HackerRank review

HackerRank is the strongest coding test pick for small teams on price. Starter costs $79 per month on annual billing, $948 a year, and includes unlimited users, 60 candidate attempts a year, the Screen take-home assessments, the Chakra AI interviewer, pair programming interviews and 2,000+ library questions. Every plan includes the agentic IDE, where candidates can work alongside Claude, Gemini or GPT models in a full IDE with a terminal, and hiring teams can run tests in guarded or unguarded mode. Integrity tools on all tiers include AI-powered plagiarism detection, session replay, device and object detection and standardized integrity reports. Pro, at $419 per month billed annually, raises the allowance to 360 attempts and adds Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby integrations and 4,000+ questions. The limits show at volume: extra attempts cost $20 each, and SSO, API and MCP access and leaked question protection need an Enterprise contract. It also only tests technical roles.

Who it is for

Engineering teams making their first technical hires that want a known coding platform at a low entry price.

Price

Starter $79 per month billed annually at $948; Pro $419 per month; Enterprise by quote.

$79 /mo $948 billed annually
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 7, 2026.

Key features

• Screen take-home assessments with AI-assisted evaluation
• Chakra AI interviewer for conversational screening
• Live pair programming interviews with recording and playback
• Agentic IDE where candidates can work with Claude, Gemini or GPT models
• Plagiarism detection, session replay and device detection

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Unlimited users on Starter and Pro
• Strength: Covers screening, AI interviews and live interviews on every plan
• Strength: Guardrail controls let you allow or restrict AI use per test
• Weakness: Starter includes only 60 candidate attempts a year, with extras at $20 each
• Weakness: ATS and calendar integrations start on Pro at $419 per month
• Weakness: SSO, API access and leaked question protection are Enterprise only

Key facts

• Starter: $79 per month, $948 billed annually, 60 attempts a year
• Pro: $419 per month, $5,028 billed annually, 360 attempts a year
• Languages supported: 55+
• Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR

Where it ranks

HackerRank is No. 4 in our Best Pre-Employment Testing Software verdict.