§ The result
HiringBranch leads Coderbyte by 10 points.
Both filed under Assessment, HiringBranch and Coderbyte come out 52 and 42 under rubric v1.0, 10 points in favour of HiringBranch. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of HiringBranch, with 1 level: HiringBranch is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Coderbyte on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Coderbyte 20, HiringBranch 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 64% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Coderbyte
Coderbyte is a technical hiring platform offering coding assessments with automated and AI grading of challenges and take-home projects, live coding interviews, and AI screening that grades resumes against job-description criteria and runs agentic phone screens.
Vendor profile
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
Coderbyte and HiringBranch are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Coderbyte | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Coderbyte 20 · HiringBranch 60
7.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Coderbyte 44 · HiringBranch 60
3.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Coderbyte 60 · HiringBranch 52
1.0 weighted points to Coderbyte
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Coderbyte 58 · HiringBranch 64
0.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Coderbyte 33 · HiringBranch 35
0.3 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Coderbyte 56 · HiringBranch 55
0.1 weighted points to Coderbyte
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -10.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Coderbyte minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | Coderbyte | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 60 | -16 | -3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 60 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 35 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 52 (F) | -10 | -10.1 |
§ 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 | Coderbyte | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Coderbyte has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Coderbyte sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Coderbyte, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Coderbyte last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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