TestGorilla Pricing in 2026: What It Costs Per Hire

TestGorilla pricing at a glance

Free

10 credits a month

$0 billed monthly

5 essential tests with unlimited use, 1 premium user role.

Core

From $77/mo

billed annually

From $102/mo billed monthly

Full 350+ test library, 2 premium user roles.

Plus

From $520/mo

billed annually

From $694/mo billed monthly

Coding challenges, custom tests, ID verification, ATS and API, unlimited premium user roles.

Per account, USD, from testgorilla.com/pricing, checked 1 November 2026. Core and Plus are floors that rise with the credits you buy; 1 credit = 1 candidate.

The short answer

TestGorilla publishes three self-service tiers on testgorilla.com/pricing. Free is $0 with 10 credits a month, unlimited use of 5 essential skills tests and 1 premium user role. Core starts from $77/mo per account billed annually, or from $102/mo billed monthly, for the 350+ test library and 2 premium user roles. Plus starts from $520/mo billed annually, or from $694/mo billed monthly, and adds custom tests and coding challenges, ID verification, ATS integrations and API access. Paid prices rise with the credits you buy, and larger volumes are quoted. Billing is by credit, and 1 credit covers one candidate through a full skills battery. TestGorilla’s published pricing page, checked 1 November 2026.

TestGorilla pricing (2026).

TestGorilla publishes Free, Core and Plus as self-service tiers, with Core and Plus priced from a floor that rises with credit volume. The cost drivers are the credits you buy, the feature set (coding challenges, custom tests and ATS integration sit on Plus) and billing cadence. Pricing checked 1 November 2026 on testgorilla.com/pricing.

Free
Billed annually: $0 (10 credits/mo)
Billed monthly: $0
Premium user roles: 1
Key inclusions: 5 essential tests, unlimited use

Core
Billed annually: From $77/mo
Billed monthly: From $102/mo
Premium user roles: 2
Key inclusions: 350+ tests

Plus
Billed annually: From $520/mo
Billed monthly: From $694/mo
Premium user roles: Unlimited
Key inclusions: Custom tests and coding challenges, ID verification, ATS + API, branding removal

Plan	Billed annually	Billed monthly	Premium user roles	Key inclusions
Free	$0 (10 credits/mo)	$0	1	5 essential tests, unlimited use
Core	From $77/mo	From $102/mo	2	350+ tests
Plus	From $520/mo	From $694/mo	Unlimited	Custom tests and coding challenges, ID verification, ATS + API, branding removal

Plus adds custom tests and coding challenges, ID verification, up to 20 custom questions, ATS integrations and API access, and branding removal. The Core and Plus prices are floors: the monthly price climbs as you select more credits, and larger volumes are quoted by TestGorilla’s sales team. Candidate sourcing is a separate product, Gorilla Sourcing, priced per seat (Core $99/mo, Plus $179/mo per seat billed monthly), so it is not part of an Assessments Core plan.

The credit-per-candidate model.

TestGorilla bills by credit, and the credit is the number that decides your real cost. One credit covers one candidate. Assessing a candidate with a skills battery (up to 5 tests in a single assessment) costs 1 credit whether you include one test or five. The published mapping is:

Skills test battery (up to 5 tests)
Credit cost per candidate: 1 credit

Video questions
Credit cost per candidate: 1 credit

AI interview
Credit cost per candidate: 2 credits

Resume scoring, qualifying questions, custom questions
Credit cost per candidate: 0 credits

Action	Credit cost per candidate
Skills test battery (up to 5 tests)	1 credit
Video questions	1 credit
AI interview	2 credits
Resume scoring, qualifying questions, custom questions	0 credits

Because a single credit covers a whole battery of up to 5 tests, the per-candidate cost is low relative to coding platforms that meter each coding attempt. The trade-off is that AI interviews cost double (2 credits), while the screening tools (qualifying questions, resume scoring) consume no credits at all, which sets the sensible screening order: filter for free first, spend credits on the candidates worth a full battery.

Per-candidate amortisation math.

The right cost framing is the plan price divided by the candidates you actually assess. TestGorilla prices Core and Plus from a floor that rises with the credits you select, so the per-candidate figure comes from the price you see at checkout for your own credit volume. Work it out in three steps:

1. Count candidates
What to do: Estimate how many candidates a year will reach the skills battery (1 credit each) and how many will take an AI interview (2 credits each).

2. Price the credits
What to do: Select that credit volume on testgorilla.com/pricing for Core (from $77/mo annual) or Plus (from $520/mo annual) and note the price shown.

3. Divide
What to do: Price for the year divided by candidates assessed is your effective cost per candidate.

Step	What to do
1. Count candidates	Estimate how many candidates a year will reach the skills battery (1 credit each) and how many will take an AI interview (2 credits each).
2. Price the credits	Select that credit volume on testgorilla.com/pricing for Core (from $77/mo annual) or Plus (from $520/mo annual) and note the price shown.
3. Divide	Price for the year divided by candidates assessed is your effective cost per candidate.

Because one credit covers a full battery of up to 5 skills tests, the per-candidate figure is the whole platform cost of that candidate’s assessment. The cost case, as with any assessment platform, rests on reviewer time saved: a scored battery replaces the 20 to 40 minutes a reviewer would spend judging an unstructured screen, and at a loaded reviewer rate of about $60 to $120 per hour that saving dwarfs the per-candidate credit cost once you run real volume.

Cross-references.

For coding-specific assessment platforms, see the HackerRank cost page and the CodeSignal cost page. For invite-based coding assessment, see Codility cost, and for outsourced technical interviews (a different model entirely) see the Karat cost page. For the broader tooling cost framework, see the tools page.

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Frequently asked questions

What does TestGorilla actually cost in 2026?

TestGorilla publishes self-service pricing on testgorilla.com/pricing. Free is $0 with 10 credits a month, unlimited use of 5 essential skills tests and 1 premium user role. Core starts from $77 per month per account billed annually, or from $102 per month billed monthly, for the 350+ test library and 2 premium user roles. Plus starts from $520 per month billed annually, or from $694 per month billed monthly, and adds custom tests and coding challenges, ID verification, up to 20 custom questions, ATS integrations and API access, and branding removal. Those are starting prices: the price rises with the number of credits you buy, and larger volumes are quoted. TestGorilla pricing page, checked October 2026.

How does TestGorilla's credit model work?

TestGorilla bills by credits, and one credit covers one candidate. Assessing a candidate with a skills-test battery (up to 5 tests in one assessment) costs 1 credit, whether you include one test or five. Video questions are also 1 credit per candidate, and an AI interview costs 2 credits per candidate. Resume scoring, qualifying questions and custom questions are free. That means the number of candidates you assess, not the seat count, is what drives your bill as hiring volume rises.

What is the effective cost per candidate on TestGorilla?

Divide the price you are quoted at checkout by the number of candidates you will assess. TestGorilla's published Core and Plus prices are starting floors (from $77 and from $520 a month billed annually) that rise with the credit volume you select, so the per-candidate figure depends on the credit bundle you pick for your hiring year. Because 1 credit covers a full skills battery of up to 5 tests, the per-candidate cost of a credit is the whole platform cost for that candidate's assessment, which makes it easy to compare against coding platforms that charge per coding attempt.

How does TestGorilla compare to HackerRank and CodeSignal on cost?

They price different things. HackerRank Pro is $5,028 per year billed annually (360 candidate attempts, about $14 each) and CodeSignal Grow is $5,748 per year (420 credits, about $14 each); both are coding-assessment platforms where an attempt is a coding test. TestGorilla Core starts from $77 a month billed annually for a broad skills-assessment library (cognitive, personality, role-specific and software skills) where 1 credit covers a whole battery, and coding challenges sit on the Plus tier from $520 a month billed annually. If you only need to screen software engineers on code, a dedicated coding platform is the closer comparison; if you screen across many roles and want one platform for cognitive, personality and skills tests, price your credit volume on TestGorilla Core and compare the per-candidate figure with the roughly $14 per attempt on the coding platforms.

Is the Free plan enough for a small team?

For a very low volume of hires, yes. The Free plan gives 10 credits a month (10 candidates), unlimited use of 5 essential skills tests and 1 premium user role, and resume scoring and qualifying questions cost no credits. That covers a single open role screening a handful of candidates. The moment you need the 350+ test library or a second premium user, you are on Core, from $77 a month billed annually or from $102 a month billed monthly. Coding challenges, custom tests, ID verification and ATS integrations unlock on Plus. Candidate sourcing is a separate product (Gorilla Sourcing), priced per seat.

What does TestGorilla Plus add over Core?

Plus (from $520 per month billed annually, or from $694 per month billed monthly) adds the features that matter for more technical and integrated hiring: custom tests and coding challenges, ID verification, up to 20 custom questions, ATS integrations and API access, and branding removal. Core comes with 2 premium user roles and the 350+ test library; Plus is the tier once you need coding assessment, your own tests or an ATS connection. Check the plan comparison on testgorilla.com/pricing for user-role limits on Plus.

Where does TestGorilla fit in a cost-per-hire budget?

It sits in the assessment-tooling line, alongside an ATS and any live-coding platform. On the 2025 SHRM benchmark, direct cost per hire averages $5,475, and screening tools are a small fraction of that next to interviewer time. TestGorilla's value case is the same as any assessment platform: it replaces reviewer hours spent on unstructured screening with a scored battery, so the platform pays for itself when the reviewer time it saves exceeds the per-candidate credit cost. Across a full hiring year that threshold is low, which is why structured screening tends to lower total cost per hire rather than raise it.

What TestGorilla costs in 2026: real per-hire math.