The uxerhub alternative to TestGorilla, for product roles
By Sergio Gualda · 6 min read · Updated
TestGorilla is a general talent assessment platform: its own site lists 350+ skills tests, AI interviews, job simulations and resume scoring, covering hiring across an entire organisation. uxerhub does one thing — it scores how someone decides in six product roles, against the capabilities you name as essential for that particular job. If you hire across many functions, TestGorilla is the right shape. If your problem is choosing between four product designers for one specific role, a broad library gives you a score that is the same no matter what the job actually needs.
What TestGorilla does better
Breadth, and it is not close. TestGorilla's library spans 350+ tests across programming, cognitive ability, personality, language and role-specific skills. If you are the only person doing talent at a company that hires salespeople, support agents, accountants and two engineers a year, one platform that covers all of it is worth more than any single instrument that covers one function well.
It also does things we do not do at all: AI video interviews, resume scoring, and sourcing. Those are separate problems from ours, and a team that wants them solved in one place should not pretend otherwise.
And it is a mature product with a large customer base, which matters more than founders like to admit. Procurement, security review, ATS integrations, support — all of that is settled at TestGorilla and is still being built here.
Side by side
Everything in the TestGorilla column comes from their own public site. Where they do not publish something, this says so rather than guessing.
| TestGorilla | uxerhub | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | 350+ tests covering hiring across an entire organisation | Six product roles — product designer, product manager, UX researcher, design engineer, front-end engineer and UX writer. Nothing else, deliberately. |
| What produces the score | The test you pick. Two companies running the same test on the same candidate get the same result. | The role you describe. You name up to three capabilities the job cannot do without, and those weight the score — so the same candidate reads differently for two different jobs. |
| What is measured | Skills, knowledge, cognitive ability, personality and simulated tasks, depending on which tests you assemble | Judgment under changing constraints: which action someone reaches for first, and which they rule out entirely. Twelve written situations, no correct option among them. |
| Time on the candidate | Depends on how many tests you stack into one assessment | One assessment, about fifteen minutes, no countdown |
| Pricing shape | Subscription tiers; the site directs you to a pricing page or a demo | First candidate free, then credit packs that never expire. No subscription, no seat count, no demo required. |
| AI in the scoring path | AI features across interviews, scoring and screening | None. Scoring is deterministic arithmetic, which is why the report exists the second a candidate submits. |
Which one you should pick
Choose TestGorilla if
- You hire across many functions and want one platform for all of them.
- You want video interviews, resume screening or sourcing in the same tool.
- You are screening high volumes and need to cut a large pool fast.
- You need an established vendor with ATS integrations and a security review already done.
Choose uxerhub if
- Your open roles are product roles, and the shortlist decision is genuinely hard.
- Two people on your team disagree about what this particular job needs — and want the score to reflect the answer.
- You want to know how someone decides, not what they can recall.
- You want to try it on one real candidate without a subscription or a call.
The difference that actually matters
A test library answers: how good is this candidate at X? That is the right question when X is a skill with a correct answer — SQL, Excel, a programming language, a language.
It is the wrong question for a product designer, because there is no X. The strongest product designer you have ever worked with was strong at something specific: cutting scope under a deadline, or holding a line on accessibility, or reading research honestly instead of finding what the brief wanted. Those are different people, and they are all excellent. Which one you should hire depends entirely on what this job needs.
That is why uxerhub asks you to describe the role first and name up to three capabilities it cannot do without. The candidate answers the same twelve situations either way. What changes is what the answers are worth — and the report ends in a recommendation about the role rather than a score about the person.
What we do not claim
We are not calibrated yet. The instrument is built and the scoring is deterministic, but we have not yet run enough hires through it to publish predictive validity, and we say so on the record on our own site. Anyone selling you an assessment should be able to tell you what theirs has been validated against and how; if they cannot, that is worth asking about — of them and of us.
We also do not cover backend, data or infrastructure roles, and we are not going to. Our advantage is depth in a narrow band, and a wider catalogue would turn us into another library — competing with TestGorilla on exactly the ground where TestGorilla wins.
Frequently asked
- Can uxerhub replace TestGorilla entirely?
- Only if every role you hire for is one of the six product roles we cover. For most companies it is not, and the honest answer is that uxerhub sits alongside a broad platform rather than replacing it — you use the library for the rest of the company and uxerhub for the product roles where the shortlist decision is hard.
- Does TestGorilla have situational judgment tests?
- TestGorilla's library includes situational and personality-style assessments among its categories. The difference is not the format but what weights it: a library test scores the same way for every buyer, and uxerhub weights the same twelve situations by the capabilities you said this specific role cannot do without.
- How much does uxerhub cost compared to TestGorilla?
- TestGorilla does not publish rates on its homepage and routes you to a pricing page or a demo. uxerhub publishes its full pricing: the first candidate is free, then credit packs at $89 for 5 candidates, $290 for 20 and $690 for 60. Credits never expire, there is no subscription, and candidates never pay.
- Do candidates have to sit both?
- A candidate sits the uxerhub assessment once. If a second company asks them for the same one, it is not repeated — the existing result is used. That is a deliberate limit on how much of a candidate's unpaid time this industry is entitled to.