HackerEarth review

HackerEarth is an evaluation platform for hiring, workforce skills and AI models. It uses real-world tasks and rubric-based scoring to assess people, while AI labs can use it to evaluate models and build training data. For employers, the product covers technical and non-technical assessments, AI interviews with tailored follow-up questions, and live panel interviews through FaceCode.

It also includes identity verification, proctoring, AI-cheating detection and an audit trail. For existing staff, SkillsGraph and learning paths are intended to map skills and support development. Developer hackathons round out the offer, letting companies engage developers through projects built on APIs and tools.

That is a broad remit, but the practical buying question is whether your team needs assessment, interviews and skills development in one platform—or mainly wants a test library. Pricing starts at $99 per month, and the plan caps matter if assessment volume grows.

The clearest strength is breadth across the evaluation process. A team can use assessments for initial screening, AI interviews for structured follow-up, and FaceCode for live panels. Identity checks, proctoring, AI-cheating detection and an audit trail add controls for remote assessments. The product brief also describes workforce skill mapping and learning paths, so HackerEarth is not limited to external hiring.

• Growth is listed at $99 monthly or $82.50 per month with annual billing. It includes one admin, 10 monthly credits or 120 annual invites, 5K+ questions, assessments and FaceCode.
• Scale is $399 monthly or $332.50 per month annually, with unlimited admins, 25 monthly credits or 300 annual invites, and a 20K+–25K+ question library.
• Enterprise offers custom credits and the full 25K+ question library, with pricing not published.

The pricing page lists a 30-day free trial, although there is no free plan. Annual billing is charged upfront and equals 10 monthly payments. For a buyer consolidating assessment and interview tools, the combination may be useful; the credit allowance, rather than the headline question count, is the cap to check first.

The main pricing risk is usage beyond the included credits. Growth includes 10 credits per month, while Scale includes 25; the annual equivalents are 120 and 300 invites. The pricing information says excess attempted tests or usage incur charges, but specific overage rates are not published. That makes the real cost harder to forecast if hiring volume is uneven. Enterprise pricing and custom credit costs are also not published.

Candidate experience and privacy deserve a separate review. In one Reddit thread, a candidate asked about Smart Browser permissions for full disk access and screen and system audio recording; a commenter described the setup as intrusive. That is an individual report, not proof of how every assessment is configured, but it is a reason to check the permissions and candidate instructions for your use case before rollout.

HackerEarth’s feature list is broad, but teams that only need occasional tests may find the credit limits and paid overages difficult to justify. Ask for written overage rates and confirm what counts as a credit before comparing its monthly price with alternatives.

HackerEarth has no free plan; the listed free trial is 30 days. Growth starts at $99 per month, with one admin and 10 credits monthly—or 120 invites per year—plus assessments, FaceCode and 5K+ questions. Annual billing is $82.50 per month, charged upfront at the equivalent of 10 monthly payments.

Scale costs $399 monthly or $332.50 per month on annual billing. That is a $300 monthly jump from Growth, for unlimited admins, 25 monthly credits—or 300 invites per year—and a larger question library listed as 20K+–25K+. Annual billing is also charged upfront at 10 monthly payments.

Enterprise pricing is not published; it offers custom credits and the full 25K+ question library. Watch the credit cap: specific overage rates are not published, and excess attempted tests or usage incur charges. Confirm expected usage and overage terms before choosing a tier.

The materials available for this review do not specify migration services, data-export formats, integrations for importing existing assessments, or how long candidate records and results remain available. Before switching, ask HackerEarth what can be exported—including questions, scores, interview records and audit trails—and whether those files can be used outside the platform. Also confirm what happens to your data if you cancel.

The credit limits make volume planning important: Growth includes 10 credits per month and Scale 25, while excess attempted tests or usage incur charges at unpublished rates. Map expected hiring volume to credits before moving an active assessment program, and get overage terms in writing. For a move away, verify you can retain the records your team needs before ending service.

The published sources include no Reddit reports, so we can’t responsibly name a user-reported reason people leave. Candidate privacy may also merit review: HackerEarth lists identity verification, proctoring and AI-cheating detection. Ask what candidates are asked to provide and how those records are handled.