§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads Alooba on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Apriora (Alex) (Video interview) opens a 19-point lead on Alooba (Assessment), 57 to 38. Apriora (Alex) takes all 7 criteria and Alooba none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, Alooba 58 to Apriora (Alex) 62. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Alooba 22, Apriora (Alex) 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 59% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Alooba
Alooba sells online skills assessments (auto-graded SQL, Python/R, multiple-choice and data-analysis tests, plus manually graded free-response and one-way video questions) that employers use to screen, benchmark and optionally auto-reject job candidates.
Vendor profile
Apriora (Alex)
Apriora's product "Alex" is an agentic AI recruiter whose live voice/video interviewer conducts real-time conversational interviews with candidates, asks dynamic follow-ups, and returns role-fit scores, transcripts, and fraud flags to the hiring team.
§ The record
Alooba is filed under Assessment AI, Apriora (Alex) under Video interview AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alooba | Apriora (Alex) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · Apriora (Alex) 83
11.0 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · Apriora (Alex) 52
2.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · Apriora (Alex) 38
1.5 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · Apriora (Alex) 54
1.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · Apriora (Alex) 47
1.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · Apriora (Alex) 60
0.6 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · Apriora (Alex) 62
0.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus Apriora (Alex).
| Category | Weight | Alooba | Apriora (Alex) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 83 | -61 | -11.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 47 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 57 (F) | -19 | -18.5 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Alooba | Apriora (Alex) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Alooba has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alooba and Apriora (Alex) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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