§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads Recruitly on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Apriora (Alex) finishes 16 points clear of Recruitly under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 41 — across the Video interview and ATS-integrated cohorts. Apriora (Alex) leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Recruitly is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Apriora (Alex) leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Apriora (Alex) 47 to Recruitly 45. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Apriora (Alex) 83, Recruitly 15) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 77% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, Recruitly under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Apriora (Alex) is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | Recruitly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | AE |
| Founded | 2023 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · Recruitly 15
12.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · Recruitly 45
1.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · Recruitly 45
1.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · Recruitly 35
0.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · Recruitly 58
0.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Recruitly 45
0.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +16.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +16.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Recruitly.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Recruitly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 15 | +68 | +12.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 45 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 45 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 41 (F) | +16 | +16.0 |
§ 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) | Recruitly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Apriora (Alex) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next