§ The result
4 points separate Alooba and Zappyhire.
Alooba holds a 4-point edge over Zappyhire under rubric v1.0, 38 to 34, across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Alooba: Alooba is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Zappyhire on Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Alooba 58, Zappyhire 45) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Alooba 40, Zappyhire 30), the second being 36% of the weighted advantage Alooba holds across the 6 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Alooba is filed under Assessment AI, Zappyhire 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 | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | IN |
| Founded | 2019 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · Zappyhire 30
2.0 weighted points to Alooba
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · Zappyhire 28
1.1 weighted points to Zappyhire
8% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · Zappyhire 45
1.0 weighted points to Alooba
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · Zappyhire 28
1.0 weighted points to Alooba
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · Zappyhire 50
0.6 weighted points to Alooba
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · Zappyhire 25
0.4 weighted points to Alooba
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · Zappyhire 42
0.4 weighted points to Alooba
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 28 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 28 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 34 (F) | +4 | +4.4 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alooba and Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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