Flat-fee candidate assessments vs Codility's invite-metered coding tests

Partly. Codility's own pricing page lists two named, priced tiers: Starter (120 invites/year, 1 platform user, limited task library, plagiarism detection, basic proctoring) and Scale (up to 300 invites/year capped at 25/month, 3 platform users, expanded task library, custom task building, Cody AI chatbot). Above that, the 'Custom' tier — full task libraries, VS Code live-interview environment, premium proctoring, Skills Intelligence, enterprise ATS integrations, SSO/SAML, a dedicated Customer Success Manager — has no published price and requires a sales conversation. Third-party deal-tracker Vendr, drawing on dozens of tracked purchases, reports that most real Codility buyers end up in or above the Custom tier rather than on the two published plans. JobCannon publishes a price for every self-serve tier — Free, Starter $29/mo, Team $79/mo, Scale $199/mo, Growth $999/mo — so you can compare a real number without a call. JobCannon's Enterprise tier is the exception on our side: it's quoted per contract, from $15k/yr.

No. JobCannon's quota unit is the candidate, not the test or invite: one invite can carry up to 10 assessments and still costs exactly one unit against the monthly quota. On the Scale tier that's $199/month for 200 candidates/month, with extra candidates at $2 each if you go over — flat and predictable. Codility's unit is the invite itself, and its Scale tier caps usage at 25 invites/month (300/year) before you're pushed into a Custom quote. If your hiring volume swings month to month, JobCannon's quota resets monthly rather than requiring you to plan against a fixed annual invite pool.

No — not the same thing, and we won't blur the line. Codility's Screen and Interview products run actual code — candidates work in a real IDE (VS Code for live interviews), install packages, and get automated code-quality analysis. JobCannon added four lightweight coding-knowledge tests in 2026 (Python, SQL, Java, JavaScript — 30 scenario questions, about 6 minutes each, testing code-reading, output-prediction, and bug-spotting), but that's a knowledge check, not a live-coding sandbox — no IDE, no package installs, no automated code-quality analysis. If a role needs verified live coding ability under real conditions, that's still Codility's strength. If you need a fast early-stage coding-knowledge filter plus personality fit, work style, career alignment, or general cognitive ability — for an engineering hire or any other role — that's where JobCannon's full catalog fits, often as an early screen before a live-coding round rather than a replacement for one. See /for-recruiters for how teams sequence multiple assessment types.

JobCannon's Free tier costs $0/month and includes 10 candidate invites per month, access to all 166+ assessments, a full premium result report for every candidate (nothing blurred or paywalled on their end), and a free trial of the coordinator dashboard. It's built to let a team run real candidates through the actual product before paying anything. Codility publishes no comparable no-cost tier: its cheapest listed plan, Starter, is annual-billing only on codility.com/pricing, so the entry point is an annual commitment rather than a free allowance. (Its Scale tier does list a monthly billing option, with a saving for paying annually. Whether Codility runs a free trial isn't stated on that page either way, so treat it as an open question rather than a no.)

Codility's Scale tier is priced annually for up to 300 invites/year (capped at 25/month) and 3 platform users. JobCannon's Scale tier is $199/month — $1,990/year — for 200 candidates/month (2,400/year) with admin seats not billed per seat, plus integrity/social-desirability scales, white-label PDFs, a full assessment API and a custom assessment builder (beta). The two aren't testing the same thing, so the comparison is about hiring-ops cost structure and volume ceiling, not assessment equivalence.

Not for the plan most teams will actually buy. JobCannon's Free, Starter ($29/mo), Team ($79/mo), Scale ($199/mo) and Growth ($999/mo) tiers are all self-serve with published prices — sign up, pick a tier, start inviting candidates, no demo call. JobCannon's Enterprise tier is the exception and we won't overclaim it: it is quoted per contract, and 'from $15k/yr' is a starting floor rather than a checkout price, because it covers SLA terms, a dedicated CSM and custom integrations for 200+ person organizations. Codility's two lower tiers are also published, but its top tier — full task libraries, SSO/SAML, enterprise ATS integrations and a dedicated CSM — is labeled 'Custom' with no figure shown at all. The practical difference is where each published ladder stops: JobCannon's runs to 1,000 candidates a month at $999/mo, Codility's to 300 invites a year on its published Scale tier. If you want to compare an exact number against a quote you've received, start on JobCannon's published Scale ($199/mo) or Growth ($999/mo, invoice/PO billing available) tier and size up from there without a call.