§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads CoderPad on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 20 points clear of CoderPad under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 42 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Of the 7 criteria CoderPad wins none, and the narrowest lead SmartRecruiters holds is on Post-Market Monitoring, CoderPad 44 to SmartRecruiters 48. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (CoderPad 20, SmartRecruiters 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 51% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
CoderPad
CoderPad is a technical hiring platform that auto-scores and ranks candidates on coding assessments (Screen), uses an AI reviewer to evaluate and rank applicants' asynchronous video pre-screen responses against employer criteria (Qualify), and hosts live collaborative coding interviews with AI assistance, note-taking and summaries (Interview).
Vendor profile
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
CoderPad is filed under Assessment AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only CoderPad is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | CoderPad | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
CoderPad 20 · SmartRecruiters 78
10.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
CoderPad 45 · SmartRecruiters 70
5.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
CoderPad 28 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
CoderPad 54 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
CoderPad 57 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
CoderPad 44 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
CoderPad 58 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
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 CoderPad minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | CoderPad | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 70 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 78 | -58 | -10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 45 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 48 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 62 (D) | -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 | CoderPad | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 32 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
CoderPad has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for CoderPad and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for CoderPad, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- CoderPad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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