§ The result
Criteria leads ZipRecruiter on all 7 criteria.
Criteria sits 13 points above ZipRecruiter under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 40 — with Criteria filed under Assessment and ZipRecruiter under Sourcing. Of the 7 criteria ZipRecruiter wins none, and the narrowest lead Criteria holds is on Human Oversight Design, Criteria 56 to ZipRecruiter 55. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Criteria 68, ZipRecruiter 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
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
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, ZipRecruiter under Candidate sourcing 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 Criteria is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Criteria | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2006 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · ZipRecruiter 40
5.6 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · ZipRecruiter 24
4.3 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · ZipRecruiter 52
1.5 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · ZipRecruiter 27
0.8 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 60 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.5 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · ZipRecruiter 40
0.2 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · ZipRecruiter 55
0.1 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 40 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 24 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 27 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 40 (F) | +13 | +13.0 |
§ 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 | Criteria | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 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 ZipRecruiter 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: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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