Vendor pricing, read first-hand
What TestGorilla costs, and what it actually bills you for
Every figure on this page was read from testgorilla.com/pricing and their help centre on 30 July 2026, because most of the pages ranking for this search quote a price TestGorilla no longer charges.
Somebody searching this wants a number. Here it is, with the date attached, because the number is the part the rest of the internet keeps getting wrong.
The published prices
| Plan | Price | Credits included | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free forever | $0 | 10 a month, renewing on the 1st, no rollover | 1 seat, 5 essential skills tests, no ATS integration |
| Core | $142/mo, billed annually at $1,704 | 250 for the contract year | Annual commitment, 2 seats, no ATS integration, no API |
| Plus | From $400/mo, from $4,800/yr | Custom tiers, not published | Sales call required, no self-serve purchase |
| Enterprise | Not published | Custom | Quoted individually |
Read from testgorilla.com/pricing on 30 July 2026, in USD. TestGorilla sells in five currencies (USD, GBP, EUR, AUD and INR), and their help centre notes you cannot switch currency later without opening a new account, so check the figures in the one you will actually be billed in. The credit allocation appears to move with the region too: G2 records Core as “250/450 credits depending on the region”, so treat 250 as the USD number rather than a universal one.
Note what “$142/mo” is not. Both paid plans are annual commitments; the monthly figure is the yearly price divided by twelve. There is no month-to-month option above the free tier.
What a credit is
This is where the stale pages go wrong, and it changed recently enough that being out of date is easy. Until January 2026 every candidate cost a flat 3 credits regardless of what you sent them. Now the charge depends on which tools the assessment uses:
| What you include | Credits per candidate |
|---|---|
| Qualifying questions, custom questions, resume scoring | 0 |
| Skills tests, up to the maximum of 5 in one assessment | 1 |
| A video question | 1 |
| ID verification (Plus only) | 1 |
| Contacting a candidate through TestGorilla Sourcing | 1 |
| An AI interview | 2 |
Their own wording on the count: “Skill tests cost a total of 1 credit per candidate, regardless of whether you include 1 test or the maximum of 5 tests.” Stack everything on Plus and one candidate reaches 5 credits.
So a screening pass built only from qualifying questions, custom questions and resume scoring costs nothing at all. That is a genuinely good deal and it is underused, because most comparisons never mention it.
Four things the sticker price leaves out
Not hidden fees. All four are published; they just are not on the part of the page you read first.
You are billed for drop-off. Credits come out when a candidate clears the qualifying questions and starts the assessment, not when they finish, and they are not refunded if the candidate abandons it. TestGorilla’s own pricing page puts completion at 85 to 90 percent. Apply that to Core: 250 credits become roughly 212 to 225 finished assessments, so the real cost of a result you can read is about $7.57 to $8.02, not $6.82. If your assessments run long, that gap widens, and it is your funnel that decides it rather than theirs.
Sourcing spends the same credits as testing. Contacting one candidate from their 2-million talent pool costs 1 credit, out of the same 250. Source a candidate and then assess them and you have spent 2 credits on one person, which is $13.63 on Core. The two products share a wallet, so a month of heavy sourcing is a month of assessment budget.
Credits expire with the contract year, including the ones you buy later. Core customers can top up to a higher credit tier in-app, at a per-credit rate that falls with volume, charged upfront with no pro-rata. Their help centre is explicit that all credits, the extra ones included, expire at the end of the current contract period and the renewal date does not move. There is also an automatic-upgrade setting that tops you up when the balance runs low, which is convenient if you know it is on and expensive if you do not.
ATS integration and API access are Plus-only. This is the biggest step in the ladder. A team that is happy with Core but wants results in Greenhouse or Workable is not looking at an add-on, it is looking at $4,800 a year instead of $1,704. Price that step before you buy Core, not after.
What it works out at per candidate
Core is $1,704 for 250 credits however many you use, so the per-candidate figure is set by your volume, not by their price list. One skills assessment per candidate:
| Candidates you assess in a year | Cost per candidate on Core |
|---|---|
| 25 | $68.16 |
| 50 | $34.08 |
| 100 | $17.04 |
| 140 | $12.17 |
| 250, the full allocation | $6.82 |
Two readings of the same table, and both are true. TestGorilla is expensive to enter and cheap to run. At the top of that range the unit price is competitive with anything in the category. At the bottom it is not, and the reason is not the price of the product, it is that you commit to 250 credits in January before you know what your year looks like.
Above 250 credits the published trail stops. Core customers can buy up to 20,000 credits in a contract year and the per-credit rate falls as you buy more, but TestGorilla does not publish those tiers, so nobody can tell you what high volume costs without a quote. Treat any page that claims to know as guessing.
Below the paid tiers, the free plan is the one most small teams should price first: 10 credits a month, no card, which is up to about 120 candidates a year if your hiring is evenly spread. It does not roll over, so ten in January and none in February is ten, not twenty.
Nine prices, one page of search results
We checked every third-party page on the first page of results for this search that states a TestGorilla price, on 30 July 2026, against TestGorilla’s published figures the same day.
| Source | Position | What it says | Against the published figures |
|---|---|---|---|
| willo.video | 3 | Core “$77/month ($924/year)”, Free has “0 credits” | Neither matches. Core is $142 and $1,704; Free includes 10 credits a month |
| g2.com | 5 | “Core - $1,620 / Per Year” in its pricing block, “starting at $1,700/year” in its own text lower down | Two annual figures on one page, neither of them $1,704 |
| capterra.com | 6 | “Starting Price $1700 Flat Rate, Per Year”, “the Core plan costs $1,700/year with 400 credits” | Annual rounded from $1,704. The US allocation is 250, not 400 |
| testtrick.com | 7 | “$83/month” in the intro, “$135/month … ($1,620/year)” in the body, “From 450” credits in its table | Three figures on one page, and none of the three is $142 or $1,704 |
| equip.co | 8 | “starts at $249 per month”, “Premium Plan starts at $99” | Describes a plan structure TestGorilla no longer sells. The page is dated February 2024 |
| hackerrank.com | 10 | “$142 per month billed annually”, with “a 1:3 credit ratio” | Price correct. The 1:3 ratio is the model TestGorilla replaced in January 2026 |
| bryq.com | 11 | “around $142 per month and includes 250 credits”, “Video features cost 2” | Price and allocation correct. Video questions are 1 credit; 2 is the AI interview |
| staffgrid.net | 13 | $142/mo, $1,704 annually, Plus from $400/mo and $4,800 | Matches in full |
| xobin.com | 14 | “Starter Plan: $240 per month”, “Pro Plan: $360 per month” | Starter and Pro were retired in July 2025. The page is dated June 2024 |
Google’s own AI summary for this query has it both ways, giving Core as “around $135 to $142/month, billed annually at $1,620/year”. The published annual price is $1,704.
Of the nine, one gets it right in full, and it sits at position 13 while five pages carrying a wrong figure rank above it. Two of those five have the headline price right but describe the retired credit model, which is the more expensive mistake to act on: it is the difference between budgeting 3 credits a candidate and 1.
One of the discrepancies is not a mistake. G2 records the Core allocation as “250/450 credits depending on the region”, which is where the 450 figure in testtrick’s table comes from. That is a real caveat rather than a stale number, and it cuts the same way as the currency point above: the 250 credits on this page are the USD listing, and yours may differ.
There is a fair reason for some of this. TestGorilla has changed its plans three times in two years. Starter and Pro were retired in July 2025, the credit model changed in January 2026, and from May 2026 the remaining legacy plans renew onto Core or Plus. A comparison written in good faith in early 2025 is simply wrong now. That is an argument for checking the date on any pricing page, this one included, rather than for assuming bad faith.
Two questions to ask them before you sign
Does Core include AI interviews? TestGorilla’s own sources disagree. The comparison table on the pricing page shows AI interviews as not included on Core while listing them at 2 credits on Free and on Plus, and the Core feature list offers “video questions (TestGorilla library only)”. Their help centre repeats that split in one place, then in another lists an AI-interview credit cost under the Core plan. Two of their help centre articles also name AI interviews as part of the Free forever plan, which raises the odd possibility of losing the feature by upgrading. Get the answer in writing before it is part of your process.
What does the tier above 250 credits cost? It is unpublished, it is charged upfront without pro-rata, and the credits expire on your existing renewal date. If there is any chance you exceed the allocation, that rate is part of your price and you should have it before you sign, not in month nine.
Where we fit
We kept ourselves off the table above, because a vendor grading its own homework next to nine researched entries is not a comparison. Our number belongs here in the open instead.
SharpAssessment is $3 per candidate assessed, less on a pack: $69 for 25 candidates, $249 for 100, $499 for 250, which works out at $2 each. No annual contract, no seat charge and no tier that unlocks the test library. The full breakdown is on the pricing page, and it is checkable against the same standard this page applied to everyone else.
The difference against Core is shape more than unit price. At full utilisation TestGorilla is $6.82 a candidate, which is competitive; the catch is that you commit to 250 credits in January and they expire in December. Assess 25 people instead of 250 and Core is $68.16 each against $2.76 on a 25-pack here.
That helps if your hiring arrives in bursts and you cannot commit a year ahead. It does not help if you need validated psychometrics, engineering screening, or a talent-sourcing pool, and TestGorilla’s Core plan at full utilisation is genuinely competitive on unit price. If you are weighing vendors rather than reading a price list, the TestGorilla alternatives comparison puts six of them side by side on published prices, including where the answer is to stay where you are. The test library is the fastest way to see what we actually score.