What CodeSignal Hire costs in Nov 2026: Build, Grow and Pro, how credits work, the $20 extra credit, and a cost model at 100, 500 and 1,000 interviews next to Tracy.
6 Nov 20267 min readFacts checked 3 Nov 2026
Checked on 3 Nov 2026 against CodeSignal's own pricing and AI Interviewer pages (see Sources).
TLDR
Tracy AI Interviewer has no plan or seat fee. Each applicant starts when they click the link and gets CV-tailored questions and answer-led follow-ups. Every result brings a recording, a transcript timed to it and integrity signals with evidence.
CodeSignal Hire brings validated assessments, a full IDE, proctoring and live technical interviews, from $79 a month billed annually. Its credits cover assessments, AI interviews and live interviews alike, and extra credits cost $20 each. Its pages do not say how many credits one AI interview uses, so the model below shows the floor.
On price, Tracy has no plan or seat fee: the first 3 results are free, then $7 per credit, with one credit per started 20 minutes.
CodeSignal sells validated coding assessments and an AI Interviewer inside the same plans. So one set of credits buys a test, an AI interview or a live session with a human. Tracy AI Interviewer is a different kind of purchase: an interview for each applicant, with CV-tailored questions, follow-ups and evidence behind every result. This page walks through CodeSignal's plans, shows how far the credits go at 100, 500 and 1,000 interviews next to Tracy, and says where the published numbers stop.
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CodeSignal Hire has three plans. Build and Grow show a price; Pro is quoted.
Plan
Annual billing
Monthly billing
Credits
AI interviewers
Build
$79 a month
$99 a month
60 a year, or 5 a month
Product, Design, Engineering
Grow
$479 a month
$599 a month
420 a year, or 35 a month
Adds Sales, CS, Marketing
Pro
Custom
Custom
Custom
All
Build also lists access to 2,000 questions, AI proctoring and ID verification. Grow adds basic ATS integrations, and the page's Core ATS list names Gem and Ashby. Pro adds advanced fraud prevention, role-based access control and enterprise ATS integrations such as Workday, iCIMS and Oracle. Every plan states SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and CCPA compliance and encryption.
Two things sit behind those cards. The annual price is a monthly figure, so Build is $948 a year and Grow is $5,748 a year. Dividing by the credits gives $15.80 per credit on Build and $13.69 on Grow with annual billing, and $19.80 on Build and $17.11 on Grow billed monthly ($99 for 5 credits, $599 for 35). These are our calculations from the published figures, not prices CodeSignal lists.
How do CodeSignal credits work?
A credit is used when a candidate starts an assessment, an AI interview or a live interview, not when you send the invitation. Credits are interchangeable across the three formats, so a team can spend them on whichever mix it needs, and an unopened invitation costs nothing.
When the included credits run out, hiring does not stop. CodeSignal charges on-demand credits at $20 each, billed on the next cycle.
That structure suits a team that wants one vendor for tests, AI screens and live technical interviews. The same flexibility makes the cost of any single format hard to isolate.
What does the pricing page not say?
Credits per AI interview. The pricing page says what starts a credit. It does not give a credit count for an AI interview, and neither does the AI Interviewer page.
Credits per assessment or live interview. Not listed either, so the mix a plan covers cannot be worked out from the page.
A free trial. The plan cards offer Start with Build or Grow and carry no trial wording. The AI Interviewer page does let you try a live sample interview by phone or browser.
Pro. The price is custom, so nothing past Grow can be modeled.
Because of the first gap, every CodeSignal cost per interview below depends on an assumption of ours: one credit for each started AI interview. If CodeSignal uses more, the cost rises by the formula in the next section.
What does it cost at 100, 500 and 1,000 interviews?
The model counts 12 months, annual billing, and one credit per AI interview that a candidate starts. Each table cell is a 12-month total. The cost is the annual fee plus $20 for every credit beyond the plan's allowance. Build includes 60 credits and Grow includes 420.
Interviews
Build
Grow
Lower
100
$1,748
$5,748
Build, $17.48 each
500
$9,748
$7,348
Grow, $14.70 each
1,000
$19,748
$17,348
Grow, $17.35 each
The working: Build at 100 interviews is $948 plus 40 extra credits at $20. At 500 it is $948 plus 440 extra credits, and at 1,000 it is $948 plus 940. Grow at 100 interviews is the $5,748 fee with credits to spare. At 500 it is $5,748 plus 80 extra credits, and at 1,000 it is $5,748 plus 580.
Pro could be cheaper or dearer at 1,000 and is left out because its price is not published. Of the three volumes, the lowest cost per interview falls at 500, close to where Grow's 420 credits run out. Past that point every extra interview costs $20, so the average climbs again.
If an AI interview uses two credits, apply the same formula to double the credit count. At 500 interviews that is 1,000 credits, which on Grow is the same $17,348 the table shows for 1,000 interviews at one credit.
How does Tracy pricing compare?
Tracy AI Interviewer sells results. There is no seat fee and no plan fee, and each result is a full interview: the person starts when they click the link, at any hour, so a team can interview every applicant without booking anyone's calendar. With CV check on, Tracy asks 3 to 5 questions tailored to the CV and the role's must-haves, then follows up on what the person says and waits for the answer. The recruiter gets the recording, a transcript timed to the recording, a written assessment per question and integrity signals with their evidence, for a person to review. Teams can start an interview from an invitation link, an apply page or their own system, and Enterprise plans include API and MCP connections and a setup customised to the team's workflow (pricing).
Result length
Credits
Price
Up to 20 minutes
1
$7
21 to 40 minutes
2
$14
41 to 60 minutes
3
$21
The first 3 results are free, credits never expire, and a session with no answers is never charged.
For results of up to 20 minutes, 100 interviews cost 97 x $7 = $679 after the free three, 500 cost $3,479, and 1,000 cost $6,979. Longer results cost more: a result between 21 and 40 minutes takes two credits. CodeSignal says its AI phone screen typically runs 15 minutes and can be configured, so a 20-minute ceiling is a fair way to line the two up. Both comparisons are list prices. They leave out volume agreements and anything either vendor adds in a contract.
The two products also price different things. CodeSignal's credits cover tests and live interviews with human interviewers as well as the AI interview. Tracy prices one thing, a video interview with a result you can check. Our AI interview cost guide sets out how seat, plan and per-result models differ, and the HireVue pricing and Ribbon pricing pages show two vendors that publish less.
Is CodeSignal worth the price?
For a team whose hiring is mostly engineering and who wants validated assessments, a full IDE, proctoring and live technical interviews under one contract, the Build and Grow plans are the place to start. CodeSignal states that its certified assessments are validated by I/O psychologists and backed by 2,800 hours of research each, and it lists a 4,000+ question library for live interviews. A team that needs that depth should price CodeSignal first and buy Tracy only if it also wants interviews for roles where a test does not fit.
Tracy fits when the job is the conversation itself: interviewing every applicant, in the person's own field, and reading what each one said with a recording and transcript to check it against. On the modeled numbers it also costs less, without a yearly commitment. For how the two products differ beyond price, read Tracy vs CodeSignal or the CodeSignal alternatives shortlist. If your first rounds include coding, AI technical interviews explains how Tracy handles a coding task.
Questions
How much does CodeSignal cost?
CodeSignal Hire lists Build at $79 a month billed annually ($99 billed monthly) and Grow at $479 a month billed annually ($599 billed monthly). Pro is custom. An extra credit costs $20.
What is a CodeSignal credit?
A credit is used when a candidate starts an assessment, an AI interview or a live interview. Credits work across all three formats, and an invitation nobody opens costs nothing.
How many credits does one AI interview use?
The pricing and AI Interviewer pages do not say. The cost model on this page assumes one credit as a floor; ask CodeSignal for the number in writing.
Does CodeSignal have a free trial?
The pricing page offers Start with Build or Grow and shows no trial wording. The AI Interviewer page lets you try a live sample interview.
How does Tracy pricing compare?
Tracy has no plan or seat fee. The first three results are free, then $7 per credit, and one credit covers each started 20 minutes of a result. A session with no answers is not charged.
CodeSignal, Pricing: Build, Grow and Pro prices, credit counts, what uses a credit, $20 on-demand credit, plan inclusions, ATS integrations and security wording.
CodeSignal, AI Interviewer: typical length of the AI interview, live sample interview and what the report contains.
CodeSignal, Technical Assessments: validated assessments and 2,800 hours of research per assessment.
CodeSignal, Live Tech Interviews: 4,000+ question library across 70+ coding languages and frameworks.
Tracy AI Interviewer, home: follow-ups that depend on the answer before, integrity signals list, 'you read the words, then you decide', starts at any hour.
Tracy AI Interviewer, product: CV check with 3 to 5 questions, three ways in (invite link, apply page, your own system), transcript timed to the recording, video interview.
Tracy AI Interviewer, volume hiring: each applicant starts on click at any hour, no recruiter and no calendar.
Tracy AI Interviewer, pricing: $7 per credit, 1 credit per started 20 minutes, first 3 results free, no-answer sessions not charged, no seats, Enterprise with API and MCP connections and a customised setup.
