§ The result
Zoho Recruit leads Arena Analytics by 10 points.
Zoho Recruit sits 10 points above Arena Analytics under rubric v1.0 — 42 against 32 — with Zoho Recruit filed under ATS-integrated and Arena Analytics under Screening. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Zoho Recruit: Zoho Recruit is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Arena Analytics on Bias Audit Transparency. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Arena Analytics 38, Zoho Recruit 60) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Arena Analytics 30, Zoho Recruit 45), 29% of the weighted advantage Zoho Recruit builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Arena Analytics
Arena scores job applicants, mainly for healthcare and senior-living employers, on how likely they are to show up and stay in a specific role at a specific location, reroutes and sources candidates it rates likely to be retained, and applies the same outcome models to employee flight risk and internal mobility.
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
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Assessment and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arena Analytics | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2015 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · Zoho Recruit 45
3.0 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Zoho Recruit 55
1.9 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
8% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Zoho Recruit 60
1.8 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.4 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Zoho Recruit 40
1.4 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.8 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Zoho Recruit 24
0.2 weighted points to Arena Analytics
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 24 | +1 | +0.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 50 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 42 (F) | -10 | -10.2 |
§ 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 | Arena Analytics | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Arena Analytics has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 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 Arena Analytics sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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