§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads CoderPad on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Apriora (Alex) (Video interview) opens a 15-point lead on CoderPad (Assessment), 57 to 42. CoderPad is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Apriora (Alex) takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Human Oversight Design, Apriora (Alex) 60 to CoderPad 57. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Apriora (Alex) 83, CoderPad 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 74% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Apriora (Alex)
Apriora's product "Alex" is an agentic AI recruiter whose live voice/video interviewer conducts real-time conversational interviews with candidates, asks dynamic follow-ups, and returns role-fit scores, transcripts, and fraud flags to the hiring team.
Vendor profile
CoderPad
CoderPad is a technical hiring platform that auto-scores and ranks candidates on coding assessments (Screen), uses an AI reviewer to evaluate and rank applicants' asynchronous video pre-screen responses against employer criteria (Qualify), and hosts live collaborative coding interviews with AI assistance, note-taking and summaries (Interview).
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, CoderPad under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | CoderPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · CoderPad 20
11.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · CoderPad 28
1.5 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · CoderPad 45
1.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · CoderPad 57
0.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · CoderPad 44
0.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · CoderPad 58
0.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +15.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus CoderPad.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | CoderPad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 20 | +63 | +11.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 54 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 57 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 44 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 42 (F) | +15 | +15.3 |
§ 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 | Apriora (Alex) | CoderPad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 32 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; CoderPad has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Apriora (Alex) and CoderPad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 38 for CoderPad, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- CoderPad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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