# HackerRank: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/hackerrank/
Covers: July 9, 2025 to Oct. 5, 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "HackerRank: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/hackerrank/, updated 2026-11-11

> HackerRank is on the AI hiring software map. We record 4 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 5, 2026.

"Hire for the agentic era." Technical hiring platform for engineering teams: coding tests (Screen), live pair-programming interviews (Interview), and Chakra, an agentic AI interviewer that became generally available in October 2026. Candidates can use an AI assistant inside the IDE, and HackerRank grades how they use it. An AI Add-on sells proctoring, a lockdown desktop app and plagiarism checks. Customers can also hire directly from its community of 30 million+ developers. It does not sell an ATS. Source: [hackerrank.com](https://www.hackerrank.com/).

## Facts

- Site: [hackerrank.com](https://www.hackerrank.com/)
- Category: Skills assessments
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-hackerrank)

"Hire for the agentic era." Technical hiring platform for engineering teams: coding tests (Screen), live pair-programming interviews (Interview), and Chakra, an agentic AI interviewer that became generally available in October 2026. Candidates can use an AI assistant inside the IDE, and HackerRank grades how they use it. An AI Add-on sells proctoring, a lockdown desktop app and plagiarism checks. Customers can also hire directly from its community of 30 million+ developers. It does not sell an ATS. Source: [hackerrank.com](https://www.hackerrank.com/).

- Category: Skills assessments
- Price: not verified in this pass; AI features sold as an AI Add-on
- AI capabilities: Named agents, AI interviews, AI assessments, Fraud and identity, MCP and agent APIs and Interview notes
- Scale: Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (More than 3,000 business customers and 30M+ developer community (TechCrunch, 2026-10-05); 2,500+ customers in July 2025 release.)

Sources: [hackerrank.com](https://www.hackerrank.com/), [hackerrank.com](https://www.hackerrank.com/blog/hackerranks-ai-day-2025-product-launch-recap/), [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/empowering-future-ready-teams-hackerranks-ai-driven-solutions-modernize-tech-talent-strategies-302500667.html), [hackerrank-knowledge-base.help.usepylon.com](https://hackerrank-knowledge-base.help.usepylon.com/articles/8474307750-october-2025-release-notes), [hackerrank-knowledge-base.help.usepylon.com](https://hackerrank-knowledge-base.help.usepylon.com/articles/8142080826-july-2026-release-notes), [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/hackerranks-ai-interviewer-offers-a-glimpse-into-what-job-interviews-could-become/) and [1 more on the map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-hackerrank).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### HackerRank makes Chakra AI interviewer generally available

Launch, Oct. 5, 2026. Chakra, HackerRank's agentic AI interviewer, reached general availability after a six-month beta of more than 500,000 interviews; companies that tried it include Snowflake, Snorkel and Capgemini. HackerRank says suspicious-activity flags were 70% to 80% lower than in traditional assessments.

Source: [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/hackerranks-ai-interviewer-offers-a-glimpse-into-what-job-interviews-could-become/). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-hackerrank).

### HackerRank adds MCP server and gaze detection

Launch, July 2026. July 2026 release notes add a "read-only Model Context Protocol (MCP) server" in limited availability, Diff View and Plan Mode in the IDE, and Gaze Detection as a proctoring signal.

Source: [Vendor changelog](https://hackerrank-knowledge-base.help.usepylon.com/articles/8142080826-july-2026-release-notes). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-hackerrank).

### AI-assisted IDE comes to HackerRank tests, plus a lockdown desktop app

Launch, October 2025. October 2025 release notes add an AI-assisted IDE in Tests, a Desktop App that locks the screen and flags anomalies, auto-scored code reviews and Scorecard Assist summaries.

Source: [Vendor changelog](https://hackerrank-knowledge-base.help.usepylon.com/articles/8474307750-october-2025-release-notes). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-hackerrank).

### HackerRank opens AI interviewer and AI proctoring to customers

Launch, July 9, 2025. HackerRank's AI interviewer became "Now available for initial candidate screening" with real-time hints and thought-process evaluation, alongside Proctor mode, which "provides AI-powered assessment integrity" with session replay.

Source: [Vendor release (PR Newswire)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/empowering-future-ready-teams-hackerranks-ai-driven-solutions-modernize-tech-talent-strategies-302500667.html). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-hackerrank).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology