§ The result
HackerRank leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
HackerRank finishes 20 points clear of Ceipal under rubric v1.0 — 55 against 35 — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. HackerRank leads every one of the 7 criteria, Ceipal none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Ceipal 38 to HackerRank 45. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ceipal 20, HackerRank 68 — and at an 18% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage HackerRank holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
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
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, HackerRank under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only HackerRank is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ceipal | HackerRank |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2009 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · HackerRank 68
8.6 weighted points to HackerRank
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · HackerRank 60
6.0 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · HackerRank 60
1.7 weighted points to HackerRank
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · HackerRank 35
1.5 weighted points to HackerRank
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · HackerRank 55
1.3 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · HackerRank 45
0.8 weighted points to HackerRank
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · HackerRank 62
0.7 weighted points to HackerRank
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -20 beside that -20.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus HackerRank.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | HackerRank | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 68 | -48 | -8.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 55 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 45 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 62 | -9 | -0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 55 (F) | -20 | -20.7 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | HackerRank | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 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 HackerRank sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HackerRank last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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