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CoderPad

129Judge labels
23First choices
11Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
26% in Technical hiring assessm for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 52 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 40 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In technical hiring assessm · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named CoderPad for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Technical hiring assessmentsTalent acquisition21%2 of 520%40accepted challenger
Candidate assessmentTalent acquisition0%26 of 1010%2under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 68%
Skills intelligencePerformance and talent management0%79 of 1620%1under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%
Video interviewingTalent acquisition0%24 of 400%1under 10 labels · led by Spark Hire at 55%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CoderPad yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated CoderPad across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini04105
Gemini 3.5 Flash32207
Perplexity Sonar02204
Grok 4.1 Fast12104
Mistral Small12104
DeepSeek V4 Flash14106
Llama 4 Maverick01203
Qwen 3.7 Flash20103
Kimi K231105
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.510001

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct19 labels3
Paraphrase29 labels14
Comparative33 labels7not counted in share
Budget-constrained11 labels3
Scale-constrained17 labels3
Negative20 labels6not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative129 labels in all, every segment counted; 23 of the 36 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Prioritize platforms that offer work-sample style assessments over pure algorithm tests (e.g., CoderPad, HackerRank Projects, Codility's newer formats)” MiniMax M2.5 · Technical hiring assessm · scale prompt · first choice
“1. CoderPad (Best for Real-World, AI-Native Collaborative Hiring) CoderPad is highly regarded for simulating what a developer actually does on the job.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · comparative prompt · first choice
“For ultra-tight budgets: Start with CoderPad's free plan ... CoderPad Starter ($80/month annual) - unlimited users” Kimi K2 · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · first choice
“The best platforms (like CoderPad for live interviews, or take-home tasks) respect your time and privacy” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CoderPad, over the 129 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CoderPad was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
CodeSignal88 of 12910Not in the top three
Codility87 of 1296Not in the top three
TestGorilla53 of 1298Not in the top three
TestDome16 of 1292Not in the top three
Mercer | Mettl15 of 1290Not in the top three
DevSkiller13 of 1290Not in the top three
Criteria Corp12 of 1292Not in the top three
CodeSubmit12 of 1291Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named CoderPad. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 102 of the 129 answers that named CoderPad and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hackerrank.com73
codility.com56
coderpad.ioYour site50
codesignal.com47
utkrusht.ai38
codesubmit.io37
selectsoftwarereviews.com36
testlify.com32
testtrick.com31
testgorilla.com29

379 of the 429 domain citations in answers naming CoderPad came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as CoderPad

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CoderPad; a claim can dispute any of them.
Coderpad 1
Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when CoderPad's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as CoderPad, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at coderpad.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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