§ The result
2 points separate X0PA AI and Darwinbox.
X0PA AI (Assessment) edges Darwinbox (ATS-integrated) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 46. X0PA AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Darwinbox leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Darwinbox 28, X0PA AI 44) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 56% of the weighted advantage X0PA AI holds across the 5 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
X0PA AI
X0PA AI is a Singapore-based B2B AI recruitment platform (applicant tracking system) that sources, screens, scores, and ranks candidates using proprietary predictive-scoring models (BRIQ Score and Suitability Score) plus the X0PA ROOM video-interview/assessment product, marketed around bias-reduced, "responsible and explainable" AI hiring.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, X0PA AI under Assessment 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. Only X0PA AI is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Darwinbox | X0PA AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | IN | SG |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · X0PA AI 44
2.9 weighted points to X0PA AI
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · X0PA AI 50
2.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · X0PA AI 38
1.2 weighted points to X0PA AI
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · X0PA AI 40
0.6 weighted points to X0PA AI
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · X0PA AI 56
0.3 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · X0PA AI 57
0.2 weighted points to X0PA AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · X0PA AI 60
0.2 weighted points to X0PA AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -2.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus X0PA AI.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | X0PA AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 44 | -16 | -2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 57 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 48 (F) | -2 | -2.9 |
§ 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 | X0PA AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 12 | 6 | Sources 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; X0PA AI has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for X0PA AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for X0PA AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- X0PA AI last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next