Pearson TalentLens alternative
Critical thinking, numerical reasoning, IQ and 126+ validated instruments via three REST calls. Self-serve access, published pricing — no enterprise licensing process.
Pearson TalentLens specialises in occupational ability tests with decades of published norms — Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, Raven's Progressive Matrices, and similar instruments used in formal personnel selection. Their depth on cognitive ability and occupational norming is genuinely strong for that use case. JobCannon serves a different need: teams that want to embed validated assessment — including critical thinking, numerical reasoning, IQ, and 123+ personality, career, and skills instruments — in their own product via a REST API, without a multi-week enterprise procurement. The lifecycle is three calls: POST /api/v1/assessments starts a session and returns the question set; GET /api/v1/assessments/{session_id}/questions re-fetches those questions; POST /api/v1/assessments/{session_id}/complete submits answers, scores server-side, and returns { result_id, top_result, scores }. Auth is X-API-Key (jck_live_…, SHA-256 hashed, no OAuth). Results persist to your org via api_org_id. Pricing is published on the Scale tier ($199/mo) with a monthly allotment, then $2/assessment. A clear alternative when instrument breadth, self-serve access, and REST embed matter more than occupational norming depth.
A broad validated battery behind one key — cognitive, personality, and career.
Cognitive tests plus a full personality and career battery — one key.
For embedding cognitive and career assessment in your product
For the full API lifecycle and endpoint reference, see the Assessment API and Psychometric API pages. Instrument-specific pages: Big Five API, RIASEC API, EQ API.
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The Assessment API is live on the Scale tier ($199/mo), which includes a monthly assessment allotment. Additional assessments are $2 each. No per-report licensing, no certified-administrator requirement, no minimum commitment to get a key. White-label partners who resell assessments can move to a revenue-share.
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Pearson TalentLens is an occupational testing division of Pearson with decades of norming data, specialising in validated ability tests like the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal and Raven's Progressive Matrices. Their catalogue is deep on cognitive ability and well-suited to high-stakes selection decisions where established norms and psychologist-level interpretation matter. JobCannon is a different design point: a REST API for embedding validated assessments — including critical thinking, numerical reasoning, and IQ alongside 123+ personality, career, and skills instruments — in your own product, with published self-serve pricing. If you need occupational cognitive tests with decades of normed data for formal selection use, Pearson TalentLens is a strong specialist. If you need a broad, embeddable assessment API you can integrate in a day with a published price, JobCannon is the faster path.
Pearson TalentLens's cognitive tests — Watson-Glaser, Raven's, BPVS and others — carry decades of normed, validated data used in occupational and educational selection contexts. Their ability-test catalogue depth and the standing of their published norms in formal psychometric practice exceeds what JobCannon offers for cognitive assessment. If your use case requires an ability test with published occupational norms for formal personnel selection, Pearson TalentLens is the appropriate specialist. JobCannon does not claim to match their ability-test depth or norming rigour.
Critical Thinking, Numerical Reasoning, IQ (a rotating scored battery with pooled-set key integrity), and Multiple Intelligences. These are validated instruments for self-discovery and product-embedded screening — not published occupational norms at the level of Watson-Glaser. Alongside cognition we offer Big Five, DISC, HEXACO, RIASEC, EQ, Values, Skills Audit, and more — so one API key covers your full assessment stack.
A single X-API-Key header per request. Keys are issued per organisation (format jck_live_…), scoped to assessments:send and assessments:read, SHA-256 hashed at rest. No OAuth exchange. Sessions are short-lived signed tokens returned by the start call — no session state to manage on your side.
POST /api/v1/assessments — starts a session with a test slug and optional locale, returns a signed session_id and full question set. GET /api/v1/assessments/{session_id}/questions — re-fetches the question payload (scope assessments:read). POST /api/v1/assessments/{session_id}/complete — submits the answer array, scores server-side, returns { result_id, top_result, scores }. Results are attributed to your organisation via api_org_id.
Pearson TalentLens is priced per test and per enterprise licence — pricing is not published and typically involves a procurement process. JobCannon's Assessment API is live on the Scale tier ($199/mo), which includes a monthly assessment allotment. Additional assessments are $2 each. No procurement call, no annual minimum to get started.