Honest comparison
Criteria (Criteria Corp) wins on a well-validated pre-employment suite — CCAT cognitive, personality, skills, and situational-judgement tests with strong validity documentation and ATS integrations. JobCannon wins on flat $199/mo pricing, a live no-iframe REST API you embed in your own ATS, and an O*NET job-fit report with per-attribute optimal bands, a behavioral fit score, an optional cognitive score, and interview questions. Many teams compare both on cost and integration.
JobCannon and Criteria both assess candidates for hiring with cognitive and personality measures, but differ on pricing model, integration, and the job-fit output.
Pricing — Criteria typically prices per-candidate or on an annual subscription that scales with volume. JobCannon Scale is $199/mo flat: 180 assessments included, then $2 each (~$1/assessment at committed volume), no annual re-pricing.
The report — Criteria returns cognitive (CCAT), personality (EPP), and skills scores with benchmarks. JobCannon returns an O*NET job-fit report: per-attribute optimal band with the candidate's marker, a behavioral fit score, an optional cognitive/reasoning score weighted by role complexity, and interview questions.
Integration — both integrate with ATSs; JobCannon does it via a no-iframe REST API so the candidate stays inside your platform and you render results in your own UI.
Criteria's clear wins are validity documentation, the CCAT's recognition, and a mature test library. JobCannon's clear wins are flat pricing, the O*NET job-fit report, and a closed skills-gap→free-course loop.
Where the platforms diverge for hiring teams.
What each platform brings to a hiring decision.
For a team running steady hiring volume
Live on the Scale tier ($199/mo) with a monthly assessment allotment; additional assessments are $2 each — roughly $1/assessment at committed volume, with no annual re-pricing on prior-year usage.
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 14-day sandbox key and the endpoint reference for the assessment + job-fit report.
For most hiring use cases, yes. JobCannon ships Big Five personality plus aptitude tests (IQ, critical thinking, numerical reasoning) and combines them into an O*NET job-fit report — per-attribute optimal band, behavioral fit score, and an optional cognitive/reasoning score. Criteria's CCAT and EPP are well-validated instruments with their own documentation; if a specific Criteria test is contractually required, teams sometimes run both.
JobCannon Scale is $199/mo flat — 180 assessments included, then $2 each, roughly $1/assessment at committed volume. Criteria typically prices per-candidate or on an annual subscription that scales with volume. For steady volume, flat monthly pricing is easier to plan.
Criteria has strong validity documentation for its core tests, the CCAT is a recognized cognitive-aptitude measure in hiring, and it ships a mature library of skills and situational-judgement tests with established ATS integrations. If a validated off-the-shelf test library with detailed technical manuals is the priority, Criteria is a solid choice.
Yes. JobCannon exposes a REST API (X-API-Key): start, serve questions in your own UI, submit answers, get scores, then call the job-fit endpoint. No iframe, so the candidate stays inside your platform.
Yes — that is the core of it. For a chosen O*NET occupation you get per-attribute optimal bands with the candidate's marker, an in-zone / near / off verdict, a behavioral fit score, an optional cognitive score, a mismatching-trait list, and behavioral interview questions.