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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 HackerEarth.
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Why should you switch from HackerEarth 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 provides extensive flexibility for creating Custom Tests, allowing you to include all available test types such as Quizzes, Programming Challenges, CSS Challenges, SQL Challenges, and Video Interviews. In contrast, HackerEarth's Custom Tests are limited to technical roles and offer fewer question types.
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Prevent cheating with advanced proctoring
Equip offers advanced AI-powered proctoring with features like tab switch detection, random photo capture, multiple monitor detection, and full-screen enforcement. In contrast, HackerEarth’s proctoring is basic, lacking screen sharing, audio recording, and face detection, which leaves room for cheating and impersonation, without detailed proctoring reports to verify test integrity.
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Unique Question Types
Equip’s Randomized Template and Question Banks ensure different candidates see unique variants of a question, reducing the chance of cheating or finding answers online. In contrast, HackerEarth offers a filter to hide publicly available questions, preventing the use of easily searchable questions but without creating unique variants for each candidate.
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Tailored Test Timing
Equip’s tests provide flexibility to display questions one-by-one with individual timers or all at once with an overall timer, and negative points are auto-calculated when enabled. HackerEarth also offers timers and negative points but lacks segregation between timed and untimed questions, which can confuse candidates as timers run simultaneously.
Start free trialComprehensive 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 HackerEarth
Equip offers a pay-as-you-go model with no subscriptions. Get 10 free credits at signup, and purchase additional credits as needed—$1 per candidate, with pricing based entirely on your usage. Access all features during the free trial.
HackerEarth pricing starts at $169/month, with additional costs for proctoring, integration, and support. The Starter plan costs $8.45 per candidate and Enterprise $7.38, making it 8 times more expensive than Equip’s $1 per assessment.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Equip charges $1 per candidate with no subscriptions or hidden fees. You also get 10 free credits on signup. HackerEarth starts at $169/month, with an effective cost of $8–10 per candidate, plus extra charges for features like proctoring, integrations, and support. Equip’s transparent pay-as-you-go model makes it easier to scale affordably.
Equip is better.It covers tech and non-tech roles with test types like SQL, CSS, psychometric, Excel, typing, communication, and one-way video interviews—helping recruiters consolidate all skills screening on one platform. HackerEarth is primarily geared towards technical assessments, offering strong coding challenges and hackathon capabilities.
Both allow custom tests, but the flexibility differs:
Equip: lets you bundle any test types into a reusable Custom Test, bulk-import questions from Excel, and clone tests with one click.
HackerEarth: offers custom tests too, but they’re mostly limited to technical roles and fewer question formats.
Equiphas better, in-built AI-powered proctoring, including tab-switch detection, random photos, multiple monitor detection, face and audio checks, and full-screen enforcement—with detailed reports. HackerEarth provides basic proctoring such as webcam monitoring and plagiarism checks, but lacks deeper features like audio/video monitoring or variant-based randomization.
Equip uses Randomized Templates and Question Banks so each candidate gets unique variants, minimizing cheating. HackerEarth allows you to filter out publicly available questions, but it doesn’t automatically generate unique question variants—making it easier for repeated questions to be circulated.
Equip gives recruiters the option to show questions one-by-one with individual timers or all at once with an overall timer. It also auto-applies negative marking when enabled. HackerEarth provides timers and penalties too, but runs them simultaneously, which can feel less intuitive for candidates.