Key takeaway: $13,225 a year is the median Criteria Corp contract in Vendr's buyer data on 18 October 2026, with a low of $9,580 and a high of $19,200. Criteria itself publishes no dollar price. Its plans and pricing page lists three plans, Criteria Assess, Criteria Interview and Criteria Hire, each behind a "Request Pricing" button, and tells buyers to "talk to our team for pricing built around your headcount." Every dollar figure on this page is a buyer-reported or competitor-published estimate, not a Criteria list price.
Criteria Corp sells pre-employment assessments (its Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test, or CCAT, is the best known) plus async and live video interviewing. On its cost savings page, Criteria says: "We charge a flat-fee subscription rate, so your recruitment budget stays predictable." That is the core of its pricing pitch, set against per-test pricing from competitors.
Two estimates frame the market. Vendr's median of $13,225 comes from its own transaction dataset. Two competing assessment vendors, EmployTest and Compono, both say Criteria starts at about $1,200 a year on a 12-month minimum. Those are a rival's claims, not Criteria's, so read them as the low end of what small accounts report.
Every figure below was read on 18 October 2026, rendered in a browser, and the exact quotes are in the source ledger committed with this article.
Does Criteria Corp publish its pricing?
No dollar amounts. Criteria's old /pricing URL now returns a 404; the live page is criteriacorp.com/plans-and-pricing, which opens with "Three flexible plans." Each plan card ends in "Request Pricing," and the request form is titled "Request a Free Quote."
| Criteria price point | Published by Criteria? | Figure (checked 18 Oct 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Criteria Assess, Interview or Hire subscription | No | Request Pricing, no list price |
| Pricing basis | Yes | "Flat-fee subscription rate," "tiered pricing," built "around your headcount" |
| Free trial | Yes | 14 days, for employers only |
| Median annual contract | No, buyer-reported | $13,225 (Vendr) |
| Contract range | No, buyer-reported | $9,580 low to $19,200 high (Vendr) |
| Average negotiated savings | No, buyer-reported | 24% (Vendr, 23.87% exact) |
| Entry price | No, competitor-published | About $1,200 a year on a 12-month minimum (EmployTest, Compono) |
G2's Criteria pricing page returned an access error on the check date and is not used.
How much does Criteria Corp cost per year?
The only dataset-based figure we found is Vendr's. Vendr shows a median of $13,225 per year, a low of $9,580 and a high of $19,200, and says buyers save 24% on average against the initial quote. Vendr does not publish the number of deals behind those figures or the company sizes, so treat the median as a rough guide to a mid-size account, not a quote.
The two competitor pages go lower and higher. Compono writes that Criteria's "quote-based annual subscriptions start at around $1,200 for small businesses and scale up to $40,000 or more for enterprise organisations," citing industry reviews rather than its own data. EmployTest, which sells pay-per-test packages, says "Criteria Corp starts at $1,200/year on a 12-month minimum." Both sell competing products, so their figures are estimates with a commercial interest behind them.
| Source | What it is | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| Vendr | Software buying platform, transaction data | Median $13,225 a year; $9,580 to $19,200 |
| Compono | Competing assessment vendor, citing reviews | From about $1,200 a year to $40,000+ |
| EmployTest | Competing assessment vendor | From $1,200 a year, 12-month minimum |
What is in each Criteria plan?
Criteria's plans differ by product line, not by usage limit. All three include Criteria's core platform, branded experience, standard ATS integrations, SSO and MFA, per the pricing page.
| Plan | What Criteria lists | AI upgrade (priced separately) |
|---|---|---|
| Criteria Assess | All assessments (cognitive, personality, emotional intelligence, risk, and skills), TestMaker and template library, non-AI proctoring | Criteria AI Assess adds AI Proctoring analysis |
| Criteria Interview | Async video interview, real-time video interview with transcripts, summaries and insights | Criteria AI Interview adds AI features and the AI Interview Agent |
| Criteria Hire | Everything in Criteria Assess and everything in Criteria Interview | Criteria AI Hire includes all AI features |
On top of any plan, Criteria lists add-ons: AI Proctoring, AI Features, AI Interview Agent, Premium Integrations and Criteria Develop, a post-hire development product. The page says you can "attach any of these to any base package. Nothing bundled you won't use." In practice, the AI features and deeper integrations are the line items that move a quote above the base plan.
What drives a Criteria Corp quote?
Criteria names headcount; Vendr names assessment volume. Criteria's pricing page says pricing is built "around your headcount," and its cost savings page describes "tiered pricing" on a flat-fee subscription. Vendr's description is different: it says pricing "is based on the number of assessments purchased annually." Ask which meter your quote uses, because the two lead to different costs for a fast-growing team.
Criteria makes its case for flat-fee pricing in its own buyer's guide, which contrasts subscriptions with "the pay-per-test model, in which there is a cost to administer an assessment, and you pay each time a candidate takes the assessment." A subscription lets you test every applicant early in the funnel without a per-candidate charge, which matters most in high-volume hiring.
Three questions narrow a quote: is the price set by headcount or by annual assessment volume, which AI upgrades are included, and does the 12-month term auto-renew at the same rate.
How does Criteria pricing compare to TestGorilla and HireVue?
The pricing models differ more than the headline numbers. Prices below are from each vendor's own page on 18 October 2026 unless labelled.
| Tool | What you pay for | Published price (18 Oct 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Criteria Corp | Flat-fee subscription, tiered | None; median $13,225 a year (Vendr, buyer-reported) |
| TestGorilla Assessments | Per account, credits (1 credit per candidate for most tests) | Free plan with 10 credits a month; Core from $215 a month and Plus from $520 a month, per account, billed annually |
| HireVue | Custom plans | None; hirevue.com/pricing shows no dollar figure |
| Noon | One plan, no seat or usage meters | Quote-based, no published price |
TestGorilla is the only one of the three that publishes prices, and its credit model charges per candidate, the model Criteria's subscription is built to avoid. For a wider view of assessment vendors, see our skills assessment tools comparison and the recruiting software pricing index.
How does Noon compare to Criteria Corp?
Criteria tests and interviews candidates you already have. Noon works earlier in the funnel: its AI recruiting platform finds candidates across the whole web, not just LinkedIn, evaluates them against the role, runs personalized email and SMS outreach, and books the first conversation. Teams that need validated cognitive testing can run Criteria after Noon has filled the pipeline.
The pricing logic is similar in one way. Criteria sells a flat-fee subscription so testing more candidates does not raise the bill. Noon's pricing goes further: a single plan with unlimited sourcing, unlimited contacts, unlimited agents and unlimited seats, so a hiring push does not move you into a higher tier. Noon does not publish a dollar price either.
Sources and methodology
We read criteriacorp.com (plans and pricing, request pricing, free trial, cost savings, the buyer's guide, integrations and the cognitive aptitude page) on 18 October 2026, rendered in a browser. We also read Vendr's Criteria page, Compono's Criteria pricing guide, EmployTest's Criteria comparison (dated 26 March 2026), and the TestGorilla and HireVue pricing pages the same day. G2's pricing page returned an access error. Exact quotes and fetch times are in the source ledger committed with this article. Search demand was checked the same day: "criteria corp pricing" draws about 30 US searches a month per DataForSEO.
Criteria's integrations page features Greenhouse, iCIMS, Jobvite, SmartRecruiters and UKG Pro among its ATS partners. Criteria's own claim that high CCAT scorers "were 7x more likely to be high performers" is a vendor statistic; for independent evidence on what predicts job performance, see our summary of structured interview validity research. For budgeting assessments inside total hiring spend, see our cost per hire benchmarks.
Limitations
Criteria confirms none of the dollar figures on this page. Vendr does not disclose its sample size, deal dates or company sizes, so its median and range cannot be broken down by team size. The $1,200 entry figure comes from two competitors, neither of which shows a Criteria invoice or quote. Vendr and Criteria describe the pricing meter differently (assessment volume versus headcount), and we could not resolve which applies to a given contract.
FAQ
How much does Criteria Corp cost in 2026?
Criteria does not publish a price. Vendr's buyer data shows a median contract of $13,225 a year, with a range of $9,580 to $19,200. Competitors EmployTest and Compono say plans start at about $1,200 a year. All of these are estimates, not Criteria list prices.
Does Criteria Corp charge per test?
Criteria says no: its cost savings page says "we charge a flat-fee subscription rate." Vendr describes pricing as based on the number of assessments purchased per year, so confirm the meter in your quote.
Does Criteria Corp have a free trial?
Yes. Criteria offers a 14-day free trial for employers. There is no free plan listed on its pricing page.
What are Criteria Corp's plans?
Three: Criteria Assess (all assessments), Criteria Interview (async and real-time video) and Criteria Hire (both). Each has an AI upgrade, and add-ons include AI Proctoring, the AI Interview Agent, Premium Integrations and Criteria Develop.
Is Criteria cheaper than TestGorilla?
It depends on volume. TestGorilla publishes Core from $215 and Plus from $520 a month per account, billed annually, with credits per candidate. Criteria's buyer-reported median of $13,225 a year is a flat subscription, which can cost less per candidate at high volume.
Does Noon replace Criteria Corp?
No. Criteria is an assessment and interviewing tool; Noon sources, evaluates and contacts candidates on a single unlimited plan. Many teams would use Noon to fill the pipeline and an assessment tool to test it. See how Noon is priced.
