Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 57 → 51 of 60
2 categories · RankedKarat
23Judge labels
0First choices
6Negative labels
9 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Technical hiring assessm for mid-market buyers
Rank 16 of 71 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 10 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Karat →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business52 of 61
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market16 of 71
0%10 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise10 of 43
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
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 Karat 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 | 0% | 16 of 71 | 20% | 10 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Candidate assessment | Talent acquisition | 0% | 69 of 118 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 52% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Karat held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Technical hiring assessm · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 13 → 15 of 67
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 11 → 14 of 41
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technical hiring assessm | 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 13 → 16 of 71 |
| Candidate assessment | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 69 of 118, 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 Karat 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 Karat 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase7 labelsNone
Comparative7 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative8 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative23 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.
“Choose Karat if you prefer an outsourced technical interview service and can afford higher costs.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Technical hiring assessm · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“fully outsourced interviewing service rather than software, Karat is worth considering” GPT-5.4 mini · Technical hiring assessm · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Recommended for experienced developers, especially for algorithmic LeetCode-style interviews” Mistral Small · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · alternative
“Consider Karat if: Your engineering team's bandwidth for interviewing is limited” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · paraphrase prompt · alternative
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.
“absorbed into Karat's high-cost, enterprise "Interviewing-as-a-Service" model” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · direct prompt · soft negative
“Be Cautious of: Fully Outsourced Technical Screens (e.g., Karat)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Karat, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Karat was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Karat, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Karat 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 Karat. 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 23 of the 23 answers that named Karat and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
hackerrank.com13
codesignal.com10
codility.com10
hiretruffle.com8
woventeams.com8
coderpad.io7
testlify.com6
testtrick.com6
g2.com5
hirevire.com5
Seventy-eight of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming Karat came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
karat.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Karat takes 0% of first choices and HackerRank takes 17%.ShowHide
Search and answers
karat.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Karat takes 0% of first choices and HackerRank takes 17%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “coding assessment platform”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “technical assessment platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 14,800 a month (“karat”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 58,074 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 5,890 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 236 · 36 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,431
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 16 of 71 in technical hiring assessm
Segment leader
17%
HackerRank
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 23 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 23 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
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on karat.com
641
subdomains included
Content
239
counted in the table below
Documentation
24
Product · Integration
6 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 221 | 6 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Case study | 8 | 0 | 2025-09-23 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | 0 | 2024-11-06 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 0 | 2023-01-24 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2024-09-25 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-17Assess engineering skills financial services blog
- 2026-09-08Evaluate ai ready contract engineers canadian banks blog
- 2026-08-24Hybrid ai talent strategy blog
- 2026-08-13Technical assessments age of ai blog
- 2026-07-16Ai software engineering interviews blog
- 2026-07-01Engineering hiring challenges financial services 2026 blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page karat.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.
Names read as Karat
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Karat; a claim can dispute any of them.
Karat / Karat.io 1
Follow Karat
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Karat is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Karat is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The trusted standard for technical interview and screening services. Expert evaluation, global benchmarks, and workforce intelligence for the human+AI era.
- For
- enterprise talent leaders
- Free plan or trial
- free mock technical interviews karat.com
- Certifications
- EU-US DPFGDPRCCPACPRASOC 2
- Hosting
- USA
- Customers named
- CompassDeliverooMastercardDuolingoCitizens BankElectronic ArtsFlatiron HealthFractal Software
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations
What Karat's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: karat.com, trust.karat.com, karat.com/solutions, karat.com/customer-stories, karat.com/blog/tag/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
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 Karat'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 Karat, 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 Karat by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Karat 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 Karat, 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.