Small business▼−1Since September 2026: 7% → 6%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 12 pointsRank 6 → 5 of 60
4 categories · RankedCodeSignal
186Judge labels
20First choices
40Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
16% in Technical hiring assessm for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 71 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 58 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of CodeSignal →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 61
5%38 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market2 of 71
16%58 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise3 of 43
13%63 labels
accepted challenger
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 CodeSignal 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technical hiring assessments | Talent acquisition | 16% | 2 of 71 | 17% | 58 | accepted challenger | ▲+6Since September 2026: 10% → 16%, +6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Candidate assessment | Talent acquisition | 2% | 9 of 118 | 8% | 13 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Skills intelligence | Performance and talent management | 0% | 47 of 127 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Skills Base at 18% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AI recruiting assistants | Talent acquisition | 0% | 42 of 90 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Manatal at 31% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, CodeSignal held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Technical hiring assessm · by segment
Mid-market▲+6Since September 2026: 10% → 16%, +6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
16%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 4 → 2 of 67
Enterprise▲+4Since September 2026: 12% → 15%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
15%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 3 → 2 of 41
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technical hiring assessm | 10% | 16% | ▲+6Since September 2026: 10% → 16%, +6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 → 2 of 71 |
| Candidate assessment | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 18 → 9 of 118 |
| Skills intelligence | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 43 → 47 of 127 |
| AI recruiting assistants | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 42 of 90, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated CodeSignal across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated CodeSignal across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
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
Direct32 labels4
Paraphrase32 labels9
Comparative52 labels7not counted in share
Budget-constrained24 labels4
Scale-constrained19 labels3
Negative27 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative186 labels in all, every segment counted; 20 of the 29 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.
“CodeSignal / DevSkiller are commonly recommended for 50-500 hires mid-market teams wanting a standardized score and predictable pricing.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Technical hiring assessm · direct prompt · first choice
“The best skills testing tool for hiring for a mid-sized B2B company would be CodeSignal, TestGorilla, or Criteria Corp.” Llama 4 Maverick · Candidate assessment · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend CodeSignal as the top technical interview tool for a mid-sized B2B company” MiniMax M2.5 · Technical hiring assessm · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“If you want a single recommendation, I'd pick CodeSignal for a mid-market B2B company” Perplexity Sonar · Technical hiring assessm · 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.
“Avoid enterprise-only platforms like CodeSignal, which require contacting sales and have no transparent pricing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · hard negative
“Reports of technical glitches like poor error highlighting, code wiping on refresh, and unreliable editor” Grok 4.1 Fast · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · hard negative
“(e.g., HackerRank, Codility, CodeSignal): ... often criticized for not reflecting real-world job tasks” Mistral Small · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · hard negative
“Heavy focus on algorithmic puzzles that fail to assess practical skills” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CodeSignal, over the 186 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CodeSignal was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CodeSignal, over the 186 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CodeSignal was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 CodeSignal. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 173 of the 186 answers that named CodeSignal and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
hackerrank.com111
codesignal.comYour site75
codility.com74
testgorilla.com61
selectsoftwarereviews.com59
g2.com54
coderpad.io49
testlify.com42
testtrick.com42
adaface.com41
533 of the 608 domain citations in answers naming CodeSignal came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
codesignal.com ranks 9 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, CodeSignal takes 16% of first choices and HackerRank takes 17%.ShowHide
Search and answers
codesignal.com ranks 9 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, CodeSignal takes 16% of first choices and HackerRank takes 17%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “coding assessment platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “technical assessment platforms”
9
- Searches for its name, Google
- 14,800 a month (“codesignal”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 548 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 152,420 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 46,425 · 760 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,724
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 100 clicks and $5,323 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
16%
rank 2 of 71 in technical hiring assessm
Segment leader
17%
HackerRank
- First choices
- 20 across its categories
- Named in
- 186 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 173 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on codesignal.com
12,657
subdomains included
Content
12,495
counted in the table below
Documentation
2
Product · Integration
5 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 11,915 | undated | Technical hiring assessm, Performance management | ||
| Blog | 422 | 5 | 2026-09-15 | Candidate assessment, Video interviewing | |
| News or press | 50 | 3 | 2026-09-09 | ||
| Comparison | 37 | 4 | 2026-08-26 | Candidate assessment | |
| Case study | 31 | 0 | 2026-05-09 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 23 | 1 | 2026-09-19 | ||
| Template or tool | 10 | 0 | 2025-03-11 | ||
| Report or ebook | 6 | 0 | 2025-07-17 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | 0 | 2026-03-25 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-19Hiring you can stand behind webinar webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-15Ai job simulation tools blog
- 2026-09-14Best ai assessment platforms blog
- 2026-09-097 best skills based hiring platforms in 2026 blog
- 2026-09-09Codesignal and harvard business impact bring hands on ai and essential skills development to universities worldwide news or press
- 2026-08-26Modern hire alternatives comparison
Events in person
Last twelve months
- March 24, 2026 to March 25, 2026Transform 2026Wynn Las Vegas
As the event pages on codesignal.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page codesignal.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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The company
CodeSignal is its own company.ShowHide
The company
CodeSignal is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Agentic Skills Intelligence & Validation Platform
- For
- teams
- Price stated
- Hire starts at $79 per month billed annually, Learn is free for individuals and Cosmo+ is $24.99 per month, and Education, plus enterprise Learn and Hire plans, is custom-priced. codesignal.com/pricing
- Starting price
- $79 /mo codesignal.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Start for FREE codesignal.com/pricing
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type IIGDPRCCPAEEOC & OFCCP compliance
- Customers named
- DropboxUnitedHealth GroupInstacartNortheastern UniversityNextdoorKlaviyoBrexRamp
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What CodeSignal's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: codesignal.com, codesignal.com/pricing, trust.codesignal.com, codesignal.com/platform, codesignal.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 CodeSignal'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 CodeSignal, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for CodeSignal by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where CodeSignal is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name CodeSignal, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where CodeSignal is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where CodeSignal is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideCodeSignal is among the products AI models recommend first in Technical hiring assessments this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.