Technical hiring assessments · Named, not rankedPlaycode
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Playcode has 4.
Why models recommend it
“Playcode at $5/month is unbeatable”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Playcode – Best Overall Value”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For live coding interviews on a tight budget, Playcode at $5/month is ideal.”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Playcode, over the 8 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Playcode's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Founders, Small Business, Freelancers, Marketers, Designers
- Price stated
- Free $0 to start; Pro $25/month
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- No credit card required · AI credits included
- Integrations
- 12
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, PCI DSS
- Hosting
- EU regions, our own cloud, EU data centers (Hetzner bare-metal in Germany and Finland), Germany, Finland, US, Ireland, Frankfurt, us-east-1
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 8 of the 8 answers that named Playcode and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty of the thirty-eight domain citations in answers naming Playcode 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 285 | 95 | 2026-08-16 | ||
| Comparison | 85 | 56 | 2026-08-16 | ||
| Template or tool | 11 | 11 | 2026-08-01 | Employee onboarding | |
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 2 | 2026-08-16 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | 1 | 2026-07-19 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page playcode.io 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.