§ The result
Darwinbox and HiBob tie at 46.
Darwinbox and HiBob, both in the ATS-integrated cohort, tie at 46 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Darwinbox leads 3 of the 7 criteria and HiBob 4, yet the two totals land on the same number. Darwinbox takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Darwinbox 28, HiBob 20), which is 56% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, Darwinbox 35 to HiBob 47.
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
HiBob
HiBob's Bob is an all-in-one HR platform whose Bob Hiring applicant tracking module uses AI to give each application an explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria (AI CV Matching) and to draft job descriptions, interview scorecards and candidate emails.
§ The record
Darwinbox and HiBob are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Darwinbox | HiBob |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · HiBob 20
1.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · HiBob 47
1.4 weighted points to HiBob
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · HiBob 55
1.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · HiBob 63
1.0 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · HiBob 35
0.8 weighted points to HiBob
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · HiBob 61
0.3 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · HiBob 57
0.1 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.1 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 -0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus HiBob.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | HiBob | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 47 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 61 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 46 (F) | - | -0.9 |
§ 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 | HiBob | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HiBob has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 36 for HiBob, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiBob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next