§ The result
softgarden leads Dice by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, softgarden, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 42 and Dice, filed under Sourcing, on 36, 6 points apart. Dice takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for softgarden, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Dice 32, softgarden 42, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage softgarden holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
softgarden
softgarden is a German cloud applicant tracking system (multiposting, career sites, applicant management and onboarding) with optional AI features: AI-Assisted Applicant Matching, which highlights applicants who closely match a job's requirements, and a newer LLM-based Screening Assistant, which scores each applicant against screening criteria.
§ The record
Dice is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, softgarden under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Dice | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 1990 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dice 32 · softgarden 42
2.0 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dice 45 · softgarden 54
1.3 weighted points to softgarden
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dice 35 · softgarden 44
1.1 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dice 25 · softgarden 30
0.8 weighted points to softgarden
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dice 50 · softgarden 58
0.6 weighted points to softgarden
18% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dice 25 · softgarden 22
0.5 weighted points to Dice
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dice 55 · softgarden 58
0.4 weighted points to softgarden
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dice minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | Dice | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 32 | 42 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 22 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 44 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 42 (F) | -6 | -5.6 |
§ 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 | Dice | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Dice has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 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 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Dice, across 4 distinct source domains, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dice last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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