iMocha

iMocha fits companies that want tests behind their skills records

iMocha is sold by quote, and the test allowance matters most

If you plan to rely on tests, the number of tests you are allowed matters most.

The number of custom tests you get depends on the package you buy. For the hiring product, extra custom tests beyond that limit cost more. If your plan depends on tests written for your own roles, get the allowance in writing. Get the price of each extra test in writing too.

Confirmed skills are already saved in Workday or SAP. The terms say you keep ownership of your data. Test reports for all employees download to Excel. Employee skill profiles can be fully deleted on request. iMocha publishes no way to export suggested skills, confidence scores or where each skill came from. Its public terms have no clause on returning your data. Write two more terms into your contract. The first is an export of every suggested skill, confidence score and source. The second is the return of your data when the contract ends.

iMocha states no minimum company size. It calls itself a product built for large enterprises. It has more than 300 enterprise customers, including 15 from the Fortune 500. They work in IT services, telecoms, banking, financial services and insurance. You would sign with iMocha Inc, registered in Delaware, or with Tecknack Technologies, its subsidiary in Pune, India. Its last announced funding was $14 million, in January 2022. iMocha called it its first money from outside investors. Before that round, iMocha had grown on its own profits alone. No sale of the company or job cuts have been reported since. It is still adding to the product. A SmartRecruiters link went live in July 2026. The Lightcast partnership followed in August.

Decisions rest with you, and iMocha’s India staff can access data

What to ask iMocha

1. Which customer has Jira, GitHub or Azure DevOps connected right now? Good answer: A named customer we can talk to.
2. For a typical customer, what share of confirmed skills came from a test, not just CVs, certificates and ratings? Good answer: A real number, not an estimate.
3. Which level scale will our managers see? How does it map onto our HR system? Good answer: One scale, matched to our system, written into the contract.
4. How often is a suggested skill wrong? How do you measure that? Good answer: A tested figure, not a guess.
5. What is the smallest organisation using your skills product today? Good answer: A named company we can talk to.
6. Has your ISO 27001 follow-up audit happened? Can we see the current certificate? Good answer: Yes, and a certificate dated after the audit.
7. Does our contract let you train shared models on our data? Will you remove that clause? Good answer: Yes, written into the order form.
8. If we leave, what format do we get our data in? Does that include every skill’s confidence score and where it came from? Good answer: A file with every score and its source, not just confirmed skills.

Workera and Kahuna also test, or your HR suite may be enough

Workera and Kahuna also test people directly, like iMocha does. TechWolf and Microsoft People Skills work skills out from the work people already do, without testing them. If you run SAP Talent Intelligence Hub or Workday Skills Cloud, look at their own skills tools first. If your HR and learning systems already hold most of what iMocha would gather, buying nothing is worth considering too.

Our guide to skills intelligence software covers all three testing products. Workera’s tests focus on machine learning, AI, data science and software engineering, plus data fluency and data literacy. iMocha’s tests cover technical, functional and leadership skills more broadly. Kahuna measures competency, not just whether someone finished a course. It is built for frontline workers. Look at it first if the people you need to test work on the front line. Sometimes one group only needs certifying, as at Ericsson. That is a testing project. Price it as one before you pay for a whole skills platform.

TechWolf reads everyday work. Its price is not published. It puts its own accuracy at about 95%. Microsoft People Skills costs $0 extra, so far, on top of a Copilot or Viva licence. But it reads Microsoft 365 only. Work done in other tools never reaches its profiles. Microsoft cites an accuracy figure of around 80%+, reported by early adopters.

All three also differ in how they display someone’s skill level. An iMocha test gives an employee a score and a skill level. TechWolf’s scale has five levels by default, adjustable from three to eight. Microsoft People Skills’ levels are not described in Microsoft’s People Skills documentation.

If you already run SAP SuccessFactors or Workday, iMocha is built to work alongside them. See what your own suite already gives you before you add anything. SAP’s own way of working out skills automatically needs a separately purchased AI units licence. So the fair comparison is iMocha’s price against that licence, not against nothing. Our guide sets out what each suite’s own skills tool includes, and what costs extra.

If your profiles would mostly rest on people’s own ratings, compare iMocha with tools built around direct employee input. Our guide explains when self-rating is enough.