§ The result
Rippling leads Alooba on all 7 criteria.
Rippling finishes 18 points clear of Alooba under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 38 — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Rippling leads every one of the 7 criteria, Alooba none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Alooba 55 to Rippling 60. The advantage Rippling holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Alooba 40, Rippling 73, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 37% of the weighted points Rippling 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
Rippling
Rippling Recruiting is an applicant tracking system within Rippling's all-in-one HR/IT/finance platform that uses AI to review and screen job applications, summarize interviewer feedback, transcribe video interviews, flag application fraud, and automate interview scheduling.
§ The record
Alooba is filed under Assessment AI, Rippling under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Alooba is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alooba | Rippling |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · Rippling 73
6.6 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · Rippling 42
3.6 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · Rippling 64
2.9 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · Rippling 45
2.5 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · Rippling 47
1.3 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · Rippling 60
0.6 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · Rippling 64
0.5 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus Rippling.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | Rippling | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 73 | -33 | -6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 42 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 45 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 64 | -19 | -2.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 47 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 56 (F) | -18 | -18.0 |
§ 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 | Rippling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Alooba has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; 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 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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