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Technical hiring assessments for enterprise buyers

Asked as “coding assessment platform”, and as “technical interview tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 43 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
HackerRank
Clear leader
42% of first choices, clear leader.
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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small businessCoderPad26%ContestedStanding →Mid-marketHackerRank28%ContestedStanding →EnterpriseHackerRank42%Clear leaderThis page

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01HackerRank42%18%55endorsed leader
02Codility19%18%55accepted challenger
03CodeSignal12%20%45accepted challenger
04CoderPad9%19%42accepted challenger
Show the two products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
06TestGorilla0%23%13accepted challenger
05Mercer | Mettl0%15%13accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Head to head
HackerRank vs CoderPadHackerRank vs CoderbyteCoderPad vs Coderbyte

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative60%
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01HackerRank42%
02Codility19%
03CodeSignal12%
04CoderPad9%
05Mercer | Mettl0%
06TestGorilla0%

02What they warned about

Three of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2 and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Codility
18%
10 of 55 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Platforms to **Avoid or Be Highly Cautious About**: 1. **Codility**: ... Hostile candidate experience” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
CodeSignal
20%
9 of 45 labels negative · 7 of 12 models
“CodeSignal – technically excellent, but less flat-friendly ... they're the weakest of the three because they hold to metered pricing even at enterprise scale.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
HackerRank
18%
10 of 55 labels negative · 7 of 12 models
“HackerRank | Mixed UI polish, unrealistic time limits, pricing requires quotes, strict evaluation criteria, AI plagiarism detection not foolproof” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
CoderPad
19%
8 of 42 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“has received a notably low security score (34/100, Grade D) ... with "High" risk designation and only 44% enterprise readiness” MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

67 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 932 links across 214 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

hackerrank.com
vendor site · HackerRank43 answers · 100 citations · 11 models
codility.com
vendor site · Codility40 answers · 59 citations · 10 models
augmentcode.com
vendor site · Augment Code37 answers · 48 citations · 10 models
codesignal.com
vendor site · CodeSignal27 answers · 44 citations · 11 models
coderpad.io
vendor site · CoderPad22 answers · 34 citations · 9 models
testlify.com
vendor site · Testlify19 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
selectsoftwarereviews.com
vendor site · Select Software Reviews19 answers · 21 citations · 8 models
utkrusht.ai
18 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
codesubmit.io
vendor site · CodeSubmit17 answers · 18 citations · 9 models
goodfit.so
vendor site · Goodfit16 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
incruiter.app
vendor site · InCruiter16 answers · 16 citations · 9 models
g2.com
14 answers · 29 citations · 8 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

augmentcode.com/tools/best-coding-assessment-tools-enterprise
35 answers · 10 models
codility.com/how-to-choose-technical-assessment-platform
33 answers · 9 models
hackerrank.com/writing/best-coding-assessment-tools
29 answers · 11 models
goodfit.so/guides/best-coding-assessment-platforms
16 answers · 8 models
selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/online-coding-interview-tools
15 answers · 8 models
codesubmit.io/blog/coding-assessment-tools-2024
14 answers · 7 models
hackerrank.com/writing/codility-vs-hackerrank-vs-codesignal-2025-enterprise…
13 answers · 8 models
coderpad.io/enterprise
12 answers · 8 models
codesignal.com/blog/5-coding-assessment-platforms-for-your-technical-hiring
12 answers · 7 models
hackerrank.com/about-us/enterprise-plan
11 answers · 6 models

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best coding assessment platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which technical interview tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade technical assessment platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best coding assessment platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a coding assessment platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which technical assessment platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5HackerRank
Three alternativesCodility, HackerEarth, iMocha
HackerEarth, HireVueChangedCodility
Three alternativesGlider.ai, HackerEarth, HackerRank
against: Mercer | MettlHackerRank
Two alternativesCodeSignal, Codility
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniCodeSignal
One alternativeHackerRank
HackerRankChanged
Three alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, Karat
HackerRank
Two alternativesCodeSignal, Codility
against: Mercer | Mettl, TestGorillaCodilityagainst: CodeSignal Hire, HackerRankno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashCodility, HackerRank
Three alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, HackerEarth
CoderPadChanged
Three alternativesCodeSignal, HackerRank, Karat
CoderPad
Five alternativesCodeSignal, Codility, DevSkiller, HackerRank, Woven
Coderbyte
Two alternativesAdaface, Criteria Corp
against: CodeSignal, Codility, HackerRankno first choiceagainst: Codility, HackerRank, HireVue, TestGorilla
Perplexity SonarHackerRank
Three alternativesCoderPad, Codility, Mercer | Mettl
CodeSignalChanged
Three alternativesCoderPad, Codility, HackerRank
HackerRank
Five alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility, Mercer | Mettl, TrueAbility/AbilityScreen
CoderPad
One alternativeHackerRank
against: CodeSignal, Codilityno first choiceagainst: Criteria Corp, Glider.ai, TestGorilla
Grok 4.1 FastHackerRank
Three alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility
HackerRankHeld
Three alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility
HackerRank
Four alternativesCodeSignal, Codility, TestGorilla, iMocha
against: AbilityScreen, CoderPad, Glider.aiCoderbyteagainst: Adaface, CodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility, HackerRank, TestDomeCodility
Three alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, HackerRank
against: CodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility, HackerRank, iMocha
Mistral SmallAugment Code, CodilityCodilityChanged
Two alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad
HackerRank
Three alternativesCodility, Criteria Corp, Mercer | Mettl
Coderbyte, HackerRankagainst: Codilityno first choiceagainst: CoderPad, Workday AI Screening
DeepSeek V4 FlashHackerRank
Three alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility
HackerRankHeld
One alternativeCodeSignal
against: CoderPad, Codility, Glider.aiHackerRank
Three alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility
Codility
One alternativeHackerRank
against: CodeSignalHackerRank
Three alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility
against: CodeSignal, Coderbyte, Codility, HackerRank, HireVue, TestDome
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceGlider.aiChanged
Two alternativesInCruiter, Utkrusht
no first choiceCodilityno first choiceagainst: CoderPad
Qwen 3.7 FlashHackerRank
Two alternativesCodeSignal, Codility
CoderPadChanged
Three alternativesCodeSignal, Codility, HackerRank
HackerRank
Four alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility, Criteria Corp
HackerRank
Three alternativesCodeSignal, HackerEarth, TestDome
no first choice
Four alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility, HackerRank
against: CodeSignal, Codility, HackerRank, HireVue, TestDome
Kimi K2HackerRank
Two alternativesCodeSignal, Codility
CodeSignal, HackerRankChanged
Two alternativesCoderPad, Karat
HackerRank
Six alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility, DevSkiller, TestGorilla, TrueAbility/AbilityScreen
Coderbyte
Three alternativesCoderPad, Codility, HackerRank
no first choiceagainst: CodeSignal, CoderPad, HackerRank
GLM 4.7 FlashXHackerRank
Three alternativesCodeSignal, CoderPad, Codility
HackerRankHeld
Three alternativesCoderPad, Codility, Mercer | Mettl
CodeSignal, Codility, HackerRank
Six alternativesAbilityScreen, Adaface, CodeSubmit, DevSkiller, Mercer | Mettl, TestGorilla
against: Fuel50CodeSignal
One alternativeCoderPad
against: HackerRankno first choiceagainst: CodeSignal, Codility, Generic "LeetCode‑style" Platforms, HackerRank
MiniMax M2.5Codility
Two alternativesCodeSubmit, Index.dev
CodeSignalChanged
Three alternativesCoderPad, Codility, HackerEarth
no first choiceno first choiceCoderPad, HackerRankagainst: Cluely, CoderPad, Parakeet AI
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:36yes910 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:54yes26 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:03yes1250 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:00yes206 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:15yes4118 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:58yes55 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:00yes1920 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:56yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:11yes923 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:47yes1334 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:41yes1766 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:38yes512 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:36yes1510 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:36yes45 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:52yes1021 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:07yes196 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 21:31yes4418 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:40yes55 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 19:43yes2150 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:29yes54 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:51yes935 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:52yes2535 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:38yes1437 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:11yes540 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:44yes911 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:47yes413 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 20:05yes1129 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:16yes209 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:08yes3820 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:13yes56 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:50yes1721 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:30yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:31yes1344 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:50yes1432 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:49yes2986 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:11yes1420 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:31yes1812 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:05yes37 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:19yes926 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:06yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 21:42yes3316 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:26yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:20yes2242 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:07yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:14no035 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:49yes2455 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:58yes2369 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:55yes2061 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:14no07 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:10no09 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:53yes647 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:55yes208 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:25yes1413 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:33no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:45yes1929 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:41yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:16yes841 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:26yes1061 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:50yes1154 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:11yes1019 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:03yes1710 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:23yes66 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:34yes1827 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:06yes207 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:17yes2514 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:54yes1211 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 19:04yes30101 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:11yes54 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:36no029 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:49yes2951 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:14yes1543 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:33yes2455 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
Augment read as Augment Code
Mercer read as Mercer | Mettl
Unresolved, counted raw
Cluely
CodeLive
CodeSignal Hire
Generic "LeetCode‑style" Platforms
Index.dev
Parakeet AI
Testspring
Utkrusht
Workday AI Screening
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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