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Arc
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Remote-talent marketplace using AI screening to match vetted developers, designers and marketers for freelance or full-time roles.
1.0M visits/mo1.5K saves
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CodeSignal
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI-native skills platform for hiring assessments, AI interviews and live coding, plus upskilling across tech and business roles.
939K visits/mo557 saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Freelance: $15-$110+/hour
Full-time: 20% of annual salary
Free trial available
Build (Hire): $79/mo billed annually ($99 monthly)
Grow (Hire): $479/mo billed annually ($599 monthly)
Cosmo+ (Learn): $24.99/mo
Individuals (Learn): free
Core features
- ✦Lightning Fast Setup for candidate assessment
- ✦AI-Powered Evaluation with intelligent assessment engine
- ✦Real-World Skills assessments mirroring job responsibilities
- ✦Feedback on candidate's critical AI thinking
- ✦Vetted remote talent across many roles
- ✦HireAI applicant screening and auto-sourcing
- ✦Freelance (hourly) and full-time hiring
- ✦450,000+ talent across 190 countries
- ✦Dedicated recruiters and human support
- ✦Compliant global hiring and ATS integration
- ✦Technical and business skill assessments
- ✦AI Interviewer agents by role
- ✦Live tech interviews in a shared IDE
- ✦AI proctoring and fraud detection
- ✦Skills development academies with Cosmo AI tutor
- ✦Skills intelligence and benchmarking
- ✦ATS integrations; SOC 2 Type II
Use cases
- →Hiring candidates with elite AI skills and AI-native talent.
- →Assessing a candidate's AI fluency and critical thinking abilities.
- →Individuals testing and improving their 'vibe coding' and prompt engineering skills.
- →Hiring vetted remote developers and designers
- →Filling freelance or full-time roles fast
- →Screening applicants with AI
- →Building global teams compliantly
- →Technical and business hiring
- →Screen candidates at scale
- →Conduct live coding interviews
- →Upskill and reskill employees
- →University recruiting
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