Evaluation of the wear resistance for tools and dies, particularly for coated components, is a challenging task in surface engineering testing. Pin‐on‐disc is a widely employed method in the literature; its result is rather associated with the friction aspect of the samples than wear resistance for components. A microabrasive test has been suggested recently to assess the wear resistance of hard coatings. The key point in that is to simulate the aspect which is close to the factor of the industrial performance for most of the components. This paper aims to compare pin‐on‐disc tests and microabrasive methods. Two hard coatings of CrN and CrSiN were deposited using a closed field unbalanced magnetron sputter ion plating system. SiC was used as the abrasive particle in the slurry. Results show that the abrasive wear rates of the CrN coatings changed sensitively with the depositing parameters. At the same time, the specific wear rate from pin‐on‐disc test was not able to pick up the change of wear endurance of the coatings. A hole drilling test indicates that the number of holes increases significantly when the abrasive wear rate is lower than a certain critical value. It is concluded that the microabrasive test is an appreciable method in practice to evaluate the wear resistance of hard coatings.