4 categories · RankedHackerRank
HackerRank is a technical hiring platform for companies, covering candidate assessments, certified assessments, video interviewing, and recruiting and sourcing tools · hackerrank.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise, contested with Codility. Ranked 3 of 80 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Coderbyte is first at 36%.
Ranked first, contested: Codility has 21%. 4 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first, contested: Codility has 21%.
Why models recommend it
“If you are hiring engineers exclusively: Go with HackerRank for speed/volume or Codility for rigorous project-based verification.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“HackerRank (17% preference): Widely recognized for its robust coding assessments and support for many programming languages”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“I'd generally recommend HackerRank if your main need is technical screening and structured coding interviews at scale”GPT-5.4 mini · Paraphrase question · first choice
“For most mid-market B2B companies, HackerRank offers the best balance of features and affordability”Kimi K2 · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Why Avoid the Giants? (HackerRank & Codility) ... often poor choices for *strictly* limited budgets”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Many AI hiring models specifically recommend avoiding HackerRank for small businesses”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“One of the most commonly complained-about platforms among developers.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“HackerRank when you need realistic, production-like engineering work. Its environment may use a proprietary coding agent rather than the candidate's normal tools”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as HackerRank, over the 309 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 222 | 34 | Compare → | |
| 173 | 15 | Compare → | |
| 169 | 45 | Compare → | |
| 111 | 30 | Compare → | |
| 91 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 68 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 55 | 7 | View → | |
| 49 | 2 | View → | |
| 49 | 0 | View → | |
| 43 | 16 | View → |
What the models named instead of HackerRank →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on HackerRank's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- companies
- Price stated
- HackerRank offers both monthly and annual subscription plans for purchase online.
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- Customers named
- Daugherty, Juniper, Atlassian, IBM, Sprout Social, UKG, Nubank, SoFi
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 278 of the 309 answers that named HackerRank and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
673 of the 763 domain citations in answers naming HackerRank came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,040 | 9 | 2026-08-05 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 112 | 1 | 2026-07-17 | Technical hiring assessm | |
| Comparison | 45 | 1 | 2026-07-17 | Technical hiring assessm, Candidate assessment | |
| Report or ebook | 30 | 0 | 2025-10-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 10 | 0 | 2025-03-13 | ||
| Case study | 9 | 0 | 2025-09-01 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 7 | 0 | 2025-03-13 | ||
| Conference or event | 7 | 0 | 2025-03-13 | ||
| News or press | 1 | 0 | 2022-04-06 |
Most recent
- 2026-08-05How chakra by hackerrank works blog
- 2026-08-05The New Technical Hiring Bar: CS Fundamentals, AI Fluency, and Judgment - HackerRank Blog blog
- 2026-07-29Is leetcode dead blog
- 2026-07-29How to test ai fluency in developer candidates blog
- 2026-07-29How to interview engineers who use ai coding assistants blog
- 2026-07-29How hackerrank is rebuilding developer hiring for the agentic era blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page hackerrank.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.