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Bullhorn vs Codility

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Bullhorn

Recruitment

Applicant tracking and CRM for staffing and recruitment agencies, including contract placement, timesheets and pay-bill

From
On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite
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Codility

Recruitment

Technical coding assessment platform priced by annual invite volume, not by seat count alone

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Bullhorn pricing is per user on annual contracts with minimum seat counts, so agencies with seasonal consultants pay for licences that sit idle for months.; Codility pricing is capped by candidate invites per year, not by hiring headcount, so a busy recruiting quarter or hiring surge can exhaust the allowance faster than a company's growth plan anticipated.
  • They diverge on capability: Bullhorn covers Recruitment CRM, Codility covers Coding task library.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Bullhorn and Codility actually diverge.

Attributes where Bullhorn and Codility differ
AttributeBullhornCodility
Pricing modelquotePer year by candidate invite volume, with platform user limits per tier
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb

Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Recruitment).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Bullhorn

  • Recruitment CRM
  • Applicant tracking
  • Pay and bill
  • Bullhorn Automation
  • Analytics
  • Onboarding
  • Executive search
  • Salesforce edition

Only in Codility

  • Coding task library
  • Automated scoring
  • Plagiarism detection
  • Live coding interviews
  • ATS integrations
  • Candidate experience reporting

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Bullhorn

  • A contract staffing agency that needs worked hours to become both a worker payment and a client invoice against one placement recordnot Codility
  • A recruitment firm where consultants sell to clients and manage candidates in the same working daynot Codility
  • An agency consolidating several acquired offices onto one system of recordnot Codility
  • An executive search practice needing assignment-based workflow rather than requisition-based trackingnot Codility

Codility

  • An engineering team with a steady, moderate hiring volume that fits comfortably within the Starter or Scale invite allowancenot Bullhorn
  • A company that wants automated coding assessments integrated directly into an existing applicant tracking systemnot Bullhorn
  • A hiring team concerned about AI-generated or copied solutions wanting built-in plagiarism detectionnot Bullhorn
  • An organisation running live, interviewer-led coding sessions in addition to take-home assessmentsnot Bullhorn

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Bullhorn

  • Pricing is per user on annual contracts with minimum seat counts, so agencies with seasonal consultants pay for licences that sit idle for months.
  • The product estate has been assembled through a decade of acquisitions, which leaves overlapping modules, inconsistent interfaces and more than one supported way to do the same task.
  • Implementation and data migration are multi-month projects requiring paid services, and agencies moving from another system routinely underestimate the effort of cleaning candidate and client records first.
  • The interface is dated relative to newer recruitment tools, and consultants coming from consumer-grade software need real training rather than picking it up unaided.
  • It is built for agency economics and is a poor fit for corporate in-house hiring, where the client and margin concepts are meaningless and the licence cost buys capability that will never be used.

Codility

  • Pricing is capped by candidate invites per year, not by hiring headcount, so a busy recruiting quarter or hiring surge can exhaust the allowance faster than a company's growth plan anticipated.
  • The Starter plan supports only one platform user, making it impractical for any team with more than a single recruiter or hiring manager needing direct access.
  • Annual-only billing on the Starter tier requires a full year's commitment before a company knows whether its actual invite usage matches the plan it bought.
  • As with any automated coding assessment, over-reliance on it as an early filter risks screening out strong candidates who do not perform well under artificial timed test conditions.
  • Its assessment format is squarely aimed at software engineering roles, so it offers no coverage for non-technical or adjacent technical hiring needs that HackerRank's broader question library covers.

Pricing, plan by plan

Bullhorn

On request
  • Bullhorn ATS and CRM$undefined/year
    • Priced per user per month on an annual contract
    • Minimum user counts apply
    • Implementation and data migration quoted separately

Codility

On request
  • Starter$1200/year
    • Up to 120 assessment invites per year
    • 1 platform user
    • Annual billing only
  • Scale$500/month
    • Up to 300 assessment invites per year (25 a month)
    • 3 platform users
    • Discount available on annual billing
  • Custom$undefined/year
    • Custom quote
    • Unlimited or high-volume invites
    • Unlimited users, SSO, integrations and dedicated support

Which should you pick?

Choose Bullhorn if

  • You need recruitment crm.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want applicant tracking.
Bullhorn review

Choose Codility if

  • You need coding task library.
  • You also want automated scoring.
Codility review

Questions people ask

Is Bullhorn or Codility better?
Neither clearly leads. Bullhorn starts at On request and Codility at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Bullhorn or Codility?
Bullhorn starts at On request and Codility at On request.
Does Bullhorn or Codility run on more platforms?
Bullhorn runs on Web, iOS, Android. Codility runs on Web.
What is Bullhorn best used for?
Bullhorn is most often used for a contract staffing agency that needs worked hours to become both a worker payment and a client invoice against one placement record, a recruitment firm where consultants sell to clients and manage candidates in the same working day, an agency consolidating several acquired offices onto one system of record, an executive search practice needing assignment-based workflow rather than requisition-based tracking. Of those, a contract staffing agency that needs worked hours to become both a worker payment and a client invoice against one placement record and a recruitment firm where consultants sell to clients and manage candidates in the same working day are not what Codility is typically brought in for.
What can Bullhorn do that Codility cannot?
Bullhorn covers Recruitment CRM, Applicant tracking, Pay and bill, Bullhorn Automation. Codility covers Coding task library, Automated scoring, Plagiarism detection, Live coding interviews.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Bullhorn: Is Bullhorn suitable for in-house corporate recruiting?

No. It is built around client relationships, margins and placements. Corporate teams should buy a requisition-based ATS instead.

Codility: What counts against the invite limit?

Each candidate assessment invitation sent counts toward the plan's annual (or monthly, for Scale) invite allowance.

Bullhorn: Who owns Bullhorn?

Insight Partners has held a majority stake since 2012, and the company has grown substantially through acquisition since then.

Codility: What happens if we exceed our invite allowance?

Additional invites beyond the plan limit typically incur per-invite charges or require an upgrade to a higher tier.

Bullhorn: Does it handle temporary worker payroll?

It captures time, calculates pay and bill rates and produces payroll and invoicing outputs. Actual payroll processing is done by a payroll provider it exports to.

Codility: Is there a free tier?

No published free tier exists; all plans require payment, with Starter billed annually only.

Bullhorn: What does implementation involve?

Data migration, workflow configuration and training, typically several months for an established agency, with services charged on top of the licence.

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