# CodeSignal review (2026): is it worth $79 a month, billed yearly? > Coding and skills assessments with AI interviewers Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. CodeSignal is a skills assessment and interview platform for hiring. It offers technical, agentic and business assessments, AI interviewers, live coding interviews and AI proctoring, sold as plans with a yearly or monthly pool of credits. Pro is quoted by sales. - **Category:** Hiring & Applicant Tracking - **Made by:** CodeSignal, Inc. - **Website:** https://codesignal.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you screen often: Build has only 60 credits a year, or 5 a month. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, CodeSignal is a paid product, starting at $79 per month, billed annually ($99 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Build | $79 per month, billed annually ($99 billed monthly) | 60 credits a year (5 a month) for assessments and interviews, for small teams making first technical hires. | | Grow | $479 per month, billed annually ($599 billed monthly) | 420 credits a year (35 a month), go-to-market assessments, sales and marketing AI interviewers, basic ATS integrations. | | Pro | Custom | Custom credits, all assessments and AI interviewers, fraud prevention, role-based access and enterprise ATS integrations. | Read from https://codesignal.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with CodeSignal before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **20% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page shows an annual toggle that saves 20%: Build is $79 a month billed annually against $99 billed monthly. Source: https://codesignal.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Technical assessments:** A library of core technical assessments with a bank of 2,000 questions on Build, and a larger library on Grow and Pro. - **Agentic assessments:** Assessments where candidates work with Claude and Codex, with more of them on Grow and the full set on Pro. - **AI interviewers:** Product, design and engineering interviewers on Build, adding sales, customer success and marketing on Grow. - **Proctoring and ID checks:** AI proctoring and ID verification are listed on every plan, with advanced fraud prevention and role-based access on Pro. - **Credits:** Each plan carries a pool of credits that are spent on assessments and interviews. ## Good for - Engineering teams screening developers at volume - Companies testing how candidates work with AI coding tools - Teams that want AI-run first-round interviews ## Worth knowing - Build includes 60 credits a year, so heavy screening needs Grow or Pro. - Enterprise ATS integrations, SSO-level controls and the full library are on Pro, which has no published price. - The pricing page lists plans for hiring, learning and education; only the hiring plans are covered here. - Monthly billing costs $99 for Build and $599 for Grow, against $79 and $479 billed annually. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. CodeSignal sells coding assessments and AI interviewers, with Build at $79 a month on yearly billing. That buys 60 credits a year, so heavy screening means Grow at $479, and there's no free plan or trial. - **Value for money: C.** Build is $79 a month billed annually ($99 monthly), about the middle of hiring tools ($83). Grow jumps to $479 and Pro has no published price. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on the listing. - **Features: C.** Technical and business assessments, AI interviewers, proctoring and ID checks, all paid for in credits. Build's 60 credits a year and the ATS links on higher plans are limits. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You choose assessments, spend credits and link it to your hiring process. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, and the listing names no integrations. Basic ATS links come with Grow. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from CodeSignal's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among hiring and applicant tracking tools - CodeSignal's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 1 of the 48 other hiring and applicant tracking tools we grade, and level with 12. - It stands best on value for money (C, above 5 of 48) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $79 a month, against a middle price of $84.17 for the category: 10 of the 25 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 9 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hiring ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of CodeSignal you could make: applicant tracking and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 35 of the 48 other hiring and applicant tracking tools grade higher. It costs $948 a year. - You could make: Applicant tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A library of tested questions with scores to compare candidates by. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Skills tests, AI features, Applicant tracking, Reports ## Alternatives - [Codility](https://toolgpa.com/tools/codility): Technical screening and live coding interviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/codesignal-vs-codility) - [TestGorilla](https://toolgpa.com/tools/testgorilla): Skills tests, AI interviews and candidate sourcing for hiring teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/codesignal-vs-testgorilla) - [Vervoe](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vervoe): Skills assessments with AI grading and candidate ranking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/codesignal-vs-vervoe) - [Harver](https://toolgpa.com/tools/harver): Pre-hire assessments and volume hiring software. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/codesignal-vs-harver) - [HireVue](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hirevue): AI-assisted video interviewing and assessments for hiring teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/codesignal-vs-hirevue) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://codesignal.com/pricing/ - https://codesignal.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/codesignal Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).