§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Darwinbox on all 7 criteria.
Eightfold AI finishes 18 points clear of Darwinbox under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 46 (F) — across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Of the 7 criteria Darwinbox wins none, and the narrowest lead Eightfold AI holds is on Data Governance Disclosure, Darwinbox 58 to Eightfold AI 60. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Darwinbox 28, Eightfold AI 85) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 56% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Eightfold AI under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Darwinbox is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Darwinbox | Eightfold AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · Eightfold AI 85
10.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · Eightfold AI 75
3.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · Eightfold AI 45
2.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · Eightfold AI 50
1.8 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · Eightfold AI 60
0.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · Eightfold AI 60
0.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · Eightfold AI 60
0.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus Eightfold AI.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | Eightfold AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 75 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 85 | -57 | -10.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 64 (D) | -18 | -18.4 |
§ 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 | Darwinbox | Eightfold AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Eightfold AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next