Pre-employment assessments
Primary sources checkedTestGorilla
Assessment platform that screens candidates on demonstrated skills, with a test library, video questions and AI interviews, charged per candidate in credits.
The short answer
- Best for
- Teams that want to screen on demonstrated skills before reading CVs
- Not ideal for
- Teams that need results inside their ATS — integrations start on the Plus plan
- Price
- Free (10 credits a month), then from EUR 66 per month on an annual commitment
- Closest alternative
- HackerRankFor engineering hiring, where the screen has to be real code rather than a broad skills library
At a glance
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Ease of useUnknown
- ImplementationFair
- Price transparencyFair
- Value for moneyFair
- ScalabilityFair
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Built for pre-employment screening: a test library, video questions and credits counted per candidate.
- Ease of useUnknown
- We have not used it, and we have no independent evidence of how a candidate experiences a stack of tests in one sitting.
- ImplementationFair
- The free tier is a working product rather than a countdown, but getting results into an ATS means moving to Plus.
- Price transparencyFair
- Plan prices and the free allowance are published; the price of extra credits is not, and the offer changes by region.
- Value for moneyFair
- Costs follow candidates rather than seats, which suits uneven volume, but both paid plans require an annual commitment.
- ScalabilityFair
- Credits are the real limit and they can be topped up, at a price the vendor does not publish.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
- Apply
- Screen
- Interview
The SourcrLab bottom line
The free tier is unusually real: ten credits a month, resume scoring and qualifying questions that never cost credits at all. On the paid plans the constraint is the credit allowance rather than the monthly price, and the jump to ATS integration is a large one.
Best fit
Hiring where the CV is a poor filter and you would rather see what a candidate can do, with enough volume that a credit budget is worth managing.
Think twice if
Teams that need assessment results inside their ATS, since integrations and API access start on the Plus plan, and teams hiring a handful of people a year, for whom the free tier or nothing is the honest answer.
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 TestGorilla?
A free tier that is not a countdown
EUR 0 a month with ten credits every month, five essential skills tests and one full-access seat. It renews rather than expiring, so a small team can screen continuously without a contract.
Costs follow candidates, not seats
One credit per candidate for a skills test or a video question, two for an AI interview or a job simulation. Adding a colleague to the account does not change the bill.
The top of the funnel is free
Resume scoring, qualifying questions and custom questions cost no credits on any plan, and credits are only charged once a candidate starts the assessment. Candidates who fail the qualifying questions cost nothing.
Main trade-offs
ATS integration starts on Plus
Integrations and API access are Plus features, from EUR 345 a month with an annual commitment starting at EUR 4,140. On Core your assessment results live outside your hiring system.
The credits are the real limit
Core is EUR 66 a month, but the binding number is 250 credits a year: roughly 250 assessed candidates, or 125 if you use AI interviews or job simulations at two credits each.
Both paid plans require an annual commitment
Core is billed as EUR 792 a year and Plus from EUR 4,140. There is no month-to-month option on the paid tiers, so a seasonal hiring peak has to be paid for all year.
Region changes the offer
The European page shows Core at EUR 66 a month for 250 credits a year; the same plan reads USD 142 a month for 400 credits in the United States. Prices and credit allowances quoted by American review sites will not match your invoice.
Pricing and buying reality
Free, then from EUR 66 per month
- Free: EUR 0 per month, 10 credits monthly, 5 essential tests, 1 seat
- Core: EUR 66 per month on an annual commitment, EUR 792 billed annually, 250 credits per year, 2 seats
- Plus: from EUR 345 per month, annual commitment from EUR 4,140, unlimited seats, ATS integrations and API
- Enterprise: price on request
- Credits: 1 per candidate for a skills test or video question, 2 for an AI interview or job simulation
What we do not know
- The cost of extra credits once a plan runs out
- What Plus costs above its starting point, and what drives that
- Enterprise pricing and contract terms
- Validity evidence per test, which the vendor places under scientific validation on Enterprise
Checked on the vendor's pricing page, August 2026. TestGorilla pricing page
How it fits your stack
Works with
- Your ATS, through integrations and the API, on the Plus plan
- Your careers flow, by sending assessment invitations to applicants
Likely replaces
- CV screening as the first filter in the funnel
- Ad hoc take-home assignments built and scored by hand
May overlap with
- Technical assessment platforms such as HackerRank and Codility
- Structured interview scorecards already in your ATS
Check before buying
- Whether your ATS integration sits behind the Plus plan, since that changes the budget by an order of magnitude
- Your credit burn: candidates assessed per year times the credits per assessment type
- What validity and adverse-impact documentation you can get for the specific tests you plan to use
TestGorilla vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Choose HackerRank if you are hiring engineers and need real coding environments rather than a broad test library.
Consider Codility when technical assessment has to hold up under scrutiny for senior engineering hires.
Consider SHL if you need documented psychometric validity for regulated or high-volume selection.
Consider Criteria if cognitive and personality measurement matters more to you than a wide skills catalogue.
Used TestGorilla?
Tell other recruiters what worked, what did not, and who it suits. Positive, mixed or critical — all useful.
Evidence
- Plan prices and annual commitments — checked against a primary source: TestGorilla pricing page
- Credit cost per assessment type — checked against a primary source: TestGorilla pricing page
- Which features sit behind which plan — checked against a primary source: TestGorilla pricing page
- Test library size, 350+ tests — vendor claim, not independently verified: TestGorilla pricing page
- Test validity and adverse impact — not enough evidence
- Price of additional credits — not enough evidence
- SourcrLab hands-on use — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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