TestGorilla Review (2026)Paid Tiers Are Annual Only
Both paid tiers are annual-commitment only.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 30 Aug 2026
(2026-08-30, re-read on their own pricing page from a US exit) Free $0 with 10 credits a month, no card needed, including preset custom questions and 1 full-access seat. Core $142/month on an annual commitment, $1,704 billed annually, with the full test library, analytics and 2 full-access seats; the Core card carries a credits selector and its sign-up link defaults to a 400-credit tier.
Plus starts from $400/month with an annual commitment starting at $4,800, described as scaling with your hiring needs. The page also sets out what a credit buys: 0 for resume scoring, qualifying questions and custom questions, 1 per candidate for skill tests, video questions, ID verification or a talent-pool invite, and 2 per candidate for AI interviews. Prices are shown in USD with GBP, EUR, AUD and INR available. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
What the pricing page doesn’t say
Core is not $142 a month in any meaningful sense — it is $1,704 up front, and there is no monthly option to test it with real candidates first. That matters more here than in most categories, because hiring is lumpy: a company that hires in two bursts a year is paying for ten quiet months. Plus is worse to budget for, because it 'starts from' $400 and the page will not say what moves it.
The free tier is credit-metered rather than feature-limited, which makes it a genuine trial — use it on a real vacancy before you sign a year.
What TestGorilla does
Pre-employment skills testing: assessment library, custom questions and candidate scoring.
What buyers report about TestGorilla
Recurring themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run TestGorilla ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.
- • Cognitive ability, role skills and behavioural traits in one assessment, easy for both recruiter and candidate — 4.5 on G2 across 1,400+ reviews.
- • Reviewers report real time saved on screening, which is the whole point.
- • Every paid tier is an annual contract. You cannot scale down between hiring cycles, and credits do not carry value forward when hiring goes quiet — you pay for twelve months of capacity you may use in three.
- • Small companies with occasional hiring find it expensive, and reviewers call the pricing model confusing.
- • Editing assessments is limited, and technical glitches are reported.
- • Support is slow or unhelpful by several accounts. 3.9 on Trustpilot, where pricing and cancellation dominate.
Both paid tiers are a year up front
The free tier is $0 with 10 credits a month, no card needed, and includes preset custom questions and one full-access seat. Core is $142 a month on an annual commitment — $1,704 billed annually — with the full test library, analytics and two full-access seats. Plus starts from $400 a month with an annual commitment starting at $4,800 (2026-08-30, re-read on their own pricing page from a US exit).
Core is not $142 a month in any meaningful sense. It is $1,704 up front, and there is no monthly option at all — which matters more here than in most categories, because hiring is lumpy. A company that recruits in two bursts a year is paying for ten quiet months, and unlike a CRM or a helpdesk there is nothing happening in between to justify it. So price it per hire rather than per month.
At $1,704 a year, ten hires costs $170 each and fifty costs $34 each — and against the cost of one bad hire, either figure is small. That is the honest case for this category and it is a strong one; it just depends entirely on volume, and the annual-only billing means you commit before you know. Plus is harder to budget, because it 'starts from' $400 a month and the page does not say what moves it.
On Core the variable is at least visible: that card carries a credits selector, and the sign-up link behind $142 defaults to a 400-credit tier. Nothing on the page says whether Plus moves on credits, seats or something else, so ask which before you let anyone quote you. The free tier is credit-metered rather than feature-limited, which makes it a genuine trial rather than a demo: ten credits a month is enough to run a real shortlist through a real assessment, and the page is explicit about what a credit buys: nothing for resume scoring, qualifying questions and custom questions, one per candidate for a skill test, video questions or ID verification, two for an AI interview.
Use it on an actual vacancy before you commit to a year, and pay attention to candidate drop-off as well as scores — the most common failure of assessment tools is good candidates abandoning a test that felt too long.
How to actually use TestGorilla
Run a real vacancy through the free tier before you commit to anything, because both paid tiers are annual-only. Ten credits a month is enough to assess a genuine shortlist, and it is credit-metered rather than feature-limited, so what you test is what you would buy. Watch candidate drop-off as closely as you watch scores. The usual way assessment tools fail is not bad measurement but good candidates abandoning a test that felt too long or too generic — so count how many people you invited against how many finished, and read the assessment yourself as a candidate would.
Then price it per hire rather than per month, since $1,704 a year is the real unit. Ten hires makes it $170 each and fifty makes it $34 — and if you hire in two bursts a year, be honest that you are paying for the quiet months too. If you are being pointed at Plus, ask what moves the price before accepting a quote. It 'starts from' $400 a month with an annual commitment from $4,800, and the page does not say whether the variable is seats, candidates or tests.
Distilled from TestGorilla pricing page including its own FAQ (testgorilla.com/pricing), read 30 August 2026 from a US exit — the three tiers and their commitments, the credits selector on the Core card, and the credit table: 0 credits for resume scoring, qualifying questions and custom questions, 1 credit per candidate for skill tests, video questions, ID verification or a talent-pool invite, and 2 credits per candidate for AI interviews. The separate support site (support.testgorilla.com) returned HTTP 403 and was not read.
The natural comparison is Vervoe or Codility — the direct skills-testing peers — compare on whether a monthly plan exists at all, because that is where these differ most.
The ex-banker filter — the same yardstick on every review (how we review): My ex-banker filter is simple: does TestGorilla remove a real cost — time, errors, missed revenue — bigger than what it charges? If the job above is genuinely yours, it's worth a look. We never publish fake or “exclusive” prices, so always confirm the current plan on their site.
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This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is genuinely good and bad at, and we have no affiliate relationship with TestGorilla — we earn nothing whether you sign up or not.
- Buyer reviews on G2, Capterra, GetApp and Trustpilot, read August 2026.
- 2026-08-30, re-read on their own pricing page from a US exit.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
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