Most small businesses waste money on bad hires, not bad job ads. The fix is testing candidates before you meet them — and TestGorilla does that better than anything else at this price point.
Our Pick: TestGorilla
Why: Its library of 400+ validated assessments covers more role types — from customer support to coding — than Toggl Hire can match at comparable price points.
Choose Toggl Hire if: You're a remote-first tech company that wants skills tests and async video screening in a single, cleaner workflow.
Quick Comparison
| TestGorilla | Toggl Hire | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $0/month | $0/month |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Best for | SMBs, agencies, skills-based hiring | Tech companies, remote-first startups |
| Ease of setup | Fast — tests ready out of the box | Fast — pipeline view is intuitive |
| Integrations | Strong (ATS, Slack, Zapier) | Moderate (fewer native connections) |
| ToolWise Score | 8.7/10 | 8.5/10 |
Where TestGorilla Wins
Assessment depth is genuinely unmatched. With over 400 tests spanning cognitive ability, personality, situational judgment, and hard skills, TestGorilla covers nearly every role a small business is likely to hire for. Filling a sales position or a junior developer seat? There's a validated, ready-to-use test waiting — no configuration required.
The cognitive and personality layer adds real signal. Most hiring tools give you a skills test and call it a day. TestGorilla layers in cognitive assessments and personality profiles that show you how a candidate thinks, not just what they know. For roles where attitude and adaptability matter as much as technical skill, that's genuinely useful data to have before you spend two hours on a first interview.
Coding assessments are production-ready. If you're a non-technical founder hiring your first developer, TestGorilla's coding tests take the guesswork out of evaluating candidates. The tests are structured around real-world tasks rather than academic puzzles, which means the results actually tell you something meaningful about on-the-job performance.
Where Toggl Hire Wins
The pipeline view makes candidate management far less painful. Toggl Hire presents your hiring process as a visual pipeline — stages, statuses, and candidates all in one place. For small teams managing multiple open roles without a dedicated HR person, this alone can save a few hours a week in email chains and spreadsheet wrangling.
Async video screening is a genuine differentiator. Toggl Hire's built-in video screening lets candidates record responses to your questions on their own schedule. For remote-first businesses hiring across time zones, this is a practical answer to a real coordination headache — and it keeps human review time concentrated on candidates who've already cleared the skills threshold.
The interface clicks faster for fast-moving teams. TestGorilla can feel dense if you're new to assessment-based hiring. Toggl Hire has a lighter, more modern feel that tends to suit teams who want to get a role posted and reviewed without a steep ramp-up. Setup to first candidate assessment can happen in under thirty minutes on your first go.
Pricing: What You Actually Pay
Both tools offer free plans, but they're different in what they give you. TestGorilla's free tier lets you access a limited selection of tests with a cap on candidates — workable for occasional hiring, not realistic for anything consistent. Toggl Hire's free plan restricts volume similarly but includes the pipeline view, making it slightly more useful as a long-term free option for very small teams.
At the paid tier, TestGorilla's Starter plan unlocks the full test library with higher candidate volume, and that's where the value lands — the library justifies the cost almost immediately if you're hiring more than two or three people a year. Toggl Hire's paid plans unlock higher candidate volumes and the video screening features, which are the real reason to upgrade. If your hiring is light and mostly non-technical, Toggl Hire's paid tier will feel like overkill. If you need assessment breadth, TestGorilla's paid plan is the better investment.
Who Should Choose TestGorilla
If you hire across multiple role types — support, sales, operations, and technical — and need one tool to cover all of them, TestGorilla is the clear answer. If cognitive ability is a key hiring signal in your business, the personality and situational judgment tests give you something Toggl Hire simply doesn't offer. If you're an agency handling recruitment for clients across different industries, the assessment variety means you're never caught without the right test. If you've been burned by hiring someone who interviewed well but couldn't do the job, the skills-first approach here is specifically designed to close that gap.
Who Should Choose Toggl Hire
If your hiring is concentrated in tech, product, or remote-friendly roles, Toggl Hire's focused toolset fits the workflow without unnecessary complexity. Async video screening matters for distributed teams — and Toggl Hire is the only one of these two that handles it natively. If you're a small team that needs a visual pipeline to stay organised without investing in a full ATS, the built-in candidate management earns its place. If your priority is getting something live quickly with minimal setup friction, Toggl Hire gets you there faster.
The Final Word
TestGorilla wins. Assessment depth and breadth matter more to most small businesses than a cleaner interface, and the 400+ test library — combined with cognitive and personality assessments — gives you a fuller picture of each candidate before you make an expensive mistake. Toggl Hire is a solid tool for tech and remote-first companies that need video screening, but it covers a narrower slice of the hiring market. For most small businesses hiring across mixed role types, TestGorilla delivers more signal per hire. That signal is the whole point.