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Index › HR › Talent acquisition › Technical hiring assessm › Small business · September 2026 Edition

Technical hiring assessments for small business buyers

Asked as “coding assessment platform”, and as “technical interview tool”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 43 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
26%
CoderPad
Contested · TestGorilla 21%
26CoderPad21TestGorilla09Coderbyte44others

26% of first choices, contested.

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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small businessCoderPad26%ContestedThis pageMid-marketHackerRank28%ContestedStanding →EnterpriseHackerRank42%Clear leaderStanding →

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01CoderPad26%5%38accepted challenger
02TestGorilla21%16%38accepted challenger
03Coderbyte9%15%27accepted challenger
04TestDome9%0%15accepted challenger
05HackerRank9%45%47criticized challenger
06CodeSignal7%28%32criticized challenger
07CodeSubmit2%0%10accepted challenger
Show the one product at 0%, ordered by negative rate
08Codility0%52%33criticized challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Head to head
HackerRank vs CoderPadHackerRank vs CoderbyteHackerRank vs CodeSignal
Head-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not small business.
All fifteen head-to-head pages: the top six products, each against each
HackerRank vs TestGorillaHackerRank vs CodilityCoderPad vs CoderbyteCoderPad vs CodeSignalCoderPad vs TestGorillaCoderPad vs CodilityCoderbyte vs CodeSignalCoderbyte vs TestGorillaCoderbyte vs CodilityCodeSignal vs TestGorillaCodeSignal vs CodilityTestGorilla vs Codility

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative40%
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01CoderPad26%
02TestGorilla21%
03Coderbyte9%
04TestDome9%
05HackerRank9%
06CodeSignal7%
07CodeSubmit2%
08Codility0%

What they warned about

Two of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Codility
52%
17 of 33 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Who to Avoid: Generic coding challenge platforms (e.g., HackerRank, Coderbyte, Codility for general coding).” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
HackerRank
45%
21 of 47 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“Who to Avoid: Generic coding challenge platforms (e.g., HackerRank, Coderbyte, Codility for general coding).” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
TestGorilla
16%
6 of 38 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Who to Avoid: TestGorilla (specifically for small businesses with fluctuating hiring needs).” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Coderbyte
15%
4 of 27 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Who to Avoid: Generic coding challenge platforms (e.g., HackerRank, Coderbyte, Codility for general coding).” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt

What they cite

Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

63 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 987 links across 195 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

codesubmit.io
vendor site · CodeSubmit38 answers · 55 citations · 11 models
hackerrank.com
vendor site · HackerRank35 answers · 70 citations · 11 models
selectsoftwarereviews.com
35 answers · 41 citations · 10 models
codesignal.com
vendor site · CodeSignal34 answers · 53 citations · 12 models
testtrick.com
vendor site · TestTrick27 answers · 37 citations · 9 models
testgorilla.com
vendor site · TestGorilla22 answers · 38 citations · 10 models
g2.com
vendor site · G219 answers · 47 citations · 9 models
coderpad.io
vendor site · CoderPad19 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
utkrusht.ai
18 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
codility.com
vendor site · Codility17 answers · 21 citations · 8 models
testlify.com
vendor site · Testlify16 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
interviewcost.com
16 answers · 19 citations · 5 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/online-coding-interview-tools
32 answers · 10 models
codesignal.com/blog/5-coding-assessment-platforms-for-your-technical-hiring
24 answers · 10 models
codesubmit.io/blog/coding-assessment-tools-2024
23 answers · 9 models
codesubmit.io/blog/coding-assessment-tools
21 answers · 9 models
hackerrank.com/writing/best-coding-assessment-tools
21 answers · 11 models
hackerrank.com/writing/best-developer-assessment-platforms-for-startups-hir…
19 answers · 9 models
goodfit.so/guides/best-coding-assessment-platforms
16 answers · 8 models
testgorilla.com/blog/coding-assessment-tools
15 answers · 7 models
codility.com/how-to-choose-technical-assessment-platform
13 answers · 8 models
testtrick.com/blogs/best-technical-assessment-tools
12 answers · 9 models

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best coding assessment platform”, “coding assessment platform”, “technical assessment platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
CoderPad coderpad.io26%9518,10026934,65792
TestGorilla testgorilla.com21%2544,40017058,548$46276
Coderbyte coderbyte.com9%1252,400602,01993
TestDome testdome.com9%538802234,7090
HackerRank hackerrank.com9%27833,1001,11658,699224
CodeSignal codesignal.com
CodeSignal 7%, CodeSignal Build 0%		7%17914,800548152,420$5,323239
CodeSubmit codesubmit.io2%511003,8580
Adaface adaface.com2%24260220,658
TestTrick testtrick.com2%17300901
Criteria criteriacorp.com
Criteria Corp 2%		2%1022,40039103,671 company$6,42763

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 20 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (coderpad.io, codesignal.com, hackerrank.com). The first result for “best coding assessment platform” is algocademy.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best coding assessment platform for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which technical interview tool would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top technical assessment platforms for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best coding assessment platform for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a coding assessment platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which technical assessment platforms should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceno first choiceHeldTestlify
Two alternativesCoderPad, TestDome
against: CodeshareCoderbyte
Two alternativesTestGorilla, Xobin
against: VS Code Live Shareno first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniTestGorilla
Two alternativesCodility, HackerRank
CoderPadChanged
One alternativeCodeInterview
CodeSignal, Codility
Three alternativesDevSkiller, HackerRank, TestGorilla
TestDome
One alternativeCodeSignal Build
against: Codility, HackerRankno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashTestDome
Three alternativesCodeSubmit, CoderPad, Coderbyte
against: CodeSignal, HackerRankCoderPadChanged
Two alternativesCodeSubmit, Coderbyte
against: CodeSignal, HackerRankCoderPad, Coderbyte
Two alternativesCodeSubmit, TestGorilla
Coderbyte
Four alternativesAdaface, Playcode, TestDome, TestTrick
against: CodeSignal, Codility, HackerRank, TestGorillaCodeSubmit
Five alternativesAptora, Clarity, CoderPad, Coderbyte, Eval-X
against: CodeSignal, HackerRankagainst: CodeSignal, Codility, HackerRank, Mercer | Mettl, TestGorilla, Vervoe
Perplexity SonarCoderPad
Three alternativesCodeSignal, CodeSubmit, HackerRank
CoderPadHeldCoderPad, TestDome
Four alternativesCodeSignal, Codility, HackerRank, TestGorilla
Criteria Corp, TestGorilla
Three alternativesAdaface, Coderbyte, TestTrick
no first choiceagainst: CoderPad, Codility, HackerRank, TestGorilla
Grok 4.20Coderbyte
Two alternativesCodeSignal, TestDome
against: Codility, HackerRank, LeetCodeCoderPadChanged
Two alternativesPlaycode, VS Code Live Share
against: CodeSignal, Codility, Greenhouse, HackerRank, LeetCodeTestGorilla
Four alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility, HackerRank
against: KaratTestDome
Three alternativesCoderScreen, Coderbyte, TestGorilla
against: HackerRankno first choiceagainst: Codility, HackerRank, TestGorilla
Mistral SmallCodeSignal
Three alternativesCodeSubmit, HackerRank, TestGorilla
MeetGeekChanged
Two alternativesHackerRank, Hireflix
CodeSignal, TestGorilla
Three alternativesCodility, HackerRank, Woven
against: KaratHackerRank
Two alternativesCodeSignal, Coderbyte
no first choicenothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashCoderPad, TestGorilla
Three alternativesCoderbyte, HackerRank, TestDome
against: CodeSignal, CodilityTestGorillaChanged
Four alternativesCoderPad, HackerRank, Hireflix, Toggl Hire
CodeSignal
Three alternativesCoderPad, TestDome, TestGorilla
against: Codility, HackerRankCoderbyte, TestGorilla
Two alternativesCoderPad, HackerEarth Assessments
against: Codewars, HackerRankCodeSignal, CoderPad, TestGorilla
One alternativeToggl Hire
against: Codility, HackerRankagainst: CodeSignal, Coderbyte, Codility, HackerRank, HireVue
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceCleverX, CoderPad, HireMikeChangedno first choiceTestGorilla
Two alternativesCoderbyte, MeritTrac CodeTrac
no first choiceagainst: Codility, Criteria Corp, TestGorilla
Qwen 3.7 FlashAdaface
Three alternativesCoderPad, DevSkiller, TestGorilla
against: HackerRankTestGorillaChanged
Two alternativesCoderPad, Hirevire
CoderPad
Three alternativesCoderbyte, HackerRank, TestGorilla
HackerRank
Two alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad
no first choiceagainst: Coderbyte, Codility, HackerRank
Kimi K2CodeSignal
Four alternativesCoderPad, Coderbyte, HackerRank, TestDome
CoderPadChanged
One alternativeCodeSignal
CoderPad, TestGorilla
Two alternativesCodeAid, CodeSignal
against: Codility, HackerRankTestDome, TestGorilla
Three alternativesCodeSignal Build, Coderbyte, Vervoe
no first choiceagainst: CodeSignal, CoderPad, Coderbyte, Codility, HackerRank
GLM 4.7 FlashXTestTrick
Four alternativesCodeSignal Build, Coderbyte, TestDome, TestGorilla
CoderPadChanged
Five alternativesCodeSignal, TestGorilla, TestTrick, Willo, myInterview
against: HackerRankCodeSignal, HackerRank
Four alternativesCodeSubmit, CoderPad, Codility, Testlify
against: PrampHackerRank
Three alternativesCodility, Playcode, TestGorilla
no first choiceagainst: Coderbyte, Codility, HackerRank, TestGorilla, Testlify
MiniMax M2.5no first choiceCoderPadChangedCoderbyte, TestGorilla
Four alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, HackerRank, Toggl Hire
against: CodilityGeektastic, HackerRank
Two alternativesCoderbyte, Codility
no first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:40yes98 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:34yes15 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:01yes19251 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:16yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 19:59yes4217 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:58yes55 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:06yes2629 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:21yes54 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:05no034 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:35yes1024 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:47yes26102 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:55yes519 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:50no03 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:35yes35 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:01yes1957 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:39yes185 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 18:21yes3520 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:53yes54 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:08yes2018 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:33yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:08yes2087 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:26yes2025 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:11yes1838 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:19yes581 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:26yes910 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:23yes57 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:25yes1223 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:47yes2010 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 21:26yes2816 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:52yes2012 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:17yes1620 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:34yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:12yes1039 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:57yes2544 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:08yes1435 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:28yes1223 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:21yes98 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:23yes35 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:01yes2224 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:25yes188 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 21:40yes4118 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:14yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:12yes1819 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:13yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:24no025 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:07yes937 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:29yes2453 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:30yes816 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:32no07 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:40no010 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:57yes1058 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:38yes2010 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 18:22yes1310 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:53no05 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:14yes1215 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:11yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:46no031 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:10no065 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:11yes1563 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:33no010 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:33yes189 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:08yes56 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:56yes2228 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:21yes207 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 19:02yes4419 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:15yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:24yes3037 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:47yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:47yes2233 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:32yes2936 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:55yes28154 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:47yes1029 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
ClarityHire read as Clarity
HackerEarth read as HackerEarth Assessments
Unresolved, counted raw
CoderByte Live
Codeshare
Codewars
Devitools
Eval-X
GitHub-based assignments
HackerRank CodePair
Pastebin / GitHub Gists + Email
Qodo
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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