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, consistent 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 test library.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | EditingTests.com | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial specialization | 100% specialist — 7 purpose-built editorial tests | General platform — no dedicated editorial tests |
| Track Changes editing environment | ✓ Realistic track-changes editor (Editing Test and Full Editing Assessment) | ✗ Not available |
| Benchmark | Percentiles against comparable attempts at the same test, difficulty and industry; 130,000+ assessments since 1998 | No editorial benchmark database |
| Test library | 7 specialist editorial assessments | A large library of general tests across many 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 (12 business hours) | ✗ 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) |
| Free trial | ✓ Try any test free — no account required | ✓ Limited free plan |
| 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 |
Specialist vs Generalist: Why It Matters for Editorial Hiring
TestGorilla's broad 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 practicing editorial professionals, refined over 28 years of live testing, and every percentile is drawn from comparable attempts at the same test, difficulty and industry, with the size of that group shown. 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. 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.
Editorial Benchmark
Every result is ranked against comparable attempts at the same test, difficulty and industry, with the size of that group on the report; over 130,000 assessments administered 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 business hours. TestGorilla is automated-only — there is no human in the loop.
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