HackerEarth
Coding assessments, live coding interviews and AI screening interviews for tech hiring teams, from $99 a month.
From $99/mo API
Bottom line
HackerEarth is a technical hiring platform for coding tests, live coding interviews and AI screening interviews. Plans start at $99 a month, with Scale at $399 and custom Enterprise pricing. It fits tech recruiting teams that want assessments and interviews in one tool.
Stands out for: You can send unlimited invites and pay only for tests candidates attempt. The platform runs assessments, FaceCode live interviews and the OnScreen AI interviewer in one place. Its benchmarking draws on 150M+ evaluated solutions, so scores compare candidates against a wide pool.
Watch out for: The $99 Growth plan has one admin and 10 credits a month and leaves out ATS integrations, question pooling and proctoring. API access and SSO require the custom-priced Enterprise plan.
Overview
HackerEarth is a technical hiring platform with offices in Sunnyvale and Bengaluru and a developer community of 10M+.
Its products include technical assessments, FaceCode for live coding interviews, OnScreen for AI-led screening interviews, job posting and hackathons.
The assessment library covers 1,000+ skills across 40+ programming languages, plus psychometric tests for common roles.
Self-serve plans cost $99 or $399 a month, and Enterprise pricing is custom.
HackerEarth lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and GDPR compliance.
Who it's for
Best for
- Technical recruiting teams
- Screening developers at volume
- Live coding panel interviews
- Teams wanting AI first-round interviews
Not ideal for
- Non-technical hiring only
- Teams needing API access on a small budget
- Single admins needing ATS sync
Key features
Coding assessments. Build tests from a library covering 1,000+ skills and 40+ languages, including full-stack and GenAI skills.
FaceCode live interviews. Run live coding interviews with a shared editor, panel support and a system design canvas, with AI-compiled summaries afterward.
OnScreen AI interviewer. An AI interviewer runs screening-stage interviews at any hour and returns scored reports for human reviewers.
Proctoring and ID checks. Identity verification, AI-cheating detection and proctoring confirm the candidate did the work.
ATS integrations. HackerEarth names native integrations with Greenhouse, Lever, Workday and SAP SuccessFactors on the Scale plan and above.
AI features
| What the AI does | Plan |
|---|---|
| OnScreen AI interviewer runs screening-stage interviews and returns scored reports | Not stated on pricing page |
| FaceCode compiles AI summaries of live coding interviews | Growth and above |
| AI-based plagiarism checks on assessments | Scale and above |
Only features named in the vendor's own documentation. Anything sold separately is marked as an add-on.
Pricing
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Growth | $99/mo | 1 admin, 10 credits a month, assessments and FaceCode |
| Scale | $399/mo | Unlimited admins, 25 credits a month, ATS and calendar integrations |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom credits, API access, SSO, premium support |
HackerEarth publishes three plans billed monthly. Growth costs $99 a month for one admin, 10 credits, assessments plus FaceCode and 5,000+ questions. Scale costs $399 a month for unlimited admins, 25 credits, a 20,000+ question library, AI plagiarism checks and ATS and calendar integrations. Enterprise is custom priced and adds API access, SSO and the full 25,000+ question library. You can send unlimited invites and are charged only for attempted tests. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.
Checked 26 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Is HackerEarth expensive?
HackerEarth does not publish a price. It is one of 37 quote-based tools among the 62 assessments tools in our directory. 12 have a free tier, and those with a public price typically start around $83 a month.
- 37 quote-based
- 12 free tier
- 27 public price
Worked out automatically from every assessments listing, so it updates as the directory changes.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Published monthly plans from $99
- Charged only for attempted tests
- Assessments, live and AI interviews in one platform
Cons
- Growth plan limited to one admin and 10 credits
- ATS integrations start at $399 a month
- API and SSO only on Enterprise
Integrations
Greenhouse Lever Workday SAP SuccessFactors
How HackerEarth compares
See all HackerEarth alternatives, with what each one does differently and a head to head for every pairing.
| Tool | Free tier | From | MCP | API | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | – | $99/mo | – | ✓ | |
 HackerRank HackerRank has a larger developer community and certification ecosystem but does not publish self-serve prices like HackerEarth's $99 plan. | – | $79/mo | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
| | – | $80/mo | – | ✓ | Compare |
| | ✓ | $215/mo | – | – | Compare |
HackerRank$79/mo MCP API
HackerRank has a larger developer community and certification ecosystem but does not publish self-serve prices like HackerEarth's $99 plan.
$80/mo API
CoderPad centers on live coding interviews and take-homes rather than a full assessment library with AI interviews.
$215/mo Free tier
TestGorilla covers broad non-technical and cognitive skills tests, better when most roles are not engineering.
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