Noise is loud. Evidence is quiet.
How 5Profiler stacks up against the global players — capability by capability, with their published prices where they publish them.
Their offer is a stack. Ours is a platform.
To match one 5Profiler you don't buy one competitor — you assemble several, then glue the reports together yourself.
The stack you'd assemble
Typical multi-vendor route to the same coverage
tests, IDE, libraryfrom $99/mo
personality & cognitive instrumentsquote-only + per-report fees
human proctors, evidence reviewtyp. $15–35 per exam session
separate scheduling and video toolsanother contract
stitching four reports per candidateyour team's time
5Profiler
The same coverage, one engine
Vendor prices from the matrix below; proctoring market rates from the proctoring table further down. Illustrative composition — your stack may differ.
5Profiler vs the global players
Compiled from each vendor's own public product and pricing pages on 18 July 2026. Where a vendor doesn't advertise a capability or a price, the table says so — capabilities may exist unadvertised; verify with the vendor.
| Capability | 5Profiler | Mercer Mettl | SHL | HackerRank | HackerEarth | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facet-level psychometrics | Yes30 facets, role-referenced | Yes26–28 scale instruments | YesOPQ32 | Notechnical skills only | Partialcommon-role tests | Partialshort domain tests |
| Culture, values & judgment fit | Yesown instruments, org values target | Partialseparate tests | Partialseparate questionnaires | No | Not published | Partialshort add-on tests |
| Cognitive & aptitude | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not published | Partial | Yes |
| Adaptive testing (CAT) | Yesbuilt into the engine | Not published | Yes | Not published | Not published | Not publishedfixed-form tests |
| Hands-on coding, real execution | Rolling outauthoring & editor live; execution launching | Yes | YesAutomata | Yescategory leader | Yes | Yes |
| AI camera proctoring | Yestiered, ID verification | Yes | Yes | PartialPro plan up | Yes | Partial30s snapshots |
| Live human proctoring | Yeslive proctor console | Yes | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Dual-camera second device | YesSecond Eye, QR pairing | Yes | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Evidence attached to every flag | Yesclip per violation, human review | Yes | Not published | Yes | Yes | Yessnapshots |
| Role-fit answer vs your JD | Yesone answer per candidate | Partialrole-mapped tests | Yes600+ role profiles | Partialrole tests | Partial | PartialJD → test picker |
| Trial / entry offer | Guided pilot (paid)one role, full battery | Not published | Not published | Yesfree trial | Yes30 days | Yesfree tier |
| Published starting price | Quoted plainlypilot-first — talk to us | Quote-onlyno public pricing | Quote-onlyno public pricing | $99/mo$82/mo billed annually · 5 attempts/mo | $99/mo$990/yr annually · 10 credits/mo | $0 · $142/mofree tier · Core, annual billing |
About this comparison. Capability and pricing information compiled from each vendor's public product, support and pricing pages on 18 July 2026 — vendors change plans and features; verify before purchase. "Not published" means we found no public claim, not that the capability doesn't exist. Prices are vendor-published list prices in USD; annual-billing equivalents shown where offered. Mercer Mettl, SHL, HackerRank, HackerEarth and TestGorilla are trademarks of their respective owners; no affiliation or endorsement is implied. Spotted an error? Tell us: [email protected] — we correct fast.
The proctoring tools guard exams. They don't hire anyone.
Dedicated proctoring services watch exams that live in someone else's platform — so you still buy the assessment stack, then pay per exam session on top. 5Profiler includes the proctoring with the assessment.
| Capability | 5Profiler | ProctorU · Meazure | Talview | Honorlock | Proctorio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live human proctoring | Yeslive proctor console | YesLive+ tier | Yescertified proctors | PartialAI-triggered pop-in | Partialadvertised option |
| Automated AI proctoring | Yestiered by stakes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dual-camera second device | Yesno app, QR pairing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not published |
| Evidence review workflow | Yesclip per flag, human decision | Yesprofessional review | Yes | Yesrecordings in LMS | Partialyour staff review |
| Built-in hiring assessments | Yespsychometrics · cognitive · subjects · values | Partialseparate cert/licensure platform | Yesown test library | Noruns in your LMS | Noruns in your platform |
| Five-fit candidate answer | Yesjob · cognitive · tech · values · judgment | No | Partialtests, separate scores | No | No |
| What proctoring costs you | Includedwith the assessment — never metered per exam | Quote-onlyinstitutions report $17–33 per live exam | Quote-onlyunit pricing · ~150–200 candidate minimum | Quote-onlyinstitutions report ~$9 per exam | Quote-onlyflat per-student fees reported |
The market rate that matters: live human-proctored exam sessions typically run $15–35 each at standard scheduling — up to ~$50 for long or on-demand sessions — and automated proctoring ~$5–10 per exam, based on published institutional fee schedules (Oklahoma State, Northwestern SPS, Miami Dade, UAF, LSUA) and industry pricing guides, accessed 18 July 2026. At 1,000 proctored candidates a season, that line item alone is five figures — before you've bought a single assessment. 5Profiler doesn't meter it.
All proctoring vendors above are quote-only for direct contracts; dollar figures are institution-charged fees under negotiated contracts, not vendor list prices, and vary by agreement. Examity (acquired by Meazure Learning in 2023; its website is offline as of this writing) is not shown separately. Trademarks belong to their respective owners; no affiliation or endorsement implied. Corrections: [email protected].
What only the whole-in-one gets you
Mettl and SHL are serious platforms; HackerRank owns coding depth; the proctoring specialists guard exams well. The edge is what happens when it's all one engine:
Proctoring is included
Not metered per exam, not a second vendor, not a plan upgrade — every tier ships with the assessment.
Answer and integrity, one report
Proctoring tools don't score candidates; test tools don't guard them. We do both — in the same document the panel reads.
Open integrity math
A published penalty model in the report itself — not a black-box "suspicion score" you have to defend blind.
Dual-camera without an app
Second Eye pairs the candidate's phone in the browser via QR — the rare capability, without the install friction.
Five fits, one answer
Job, cognitive, tech, culture & values and judgment resolve into one call — each from its own instrument. Others scatter them across separate tests, if they measure them at all.
Priced for volume
Campus seasons of ten thousand sittings without per-exam meter anxiety — the economics scale with you, not against you.
Interviews on the same record
Scorecard to scheduled panel to rubric score without an export — the interview suite is part of the platform, not a bolt-on.
Reports you design
Report Studio lets your team compose the report each audience sees — the panel’s one-pager and the psychometrician’s appendix from the same scores.
Moving is smaller than it looks
Parallel-run a pilot
One live role assessed on both stacks. Compare the reports your panel actually gets — same candidates, side by side.
Bring your roles
Role definitions and job descriptions import into role templates — your bar, not a generic benchmark.
Keep your stack
ATS and HRIS stay where they are. 5Profiler feeds them; it doesn't replace them.
Parallel-run a pilot against what you use today.
One live role assessed on both stacks — compare the reports your panel actually gets, and a sample report to keep.