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Intuitive Interface
It's easy to start using Equip on your own. You can create your first sharable assessment within 2 minutes after creating an account. Equip offers a smooth user experience for both recruiters and candidates.
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Custom Tests Tailored for You
Upload multiple existing questions with Equip’s one-click Import from Excel feature. Easily reuse Custom Tests, adjust test duration by adding or deleting questions, and avoid subjecting your candidates to marathon tests!
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Pay As You Need Pricing
With Equip, you pay just $1 (or less!) per candidate—no recurring bills. Get 10 free credits at signup, and purchase more anytime, regardless of your team size, unlike HackerRank.
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Why should you switch from HackerRank to Equip?
Whether you need assessments for hiring at a startup or an enterprise, Equip has all the features and pricing plans to help you screen the most eligible candidates for every role.
Flexible Custom Tests
Equip offers extensive flexibility in creating Custom Tests that can include all test types available on the platform, such as Quizzes, Programming Challenges, CSS Challenges, SQL Challenges, and Video Interviews. HackerRank also allows the creation of Custom Tests, it limits you to adding question types under Programming, Projects, and General Questions.
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Create tests seamlessly
On Equip, a Custom Test bundles multiple questions as a single unit, easily reusable in any assessment with one click. It can also be cloned with ease. On HackerRank, questions from a custom test are added individually to the library. Reusing them later requires adding each question separately, which can be cumbersome for large tests.
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Unique Question Types
Equip offers diverse question types, including voice input and transcription, ideal for evaluating communication skills. Explore 10+ question types in Equip’s Quizzes. HackerRank offers coding challenges, MCQs, whiteboard, and file uploads.
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Tailored Test Timing
Equip lets you show questions one-by-one with individual timers or all at once with a single timer. Negative points are auto-calculated when enabled. In HackerRank, you can set an estimated time per question, which sums up to the test's overall duration.
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Comprehensive Skill Assessments for Each Role
Equip offers 100+ Skills for assessing both technical roles (e.g., Backend Developer, Data Analyst) and non-technical roles (e.g., Customer Support Executive, Digital Marketer). Our Skill Library can be customized to create tailored assessments for any role. Equip assessments consist of a series of tests that candidates complete sequentially.
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Cost-Effective Assessments: Equip vs HackerRank
Equip provides a simple pay-as-you-go pricing model with no subscription fees or long-term lock-ins. You receive 10 free credits when you sign up, and can buy more credits anytime. Each candidate assessment costs $1, and the total price is based on the number of candidates you assess.
HackerRank offers a 14-day free trial, with pricing from $319 to $819/month. Test attempts and features like Code Reviews and Plagiarism Detection vary by plan. The Enterprise Platform includes custom license requests, test attempts, and ATS integrations. Roughly costs $20/candidate.
Comparing Proctoring Features Equip vs HackerRank
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Frequently Asked Questions
Equip is pay-as-you-go at $1 per candidate with no subscription or lock-ins, plus 10 free credits on signup. HackerRank offers tiered subscriptions (noted as roughly $319–$819 per month, with an effective ~$20/candidate depending on plan and usage). If your hiring volume fluctuates, Equip helps you keep costs tightly aligned to actual usage.
Equip lets you get started very easily. Equip is designed for self-serve onboarding—create and share an assessment in ~2 minutes. It also provides ready-made Question Banks, documentation, tutorials, and live chat support to guide recruiters and candidates. HackerRank is powerful and widely adopted, especially for engineering teams, but typically involves more setup within subscription plans.
Both support custom tests. The workflows differ:
- Equip: A Custom Test is a reusable bundle; you can clone it, import questions in bulk from Excel, adjust duration by adding/removing questions, and drop the whole bundle into any assessment with one click.
- HackerRank: Custom-test questions are generally added to your library individually, so reusing a large test later can require adding each question one by one.
No, only Equip covers both. HackerRank focuses on technical hiring (Programming, Projects, and General Questions). Equip supports tech and non-tech with a broader set of question types—quizzes, coding, Excel, voice input, transcription, attention-to-detail, psychometric, one-way video interviews, and more—so teams can standardize screening across functions.
Equip’s granularity gives you fine control over pacing and fairness. Equip lets you present questions one-by-one with individual timers or all at once with a single timer; it can auto-apply negative scoring when enabled. HackerRank allows setting an estimated time per question, which rolls up into the overall test duration.
HackerRank provides selected monitoring capabilities within its plans; Equip’s default, layered approach is helpful for high-stakes or fully remote assessments. Equip includes AI-powered proctoring such as face and audio signals, tab-switch detection, session recording, and multi-device checks—built in, without extra add-ons.