TestGorilla pricing: TestGorilla cost, plans and credits, and what one assessed candidate really costs

How much does TestGorilla cost?

TestGorilla costs $1,704 a year on Core and at least $4,800 a year on Plus, and the Free plan is $0 with 10 credits a month. Those three figures come straight from testgorilla.com/pricing, read on September 10, 2026, in US dollars. The page also shows GBP, EUR, AUD and INR, so check the currency selector before you copy a number into a budget.

The monthly figures on the cards are presentation, not billing. Core reads $142 per month and Plus reads starts from $400 per month, but both sit directly above the words Annual commitment, and TestGorilla's billing FAQ says plainly that Core and Plus are annual, upfront plans with no monthly payment options. If finance asks what the first invoice will be, the answer on Core is $1,704, not $142.

Enterprise has no figure. It adds scientific validation, security and compliance reviews and tailored agreements on top of Plus, and it is priced through sales like every other enterprise assessment contract.

For comparison with the rest of the market, our ATS and screening pricing comparison puts TestGorilla next to the applicant tracking and screening tools US teams usually shortlist, with the plan that reads resumes marked on each.

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How do TestGorilla credits work?

A credit is charged once per candidate, at the moment the candidate starts the assessment, and the number of credits depends on which tools the assessment contains. TestGorilla moved to this model in January 2026. Before that, assessing a candidate always used a flat 3 credits, whatever was in the assessment.

Under the current model, resume scoring, qualifying questions and custom questions cost nothing. Skills tests cost 1 credit per candidate in total, whether you include one test or the maximum of five. A video question adds 1 credit, an AI interview adds 2, and ID verification, which is a Plus feature, adds 1. TestGorilla's own maximum is 4 credits for a standard assessment with every Plus tool, or 5 with ID verification. Inviting someone from TestGorilla's sourcing pool of more than 2 million candidates costs 1 credit on top.

Three rules decide how far a credit balance actually goes. Credits are charged when the candidate starts, and TestGorilla states they are not refunded if the candidate drops off halfway, citing completion rates of 85 to 90 percent. Credits are only deducted after a candidate clears any qualifying questions, which is why putting your knockouts in qualifying questions saves real money. And on Core and Plus, every credit, including any you buy mid-year, expires at the end of the current contract period.

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What does one assessed candidate really cost on TestGorilla?

On Core, one credit costs $6.82, because $1,704 divided by 250 credits is $6.816. Everything else follows from that. A skills-test assessment costs $6.82 per candidate who starts it, adding a video question makes it $13.63, and skills tests plus an AI interview make it $20.45.

Turn that around and the plan size becomes concrete. 250 credits is 250 candidates tested on skills alone in a year, or about 83 if every assessment includes an AI interview. Spread evenly, that is 21 tested candidates a month on the skills-only format. For a small team hiring a handful of roles a year, that is plenty. For a team running a single high-volume requisition, it is not, and the math is worth doing before signing rather than in month four.

Plus is harder to model because TestGorilla does not publish its credit tiers. The $4,800 floor buys a customized allocation set with sales, and the help center says the price per credit falls as you buy more. Ask for the per-credit rate in writing, because it is the only way to compare a Plus quote with Core.

The Free plan is the cheapest way to see the product but not a way to hire at any volume. Ten credits a month is ten skills-tested candidates, and when the balance hits zero TestGorilla says assessments stop accepting new candidates until the 1st of the next month. There is no top-up on Free.

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Where TestGorilla's own documents disagree

We found three places where TestGorilla's public materials contradict each other, and they matter because each one changes the number you would budget.

The first is the credit price of an assessment. The January 2026 help article and the pricing page both say skills tests cost 1 credit per candidate. TestGorilla's billing FAQ, on the same help center, still says evaluating a candidate on Core costs 3 credits, which was the rule before January 2026. At 250 credits, that is the difference between 250 tested candidates a year and 83. The newer article is the one that describes the current model, but ask for the credit schedule in the contract itself.

The second is the structured data on the pricing page. The page source carries a schema.org AggregateOffer that states a low price of $0, a high price of $115 and three offers, and it points to a G2 listing rather than to TestGorilla. Nothing on the visible page costs $115. It is a stale third-party figure embedded in the vendor's own page, and it is the kind of number that ends up quoted in an AI answer.

The third is the Core allocation itself. The pricing page never states how many credits Core includes. The 250 figure appears only in the help center, and at least one third-party buyer guide reports seeing a higher number on the pricing page at an earlier date. Whichever is true for you, get the allocation written into the order form.

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TestGorilla resume scoring versus reading the whole applicant pile

TestGorilla does score resumes, for free, and it is worth using if you already run TestGorilla. Resume scoring rates each resume from 0 to 5 on up to five criteria drawn from your job description, strips names, photos, emails and locations before scoring, shows a short explanation for each score, and lets you override the AI. It costs 0 credits on every plan.

The difference is where the resume comes from. TestGorilla scores a resume the candidate uploads inside a TestGorilla assessment, as a single .pdf or .docx file up to 2 MB. It is a step inside the test flow, so it only sees applicants who clicked through to your assessment. It does not read the applications already sitting in your ATS, and on Core there is no ATS integration to bring them in. All five criteria are weighted equally, and TestGorilla says weighting is not available yet.

Prescreener does the step before that. It reads every inbound resume as it lands, applies the knockout and eligibility criteria you write for the requisition, asks your screening questions, scores role-fit and returns the whole pile ranked with a plain-language reason under each candidate. That is bulk applicant screening across 1,000 applicants a month on Starter at $199, billed monthly. It does not test skills, run AI interviews or verify identity, and if you need those, TestGorilla is a credible choice with published pricing.

The combination is where the credit math gets better. Screen the full pile first, then send only the shortlist to a TestGorilla assessment. If 300 people apply and 40 clear your criteria, testing the 40 costs 40 credits instead of 300. Our TestGorilla alternative comparison covers the rest of the trade-off in more depth.

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