Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Ceipal vs Zappyhire
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.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
1 point separates Ceipal and Zappyhire.
Ceipal holds a 1-point edge over Zappyhire under rubric v1.0, 35 to 34, across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 3 to 2 in favour of Ceipal, with 2 level: Ceipal is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Zappyhire on Bias Audit Transparency. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Zappyhire takes Bias Audit Transparency at 18%, Ceipal 20 to Zappyhire 28, 75% of the weighted advantage Zappyhire holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Post-Market Monitoring, Ceipal 38 to Zappyhire 28.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Ceipal3
- Zappyhire2
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring38 vs 28
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Zappyhire is in scope of
| Record | Ceipal | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2015 | 2018 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight33% of the movement so far
Ceipal20Zappyhire281.4 weighted points to Zappyhire
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight61% of the movement so far
Ceipal38Zappyhire281.2 weighted points to Ceipal
- 3
Customer Documentation
8% weight75% of the movement so far
Ceipal53Zappyhire450.6 weighted points to Ceipal
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight89% of the movement so far
Ceipal46Zappyhire420.6 weighted points to Ceipal
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Ceipal46Zappyhire500.5 weighted points to Zappyhire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +0.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Zappyhire, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 28 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 42 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 50 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 45 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 35F | 34F | +1 | +0.5 |
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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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