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 16 → 26 of 60
1 category · Named, not rankedPlaycode
11Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative labels
6 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
5 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Playcode was named 5 times in Technical hiring assessm, where HackerRank led with 17%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business24 of 61
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market18 of 71
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
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 Playcode 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% | 18 of 71 | 20% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by HackerRank at 17% | ▼−3Since September 2026: 3% → 0%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Playcode held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Technical hiring assessm · by segment
Mid-market▼−3Since September 2026: 3% → 0%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 3% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 8 → 17 of 67
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technical hiring assessm | 3% | 0% | ▼−3Since September 2026: 3% → 0%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 8 → 18 of 71 |
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 Playcode 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 Playcode 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained7 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.
“As low as $5/month, making it one of the most affordable options for small teams” Mistral Small · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · alternative
“Playcode \u2014 Most Affordable ... Limited features” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · alternative
“Other affordable options include Playcode at $5/month” Llama 4 Maverick · Technical hiring assessm · budget 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.
“better suited to basic collaboration/interview workflows than full assessment programs” Perplexity Sonar · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Playcode, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Playcode was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Playcode, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Playcode 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 Playcode. 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 11 of the 11 answers that named Playcode and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
playcode.ioYour site9
hackerrank.com8
selectsoftwarereviews.com8
adaface.com7
goodfit.so7
itechguides.com7
index.dev5
codesignal.com4
getyogen.com4
testgorilla.com4
Fifty-four of the sixty-three domain citations in answers naming Playcode came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
playcode.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Playcode takes 0% of first choices and HackerRank takes 17%.ShowHide
Search and answers
playcode.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Playcode takes 0% 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”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,400 a month (“playcode”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 11 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 49,112 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 5,066 · 238 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,535
- 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 18 of 71 in technical hiring assessm
Segment leader
17%
HackerRank
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 11 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 11 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 playcode.io
719
subdomains included
Content
388
counted in the table below
Documentation
52
Product · Integration
0 · 3
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 285 | 95 | 2026-08-16 | ||
| Comparison | 85 | 56 | 2026-08-16 | ||
| Template or tool | 11 | 11 | 2026-08-01 | Employee onboarding | |
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 2 | 2026-08-16 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | 1 | 2026-07-19 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-08-16Best ai mobile app builders 2026 blog
- 2026-08-16Best vibe coding tools blog
- 2026-08-16Eas build guide blog
- 2026-08-16How long does it take to build an app blog
- 2026-08-16How much does it cost to publish an app blog
- 2026-08-16How to build an ios app without a mac blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page playcode.io 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 Playcode
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Playcode; a claim can dispute any of them.
GitHub/PlayCode (DIY) 1
Follow Playcode
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
Playcode is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Playcode is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Describe the software you need. It's running.
- For
- Founders, Small Business, Freelancers, Marketers, Designers
- Price stated
- Free $0 to start; Pro $25/month playcode.io
- Starting price
- 0 playcode.io
- Free plan or trial
- No credit card required · AI credits included playcode.io
- Integrations claimed
- 12 playcode.io
- Certifications
- SOC 2 In ProgressSOC 2 Type II audit currently in progressSOC 2 Type IIGDPRPCI DSS Level 1
- Hosting
- EU regions, our own cloudEU data centers (Hetzner bare-metal in Germany and Finland)GermanyFinlandUSIrelandFrankfurtus-east-1
- Not stated on the pages read
- Customers
What Playcode's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: playcode.io, playcode.io/pricing, playcode.io/security. 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 Playcode'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 Playcode, 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 Playcode by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Playcode 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 Playcode, 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.