True cost · HR, payroll, and hiring software
Codility true cost: the 36-month total
Codility costs $3,600 over 36 months on Starter at 1 account, billed annually, before 3 cost lines that sit outside the plan price.
What Codility costs over 36 months
Every figure below is Codility's own published rate, annualised and multiplied out over 36 months at 1 account. Where Codility publishes no rate, the row says so instead of guessing.
Renewal sensitivity: three scenarios, not a forecast
Nobody knows what Codility charges in 2029. The table below is arithmetic on a rate you choose, not a prediction: it compounds the year-one total forward at 0%, 5% and 10% so you can see how much of the 36-month figure is exposed to a renewal you have not negotiated yet.
Scenario arithmetic on Codility's own published year-one figure. Uplift rates are illustrative inputs, not observed or predicted rates.
What sits outside the Codility list price
3 lines, sorted by when in the contract lifecycle they land. Lines marked as derived are arithmetic on Codility's own tier table rather than vendor prose.
Each line, what triggers it, and how to avoid it
Usage and overage
Stated on the pricing page: Overage charges per additional candidate invite beyond plan
What triggers it. Fires when consumption crosses the included limit. This is the line that decouples your Codility bill from your headcount, and it can grow while your team does not.
How to avoid it. Negotiate committed-volume pricing if consumption is predictable at all. Over 36 months, a pre-committed rate beats list overage by a wide margin.
Unpublished pricing
Stated on the pricing page: Custom proctoring and SSO restricted to Custom tier
What triggers it. Fires at quote time. Unpublished pricing means the comparison you can do from public data is necessarily incomplete for Codility.
How to avoid it. Benchmark it against a rival that does publish. Public pricing is bargaining power, and pre-employment assessment has enough transparent vendors to make the comparison real.
Feature gated to a higher tier
Derived from the published tiers: Moving from Starter to Scale costs a further $176,400 over 36 months at 1 account, which is 50.0x the entry total.
What triggers it. Fires when a requirement lands that Starter does not cover. The jump is rarely proportional: you pay the higher tier across the whole 1 account basis to unlock one capability.
How to avoid it. Ask whether the capability can be bought as an add-on to Starter. Vendors frequently unbundle when the alternative is losing the deal.
How that compares across hr, payroll, and hiring software
The median hr, payroll, and hiring software tool we track charges $75 a month at its cheapest paid tier. Re-expressed on the same basis as the figure above, 1 account for 36 months, that median works out at $2,700.
Codility lands $900 above that figure, 33.3%, measured across 34 tracked tools. A gap either way is a question, not a verdict: cheaper often means fewer included seats or a thinner support tier, and the fee lines below are where that difference usually reappears.
What changes at enterprise scale
Everything above prices the self-serve ladder. Enterprise sits off that ladder, which means the $3,600 figure is a floor for a large deployment rather than an estimate of one.
Custom tier unlocks unlimited users, SSO/SAML, premium video proctoring, and Skills Intelligence with multi-year locked pricing.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Codility cost over three years?
$3,600 on Starter at 1 account, billed annually, which is $100 a month held flat for 36 months. That figure covers the subscription only.
Does paying Codility annually save money?
Codility publishes the same effective rate either way on Starter, so there is no prepay discount to capture. Keep the monthly option unless the vendor offers something for the commitment.
What does Codility charge for outside the plan price?
3 lines: usage and overage, unpublished pricing, feature gated to a higher tier. Each one is broken down above with what triggers it and how to avoid it.
Could Codility cost more at renewal?
Possibly, and nothing on this page predicts it. If the rate held flat the three-year total would be $3,600; at a hypothetical 10% a year it would be $3,972. Cap the uplift in the contract and the question stops mattering.
Is Codility expensive for hr, payroll, and hiring software?
Over 36 months it lands $900 above the $2,700 category median, measured across 34 tracked tools on the same basis.
Price Codility on your own numbers
This page holds the term axis. The pricing breakdown holds the seat axis: every tier, the per-seat calculator, and the same fee list against the monthly figure.
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Sources and method
- List rates and fee disclosures: Codility official pricing page, verified 17 May 2026.
- 36-month totals: the published annual-equivalent rate multiplied by 36, at 1 account. No inflation, no discount, no fee estimates included.
- Renewal rows: scenario arithmetic on rates stated in the table. They are inputs, not observations.
- Category median: the cheapest paid monthly tier of every tool we track in the same category, re-expressed over 36 months.