§ The result
2 points separate Alooba and micro1.
Alooba (Assessment) edges micro1 (Screening) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 38 to 36. Alooba leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while micro1 leads 1, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. micro1 takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Alooba 40, micro1 50), 100% of the weighted advantage it builds, while the widest raw gap is on Customer Documentation, Alooba 58 to micro1 45.
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
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
§ The record
Alooba is filed under Assessment AI, micro1 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 | micro1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · micro1 50
2.0 weighted points to micro1
12% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · micro1 25
1.3 weighted points to Alooba
8% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · micro1 45
1.0 weighted points to Alooba
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · micro1 22
0.9 weighted points to Alooba
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · micro1 48
0.8 weighted points to Alooba
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · micro1 20
0.4 weighted points to Alooba
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +2.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus micro1.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | micro1 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 20 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 22 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 45 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 25 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 36 (F) | +2 | +2.5 |
§ 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 | micro1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 8 | Sources 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; micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alooba and micro1 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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