HackerRank vs CodeSignal
Zero of fourteen models named HackerRank first on the direct prompt; zero named CodeSignal. HackerRank was named by ten of the fourteen models and CodeSignal by eight and HackerRank carries 23 labels and CodeSignal 13, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in five categories this edition.
Named in four categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the candidate assessment page.
By framing
HackerRankFirst choices, of fourteen modelsCodeSignal
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, HackerRank and CodeSignal were named in the same answer 160 times, of the 271 answers naming HackerRank and the 186 naming CodeSignal. In those answers CodeSignal took the first choice sixteen times and HackerRank fifty-one.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | |||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | ||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | |||||
| Perplexity Sonar | ||||||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | | | ||
| Mistral Small | ||||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | |||||
| Llama 4 Maverick | | | ||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | |||
| Kimi K2 | | | ||||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | |||||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | |||||
| GPT-6 Luna | | |||||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | |
HackerRank CodeSignal first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, HackerRank on the left and CodeSignal on the right.The direct prompt
Neither was the first choice, one was named
2 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
12 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
HackerRank2%#6 of 13CodeSignal2%#– of 13HackerRank2%#3 of 12CodeSignal2%#5 of 12HackerRank2%#7 of 11CodeSignal0%#– of 11What the models said about HackerRank
No label in this category carried a quote.
What the models said about CodeSignal
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“The best skills testing tool for hiring for a mid-sized B2B company would be CodeSignal, TestGorilla, or Criteria Corp.” Llama 4 Maverick · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.