No-iframe candidate scoring
Start a validated assessment, get server-side scores back, and return an O*NET job-fit report — behind one X-API-Key. No iframe: candidates stay inside your platform. Flat $199/mo, no annual re-pricing.
JobCannon's assessment API for hiring exposes validated candidate assessment and server-side scoring as a REST service, plus a job-fit endpoint that scores a candidate against a specific O*NET role. Integration is three calls (start, serve questions, complete) authenticated with a single X-API-Key header.
No iframe: your ATS renders the questions and the report inside its own UI, so the candidate never clicks out — the seamless applicant flow public-safety and high-volume recruiters need, without Safari's third-party-frame problems.
The job-fit report is at parity with Berke and Wonderlic: per-attribute optimal band with the candidate's marker, a behavioral fit score, an optional cognitive/reasoning score weighted by role complexity, and behavioral interview questions.
Live on the Scale tier ($199/mo) with a monthly allotment then $2/assessment overage — flat, no annual re-pricing on prior-year usage. Higher committed volume is scoped under partnership at roughly $1/assessment.
The requirements recruiters actually have.
Start a session with any slug below.
For a team running steady hiring volume
This is the hiring-focused view of the Assessment API — for the full three-call request/response reference see that page, or the psychometric API umbrella and the API for ATS & recruiting. For the scoring model behind the fit read, see O*NET job-fit scoring.
Comparing incumbents? Read JobCannon vs Berke, vs Wonderlic, vs Criteria, or vs SHL.
Live on the Scale tier ($199/mo) with a monthly assessment allotment; additional assessments are $2 each. Higher committed volume is scoped under partnership at roughly $1/assessment — no annual re-pricing.
Always free for micro-teams
For solo coaches and small HR
For startups, teams and HR
For agencies, L&D and scale-ups
For 200+ person companies
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Tell us your ATS and expected hiring volume. We respond with a sandbox key and the endpoint reference.
An assessment API for hiring lets your ATS or recruiting product administer a validated candidate assessment and receive scored results programmatically, instead of licensing a hosted testing platform. JobCannon's is three REST calls behind one X-API-Key header — start a session, serve the returned questions inside your own UI, submit answers for server-side scoring — plus a job-fit endpoint that scores the candidate against a specific O*NET role and returns a hiring-manager report. Live on the Scale tier ($199/mo), then $2/assessment.
Yes — that is the core design. Legacy testing vendors present the test in an iframe, which Safari and other browsers increasingly treat as a third-party security frame. JobCannon is API-only: you call the endpoint, render the returned questions inside your own pages, submit the answers, and get scores back. The candidate never leaves your ATS, there is no iframe, and there is no third-party-cookie dependency.
JobCannon is priced to be one of the cheapest hiring assessment APIs at real volume: the Scale tier is $199/mo flat with a monthly assessment allotment, then $2 per assessment over the cap — roughly $1/assessment at committed volume. There is no annual re-pricing on prior-year usage, which is how most legacy vendors (Berke, Wonderlic and similar) quote. Enterprise assessment suites typically charge per candidate that scales with hiring volume, so at scale the flat model is dramatically cheaper.
Both. The base lifecycle returns the candidate's scored dimensions (e.g. Big Five). The job-fit endpoint takes a result and an O*NET occupation code and returns a hiring-manager report: each attribute's optimal band (from O*NET Work Styles) with the candidate's marker and an in-zone / near / off verdict, a composite behavioral fit score, an optional cognitive/reasoning score weighted by role complexity, a mismatching-trait list, and behavioral interview questions keyed to where the candidate deviates. You render it in your own UI.
One X-API-Key header per request (issued per organisation, scoped, SHA-256 hashed at rest) — no OAuth exchange, no client secret rotation. New partners get a 14-day sandbox key and a developer quickstart with the exact three-call happy path, so a small team can be live in a day without a procurement cycle.
Big Five (OCEAN) is the behavioral base of the job-fit score. Add aptitude — IQ, critical thinking, numerical reasoning — for the cognitive/reasoning score, plus DISC, EQ, and RIASEC/Career Match where relevant. All 127+ instruments run through the same X-API-Key lifecycle and score on the same engine as the consumer product.