§ The result
Darwinbox leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Darwinbox (ATS-integrated) opens a 23-point lead on Mercor (Screening), 46 to 23. Darwinbox leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Darwinbox 30 to Mercor 20. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Darwinbox 60, Mercor 22, 20% weight), is only 34% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox builds 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
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Darwinbox | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · Mercor 22
7.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · Mercor 22
5.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · Mercor 10
3.2 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · Mercor 20
1.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · Mercor 42
1.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · Mercor 20
1.5 weighted points to Darwinbox
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · Mercor 40
1.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +22.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +23 beside that +22.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 22 | +38 | +7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 10 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 22 | +36 | +5.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 23 (F) | +23 | +22.5 |
§ 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 | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | 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; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next