§ The result
Criteria leads Alooba on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Criteria opens a 15-point lead on Alooba, 53 to 38, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. Criteria takes all 7 criteria and Alooba none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Alooba 55 to Criteria 56. The advantage Criteria holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Alooba 40, Criteria 68, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 39% of the weighted points Criteria gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
§ The record
Alooba and Criteria are both filed under Assessment 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 | Criteria |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2006 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · Criteria 68
5.6 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · Criteria 48
4.7 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · Criteria 62
2.5 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · Criteria 42
0.7 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · Criteria 32
0.6 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · Criteria 60
0.2 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · Criteria 56
0.1 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus Criteria.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | Criteria | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 68 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 48 | -26 | -4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 32 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 42 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 53 (F) | -15 | -14.4 |
§ 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 | Criteria | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Alooba has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alooba sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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