Hiring assessment platforms compared
Bryq's self-serve pricing tops out at 15 employees, then goes quote-only. JobCannon publishes six tiers — four of them at or under $199/month — and everything from Free through Growth is a self-serve signup, no sales call required to start.
Bryq is a talent-assessment platform founded in 2017 by three co-founders, measuring cognitive ability, behavioral traits (16PF/OCEAN-based personality and culture fit), and a library of 140+ hard-skill tests including an AI-fluency assessment; it holds a 4.7/5 rating across 58 G2 reviews. Its published pricing covers exactly one self-serve band: the Pro plan is billed annually, at a discount against its monthly reference price, for organizations of 1-15 employees, with 12 self-serve ATS integrations included. Anything larger, or any feature outside Pro (guided integrations, a dedicated I/O psychologist, SLA support), moves into a custom-quote Enterprise plan with no public number. JobCannon runs on a single flat monthly subscription tied to a candidate-invite quota rather than employee headcount: Free covers 10 invites/month across all 166+ assessments with every result shown at full premium depth, and every tier from Starter ($29/mo, 30 candidates) through Growth ($999/mo, 1,000 candidates) stays self-serve with a published price. Bryq wins on hard-skill test depth and out-of-the-box ATS breadth; JobCannon wins on price transparency past the smallest company size, psychometric catalog breadth (Big Five, DISC, MBTI-style, RIASEC, EQ, Multiple Intelligences), and a 2,536-career Knowledge Graph with skills-gap scoring Bryq doesn't publish an equivalent to.
Same buyer, different pricing shape and catalog focus.
Bryq concentrates on hard skills and a two-model personality read; JobCannon spreads wider across validated psychometric families plus cognitive and career-fit tests.
Bryq publishes one price band and stops; JobCannon publishes six, plus a per-candidate overage rate on every paid one of them.
Six published tiers, self-serve from Free through Growth — the same tiers whether you're comparing against Bryq's Pro band or its Enterprise quote.
For micro-teams trying the platform
For solo coaches and small HR
For startups, teams and HR
For agencies, L&D and scale-ups
For high-volume screening without a contract
For 200+ person companies
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Every tier is published, including the top one. Start free with 10 candidate invites a month — no card, no sales call.
Bryq's Pro-plan price comes with two caveats. First, the advertised rate is the price when billed annually — the page shows it discounted against a monthly reference figure, with the total billed as a 1-year commitment, paid annually. Second, Pro is scoped to organizations of 1-15 employees; the page doesn't list a self-serve month-to-month price or a rate for companies above that band. Once you're past 15 employees, or need anything Pro doesn't cover — guided integrations, a dedicated I/O psychologist, SLA support — you're routed to a custom Enterprise quote with no published number. JobCannon, by contrast, publishes six tiers with fixed prices — four of them at or under $199/month, through Scale — and every tier from Free to Growth is a self-serve signup, so you can see the exact price and candidate quota before creating an account, regardless of company size.
Bryq prices by employee headcount band — the Pro plan covers 1-15 employees with '200 invitations a month' inside that band, then Enterprise is a custom quote for anything larger. JobCannon prices by a monthly candidate-invite quota instead, independent of how many people work at your company: Free includes 10 invites/month, Starter is $29/month for 30, Team is $79/month for 80, Scale is $199/month for 200, and Growth is $999/month for 1,000, with extra candidates billable at $2 each once an org is already on a paid tier. That means a two-person recruiting agency hiring at high volume pays for the volume it actually uses, not a headcount band it may not fit into cleanly.
It depends what you're counting. Bryq's own site states a library of 140+ hard-skill tests — covering programming languages, business tools, industry-specific competencies, and an AI-fluency assessment — layered under one behavioral module built on 16PF and OCEAN personality models. JobCannon's catalog runs 166+ assessments, but the shape is different: rather than concentrating on skill-test count, it spans more validated psychometric families (Big Five, DISC, MBTI-style, RIASEC, EQ, Multiple Intelligences) plus cognitive tests like IQ and numerical reasoning, tied into a 2,536-career Knowledge Graph with skills-gap scoring. If hard-skill test breadth is the priority, Bryq's library is the larger single offering; if psychometric and career-fit breadth is the priority, JobCannon's catalog is wider.
Both platforms let a recruiter send an invite link and have the candidate complete the assessment without creating a recruiter-side account first. Bryq's product pages describe an AI job builder that auto-matches tests to a job description, and reviewers on G2 (4.7/5 across 58 reviews) note the interface as fast and visually clean, though Bryq's site doesn't publish specifics on what a candidate sees in their own result. On JobCannon, every candidate — including on the Free tier — receives the full premium result, not a teaser or partially blurred report; nothing is held back based on which tier the hiring org is on. If a transparent, ungated result for the candidate matters to your process, that's a documented JobCannon behavior rather than an inferred one.
Yes. Bryq's Pro plan lists self-serve integrations to 12 ATS platforms — Workable, Greenhouse, Lever, Teamtailor, BreezyHR, Recruitee, Pinpoint, Ashby, JazzHR, SmartCV, Zoho Recruit, and Comeet — with Enterprise adding guided and custom integration work. JobCannon ships native Greenhouse and Ashby connectors plus a REST partner API for building custom integrations. If your stack runs on one of the ten additional ATS platforms Bryq lists natively, that's currently a wider self-serve integration list than JobCannon's; if Greenhouse or Ashby cover your stack, both platforms connect natively.
Yes. Bryq was founded in 2017 by three named co-founders (Markellos Diorinos, Guy Krief, and Hassan Chahrour), states eight years of I/O-psychology-backed research behind its assessments, and holds a 4.7/5 rating across 58 reviews on G2 as of this writing. Its site has a live, functioning pricing page with an interactive monthly/annual billing toggle, an active blog publishing 2026-dated content, and a public G2 and Gartner Peer Insights presence. It's a smaller, more narrowly-focused brand than large incumbents like Mettl or HackerRank, but every signal checked for this comparison — pricing page, product pages, founder bios, third-party review platforms — confirms it as a real, currently operating product, not a defunct or placeholder listing.