Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Alva Labs vs SmartRecruiters
Alva Labs
Alva Labs sells a science-backed hiring platform whose core is a suite of proprietary psychometric assessments - an adaptive logic (general mental ability) test, a Five-Factor Model personality test, and coding tests - wrapped in candidate management, CV screening, and structured-interview tooling.
Concerning
Assessment
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.
Concerning
ATS-integrated
The result
SmartRecruiters takes the total, Alva Labs takes more of the criteria.
SmartRecruiters holds a 1-point edge over Alva Labs under rubric v1.0, 62 to 61, across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Alva Labs leads more of the criteria, 5 against 2 for SmartRecruiters, yet SmartRecruiters takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Alva Labs 58, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 77% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Alva Labs5
- SmartRecruiters2
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency58 vs 78
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Alva Labs is filed under Assessment AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
Only Alva Labs is in scope of
| Record | Alva Labs | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SE | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2010 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight44% of the movement so far
Alva Labs58SmartRecruiters783.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight64% of the movement so far
Alva Labs78SmartRecruiters701.6 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight77% of the movement so far
Alva Labs38SmartRecruiters451.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight88% of the movement so far
Alva Labs68SmartRecruiters620.9 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight94% of the movement so far
Alva Labs52SmartRecruiters480.5 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight99% of the movement so far
Alva Labs68SmartRecruiters630.4 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 7
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Alva Labs63SmartRecruiters620.1 weighted points to Alva Labs
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.1.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alva Labs minus SmartRecruiters, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Alva Labs | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 70 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 78 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 45 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 63 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 61D | 62D | -1 | -1.1 |
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 | Alva Labs | 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% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Alva Labs has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 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 Alva Labs and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Alva Labs, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alva Labs last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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