Karat
Live technical interview screening with trained interviewers.
Quote-based pricing
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Bottom line
Technical interviewing as a service: trained Interview Engineers run live engineering interviews to your bar. Quote-based.
Stands out for: Expert interviewers run the technical interview, backed by benchmarks from 600,000-plus interviews.
Watch out for: No public rate card. You buy a scoped interview program after a demo, not software by the month.
Overview
Karat runs technical interviews as a service. Its trained Interview Engineers conduct live engineering interviews against a bar you define, including AI-native scenarios for engineers who work with AI tools. Results feed benchmarks drawn from more than 600,000 interviews, so leaders can compare candidates, teams and vendors. Karat also uses the same method to vet contractors and partner talent, not only direct hires.
Teams pick Karat when engineering time is the bottleneck, not the lack of an interview tool. Handing first-round technical interviews to Karat gives hours back to engineers and keeps the bar consistent across teams and countries. Pricing is sales-quoted and based on the interview program you scope after a demo. Karat is a service with interviewers included, not a monthly software seat.
Who it's for
Best for
- Companies short on engineer-interviewers
- High-volume technical hiring programs
- Enterprises standardizing a technical bar
- Teams vetting contractors and partner talent
Not ideal for
- Teams that only need a coding pad
- Buyers who need a published price
Key features
Live technical interviews. Real-time coding and system-design interviews with structured evaluation.
Interviewer network. On-demand interviewers so your staff engineers are not the bottleneck.
Structured rubrics. Consistent scoring so every candidate is measured the same way.
Pricing
Sales-quoted. No public rate card on the vendor site. Pricing is set per interview program after a demo. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.
Checked 19 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Is Karat expensive?
Karat does not publish a price. It is one of 26 quote-based tools among the 43 assessments tools in our directory. 7 have a free tier, and those with a public price typically start around $99 a month.
- 26 quote-based
- 7 free tier
- 18 public price
Worked out automatically from every assessments listing, so it updates as the directory changes.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Interviewers included, not only software
- Consistent bar across teams and regions
- Benchmarks from 600,000-plus interviews
Cons
- No public self-serve price
- Demo required before a quote
- Costs more than a self-run pad
How Karat compares
See all Karat alternatives, with what each one does differently and a head to head for every pairing.
| Tool | Free tier | From | MCP | API | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | – | Sales-quoted | – | ✓ | |
| | – | $80/mo | – | ✓ | Compare |
 HackerRank Technical screening platform your own team runs. | – | $79/mo | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
| | – | $79/mo | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
 Codility Engineering screens and interviews without outside interviewers. | – | $1,200/yr | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
$80/mo API
Self-serve live coding pads if your engineers run interviews.
HackerRank$79/mo MCP API
Technical screening platform your own team runs.
$79/mo MCP API
Skills assessments and interview tools for engineers.
Codility$1,200/yr MCP API
Engineering screens and interviews without outside interviewers.