§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads DevSkiller on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 23 points clear of DevSkiller under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 39 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; DevSkiller leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — DevSkiller 22, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
DevSkiller
DevSkiller (now branded SkillPanel) provides technical skills assessment and coding tests that automatically score developer candidates on real-world work-sample tasks using hidden verification unit tests and static code analysis.
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
DevSkiller is filed under Assessment AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only DevSkiller is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | DevSkiller | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | PL | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
DevSkiller 22 · SmartRecruiters 78
10.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
DevSkiller 35 · SmartRecruiters 70
7.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
DevSkiller 25 · SmartRecruiters 45
3.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
DevSkiller 52 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
DevSkiller 40 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
DevSkiller 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
DevSkiller 58 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -23.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 23.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -23 beside that -23.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is DevSkiller minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | DevSkiller | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 70 | -35 | -7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 78 | -56 | -10.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 45 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 48 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 62 (D) | -23 | -23.8 |
§ 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 | DevSkiller | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 4 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
DevSkiller has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 4 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 DevSkiller and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for DevSkiller, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- DevSkiller last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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