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

How much does TestGorilla cost?

TestGorilla Assessments costs from $215 a month on Core and from $520 a month on Plus, billed annually, and the Free plan is $0 with 10 credits a month. Gorilla Sourcing is a separate line at $74 or $134 a month per seat. Those figures come straight from testgorilla.com/pricing in US dollars. The page also shows EUR, GBP, AUD and INR, so check the currency selector before you copy a number into a budget.

Two things changed since September. The prices rose, from $142 to from $215 on Core and from $400 to from $520 on Plus. And the page now carries a Pay monthly option next to Pay annually, with annual marked Save 25 percent. The headline figures are the annual ones, so the first invoice on an annual Core contract is at least $2,580, not $215. The word from on both Assessments plans means the price grows with the credit tier you pick.

There is no longer an Enterprise card on the page. Plus is the top published tier, and larger buyers are steered to sales for custom credit tiers. 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.

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How do TestGorilla credits work?

Credits are spent when a candidate starts an assessment, and inviting is free. The current pricing page lists the cost of each tool: 1 credit for each skills test in the assessment, 1 for video questions, 2 for an AI interview and 1 for ID verification, which is Plus only. Resume scoring, qualifying questions and custom questions of every type cost 0 credits. Costs stack per tool, credits are shared across the whole account rather than per role, annual plans pool credits for the year and monthly plans reset each month.

That per-test rule is a real change. Under the model TestGorilla described from January 2026, an assessment with up to five skills tests cost 1 credit per candidate in total. Under the per-test wording on the pricing page, the same five-test assessment costs 5. Two other rules decide how far a balance goes. Credits are only deducted after a candidate clears your qualifying questions, which is why putting knockouts there saves money. And on paid plans, the billing FAQ says every credit, including any bought mid-year, expires at the end of the contract period. Core customers can buy up to 20,000 credits per contract year before TestGorilla moves them to Plus.

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What does one assessed candidate really cost on TestGorilla?

At the Core entry price, one credit costs $10.32, because $2,580 divided by 250 credits is $10.32. What a candidate costs then depends on which credit rule your contract follows, and the gap is large. A one-test assessment is $10.32 either way. A three-test assessment is $10.32 under the January rule and $30.96 under the per-test rule. TestGorilla's billing FAQ gives a third answer, a flat 3 credits per evaluated candidate, which is $30.96 whatever the assessment contains.

Turn that around and the plan size becomes concrete. 250 credits is 250 candidates on a single test, or 83 candidates on a three-test assessment under the per-test rule. Spread evenly, that is 7 candidates a month on a typical three-test format. For a small team hiring a handful of roles a year, that can be enough. For a team running one 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. Ask for the per-credit rate at your tier in writing, because it is the only way to compare a Plus quote with Core. For a vendor that publishes nothing at all, see how Criteria Corp pricing is built on estimated tests used instead.

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Where TestGorilla's own documents disagree

TestGorilla's public materials give three different answers to the question that decides your budget: how many credits one candidate uses.

The pricing page says 1 credit per skills test, stacking. Its own worked example then contradicts itself in the same panel: one line says two skills tests plus an AI interview is 4 credits, and the example below it says the same assessment costs 3 credits per candidate. The help article on how credits work, updated in October, says on Core and Plus every skills test costs 1 credit, and two sentences later that an assessment with up to 5 skills tests costs 1 credit per candidate. The billing FAQ, also updated in October, says evaluating a candidate costs 3 credits.

At 250 credits those readings are the difference between 250 tested candidates a year and 83. None of them is obviously the one TestGorilla will bill, so get the credit schedule for your exact assessment 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 is listed as free on all three Assessments plans and costs 0 credits. It rates each resume against criteria drawn from your job description and shows a short explanation for each score.

The difference is where the resume comes from. TestGorilla scores a resume the candidate uploads inside a TestGorilla assessment. 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.

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 on three tests costs at most 120 credits instead of 900. Our TestGorilla alternative comparison and the Criteria Corp vs TestGorilla breakdown cover the rest of the trade-off.

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