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Coderbyte

48Judge labels
13First choices
6Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.3, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
13% in Technical hiring assessm for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 52 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 13 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Coderbyte →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In technical hiring assessm · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Coderbyte for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Technical hiring assessmentsTalent acquisition13%3 of 528%13accepted challenger
Candidate assessmentTalent acquisition0%37 of 1000%1under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 68%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Coderbyte yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Coderbyte across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash11002
Perplexity Sonar11002
Grok 4.1 Fast11002
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash00011
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.510001

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct11 labels1
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative5 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained19 labels12
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative48 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 15 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“the best fit is usually Coderbyte or TestDome, with Coderbyte having the strongest support in the results as a cost-effective option” Perplexity Sonar · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · first choice
“Coderbyte stands out as one of the best coding assessment platforms due to its affordable entry-level pricing” Grok 4.1 Fast · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · first choice
“CoderByte offers all-inclusive pricing and is affordable if you're hiring on a budget” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · first choice
“Coderbyte if you need more regular assessments (flexible pricing with free trial)” MiniMax M2.5 · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Coderbyte has a mixed reputation. While it is widely used, it suffers from specific reliability and validity issues” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Coderbyte, over the 48 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Coderbyte was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
TestDome20 of 484Not among the top eight
Playcode7 of 480Not among the top eight
Criteria Corp6 of 481Not among the top eight
Adaface5 of 480Not among the top eight
CodeSubmit4 of 481Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Coderbyte. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 39 of the 48 answers that named Coderbyte and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com33
hackerrank.com29
codesubmit.io28
goodfit.so22
testgorilla.com20
codesignal.com19
testlify.com19
testtrick.com16
g2.com15
interviewcost.com15

216 of the 216 domain citations in answers naming Coderbyte came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Coderbyte

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Coderbyte; a claim can dispute any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Coderbyte by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Coderbyte is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Coderbyte, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

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Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Coderbyte is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
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Coderbyte is among the products AI models recommend first in Technical hiring assessments this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of September 2026.

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Among AI models' top three in Technical hiring assessments, September 2026 Edition, HR AI Recommendation Index
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