§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Darwinbox on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SmartRecruiters opens a 16-point lead on Darwinbox, 62 (D) to 46 (F), with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. Of the 7 criteria Darwinbox wins none, and the narrowest lead SmartRecruiters holds is on Data Governance Disclosure, Darwinbox 58 to SmartRecruiters 62. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Darwinbox 28, SmartRecruiters 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 54% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Darwinbox and SmartRecruiters are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Darwinbox | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · SmartRecruiters 78
9.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · SmartRecruiters 70
2.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 78 | -50 | -9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 48 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 63 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 62 (D) | -16 | -16.7 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 11 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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