§ The result
Dayforce leads SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting on all 7 criteria.
Within the ATS-integrated cohort, Dayforce edges SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 57 to 53. Dayforce is ahead of SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Bias Audit Transparency at Dayforce 42 to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Dayforce 70, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62) and Post-Market Monitoring at 12% (Dayforce 47, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40), the second being 18% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
Vendor profile
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is the recruiting module of SAP's cloud HCM suite, using AI (career-site skills matching, job-description generation, resume skills extraction and stack-ranking of applicants) delivered under SAP Business AI and the Joule assistant.
§ The record
Dayforce and SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 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 | Dayforce | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 1992 | 1972 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 18% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 35
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
0.7 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
0.6 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 60
0.4 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
0.4 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 70 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 40 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 62 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 53 (F) | +4 | +4.6 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 22 for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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