iMocha

Where iMocha is strong

What it costs, and what leaving involves

iMocha does not publish a price for any of its products. The licence fee, the number of tests allowed and the number of authorised users are the three numbers you will negotiate, and if you intend to rely on tests, the test allowance matters most.

The number of custom tests you can have depends on the package you buy, and for the hiring product, custom tests beyond that limit are charged. If your plan depends on tests written for your own roles, get the allowance and the price of each extra test in writing.

Part of leaving is already handled: confirmed skills are already written into Workday or SAP, the terms say you keep ownership of your data, test reports for all employees download to Excel, and employee skill profiles can be fully deleted on request. iMocha publishes no way to export suggested skills, confidence scores or the record of where each skill came from, and the public terms have no clause on returning your data when the contract ends, so write both the export and the return of your data into your contract.

iMocha states no minimum company size and describes itself as built for enterprises. It has more than 300 enterprise customers, including 15 from the Fortune 500, in IT services, telecoms, banking, financial services and insurance, so ask what the smallest organisation using it looks like. You would sign with iMocha Inc, registered in Delaware, or with Tecknack Technologies, its subsidiary in Pune, India. Its last announced funding was a $14 million round in January 2022, which it described at the time as the first institutional funding for a profitable, bootstrapped company, and no acquisition or layoffs have been reported. It is still adding to the product, with a SmartRecruiters integration in July 2026 and the Lightcast partnership in August.

What to settle before anyone relies on it

Four things are worth settling before anyone relies on an iMocha profile.

What to ask iMocha

1. Which customer has Jira, GitHub or Azure DevOps connected today, what exactly do you read from it, and can we speak to that customer?
2. Show us one real employee’s skill with the breakdown of which sources contributed and how much each counted. Then tell us what share of skills, for a typical customer, has been confirmed by a test or an AI interview rather than by CVs, certificates and ratings alone.
3. Which level scale will our managers see, and how does it map onto our HR system?
4. Have you measured how often a suggested skill turns out to be wrong? How did you measure it, and what did you find?
5. What is the smallest organisation using your skills product today, and can we speak to it?
6. Your ISO 27001 certificate needed its check-up audit by 18 September 2026. Has that audit happened, and can we see the current certificate?
7. Your guide says employee data is not used to train shared models without explicit contractual consent. Does your standard contract give that consent, and can we take it out?
8. What exactly do we pay for: each employee, each test or each user? How many custom tests are included, and what does each extra one cost?
9. If we leave, in what format do we get every employee’s skills, levels, confidence scores and the record of where each skill came from, and what happens to a skills list built on Lightcast?
10. Your public terms renew a year at a time and keep all fees payable if we end the contract without cause. What notice period and exit terms will our contract have?

Alternatives to iMocha, including buying nothing

Alternatives to iMocha come in three kinds: Workera and Kahuna, which also test people, TechWolf and Microsoft People Skills, which work skills out from people’s work, and the skills modules in SAP Talent Intelligence Hub or Workday Skills Cloud if you already run either suite. Buying nothing is the other route, if your HR and learning systems already hold most of what iMocha would gather.

If what you need is tested skills, compare iMocha with Workera and Kahuna, the other products that test people in our guide to skills intelligence software. Workera’s subjects centre on machine learning, AI, data science and software engineering, plus data fluency and data literacy, while iMocha sells tests across technical, functional and leadership skills. Kahuna is a frontline workforce readiness platform that checks competency as well as course completion, so it is the one to look at if the people you need to test work on the front line. If what you need is proof that one group can do one thing, as in Ericsson’s certification programme, you are buying a testing programme, so price it as one before you pay for a skills platform around it.

If what you need is skills worked out from the work people already do, our guide puts two products in that group: TechWolf and Microsoft People Skills. TechWolf’s price is not published, and it puts its accuracy at about 95%. Microsoft People Skills costs $0 extra, so far, with Copilot or Viva licences you already hold, and reads Microsoft 365 only, so work done in other tools does not reach its profiles. Microsoft cites an accuracy figure of around 80%+, reported by early adopters.

The three also differ in how they express how good somebody is at a skill. An employee who takes an iMocha test sees a score and a proficiency level. TechWolf’s proficiency scale has five levels by default, adjustable from three to eight, and Microsoft People Skills proficiency levels are not described in Microsoft’s People Skills documentation. If your managers will work from levels, ask Microsoft how it expects them to be shown.

If you run SAP SuccessFactors or Workday, iMocha is built to work alongside them, so find out what your suite already gives you before adding anything. SAP’s own skills inference needs a separately purchased AI units licence, so the fair comparison is iMocha’s price against that licence rather than against nothing. Our guide sets out what each suite’s skills module includes and what costs extra.

If most of your profiles would rest on people’s own ratings either way, compare iMocha with the products that ask people directly. Our guide finds that for most mid-market problems, those are the right choice.

Before you buy anything, remember that by default 55 of the 100 points behind an iMocha skill come from certificates, courses, CVs and ratings, so check how much of that your HR system and learning platform already hold before you pay for a platform to gather it.