§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads HackerEarth on all 7 criteria.
Braintrust AIR sits 13 points above HackerEarth under rubric v1.0 — 59 against 46 — with Braintrust AIR filed under Screening and HackerEarth under Assessment. Braintrust AIR takes all 7 criteria and HackerEarth none of them; the nearest contest is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Braintrust AIR 58 to HackerEarth 55. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Braintrust AIR 75, HackerEarth 35) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 58% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
Vendor profile
HackerEarth
HackerEarth is a technical-hiring platform that auto-scores coding assessments under AI proctoring, runs FaceCode live coding interviews with AI-generated summaries, and offers OnScreen, an AI video-avatar interviewer that scores candidates against a fixed rubric.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, HackerEarth under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | HackerEarth |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · HackerEarth 35
7.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · HackerEarth 42
2.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · HackerEarth 56
0.7 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · HackerEarth 55
0.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · HackerEarth 52
0.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · HackerEarth 57
0.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · HackerEarth 32
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus HackerEarth.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | HackerEarth | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 35 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 32 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 42 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 57 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 46 (F) | +13 | +12.4 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | HackerEarth | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; HackerEarth has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 71 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 39 for HackerEarth, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HackerEarth last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next