§ The result
Darwinbox leads HireQuotient by 12 points.
Darwinbox sits 12 points above HireQuotient under rubric v1.0 — 46 against 34 — with Darwinbox filed under ATS-integrated and HireQuotient under Sourcing. Darwinbox leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while HireQuotient leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Darwinbox 60, HireQuotient 35) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 42% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds across the 6 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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing 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. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Darwinbox | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | IN | SG |
| Founded | 2015 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · HireQuotient 35
5.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · HireQuotient 40
2.7 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · HireQuotient 18
1.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · HireQuotient 22
1.2 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · HireQuotient 30
0.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · HireQuotient 50
0.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · HireQuotient 57
0.2 weighted points to HireQuotient
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +11.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 18 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 57 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 34 (F) | +12 | +11.6 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 1 | 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 domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 5 | 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; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next