Directory/Assessments
Candidate assessment tools test skills before you interview. They cover coding challenges, cognitive tests, personality inventories, situational judgment tests, and job simulations. Used well, assessments predict performance better than resumes and reduce bias in early screening.
Validity is the question to ask. Look for vendors that publish data on how well their tests predict job performance. Test library breadth matters too. You want assessments mapped to the roles you actually hire for. Check the candidate experience. Long, clunky tests hurt completion rates and your employer brand. Cheating prevention and ATS integration round out the checklist.
Most vendors charge per assessment or per candidate tested, often 5 to 25 dollars each. Platform subscriptions with unlimited testing are common for high volume teams. Personality and cognitive batteries for executive hiring cost more.
Testing too late or testing everything. Assessments work best as an early filter before interviews, not as a final hurdle. Keep tests short and relevant to the role. Validate results against actual performance over time. The directory below lists the top tools in this category so you can compare features side by side.
Prices last checked 15 Oct 2026 against each vendor's own pricing page. How we check · Missing a Assessments tool? Suggest it
AI interviewing · Assessments · Interviewing · AI screening
AI phone screens, proctored video and coding interviews on top of a free built-in ATS, aimed at staffing agencies.
Free ATS, AI interviews quoted
Assessments · AI screening · Succession & internal mobility
French predictive hiring platform that tests personality, motivation and reasoning, with AI phone screens and spoken skills tests.
From €499/mo
Assessments
Pre-hire personality and aptitude assessments for job fit. Now part of HighMatch.
Sales-quoted
Assessments
Personality intelligence platform with DISC and five other assessments for individuals, sales, and teams.
Free tier · from $49/mo
Assessments · Candidate fraud & AI detection · Interviewing · AI interviewing
AI video interviews and role-play training for hiring and workforce development.
From $99/mo
Assessments · AI interviewing · Interviewing
Coding assessments, live coding interviews and AI screening interviews for tech hiring teams, from $99 a month.
From $99/mo
ATS · Assessments · Interviewing · Texting
SMB hiring platform: post to 100+ boards, personality assessments, one-way video and texting, priced by job slot from $149/mo.
From $149/mo
Assessments · Interviewing · AI interviewing
AI video interview scoring and structured screening.
From $199/mo
Assessments · Interviewing
Anonymous technical interview practice and screening.
From $179/session
AI interviewing · Assessments · Interviewing · AI screening
IntervueBox runs AI video interviews, screening calls and resume scoring for hiring teams, billed by credit from $0.14 each.
Free plan, paid from $0.14/credit
Assessments · Interviewing · AI interviewing
AI recruiting pipeline for screening, scheduling, and voice AI interviews.
Sales-quoted
Assessments · AI interviewing · Interviewing
Agentic AI screens and assessments with ATS write-back.
Sales-quoted
Assessments
Enterprise skills assessments and online proctoring, sold under Mercer.
Sales-quoted
ATS · Assessments · AI interviewing · AI screening
AI hiring platform with ATS, screening receipts, assessments, video interviews and HRIS, from $249/mo with unlimited users.
From $249/mo
Assessments · Background check · Candidate fraud & AI detection · Interviewing
Verified candidate profiles for staffing teams. Identity, skills, eligibility, and references in one QR prescreen. Not an ATS.
Sales-quoted
AI interviewing · Assessments · Candidate fraud & AI detection · Interviewing · AI screening
Proctored AI interviews, AI phone screens and assessments built from a JD, paid per use from one balance that never expires.
Pay per use, no subscription
Assessments
Skills platform, formerly DevSkiller, with work-sample coding tests for screening developers across 220+ technologies.
From $1/employee/mo
ATS · Assessments · Job boards
SMB ATS with job posting, predictive candidate benchmarks and AI ranking, from $149/mo for 5 active jobs.
From $149/mo
Assessments · Candidate fraud & AI detection
Skills assessments for screening.
Free plan, paid from $215/mo
Assessments · Candidate fraud & AI detection
Credit-based online assessment platform for building, delivering, and proctoring exams with public annual plan pricing.
From $900/yr
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68. Each listing records its starting price, free plan, free trial, MCP and API support the same way, so the cards can be compared line for line.
30 of the 68 list a US dollar starting price, and the median of those is about $83. Units differ by vendor (per seat, per month, per check or credit pack), so compare the unit on each card, not just the number. 41 are priced by quote, so the vendor sets the number after a call.
14 of them have a permanent free plan rather than a timed trial. 13 offer a free trial.
8 of the 68 ship a first party MCP server, and 27 publish a public API. MCP is only marked where the vendor runs the server themselves, so an agent can query the tool directly.
The tools we use ourselves are marked as picks and listed first, then everything else runs A to Z. There is no paid ranking: a sponsored slot is labelled as such and never changes a listing, its category or its position.
Counted from every published listing in this category, so the numbers move with the directory.
