Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Cangrade vs Testlify
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
Testlify
Testlify is a skills-assessment and AI-interviewing platform that ranks candidates on a scored leaderboard from pre-built or AI-generated tests, with an AI résumé screener, AI-scored video, voice and chat interviews, and AI-assisted proctoring.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
Cangrade and Testlify tie at 45.
Cangrade and Testlify tie at 45 under rubric v1.0 inside the Assessment cohort, arriving there from different criteria. Cangrade leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Testlify 3, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, is both the widest raw gap (Cangrade 32, Testlify 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 67% of the weighted advantage Testlify holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Cangrade3
- Testlify3
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring32 vs 42
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Post-Market Monitoring12% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Cangrade and Testlify are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Video interview.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Cangrade | Testlify |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2022 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight40% of the movement so far
Cangrade32Testlify421.2 weighted points to Testlify
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight70% of the movement so far
Cangrade35Testlify300.9 weighted points to Cangrade
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight86% of the movement so far
Cangrade30Testlify330.4 weighted points to Testlify
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight91% of the movement so far
Cangrade62Testlify600.2 weighted points to Cangrade
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight96% of the movement so far
Cangrade54Testlify550.1 weighted points to Testlify
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Cangrade56Testlify550.1 weighted points to Cangrade
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.6.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cangrade minus Testlify, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Cangrade | Testlify | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 42 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45F | 45F | - | -0.6 |
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 | Cangrade | Testlify | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 3 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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% | 20 | 10 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 documented absences; Testlify has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cangrade sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains, and 36 for Testlify, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Testlify last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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