§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads DevSkiller on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 scores the Assessment entries Versant by Pearson and DevSkiller at 49 and 39, a gap of 10 points. Versant by Pearson leads every one of the 7 criteria, DevSkiller none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, DevSkiller 52 to Versant by Pearson 53. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (DevSkiller 35, Versant by Pearson 63) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 52% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
Versant by Pearson
Versant by Pearson is a suite of AI-scored English proficiency tests (plus spoken Spanish, French, Arabic and Dutch) that automatically score candidates' spoken and written responses on Pearson's Global Scale of English within minutes, used by employers such as contact centres and BPOs to screen applicants and benchmark staff through the ScoreKeeper dashboard.
§ The record
DevSkiller and Versant by Pearson are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | DevSkiller | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | PL | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
DevSkiller 35 · Versant by Pearson 63
5.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
DevSkiller 22 · Versant by Pearson 42
3.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
DevSkiller 25 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
DevSkiller 40 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.4 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
DevSkiller 58 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
DevSkiller 52 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
DevSkiller 55 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is DevSkiller minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | DevSkiller | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 63 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 42 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 53 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 43 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 61 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 49 (F) | -10 | -10.8 |
§ 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 | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 4 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 23 | 6 | Sources 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; Versant by Pearson has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for DevSkiller and Versant by Pearson 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: 15 for DevSkiller, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- DevSkiller last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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