§ The result
2 points separate Equalture and Mercer | Mettl.
Within the Assessment cohort, Equalture edges Mercer | Mettl by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 44 to 42. Equalture leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Mercer | Mettl leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 2 are level. Equalture takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Equalture 45, Mercer | Mettl 38), which is 48% of the weighted advantage Equalture holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Customer Documentation, Equalture 60 to Mercer | Mettl 52.
Vendor profile
Equalture
Equalture is a game-based pre-employment assessment platform whose short browser games measure candidates' cognitive abilities and behavioural tendencies and convert them into a Fit Score ranked against an employer-specific "Success Profile" derived from that employer's own top performers.
Vendor profile
Mercer | Mettl
Mercer | Mettl is an online talent assessment and remote-proctoring platform offering psychometric, aptitude, coding, and skills tests plus AI-assisted exam proctoring and scoring for hiring, certification, and L&D.
§ The record
Equalture and Mercer | Mettl 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 | Equalture | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | IN |
| Founded | 2018 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Equalture 45 · Mercer | Mettl 38
1.4 weighted points to Equalture
8% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Equalture 60 · Mercer | Mettl 52
0.6 weighted points to Equalture
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Equalture 50 · Mercer | Mettl 45
0.6 weighted points to Equalture
18% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Equalture 40 · Mercer | Mettl 42
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Equalture 30 · Mercer | Mettl 28
0.3 weighted points to Equalture
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +2.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Equalture minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Equalture | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 42 (F) | +2 | +2.6 |
§ 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 | Equalture | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Equalture has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Equalture, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Equalture last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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