Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
CoderPad vs Tengai
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).
Substantial gaps
Assessment
Tengai
Tengai runs structured screening interviews through a browser-based AI avatar and combines candidates' yes/no qualification answers, a Five-Factor-based personality score and recruiter ratings of open answers into an automatically ranked shortlist.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
CoderPad and Tengai tie at 42.
CoderPad, filed under Assessment, and Tengai, filed under Screening, tie at 42 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. CoderPad leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Tengai 2, with 2 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — CoderPad 20, Tengai 33 — and at an 18% weight it carries 95% of the weighted advantage Tengai holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- CoderPad3
- Tengai2
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency20 vs 33
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
CoderPad is filed under Assessment AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of
| Record | CoderPad | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2013 | 2019 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight51% of the movement so far
CoderPad20Tengai332.3 weighted points to Tengai
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight79% of the movement so far
CoderPad44Tengai331.3 weighted points to CoderPad
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight92% of the movement so far
CoderPad54Tengai500.6 weighted points to CoderPad
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight97% of the movement so far
CoderPad58Tengai550.2 weighted points to CoderPad
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
CoderPad57Tengai580.1 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -0.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.3.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is CoderPad minus Tengai, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | CoderPad | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 45 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 33 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 33 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 42F | 42F | - | -0.3 |
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 | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 32 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 37 | 5 | Sources 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; Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for CoderPad and Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 80 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for CoderPad, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- CoderPad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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