Every category where a model named HackerRank 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Technical hiring assessments	Talent acquisition	28%	1 of 52	21%	57	accepted challenger
Candidate assessment	Talent acquisition	0%	12 of 101	4%	23	accepted challenger
Skills intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	27 of 162	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%
Video interviewing	Talent acquisition	0%	19 of 40	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Spark Hire at 55%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for HackerRank 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 HackerRank across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	3	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	2	3	1	2	8
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	3	4	9
Perplexity Sonar	2	1	4	1	8
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	2	3	2	10
Mistral Small	1	2	3	0	6
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	3	3	1	9
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	6	0	7
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	4	1	0	6
Kimi K2	1	5	3	1	10
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	1	1	2	6
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	0	0	3

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

Direct45 labels14

Paraphrase40 labels10

Comparative63 labels14not counted in share

Budget-constrained35 labels8

Scale-constrained21 labels2

Negative29 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative233 labels in all, every segment counted; 34 of the 48 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.

“Qualified (free) and HackerRank Starter ($99/mo) offer the best balance of cost, reliability, and candidate familiarity” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · first choice

“Best for: End-to-end enterprise technical hiring. ... broadest platform and largest general hiring workflow” GPT-5.4 mini · Technical hiring assessm · comparative prompt · first choice

“the best *default* choice is usually HackerRank if your priority is technical hiring at scale” Perplexity Sonar · Technical hiring assessm · direct prompt · first choice

“If you want the most flexible all-in-one solution, I'd lean toward HackerRank for Work” MiniMax M2.5 · Technical hiring assessm · paraphrase 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.

“Users frequently complain about "overage fees." ... Googleable Questions: ... default assessments are often easily searchable online.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · hard negative

“buggy UI/UX ... High drop-off rates and "horrible experience" sentiments” Grok 4.1 Fast · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · hard negative

“Why we recommend avoiding HackerRank or Codility (for now)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“basic coding puzzle platforms like HackerRank or Codility when using generic public questions) are easily solved by modern generative AI models” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Candidate assessment · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as HackerRank, over the 233 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HackerRank was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Codility163 of 2337Not in the top three

CodeSignal128 of 23313Not in the top three

TestGorilla122 of 23335Not in the top three

CoderPad112 of 23328Compare →

Criteria Corp48 of 2336Not in the top three

iMocha38 of 2334Not in the top three

Coderbyte36 of 2339Compare →

Mercer | Mettl35 of 2332Not in the top three

Vervoe32 of 2332Not in the top three

HireVue31 of 2337Not 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 HackerRank. 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 190 of the 233 answers that named HackerRank and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hackerrank.comYour site106

codility.com77

codesignal.com71

selectsoftwarereviews.com69

testgorilla.com69

testlify.com69

testtrick.com64

codesubmit.io61

g2.com58

coderpad.io48

586 of the 692 domain citations in answers naming HackerRank came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

hackerrank.com/writing/best-coding-assessment-tools71

codility.com/how-to-choose-technical-assessment-platform61

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/online-coding-interview-tools50

codesubmit.io/blog/coding-assessment-tools-202446

codesignal.com/blog/5-coding-assessment-platforms-for-your-technical-hiring42

goodfit.so/guides/best-coding-assessment-platforms40

augmentcode.com/tools/best-coding-assessment-tools-enterprise38

testgorilla.com/blog/coding-assessment-tools31

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as HackerRank

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as HackerRank; a claim can dispute any of them.

HackerRank Developer Skills Platform 1HackerRank for Work 1

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