Codility vs Sova
Codility
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| Figure | Codility | Sova |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $100/mo | £800/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 3 | 8 |
| Spec score · Talent Assessment Software | 9.0 (#3) | 7.2 (#28) |
| Spec score · Pre-Employment Assessment Software | 9.0 (#4) | 7.2 (#29) |
| Founded | Codility was founded in 2009 by Greg Jakacki, with Natalia Panowicz contributing psychometrics and business expertise. | 2015 |
| Integrations | Codility lists Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SAP and other enterprise ATS/HRIS integrations. | Named ATS integrations include Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS, Oleeo, SmartRecruiters, GR8 People, eArcu, Taleo, Avature, PeopleFluent, SAP SuccessFactors, and Pinpoint. |
| Security certifications | Codility states that it is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and audited annually under SOC 2 Type II. | Sova lists ISO 27001, CyberEssentials Plus, GDPR, and CCPA compliance and says it undergoes annual third-party audits. |
| Support | The help center offers searchable articles, tutorials, integration guidance, security administration and ticket support. | Sova describes dedicated implementation and customer success teams, technical support, and qualified business psychologists. |
Plans
Sova
- Video Interviews Core£800 a month
- Virtual Assessment Centres Core£800 a month
- Assessments Core£1,200 a month
- All-In-One Core£2,000 a month
- All-In-One AdvancedPriced on request
- Assessments AdvancedPriced on request
- Video Interviews AdvancedPriced on request
- Virtual Assessment Centres AdvancedPriced on request
In their own words
Codility
Codility offers Screen, Interview and Skills Intelligence for engineering hiring, technical interviews and workforce skills mapping. Screen provides online technical assessments with objective scores and detailed breakdowns across a library of more than 1,300 tasks. Interview supports live technical interviews in a VS Code environment, including whiteboarding, pair programming, live code execution, recordings and structured evaluation. Skills Intelligence maps engineering capabilities, identifies gaps and supports project staffing and development planning. Teams can configure AI use for each assessment, with tasks on prompt engineering, evaluating AI-generated code and working with AI tools. Codility connects with recruiting and HR systems including Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SAP and SmartRecruiters. Its public API supports invitations, result retrieval, completion alerts and custom reporting, with a limit of 500 requests per user per hour. Codility says its security program is ISO 27001 certified and covered by a SOC 2 Type II report; it also states that data is encrypted in transit and at rest. It states GDPR and CCPA compliance and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in London.