§ The result
Darwinbox leads Zappyhire on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Darwinbox, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 12 points above Zappyhire, filed under Screening: 46 against 34 under rubric v1.0. Zappyhire is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Darwinbox takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Darwinbox 30 to Zappyhire 25. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Darwinbox 60, Zappyhire 30 — and at a 20% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds across the 6 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Zappyhire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Darwinbox | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | IN |
| Founded | 2015 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · Zappyhire 30
6.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · Zappyhire 42
2.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
8% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · Zappyhire 45
1.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · Zappyhire 28
0.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · Zappyhire 25
0.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · Zappyhire 50
0.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +11.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.6 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 Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 30 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 45 | +12 | +1.0 |
| 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 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 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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