Platform Comparison · 2026
EditingTests.com vs TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a broad-spectrum hiring platform. EditingTests.com is built exclusively for editorial talent. Here's what that difference means in practice.
Choose EditingTests.com if
You're hiring editors, proofreaders, writers, or communications professionals and need specialist, defensible benchmarks.
Choose TestGorilla if
You're hiring across many different roles — developers, customer support, sales — and need a general-purpose screening tool.
The bottom line
For editorial roles, a specialist platform with 28 years of benchmark data will always outperform a generalist with 400 generic tests.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | EditingTests.com | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial specialisation | 100% specialist — 7 purpose-built editorial tests | General platform — no dedicated editorial tests |
| Track Changes editing environment | ✓ Realistic track-changes editor (ET, FEA) | ✗ Not available |
| Benchmark database | 130,000+ candidates over 28 years | No editorial benchmark database |
| Test library | 7 specialist editorial assessments | 400+ general tests across all disciplines |
| Proofreading test | ✓ Authentic published-style passages | Generic attention-to-detail tests only |
| Industry vocabulary | ✓ 4,400+ sector-specific vocabulary banks | ✗ Not available |
| Human expert review | ✓ Every open-response result, before release (12hr SLA) | ✗ Fully automated only |
| Anti-cheat measures | Fullscreen lock, tab detection, clipboard block, server-side timing | Webcam monitoring, IP tracking |
| Pricing model | Pay per credit — no subscription required | Annual subscription (Core and Plus are annual-commitment plans) |
| Starting price | From $50 per assessment — credits never expire | Core $142/mo, billed annually ($1,704/yr) |
| Large company pricing | Same price per credit regardless of company size | Plus from $400/mo ($4,800/yr); Enterprise by quote |
| Free trial | ✓ Try any test free — no account required | ✓ Limited free plan (5 tests) |
| Max tests per assessment | Up to 7 specialist tests | Max 4 tests per assessment |
| ATS integrations | REST API + native Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby connectors | Greenhouse, SmartRecruiters, Workday, BambooHR, Zapier |
| Candidate results transparency | Full percentile report with skill breakdown | Score breakdown — no external benchmark |
| Scoring transparency | Full scoring guides available | Opaque — quiz guides not viewable |
| Setup time | Under 5 minutes to first invitation | Fast setup for standard assessments |
| Founded | 1998 — 28 years of editorial data | 2019 |
Specialist vs Generalist: Why It Matters for Editorial Hiring
TestGorilla's 400+ test library is genuinely impressive — for hiring developers, marketers, and customer support agents. For editorial roles, quantity works against you. A platform built around cognitive aptitude and verbal reasoning is not the same as one built to test whether a candidate can competently apply Chicago style, identify a dangling modifier, or restructure a sentence without changing its meaning.
EditingTests.com's seven assessments were created by practising editorial professionals, refined over 28 years of live testing, and benchmarked against a database of 130,000+ real candidates. That benchmark is the critical differentiator: it tells you not just whether a candidate scored 72%, but whether 72% puts them in the top quartile or the bottom half for their role.
How scoring is explained here
Every open-response result — Writing, Editing, Proofreading and the MS Word practical — is reviewed by a human editor before it reaches you, and the report shows the score for each dimension of the rubric rather than a single number.
The rubric itself is published on our methodology page, so you can see what a mark was awarded for before you send a candidate the test, not after.
The Pricing Problem
A Subscription You Commit To For a Year
TestGorilla's paid plans are annual-commitment subscriptions: Core at $142 a month is billed as $1,704 for the year, and Plus starts at $400 a month, or $4,800. That is the cost whether you assess two hundred candidates or two — the commitment is to the year, not to the hiring you actually do.
EditingTests.com charges per assessment credit, regardless of company size. A team of 5 pays the same rate as a team of 500. Credits never expire, so seasonal hiring costs no more than steady hiring, and there is nothing to cancel. You can try any test free with no account required.
Which model suits you comes down to volume. If you assess candidates continuously all year, a subscription may well work out cheaper. If your editorial hiring comes in bursts — a few roles, a few times a year — you are paying for the twelve months either way.
Where EditingTests.com Has No Equivalent
Track Changes Editor
Our Editing Test uses a genuine track-changes environment that mirrors Word and Google Docs. Candidates mark changes the way they would on the job. TestGorilla has no equivalent.
28-Year Benchmark Database
Every result is ranked against 130,000+ real editorial candidates tested since 1998. TestGorilla provides scores but no external editorial benchmark.
Human Expert Review
Every open-response result — Writing, Editing, Proofreading and MS Word Part B — is reviewed by a human editor before it is released, within 12 hours. TestGorilla is automated-only — there is no human in the loop.
About the figures on this page
Competitor pricing was read from each company's own public pricing page on . Prices change, and several of these companies do not publish them at all — where that is the case we say so rather than estimate. Feature comparisons describe what each product publicly documents. If you find something out of date here, tell us at [email protected] and we will correct it.