--- title: "How pay-as-you-go assessment pricing works (credits explained)" description: "Pay-as-you-go assessment pricing means you pay per candidate assessed instead of an annual licence. How credit pricing works, what an assessment costs, the crossover arithmetic that says when a subscription is cheaper, and which vendors publish a price at all." canonical: https://www.assessall.com/guides/how-pay-as-you-go-assessment-pricing-works updated: 2026-09-03 source: AssessAll --- # How pay-as-you-go assessment pricing works (credits explained) Pay-as-you-go assessment pricing means you pay per candidate assessed instead of an annual licence. How credit pricing works, what an assessment costs, the crossover arithmetic that says when a subscription is cheaper, and which vendors publish a price at all. _Last updated 2026-09-03._ ## Pay-as-you-go assessment pricing in one sentence Pay-as-you-go assessment pricing means an organisation pays only for the assessments people actually take — metered per candidate — instead of committing to an annual platform licence, seat counts, or a minimum contract. On AssessAll the meter is a credit: 1 credit = ₹30 (about US$0.50). Every assessment in the catalogue has a credit price, your organisation holds a credit wallet, and each completed attempt draws down the wallet. No seats, no per-user fees, no renewal negotiation. ## What one assessment actually costs Credit prices scale with assessment depth. A self-insight profile (resilience, time and focus, people acumen) runs about 15 credits; an applied skill assessment with scenario judgement and written responses about 26; a multi-assessment leadership set 45–50; and a full executive diagnostic 68–70 credits. In hiring terms: a typical screening set costs 15–26 credits — ₹450–₹780 per candidate — including AI grading, AI proctoring with integrity bands, and the candidate's report. That per-candidate arithmetic is the whole model: a 100-candidate drive costs roughly ₹45,000–78,000, and a quiet quarter costs nothing. ## Free credits, then packs when volume grows Every new organisation receives 250 free credits at signup (individuals get 100), valid for 90 days — enough to run a real pilot, a team assessment cycle, or a small hiring drive before paying anything. After that you either pay as you go at ₹30 per credit or buy a pack: Starter (250 credits, ₹7,500), Growth (1,000 credits, ₹27,900 — 7% off), or Scale (5,000 credits, ₹130,500 — 13% off). Packs are a volume discount, not a subscription: credits don't expire on a renewal date and there is nothing to cancel. ## When pay-as-you-go beats a subscription Assessment demand is lumpy. Hiring happens in drives, campus placements in a season, training programmes in cohorts — yet most assessment platforms sell annual licences priced for peak usage. If you assess 500 people in March and 20 in July, a licence makes you pay for March all year. Pay-per-candidate pricing matches cost to the work: placement cells pay per drive, HR teams pay per programme, training providers pass the metered cost through to clients (wholesale packs run up to 13% off). The trade-off runs the other way only at very high constant volume, where enterprise agreements can win — which is why AssessAll also offers custom terms at that scale. ## The arithmetic that tells you when to stop paying us per candidate Subscription versus pay-per-use is a crossover, not an argument, and the crossover is one division you can do yourself. Take the annual plan price you are being quoted and divide it by your per-candidate cost here. On AssessAll a screening set of 15–26 credits is US$7.50–13.00 a candidate, so a plan billed at US$1,704 a year breaks even somewhere around 130 to 210 candidates a year. Below that, metering is cheaper. Above it — and if the volume is steady rather than seasonal — the subscription wins, and we would rather you knew that from our own page than found it out later. Two things make the division less clean than it looks, and both cut against the subscription rather than for it. Plans carry their own limits — candidate volume, number of open jobs, number of seats — so a plan price only converts into a per-candidate price at the volume that plan actually permits; check the limits before you divide. And a licence is billed whether or not you use it, so what matters is not your annual total but your annual profile: 500 candidates in March and 20 in July is a very different purchase from 45 a month, even though the totals match. The honest summary: metered pricing wins on lumpy demand and loses on high steady volume. If your hiring is genuinely continuous and large, ask us for custom terms or buy the subscription — the arithmetic above is the same either way. ## Who in this market publishes a price at all Before comparing prices it is worth noticing how few there are to compare. Checked at source on 3 September 2026, TestGorilla publishes three tiers on its own pricing page — a free plan, Core at US$142 a month on an annual commitment (US$1,704 billed annually), and Plus from US$400 a month (from US$4,800 annually) — with its Enterprise tier quoted on request. Enterprise assessment vendors more commonly publish no plan prices at all and route every enquiry through a sales conversation. Quote-on-request is a legitimate model, not a trick — enterprise deals genuinely vary. But it changes what a buyer can do unaided: you cannot run the division in the section above against a price you have to ask for, and you cannot compare two vendors without briefing both. That is the reason every AssessAll price is on the public pricing page in both currencies, including the ones that make us the more expensive option at volume. A rule that costs nothing and saves a great deal: before you shortlist, write down each vendor's published price and mark the ones you had to ask for. That list is usually more informative about the buying process ahead of you than any feature grid. ## Reading an assessment platform price page: what to check Wherever you buy, four questions expose the real cost: Is the price per candidate assessed or per seat per year? Are AI grading and proctoring included or priced as add-ons? Is there a platform fee or minimum commitment before the first assessment? And can you pilot free with real candidates before signing? AssessAll's answers: per candidate; included; no platform fee or minimum; and yes — 250 free organisation credits. Prices are published in both INR and US dollars, with INR shown GST-inclusive. ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does AssessAll cost? AssessAll is pay-as-you-go: 1 credit = ₹30 (about US$0.50), and each assessment has a credit price — roughly 15 credits for a self-insight profile, 26 for an applied skill assessment, and 45–70 for leadership and executive diagnostics. A typical hiring screen costs ₹450–₹780 per candidate. There are no seat licences, platform fees, or minimums, and new organisations get 250 free credits. ### What is a credit on an assessment platform? A credit is a prepaid unit of usage: your organisation holds a wallet of credits, and each completed assessment draws down its credit price. It converts lumpy assessment demand into a simple meter — you pay for attempts taken, not for user accounts or calendar time. ### Do AssessAll credits expire? Purchased credits don't expire on a renewal cycle — a pack is a volume discount, not a subscription. Only the free signup credits carry a validity window (90 days), which is there to encourage a real pilot. ### Is pay-as-you-go cheaper than an assessment platform subscription? For seasonal or campaign-based usage — hiring drives, campus placement season, training cohorts — almost always, because you pay nothing between campaigns while a licence bills year-round. At very high constant volume, negotiated enterprise pricing can win; AssessAll offers custom terms at that scale. ### At what volume does an annual assessment subscription become cheaper than paying per candidate? Divide the annual plan price by your per-candidate cost. An AssessAll screening set is 15–26 credits, or US$7.50–13.00 a candidate, so an annual plan at US$1,704 breaks even at roughly 130–210 candidates a year. Two caveats before you trust the number: plans carry volume, job and seat limits, so a plan price only converts to a per-candidate price at the volume it permits; and a licence bills all year, so seasonal demand favours metering even when the annual totals are similar. ### Can I try AssessAll before paying? Yes. Organisations receive 250 free credits at signup and individuals get 100, valid for 90 days — enough for a genuine pilot: a team assessment cycle, a TNA wave, or a small hiring drive, with AI grading and proctoring included. ### Does AssessAll charge in US dollars or Indian rupees? Both. Every price is published in INR and USD (1 credit = ₹30 = US$0.50). INR prices are GST-inclusive; USD prices are flat published price points rather than a fluctuating currency conversion. --- Source: https://www.assessall.com/guides/how-pay-as-you-go-assessment-pricing-works