Every category where a model named TestGorilla 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
Candidate assessment	Talent acquisition	68%	1 of 101	7%	54	endorsed leader
Technical hiring assessments	Talent acquisition	5%	6 of 52	16%	31	accepted challenger
Skills intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	25 of 162	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%
AI recruiting assistants	Talent acquisition	0%	29 of 84	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by GoPerfect at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for TestGorilla 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 TestGorilla 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	4	1	1	0	6
GPT-5.4 mini	4	1	2	0	7
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	3	3	1	9
Perplexity Sonar	1	2	4	0	7
Grok 4.1 Fast	5	1	1	2	9
Mistral Small	1	3	3	0	7
DeepSeek V4 Flash	5	3	1	2	11
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	4	0	6
Qwen 3.7 Flash	3	2	2	2	9
Kimi K2	4	4	0	0	8
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	4	1	0	7
MiniMax M2.5	2	3	0	2	7

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

Direct46 labels23

Paraphrase34 labels19

Comparative66 labels17not counted in share

Budget-constrained48 labels24

Scale-constrained15 labels5

Negative29 labels5not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative238 labels in all, every segment counted; 71 of the 93 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.

“TestGorilla is a skills-first platform offering a test library of 350+ validated skills tests spanning cognitive ability, personality, coding tests, job-specific and role-specific skills” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Candidate assessment · comparative prompt · first choice

“the best pre-employment assessment platform is usually TestGorilla if you want the strongest overall mix of low entry cost, broad test coverage, and a free tier” Perplexity Sonar · Candidate assessment · budget prompt · first choice

“For most mid-market B2B companies, TestGorilla is the best overall choice due to its affordability, comprehensive test library, and strong reputation.” Mistral Small · Candidate assessment · direct prompt · first choice

“The Best All-Rounder: TestGorilla ... most popular choice for mid-market companies that need a flexible solution covering multiple departments.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Candidate assessment · direct 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.

“Billing issues: Multiple reviews mention unethical business practices, with charges continuing after cancellation” MiniMax M2.5 · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · hard negative

“It has a reputation for being buggy and confusing... making it a poor measure of senior engineering ability” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · hard negative

“Frequently called one of the "worst online assessment tools" due to poor usability, confusing interfaces” Grok 4.1 Fast · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · hard negative

“Test Gorilla has generated significant negative sentiment on tech forums” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as TestGorilla, over the 238 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TestGorilla was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

HackerRank122 of 23812Not in the top three

Codility100 of 2389Not in the top three

Criteria Corp77 of 2386Compare →

Vervoe68 of 2384Compare →

CodeSignal59 of 2388Not in the top three

CoderPad53 of 23810Not in the top three

Testlify42 of 2384Not in the top three

iMocha40 of 2382Not in the top three

Toggl Hire34 of 2382Not in the top three

HireVue33 of 2381Not 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 TestGorilla. 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 203 of the 238 answers that named TestGorilla and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

testgorilla.comYour site97

testtrick.com83

testlify.com75

g2.com61

jobcannon.io52

bryq.com50

hackerrank.com50

firsthr.app49

selectsoftwarereviews.com48

peoplemanagingpeople.com47

515 of the 612 domain citations in answers naming TestGorilla came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

jobcannon.io/compare/best-pre-employment-assessments51

bryq.com/blog/best-talent-assessment-platforms-202642

testtrick.com/blogs/hiring-assessment-tools-small-mid-sized-teams40

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-pre-employment-testing-software38

firsthr.app/compare/hiring/pre-employment-assessment31

aihr.com/blog/top-pre-employment-assessment-tools30

codesubmit.io/blog/coding-assessment-tools-202430

fitsmallbusiness.com/best-pre-employment-assessment-tools30

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as TestGorilla

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

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