Codility Pricing and Codility Cost Per Candidate in 2026
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Short answer: Codility lists its Online plan from $4,800 a year (200 to 1,400 invites) or from $800 a month (25 to 100 invites), with 5 platform users. Enterprise is quote only. That works out to about $24 per invite at the smallest annual tier and $32 at the smallest monthly tier, before you count the candidates who never finish.
The figures below come from Codility's own pricing page, checked in November 2026. If you are pricing several vendors at once, our pre-employment assessment software pricing table puts eleven of them side by side at 300 candidates a year.
Codility pricing at a glance
| Plan | Price | Invites | Users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online, annual | From $4,800 a year | 200 to 1,400 a year | 5 (10 at 1,400 invites) |
| Online, monthly | From $800 a month | 25 to 100 a month | 5 |
| Enterprise | Quote only | Set in contract, fair usage limit | Unlimited |
The page does not list overage prices. On Online plans, when you reach your invites you move to the next pack, and assessments already in progress continue. Enterprise usage is governed by a fair usage limit and you move up a tier at renewal.
What the Online plan includes
Screen and Interview for technical roles, plagiarism detection, proctoring with snapshots, task leakage protection, unlimited collaborators, one standard ATS integration, and SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 compliance. The task library grows with your plan, and the full library starts at 1,000 invites a year.
What Online leaves out
SSO, ID verification, video proctoring, interview recording, the desktop app, the full API, EU or US hosting choice and tasks built by Codility's team. Those sit in Enterprise, along with every ATS integration and weighted scoring. If you need ID checks or recorded interviews, budget for a quote, not $4,800.
Cost per candidate
The listed price is for invites, not for hires. What you really pay is the price divided by the candidates you test, and that depends on how well you use the pack.
| Candidates tested in a year | Cheapest Online option | Cost per candidate |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | Monthly, $800 for 4 screening months ($3,200) | $32 |
| 150 | Annual $4,800, 50 invites unused | $32 |
| 200 | Annual $4,800 | $24 |
| 400 | Annual, next pack up (price not listed, ask) | Ask |
The 150 row is the point. An annual pack is cheapest only when you use every invite, and a team that tests 150 people pays for 200. The monthly plan avoids that but costs more per invite, which is the usual trade between flexibility and price.
Hidden costs to budget for
The subscription is the visible part. Engineer time is the larger one. Every candidate who submits a take-home or timed task needs someone to review the code, and a two-person panel reviewing 40 submissions at 20 minutes each is nearly 27 hours of senior time. A cheaper screen that filters harder before that review often saves more than a discount on the invite price.
Also check these before signing:
- Integration scope. Online includes one standard ATS integration. Workday or SAP connections sit in Enterprise.
- Candidate experience. Longer tasks lower completion. Ask for the completion rate for a task like yours, not the average.
- Seat creep. Five platform users cover a small team, but a hiring manager per department adds up fast, and Enterprise is the only plan with unlimited users.
Which tier fits which team
A startup hiring two or three engineers a year should look at the monthly plan and run it only in the months a role is open. A year of $800 months you do not use is worse than paying more per invite.
A company hiring engineers all year gets better value from the annual pack, as long as it can forecast 200 or more candidates. Below that you are paying for unused invites.
A regulated or large employer that needs SSO, ID verification, video proctoring or interview recording has to go to Enterprise, and the price becomes a negotiation.
When a coding screen is the wrong tool
Codility is built for engineers. If the role is support, operations, sales or admin, an editor and a task library are cost you do not use. Assessing AI Starter is $49 a month, or $288 a year, with up to 500 responses a month, 3 seats and recorded audio or video answers. Choice questions are scored on submit. Plus is $149 a month for 2,000 responses and AI-drafted questions from your job post. Both are monthly with no contract.
The limits are real. Assessing AI has no code execution, no ID verification, no live or video proctoring and no AI scoring of open answers. For engineers, keep the coding tool. For everyone else on the team, compare it with our HackerRank figures first.
Is Codility more expensive than HackerRank?
On the listed numbers, yes at the entry level. HackerRank lists Starter at $199 a month and Pro at $449 a month, while Codility starts at $800 a month. The plans are not the same shape, though. Codility bundles invites into packs with five platform users and snapshot proctoring, and HackerRank charges $20 for each extra attempt. Compare on your own volume, not on the headline. Our HackerRank pricing breakdown has the per-attempt arithmetic.
Does Codility publish a price for non-coding roles?
Business-role AI assessments for sales, marketing and finance sit in Enterprise, so there is no public figure. If most of your hiring is outside engineering, a quote for a coding tool is the wrong starting point.
Is there a free trial?
Codility offers a free trial on request and does not state its length on the pricing page. Ask for the terms in writing, including what happens to candidate data after it ends.
Questions to ask before you sign
- What happens to unused invites at the end of the year?
- Is an invite counted when the candidate opens the link or only when they finish?
- What does the next pack cost if you run out mid-year?
- Does the renewal price match the first year?
Where this fits in a hiring budget
Once the engineer is hired, the next cost is keeping their work flowing. Teams that grow past a handful of developers often start routing incoming tickets and requests to the right person automatically instead of triaging by hand.
Want a non-coding screen to sit beside it? See Assessing AI plans or look at the Talview alternative comparison for proctoring-heavy options.