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DevParser vs HackerRank

The take-home half of what HackerRank does, at a sixth of the cost per screen

HackerRank is the default for timed, invigilated screens against a 2,000-question bank. DevParser is built for the other model — a real take-home, run against your hidden tests, reviewed by Claude, and returned with the evidence of how it was written.

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What a screen costs on each side

MetricDevParserHackerRank
Entry plan, billed annually$950 / year$1,990 / year
Screens included360 / year120 / year
Cost per screen (annual billing)$2.64$16.58
Extra screensUpgrade or packs~$20 each

Competitor figures are published self-serve list prices, checked 28–30 September 2026; DevParser figures come from devparser.it/pricing. Enterprise and negotiated contracts differ. We re-check these quarterly.

Where HackerRank is stronger

  • A 2,000+ question library and a historical plagiarism corpus built from years of submissions across thousands of employers.
  • AI-assisted tests where the candidate works with an AI assistant and you read the full transcript and an AI Fluency score, plus the Chakra voice interviewer and webcam and device proctoring.
  • The brand your CTO already recognises, with enterprise procurement, scaled support and a long security-review track record.

Where DevParser is stronger

  • $2.64 per screen on Starter — 360 screens a year for $950 — against $16.58 on HackerRank's entry plan, where extra attempts run about $20 each.
  • Nothing to leak: every task is generated per candidate from the role, stack and seniority, instead of drawn from a shared bank that needs a leak-monitoring service pointed at Stack Overflow and GitHub.
  • Process evidence for work done at home — editor telemetry, optional public-git commit history, peer similarity and public-code matches — presented as evidence a reviewer inspects, never a score that decides alone.
  • ATS integration on the entry plan across 11 platforms, plus CV parsing — HackerRank generates tests from a job description but does not parse CVs.
  • You do not have to rebuild your question set to switch: paste the take-home you already send and we extract the description, requirements, test cases and starter code for you to check — we never invent a field the brief did not contain.

Which one to buy

Choose HackerRank if you run timed, invigilated screens at volume, want a large ready-made question bank on day one, or your security review requires webcam proctoring.

Choose DevParser if your funnel runs on take-homes, you care more about how the code was written than whether a camera was on, and the entry-plan bill is what stopped you buying.

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Start a 14-day trial, or send us the CV pile for one open role and we'll send back a screening report within 24 hours — free, no call.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Take-homes, integrity, pricing, and how we differ from HackerRank and Codility

They lead on timed screens, question libraries, and webcam/device proctoring — and on huge shared plagiarism databases. DevParser is built for real take-homes: hidden tests + Claude review, paste-blocking editor telemetry, optional public-git process evidence, and same-company peer similarity. We are intentionally not a proctoring clone. Their libraries are also their weak spot: a shared bank of thousands of questions is a bank that leaks, which is why they run leak-monitoring services against it — DevParser generates the task per candidate, so there is nothing to leak.

If you want them to. Each invitation is either AI blocked (the default; paste is refused and logged) or AI allowed. In allowed mode the candidate gets an assistant inside the editor, up to 30 messages, which never sees your tests or reference solution. You read the whole conversation next to the code, and the review adds an AI-fluency note on whether they broke the problem down, checked the answers and fixed the assistant's mistakes. That note sits beside the score and never changes it. AI-allowed mode is on Growth and above, and on the 14-day trial so you can try it first. The assistant's usage comes out of your plan's AI budget; there is no per-message charge.

Yes — the UK is where we launched. Plans are priced and billed in pounds, month to month. Our data processing agreement covers UK GDPR and includes the ICO International Data Transfer Addendum; candidate data is hosted in the EU and never used to train models. For recruitment agencies, your logo goes on the candidate report from Starter, and Bullhorn, Vincere and JobAdder connections are in beta.

Every plan includes the paste-blocking editor and server-scored session telemetry, and the reviewer sees each time the candidate ran the visible tests. Candidates can also submit a public git repo so commit history becomes process evidence for take-homes. Growth, Professional and Enterprise add peer similarity and public repository search. Style alone never decides and we never auto-reject: reviewers confirm or override each flag and the decision is logged. On Growth and above you can also allow an AI assistant per invitation: the candidate works with it inside the editor, you read the full conversation, and the review includes an AI-fluency assessment. Optionally the candidate answers a few written questions about their own submission; the answers and an advisory AI reading of them go to the reviewer and never change the score.

We run the code against your hidden test cases, then Claude analyses the outcome. You get objective results (pass/fail, runtime errors) plus scoring on quality, efficiency and best practices. That beats reading the code alone.

DevParser pairs hidden-test execution with AI-assisted review. You get hard test outcomes plus a summary of correctness, quality, efficiency and risks. Your team can always review and adjust the score — the AI supports your judgement, it doesn't replace it.

Yes. We integrate with 11 ATS platforms including Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, BambooHR, Ashby, Teamtailor, Recruitee, eRecruiter, Traffit, Recruit CRM, and more. On every paid plan, agentic screening auto-syncs candidates, generates personalised coding tasks, and queues AI evaluations. You set daily limits; DevParser handles the rest. Agency CRMs Bullhorn, Vincere and JobAdder are available in beta.

Both. A pair session opens a shared editor and gives you one link to send — the candidate joins with no account and no install, you both type in the same document in real time, and the session is saved when it ends. That is on every plan, including the trial. The take-home is what we screen with; the live round is where you decide.

200 curated tasks across backend, frontend, data and QA, in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C#, Go and Rust. 196 of them are graded by hidden tests that a reference solution has been run against, so you can send a take-home on day one without writing a prompt. When the brief is specific, DevParser generates a fresh task per candidate from the role, stack and seniority you specify, so there is nothing to leak: that exact problem has never been posted, sold, or indexed. And you do not have to give up the take-home you already use: paste it in — the README, the brief, whatever you send candidates today — and we pull out the description, requirements, test cases and starter code for you to check before anything is saved. We extract, we never invent: a field the brief did not contain comes back empty and says so.

We execute code in 35+ languages, including Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C, C++, C#, Go, Rust, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Scala, Elixir and Haskell. Framework code — React, Django, Rails, Spring — can be submitted and goes into the AI review, but hidden tests run against the language runtime rather than a framework test harness. New languages land regularly.

Create an account and your 14-day trial starts immediately — no card and no checkout. You only enter payment details when you choose a paid plan at the end of the trial. For those 14 days you get the full plan you chose, with the same limits and features a paying customer gets. After that, plans are month-to-month with no long-term contract.

Candidate data is encrypted in transit, integration credentials are encrypted at rest, and candidate data is processed with GDPR-aligned and EU AI Act-ready controls (transparency notice, explanations, human oversight tools). Submissions are used only to run your evaluations — they are not used to train foundation AI models, and you can delete a candidate and their data at any time.

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