§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Xobin on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Eightfold AI sits 14 points above Xobin under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 50 (F) — with Eightfold AI filed under Sourcing and Xobin under Assessment. Eightfold AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Xobin is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Eightfold AI leads is Human Oversight Design, Eightfold AI 60 to Xobin 58. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Eightfold AI 85, Xobin 43) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 55% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
Vendor profile
Xobin
Xobin is a talent-assessment platform that sells skills, coding, communication and psychometric tests alongside generative-AI answer scoring (AI Evaluate), AI-led interviews, AI proctoring and NURA, an AI recruiting agent that parses resumes, interviews candidates and builds shortlists.
§ The record
Eightfold AI is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Xobin under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Xobin is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Eightfold AI | Xobin |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2016 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Eightfold AI 85 · Xobin 43
7.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Eightfold AI 75 · Xobin 62
2.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Eightfold AI 45 · Xobin 35
1.5 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Eightfold AI 50 · Xobin 38
1.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Eightfold AI 60 · Xobin 57
0.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Eightfold AI 60 · Xobin 58
0.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +13.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Eightfold AI minus Xobin.
| Category | Weight | Eightfold AI | Xobin | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 75 | 62 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 43 | +42 | +7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 57 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 38 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 50 (F) | +14 | +13.8 |
§ 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 | Eightfold AI | Xobin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 27 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Xobin has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Eightfold AI and Xobin sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Xobin, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Xobin last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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