§ The result
3 points separate Darwinbox and Breezy HR.
Darwinbox holds a 3-point edge over Breezy HR under rubric v1.0, 46 to 43, with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. Darwinbox leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Breezy HR leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 2 are level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Breezy HR 50, Darwinbox 60 — and at a 20% weight it carries 67% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Breezy HR
Breezy HR is an SMB-focused applicant tracking system with a drag-and-drop hiring pipeline, multi-board job distribution, scorecards and interview scheduling, plus a credit-metered AI add-on ("Breezy Intelligence") that scores and ranks applicants against job requirements, audits resumes for AI-generated content, and summarizes candidate activity.
Vendor profile
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
§ The record
Breezy HR and Darwinbox are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Breezy HR | Darwinbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2014 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Breezy HR 50 · Darwinbox 60
2.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Breezy HR 25 · Darwinbox 28
0.5 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Breezy HR 55 · Darwinbox 58
0.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Breezy HR 38 · Darwinbox 35
0.4 weighted points to Breezy HR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Breezy HR 58 · Darwinbox 57
0.1 weighted points to Breezy HR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -2.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Breezy HR minus Darwinbox.
| Category | Weight | Breezy HR | Darwinbox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 46 (F) | -3 | -2.6 |
§ 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 | Breezy HR | Darwinbox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Breezy HR has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Breezy HR 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: 28 for Breezy HR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Breezy HR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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