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Codility vs Karat

Same facts, side by side: starting price, free tier, MCP, API and what each one is actually built for.

Starting price

Codility

$4,800/yr

Technical assessments and interviews for engineering hiring. Online plans start at $4,800 a year, or $800 a month for 25 invites. Enterprise is quote-based.

Where Codility fits

  • Engineering teams screening developers
  • Growing teams with steady hiring volume
  • Enterprises mapping engineering skills
  • Teams that want tasks built from their own code

Karat

Sales-quoted

Technical interviewing as a service: trained Interview Engineers run live engineering interviews to your bar. Quote-based.

Where Karat fits

  • Companies short on engineer-interviewers
  • High-volume technical hiring programs
  • Enterprises standardizing a technical bar
  • Teams vetting contractors and partner talent

At a glance

DetailCodilityKarat
Starting price$4,800/yrSales-quoted
Free tier–No–No
MCP server✓Yes–No
Public API✓Yes✓Yes
Listed underAssessmentsAssessments, Interviewing

Where they pull apart

Codility

Stands out: Custom tasks can be built with MCP straight from your IDE and codebase.

Watch out: Online plans cap invites at 200 to 1,400 a year and include one standard ATS integration. Every ATS integration, SSO and full API access are on the quote-based Enterprise plan.

Not the right fit for

  • Non-technical hiring
  • Teams that need more than 10 users without an Enterprise contract

Karat

Stands out: Expert interviewers run the technical interview, backed by benchmarks from 600,000-plus interviews.

Watch out: No public rate card. You buy a scoped interview program after a demo, not software by the month.

Not the right fit for

  • Teams that only need a coding pad
  • Buyers who need a published price

Pros and cons

Codility

  • Self-serve online plans, bought by card
  • Custom tasks built via MCP
  • Public API documentation
  • Online plans start at $4,800 a year
  • Full ATS integrations need Enterprise
  • Invite packs cap yearly volume

Karat

  • Interviewers included, not only software
  • Consistent bar across teams and regions
  • Benchmarks from 600,000-plus interviews
  • No public self-serve price
  • Demo required before a quote
  • Costs more than a self-run pad

What each one costs

Codility

$4,800/yr

Online plans start at $4,800 a year, or $800 a month billed monthly for 25 invites a month, and scale from 200 to 1,400 invites a year with 5 platform users (10 at 1,400 invites) and unlimited collaborators. Enterprise is a custom quote and adds Skills Intelligence, every ATS integration, SSO and full API access. A free trial is available on request. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 4 Nov 2026

Karat

Sales-quoted

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 4 Nov 2026

Common questions

Can you try Codility or Karat for free?
Neither carries a free tier on our listing.
Does Codility or Karat have an MCP server?
Codility ships a first party MCP server, so an AI assistant can work the product directly.

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Editorial listings, never paid rankings. Prices checked 4 Nov 2026. Confirm current terms on the vendor site. Spot an error?