§ The result
4 points separate ZipRecruiter and Dice.
ZipRecruiter holds a 4-point edge over Dice under rubric v1.0, 40 to 36, with both scored in the Sourcing cohort. ZipRecruiter leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Dice leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Dice 32, ZipRecruiter 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage ZipRecruiter holds across the 5 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
ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace whose AI matching engine sends employers' job postings out, alerts matched job seekers and invites them to apply, and labels and ranks applicants (for example as 'Great Match') in the employer's candidate dashboard.
§ The record
Dice and ZipRecruiter are both filed under Candidate sourcing 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 | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1990 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dice 32 · ZipRecruiter 40
1.6 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dice 45 · ZipRecruiter 52
1.1 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dice 35 · ZipRecruiter 40
0.6 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dice 50 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.3 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dice 25 · ZipRecruiter 27
0.3 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dice 25 · ZipRecruiter 24
0.2 weighted points to Dice
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -3.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.0 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 -3.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dice minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | Dice | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 24 | +1 | +0.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 27 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 54 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 40 (F) | -4 | -3.7 |
§ 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 | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Dice has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; ZipRecruiter has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Dice and ZipRecruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Dice, across 4 distinct source domains, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dice last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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