§ The result
Dice leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Dice sits 13 points above Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 36 against 23 — with Dice filed under Sourcing and Mercor under Screening. Of the 7 criteria Mercor wins none, and the narrowest lead Dice holds is on FRIA Support, Dice 25 to Mercor 20. Even Data Governance Disclosure, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Dice 45, Mercor 22, 15% weight), is only 26% of the weighted advantage Dice builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Dice
Dice is a US job marketplace and resume database for tech roles, run by DHI Group, whose employer tools use a proprietary skills knowledge graph and machine learning (IntelliSearch) to match, score and rank sourced candidates and applicants against job postings.
Vendor profile
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
§ The record
Dice is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dice | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1990 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dice 45 · Mercor 22
3.4 weighted points to Dice
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dice 25 · Mercor 10
2.7 weighted points to Dice
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dice 32 · Mercor 22
2.0 weighted points to Dice
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dice 35 · Mercor 20
1.8 weighted points to Dice
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dice 55 · Mercor 42
1.6 weighted points to Dice
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dice 50 · Mercor 40
0.8 weighted points to Dice
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dice 25 · Mercor 20
0.8 weighted points to Dice
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dice minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Dice | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 32 | 22 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 10 | +15 | +2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 22 | +23 | +3.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 23 (F) | +13 | +13.1 |
§ 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 | Dice | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Dice has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Dice sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Dice, across 4 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dice last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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