TestGorilla Review (2026)Two Products, and Credits Set the Bill
By Daan Haket · Researched and written with an AI assistant · who does what
The Assessments bill is set by credits, and the page does not say how many credits its 'from' prices include.
companies that screen enough candidates to use a credit pool every month, and who will use the 350+ test library rather than writing their own questions.
you hire a handful of people a year and only need one simple test: the free tier plus a well-designed take-home task covers occasional hiring.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 15 Oct 2026
TestGorilla now sells two products that you can buy on their own or together. Gorilla Sourcing, a candidate-search product priced per Sourcing seat: Free $0 (browse and preview only, no invites); Core $74 a month per seat billed annually or $99 billed monthly, with 500 invites per seat a month and 1 seat; Plus $134 a month per seat billed annually or $179 billed monthly, with 1,500 invites per seat a month and up to 5 seats.
Gorilla Assessments, the skills-testing product, priced per account: Free $0 with 10 credits a month (5 essential tests with unlimited use, 180+ tests with limited use, 5 preset custom questions, 1 premium user role); Core from $77 a month billed annually or from $287 billed monthly, with the full library of 350+ tests, a shared account-wide credit pool and 2 premium user roles; Plus from $520 a month billed annually or from $694 billed monthly, adding the AI interview library, custom AI interviews, job simulations, custom tests and coding challenges, ID verification, ATS and API integrations and unlimited premium roles.
Annual billing is advertised as saving 25%. Credits: resume scoring and qualifying questions cost nothing; a premium skills test, a video question or an ID check costs 1 credit per candidate; an AI interview or a job simulation costs 2. The page does not say how many credits each 'from' price includes. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
Category context: HR & People. Across the 13 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is $14 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). TestGorilla’s entry price of $77 a month sits above that median. Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →
The honest knock
Core starts from $77 a month billed annually or from $287 billed monthly; that gap is far wider than the 25% annual saving the page advertises, so the two floors are different allowances. An AI interview costs 2 credits a candidate and a skills test 1, so the real price depends on how you build each assessment and how many people you invite. Get the credit allowance in writing before you compare it with a per-seat tool.
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What TestGorilla does
Pre-employment skills testing: assessment library, custom questions and candidate scoring.
What buyers report about TestGorilla
Hands-on: not tested by usReported by buyers: G2, Capterra, GetApp and Trustpilot, read August 2026
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.
Pages read (August 2026): Trustpilot
Two products, two meters
TestGorilla has split into two products with two different meters (re-verified 2026-10-07 on their own pricing page, USD). Gorilla Sourcing searches a candidate pool and is priced per seat: Core $74 a month per seat billed annually or $99 monthly, Plus $134 or $179. Gorilla Assessments is the skills-testing product this review is about, and it is priced per account on credits: Free $0 with 10 credits a month, Core from $77 a month billed annually or from $287 billed monthly, Plus from $520 or from $694.
The monthly option is new, and it changes the advice. Our August reading found both paid tiers annual-only; the page now offers monthly billing on both products, with annual billing advertised as 25% cheaper. For a company that hires in bursts, that is the difference between paying for ten quiet months and paying for the two busy ones. Read the Assessments 'from' prices carefully, though. From $77 a month annually against from $287 a month monthly is a far wider gap than the 25% the page advertises, so the two floors cannot be the same allowance, and the page does not say how many credits either one includes.
Ask which credit tier each figure buys before you compare them. Credits are what you are really buying, so price it per candidate. A premium skills test, a video question or an ID check is 1 credit per candidate; an AI interview or a job simulation is 2; resume scoring and qualifying questions are free. An assessment that combines a skills test with an AI interview therefore costs 3 credits a candidate, and the shared account-wide pool on Core means every hiring manager draws from the same balance.
The free tier is still a genuine trial: 10 credits a month, five essential tests with unlimited use and limited access to 180 more. Use it on a real vacancy before you pick a meter, and watch candidate drop-off as closely as scores, because good candidates abandoning a test that feels too long is the usual way this category fails.
Questions we checked
Facts about TestGorilla that would change a buying decision, and where we stand on each. An unanswered question does not mean the feature is missing; it means we have not confirmed it yet.
- Can a paid TestGorilla plan bought on monthly billing be cancelled month to month, or does it run on the yearly cycle? Sources disagree
Applies to: Core and Plus Assessments, monthly billing.
Why it matters: the pricing page offers monthly billing with 'cancel anytime', while the help center describes a single annual billing cycle with a yearly credit allocation; the difference decides whether a burst of hiring can be paid for and stopped.
Answer: Unresolved. The pricing page (read 15 October 2026) shows monthly prices from $287 for Core and the line 'No hidden fees · cancel anytime'; the billing guide, updated in early October and read the same day, says Core and Plus renew yearly with one annual cycle and that you must downgrade to Free before the renewal date to stop it. Ask TestGorilla in writing which term a monthly purchase carries before you buy.
Checked: TestGorilla pricing page (2026-10-15); TestGorilla help: Guide to your plan & billing (2026-10-15)
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How to actually use TestGorilla
Decide which product you actually need first. Gorilla Assessments tests candidates you already have; Gorilla Sourcing finds new ones and is priced per seat. Most buyers comparing assessment tools only need the first, and the pricing page lets you buy it on its own. Run a real vacancy through the free tier: 10 credits a month, five essential tests with unlimited use. Count credits per candidate as you build the assessment, since a skills test is 1 and an AI interview is 2, and multiply by the number of candidates you invite in a busy month.
Then ask what the 'from' price buys. Core Assessments starts from $77 a month billed annually or from $287 billed monthly, and the page does not print the credit allowance behind either figure. If you hire in bursts, compare a few months on monthly billing against a year up front at the credit volume you really use. Watch drop-off as closely as scores: count how many candidates you invited against how many finished, and take the assessment yourself as a candidate would.
Where this section comes from: our research notes (114 words)
TestGorilla pricing page (testgorilla.com/pricing), re-read 7 October 2026 in a browser render with the currency set to USD, both on annual and on monthly billing: the split into Gorilla Sourcing (per seat) and Gorilla Assessments (per account), the plan features, and the credit table. Our first reading on 30 August 2026 found a single product with annual-only paid tiers. Re-read 15 October 2026 in a browser render with the currency set to USD: every amount on both billing toggles unchanged.
Help center articles read the same day: 'Everything you need to know about credits' (https://support.testgorilla.com/hc/en-us/articles/42729664355739) and 'Guide to your plan & billing' (https://support.testgorilla.com/hc/en-us/articles/9027495680667), for credit expiry, top-ups, auto-upgrade, user roles and the billing cycle.
The natural comparison is Vervoe or Codility — the direct skills-testing peers: compare on the cost per assessed candidate at your real volume, because TestGorilla meters credits per candidate rather than seats.
Frequently asked questions
Do unused TestGorilla credits roll over?
Not on any plan. TestGorilla's help article 'Everything you need to know about credits' (read 15 October 2026) says Core and Plus get a yearly allocation that resets at the end of the annual contract period, and that credits bought during the year expire at the same date. The Free plan's 10 monthly credits renew on the 1st without rollover and cannot be topped up. The same article says the Core plan includes 250 credits; the pricing page does not say whether that is the allocation behind its 'from' price. Buying a higher credit tier mid-year is charged upfront with no pro-rating, a lower tier only takes effect at renewal, and auto-upgrade, when switched on, moves you up a tier as soon as your balance drops to 100 credits. Leave auto-upgrade off if you want a hard ceiling on the bill.
Who counts on the bill, and who can see billing?
Users are not billed. The help article 'Guide to your plan & billing' (read 15 October 2026) says hiring managers are unlimited at no extra cost on every plan, Core allows up to 2 premium users (owner, admin or recruiter) and Plus has no limit; the Free plan is single-user. Only the account owner sees the Plan & billing tab, where plan changes, invoices and the credit usage report live, so decide up front who holds that role.
When is a credit actually spent?
Only when a candidate starts. The credits article (read 15 October 2026) says creating an assessment is free and credits are deducted once the candidate has completed any qualifying questions and starts the assessment, so invitations that are never opened cost nothing. On Core and Plus an assessment with up to five skills tests costs 1 credit per candidate; the five essential tests are free only on the Free plan.
Is this a hands-on review of TestGorilla?
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 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.
- Re-verified 2026-10-07 in a browser render of testgorilla.com/pricing with the currency set to USD; the page defaults to euros from a European connection; re-verified unchanged 2026-10-15 on both billing toggles.
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