running multiple hires; listed starting price INR 95 per user per month does not match the vendor page — checked against a primary source: Equip reviews on Capterra
- Founded 2020 in Bengaluru, 10 employees as of June 2026, USD 400K seed from Better Capital — checked against a primary source: Equip company profile on Tracxn
- Supported interface languages and the number of coding languages in the test bank — not enough evidence
- SourcrLab hands-on use — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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