TestGorilla pricing for hiring developers and what a hire really costs

TestGorilla pricing is split into two products. Gorilla Assessments is priced per account and Gorilla Sourcing is priced per seat. If you are an engineering manager or founder hiring a handful of developers a year, the useful question is which parts you need to buy and whether the plan that includes coding challenges fits your budget. Our developer coding assessment page shows what a developer test should look like.

TL;DR On TestGorilla's pricing page, Assessments Core starts at $215 a month and Plus starts at $520 a month, both billed annually, which is $2,580 and $6,240 a year. Custom tests and coding challenges are listed under Plus. Sourcing is a separate per-seat price of $74 or $134 a month. DeveloperHiring Startup costs $99 a month billed yearly and includes sourcing, 40 coding tests and 15 AI interviews each month.

How much does TestGorilla cost?

TestGorilla Assessments costs from $215 a month on Core and from $520 a month on Plus, both billed annually, according to its published pricing. The Free plan costs $0 and includes 10 credits a month. Sourcing is priced separately per seat. The page highlights annual billing as saving 25% and does not show monthly rates.

The "from" in front of the Assessments prices matters. The page does not state how many credits each plan includes, so the final price depends on the volume you choose. Ask TestGorilla for a written quote with the credit count before you compare it with anything else. The figures above come from TestGorilla's published pricing.

Is TestGorilla free?

TestGorilla has a free plan, but it is limited. Assessments Free gives you 10 credits a month and five essential skills tests that do not use credits. Sourcing Free lets you browse and preview candidates, and contacting them starts on Core. For a real developer search the free plan works as a trial, not as a hiring process.

Run the trial on a real role. Check whether the test library covers your stack, whether candidates finish the tests, and whether your engineers trust the scores enough to skip a screening call.

What is a TestGorilla credit?

A TestGorilla credit is the unit that limits how many candidates you can test. Most premium tests cost one credit per candidate. AI interviews, job simulations and ID verification are listed at different costs on Plus: AI interviews and job simulations take two credits per candidate, and ID verification takes one.

That makes cost per candidate depend on the mix you use. A candidate who takes one skills test uses one credit. The same candidate who also completes an AI interview uses three. Multiply by the number of candidates you expect to test per hire before choosing a plan.

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How much does TestGorilla cost per developer hire?

TestGorilla's cost per developer hire is your yearly subscription divided by the hires you make with it, plus the sourcing you buy elsewhere. At the listed Assessments prices, two hires a year on Core is about $1,290 per hire and on Plus about $3,120 per hire, before any sourcing seat or recruiter time.

These numbers assume the full yearly price at the "from" rate and one Sourcing Core seat at $888 a year. Your quote may be higher. They also exclude your own time to write the role, review reports and interview. Unused credits push the real figure up.

Does TestGorilla include coding tests?

TestGorilla lists custom tests and coding challenges under Assessments Plus, and a library of more than 350 tests on Core. The pricing page does not say which of the library tests are programming languages. Before you buy Core for a developer role, ask for the exact tests for your stack and compare them with a task that runs hidden tests on real code.

Skills tests measure knowledge. A coding task with hidden tests measures whether the candidate can ship working code. Our technical interview workflow then asks the candidate about their own solution, which is hard to fake.

Is TestGorilla cheaper than DeveloperHiring?

TestGorilla Core is more expensive per year than DeveloperHiring Startup at the listed prices. Core is $2,580 a year and Startup is $1,188 a year billed yearly. Startup also adds sourcing and AI interviews, while TestGorilla charges separately for sourcing and puts AI interviews on Plus.

See the allowances on the Startup, Team and Scale pricing page. DeveloperHiring only covers developer roles. TestGorilla covers many job types with a large test library, so it is the better fit if you also hire support, sales or operations staff.

When TestGorilla is the right buy

TestGorilla is a good choice when you hire across many roles and already have applicants. Its library covers skills, cognitive ability and personality, and the Plus plan adds ATS and API integrations. If your constraint is screening a large pile of applications, a test library fits.

If you hire a few developers a year and the constraint is finding qualified ones, buying more assessment capacity does not fill the pipeline. That is where a plan that sources candidates first, then tests and interviews them, saves the most time.

What are the best TestGorilla alternatives for developers?

The best TestGorilla alternatives for developer hiring are tools built around code. HackerRank and Codility are assessment-only products, covered in our HackerRank pricing breakdown and Codility pricing breakdown. DeveloperHiring Startup is the option that also finds the candidates, so a small team can go from a role description to five tested finalists.

Once the offer is accepted, the next job is getting the new engineer productive. Teams that hire in volume often onboard and certify new hires in a corporate LMS instead of passing around documents.

Which TestGorilla price should you budget for?

Budget from the published annual price, then ask for the credit count in writing. For a developer role, price Plus rather than Core if you want coding challenges and AI interviews, and add a Sourcing seat if you have no pipeline. Compare that total with a plan that includes all three, then choose the one that covers the work you would otherwise do by hand.

If you hire two to six developers a year, start with the technical recruiting platform and check the Startup allowances against your next search.