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Codility Pricing in 2026: What Each Plan Really Costs

Codility pricing starts at $1,200/year for Starter. See the real breakdown, what G2 users say about the cost, and how it stacks up against other options.

ByFavour Etinosa Ogie

Updated on July 27, 2026

Codility runs three plans. Starter costs $1,200 a year, Scale is $600 a month billed annually, and Custom has no published price, only a sales contact.
Starter hands you one platform user. That's fine for a solo hiring manager and painfully tight for anyone else.
Scale adds two more seats and a deeper task library, but the jump from $1,200 to $7,200 a year is a steep price for it.
G2 reviewers give Codility 4.6 out of 5 across 904 reviews. They love the coding challenges. But they're a lot less warm about the pricing once you need more than one seat.
TestTrick is an all-in-one platform for both technical and non-technical hiring. It offers coding, psychometric, and video interview assessments starting at $35/month, well below what Codility charges just for coding tests.

Codility has been screening engineers with coding tests since 2009, and it's still one of the more recognizable names in technical hiring. If you're pricing it out right now, here's the short version.

Starter costs $1,200 a year. Scale runs $600 a month on an annual plan. Custom skips the number entirely and points you toward a sales call instead.

That headline doesn't tell you what each tier actually unlocks, or where the real costs creep in once your team grows past one seat. Below, we break down every plan in detail, and pull in what actual users say about the pricing on G2.

We also stack Codility up against an alternative like TestTrick, so you can weigh what you'd actually pay and get before deciding.

What is Codility?

Codility is a technical assessment platform that helps companies test and interview software engineers before they hire them. It's built around two core tools. Screen sends candidates a coding test to complete on their own time, and Interview runs a live coding session with an interviewer watching in real time.

Both tools draw from the same task library of coding challenges, so a company can screen a large pool of applicants first, then move the strongest ones into a live interview. Codility's pricing works with invite credits, which get spent each time a candidate goes through Screen or Interview.

Codility Pricing at a Glance

Plan	Price	Users	Best for
Starter	$1,200/year	1 platform user	Teams just starting structured technical screening
Scale	$600/month (billed annually)	3 platform users	Growing engineering teams with regular hiring volume
Custom	Custom quote	Unlimited, role-based access	Enterprise teams needing Skills Intelligence and dedicated support

Starter

Starter is billed annually only at $1,200 a year. There is no monthly option available. Here's what that gets you:

Up to 120 assessment invites a year, usable across Screen or Interview
1 platform user
A limited task library of engineering simulations
Pre-built coding, SQL, multiple-choice, and AI-skill tasks
Codility's Agentic AI Copilot and Cody chatbot, with reviewable candidate activity per assessment
Plagiarism detection and basic proctoring with candidate snapshots
Self-serve, basic support

Starter only allows one platform user. If a second person on your team ever needs to build or edit an assessment, you'll need to upgrade.

Scale

Scale runs $600 a month under an annual commitment (there's a yearly option that shaves off 17%). It gets you:

Up to 300 assessment invites a year, or 25 a month
3 platform users
A task library covering engineering, AI, and system design
Custom task building through Codility's MCP integration, directly from your code editor or codebase
AI follow-up questions and AI candidate feedback
Premium analytics, weighted scoring, team features, and public links
Standard support

Everything Starter includes carries over here too.

Custom

Custom has no listed price anywhere. Codility calls it "bespoke requirements" and routes you straight to sales. Based on their pricing page, it unlocks:

Unlimited platform users with role-based access
The full assessment platform, covering Screen, Interview, and Skills Intelligence
The complete task library, plus unlimited custom task building
Custom assessments designed by Codility's Assessment Science team
A VS Code assessment environment with sidecar services
The Codility Desktop App, built to catch unauthorized apps mid-test
Codility's Agentic AI Copilot running inside VS Code tasks

Most of Codility's heavier features live in this tier. You just won't know what they cost until you're already on a call with sales.

What Each Plan Actually Gets You

Platform Users vs. Collaborator Users

Codility splits access into two roles. Platform users can build assessments, review results, and change settings. Collaborator users can sit in on interviews and review candidate submissions, but they can't touch the configuration side of things.

All three plans throw in unlimited collaborator users, which is a nice touch. The real bottleneck is platform users, capped at one on Starter and three on Scale. Any recruiting team with more people who need real access is either staying small on purpose or heading toward Scale, and maybe Custom.

Task library and AI tools across tiers

Starter's task library only covers general engineering simulations. Scale expands that to include AI and system design tasks too, and lets you build custom tasks through MCP. Custom removes the limit entirely, giving you the full library plus unlimited custom task building.

The AI tooling follows the same shape. Codility's Agentic AI Copilot and Cody chatbot show up from Starter onward, but AI follow-up questions and AI candidate feedback only kick in on Scale. The deeper AI Copilot access inside VS Code tasks stays locked to Custom.

Proctoring and Integrity Signals by Tier

Every Codility tier includes task leakage protection and plagiarism detection, so no plan skips basic integrity checks. Basic proctoring with candidate snapshots is also included starting from Starter.

Premium proctoring is a different story. The Codility Desktop App, which flags unauthorized or hidden apps during a test, only shows up on Custom. If cheating prevention is a top priority and you're not on the Custom tier, you're working with a limited version of it.

Support Levels Across Tiers

Starter gets self-serve, basic support. Scale steps up to standard support. Custom adds a dedicated Customer Success contact, plus professional services for assessment validation and program design.

If you're an HR manager running your team's first real technical hiring process, self-serve support on Starter is fine as long as you're comfortable figuring things out solo. If you'd rather have someone to call when a candidate can't get into an assessment, that level of hand-holding lives on Scale or higher.

Where Codility's Pricing Creates Friction

Starter's Annual-only Lock-in

Starter has no monthly billing option at all. You pay the full $1,200 upfront for the year, whether or not you use all 120 credits. That's a real commitment to make before you know if Codility is the right fit for your team.

Skills Intelligence and Deeper Features Sit Behind Custom

Skills Intelligence, dedicated support, single sign-on (SSO), and deeper integrations all live inside Custom. Codility's pricing page doesn't list any way to add these on Starter or Scale, so growing into them means contacting sales and switching plans.

Seat Costs Add up Fast

Starter gives you one seat. Scale gives you three. A hiring team of five or six people who all need to build assessments, review results, and manage settings will blow past Scale's limit fast, and Custom is the only door left open.

Collaborator seats are unlimited, which helps if your interviewers only need to sit in and review. But the people actually running your hiring process are the ones stuck with a cap.

The Cost per Invite Climbs Instead of Falling

Starter works out to roughly $10 per assessment invite, or $1,200 a year for 120 of them. Scale, billed monthly under its annual commitment, lands at $7,200 a year for 300 invites. That's about $24 per invite, more than double Starter's rate.

You're paying for more seats and a bigger feature set on Scale, sure. But if all your team actually needs is more invite volume at the same feature depth as Starter, the math doesn't favor upgrading. It's worth running your own numbers before you move tiers.

What Users Say About Codility

Codility sits at 4.6 out of 5 on G2 across 904 reviews, and most of what people praise lines up with what the platform is actually built for. Reviewers keep circling back to realistic coding challenges and a cleaner way to run technical interviews.

One verified user liked being able to write custom questions built around real problems their team actually faces. They also called out the whiteboarding feature and the ability to watch a candidate's screen live during interviews without asking them to share it separately.

Ranit D., a trainee analyst at an IT services company, said Codility replaces resumes and theory questions with real coding skill. He liked the clear feedback and automated scoring for saving time, and said the process feels more transparent because it judges actual ability instead of a CV.

Ankur G., a software engineer, said Codility was easy to use, with clear problem statements, and a coding environment that stays stable under pressure. He also liked that the questions test real problem-solving and algorithmic thinking rather than memorized theory.

Then the pricing complaints show up, and they tell a very different story. Nathan B. said the pricing model means only interviewers get access to Codility, so details for a scheduled interview sometimes land the same day it happens. Revamping interview questions meant looping in the recruiting team every time, since he couldn't set anything up himself.

He also runs interviews for contractors that recruiting doesn't handle, which meant extra back-and-forth just to start a session. His conclusion is that the pricing model quietly pushes companies toward keeping seats as low as possible.

Nawaz flagged something more technical. Handling of non-standard characters in input strings could use work, and the documentation could go deeper. On pricing, his take was blunt. The pricing model can be too expensive for smaller companies or individual users.

Line those two complaints up next to the pricing structure and the pattern is obvious. Seats are tight on the lower tiers, and the teams that feel the squeeze hardest are the smaller ones.

A More Cost-Effective Alternative: TestTrick Pricing vs. Codility

If seat limits and locked-away features are a concern for your team, TestTrick prices things a different way. It's an all-in-one platform built for both technical and non-technical hiring, covering the entire hiring funnel from initial screening through to final shortlisting.

Technical recruiters specifically have access to the coding assessments, video interviews, psychometric tests, and anti-cheating tools they need to find capable technical talent. All features are available across all plans, so moving up a tier simply changes your credit volume and seat count, not which features you can use.

Here's what TestTrick's pricing looks like:

Starter: $35/month ($420/year billed annually), 600 credits/year, 3 users. Best for small teams hiring 1-5 roles a month.
Basic: $65/month ($780/year), 1,200 credits/year, 5 users. Best for growing companies hiring across departments.
Business: $75/month ($900/year), 1,800 credits/year, 7 users. Best for mid-size teams and recruitment agencies.
Enterprise: Custom pricing, with custom credits and user limits, a dedicated account manager, and priority support. Built for organizations hiring 500+ people a year.

Credits only get used when a candidate submits a completed assessment, not when you create one or send an invite. If you run out mid-cycle, extra credits cost $2 each and don't require a plan upgrade.

That credit math actually gets better the more you use the platform. TestTrick's Starter plan comes out to about $0.70 per credit. Basic drops that to roughly $0.65, and Business to $0.50. Codility's Scale plan, for comparison, runs about $24 per invite, more than 30 times what TestTrick charges at a similar tier.

	TestTrick	Codility
Entry price	$35/month ($420/year)	$1,200/year
Feature access	Full feature set on every plan	Skills Intelligence, premium proctoring, and deeper AI Copilot access reserved for Custom
Seats included	3 users on Starter, up to 7 on Business	1 seat on Starter, 3 on Scale
Cost per credit	$0.50 to $0.70, depending on tier	$10 to $24, depending on tier
Extra credits	$2 each, no upgrade required	Requires moving to a higher tier
Free trial	7-day free trial, no card required	Not listed

The real difference is what you end up paying extra for. Codility spreads its assessment depth, proctoring strength, and AI tooling across three tiers, so getting the complete picture usually means a Custom quote and a sales call.

TestTrick keeps that whole toolkit on every plan, so a smaller talent acquisition team isn't stuck trading seats for the features they actually need.

FAQs About Codility Pricing

The awkward middle is when your team has outgrown one or three seats but doesn't yet need everything Custom offers. That's where the pricing model starts to pinch.

If your team wants the same coding assessment depth and proctoring, plus support for non-technical hiring, without the tier-gating, give TestTrick a look. You can start a 7-day free trial and see what a flat-rate plan actually feels like for your hiring process.

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