§ The result
Alooba leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Alooba (Assessment) opens a 15-point lead on Mercor (Screening), 38 to 23. Alooba leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Alooba 28 to Mercor 20. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Alooba 45, Mercor 22) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Alooba 40, Mercor 22), the second being 23% of the weighted advantage Alooba 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
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
§ The record
Alooba is filed under Assessment AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alooba | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · Mercor 22
3.6 weighted points to Alooba
15% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · Mercor 22
3.4 weighted points to Alooba
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · Mercor 10
2.2 weighted points to Alooba
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · Mercor 20
1.9 weighted points to Alooba
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · Mercor 42
1.6 weighted points to Alooba
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · Mercor 40
1.4 weighted points to Alooba
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · Mercor 20
1.2 weighted points to Alooba
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.3 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 +15.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 22 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 10 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 22 | +23 | +3.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 20 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 23 (F) | +15 | +15.3 |
§ 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 | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 10 | 8 | 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; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 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 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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