§ The result
Classet leads ZipRecruiter on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Classet finishes 15 points clear of ZipRecruiter under rubric v1.0 — 55 against 40 — across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Classet leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so ZipRecruiter is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Classet leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Classet 57 to ZipRecruiter 52. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Classet 76, ZipRecruiter 24) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 62% of the weighted advantage Classet holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Classet
Classet's AI voice recruiter, Joy, phones hourly and frontline applicants within about a minute of applying, runs employer-scripted screening interviews with binary knockout questions, and sends recruiters recordings, transcripts, summaries and a qualified/unqualified outcome, either in Classet's lightweight ATS or in 100+ connected ATSs.
Vendor profile
ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace whose AI matching engine sends employers' job postings out, alerts matched job seekers and invites them to apply, and labels and ranks applicants (for example as 'Great Match') in the employer's candidate dashboard.
§ The record
Classet is filed under Screening AI, ZipRecruiter under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Classet | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Classet 76 · ZipRecruiter 24
9.4 weighted points to Classet
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Classet 58 · ZipRecruiter 40
2.2 weighted points to Classet
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Classet 46 · ZipRecruiter 40
1.2 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Classet 33 · ZipRecruiter 27
0.9 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Classet 57 · ZipRecruiter 52
0.8 weighted points to Classet
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Classet 62 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.6 weighted points to Classet
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +15.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Classet minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | Classet | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 46 | 40 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 76 | 24 | +52 | +9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 27 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 40 (F) | +15 | +15.0 |
§ 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 | Classet | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 33 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Classet has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; ZipRecruiter has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Classet and ZipRecruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 71 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for Classet, across 3 distinct source domains, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Classet last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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