§ The result
PageUp leads Darwinbox on all 7 criteria.
The ATS-integrated cohort pairing of PageUp and Darwinbox comes out 64 (D) to 46 (F) under rubric v1.0, an 18-point lead for PageUp. PageUp takes all 7 criteria and Darwinbox none of them; the nearest contest is Data Governance Disclosure, Darwinbox 58 to PageUp 63. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Darwinbox 28, PageUp 80 — and at an 18% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage PageUp holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
PageUp
PageUp is an enterprise talent acquisition suite (ATS, recruitment marketing/CRM, onboarding, learning and performance). Its AI Skills Matching sorts each applicant's resume against skills taken from the job ad into five bands, from Excellent Match to Not a Match, and recruiters reach those results through Paige, its conversational assistant.
§ The record
Darwinbox and PageUp 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 | PageUp |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | AU |
| Founded | 2015 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · PageUp 80
9.4 weighted points to PageUp
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · PageUp 74
2.8 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · PageUp 55
2.4 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · PageUp 40
1.5 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · PageUp 64
1.1 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · PageUp 63
0.8 weighted points to PageUp
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · PageUp 63
0.5 weighted points to PageUp
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 PageUp.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | PageUp | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 74 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 80 | -52 | -9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 64 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 55 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 63 | -6 | -0.5 |
| 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 | PageUp | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 4 | 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; PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for PageUp sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 28 for PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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