§ The result
4 points separate Braintrust AIR and HackerRank.
Braintrust AIR (Screening) edges HackerRank (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 59 to 55. HackerRank takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 5 for Braintrust AIR, whose share includes Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. One criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, is both the widest raw gap (Braintrust AIR 62, HackerRank 45) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 54% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 5 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
HackerRank
HackerRank is a technical skills assessment platform for developer hiring that uses coding tests, interviews, and AI-based features (question generation, ML plagiarism/AI-code detection, and image-analysis proctoring) to evaluate candidates.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, HackerRank 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 | HackerRank |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2009 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · HackerRank 45
2.0 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · HackerRank 68
1.3 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · HackerRank 60
0.4 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · HackerRank 60
0.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · HackerRank 55
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · HackerRank 62
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +3.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus HackerRank.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | HackerRank | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 68 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 55 (F) | +4 | +3.4 |
§ 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 | HackerRank | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 14 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; HackerRank has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR and HackerRank sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HackerRank last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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