§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Alooba on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 24 points clear of Alooba under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 38 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. SmartRecruiters takes all 7 criteria and Alooba none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, Alooba 58 to SmartRecruiters 63. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Alooba 22, SmartRecruiters 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 42% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Alooba is filed under Assessment AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Alooba is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alooba | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · SmartRecruiters 78
10.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · SmartRecruiters 70
6.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · SmartRecruiters 62
2.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -23.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 23.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -24 beside that -23.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 70 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 78 | -56 | -10.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 45 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 48 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 62 (D) | -24 | -23.9 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 11 | 2 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alooba and SmartRecruiters 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 SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next