§ The result
4 points separate Zoho Recruit and Alooba.
Zoho Recruit (ATS-integrated) edges Alooba (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 42 to 38. Alooba takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 6 for Zoho Recruit, whose share includes Data Governance Disclosure. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Alooba 45, Zoho Recruit 55, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage Zoho Recruit 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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Alooba is filed under Assessment AI, Zoho Recruit 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, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alooba | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Low |
| Headquarters | AU | IN |
| Founded | 2019 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · Zoho Recruit 55
1.5 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · Zoho Recruit 45
1.0 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · Zoho Recruit 50
0.6 weighted points to Alooba
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · Zoho Recruit 40
0.5 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
18% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · Zoho Recruit 24
0.4 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.3 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.2 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -3.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.4 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 -3.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 45 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 24 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 40 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 42 (F) | -4 | -3.2 |
§ 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 | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 10 | 7 | 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; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next