§ The result
Sonara leads Final Round AI on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Sonara sits 13 points above Final Round AI under rubric js-v1.0 — 49 against 36 — with Sonara filed under Auto-apply and Final Round AI under Live interview. Sonara leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Final Round AI is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Sonara leads is User Control & Transparency, Final Round AI 45 to Sonara 52. Application Honesty is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Final Round AI 22, Sonara 50 — and at a 20% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Sonara holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Final Round AI
A macOS and Windows desktop app that listens to a job seeker's live interview on Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, HackerRank or a phone screen and streams AI-written answers into a private overlay hidden from screen sharing, alongside practice interviews and automatic post-session debriefs.
Vendor profile
Sonara
Sonara is an AI auto-apply service (now owned by BOLD LLC) that scans job boards, matches openings to a job seeker's uploaded resume and preferences, and auto-fills and submits applications on the user's behalf from a single tracking dashboard.
§ The record
Final Round AI is filed under Live interview assistance, Sonara under Auto-apply tools. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Final Round AI | Sonara |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Final Round AI 22 · Sonara 50
5.6 weighted points to Sonara
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Final Round AI 20 · Sonara 48
4.2 weighted points to Sonara
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Final Round AI 28 · Sonara 40
1.4 weighted points to Sonara
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Final Round AI 45 · Sonara 52
1.1 weighted points to Sonara
10% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Final Round AI 35 · Sonara 45
1.0 weighted points to Sonara
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -13.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.3 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 -13.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Final Round AI minus Sonara.
| Category | Weight | Final Round AI | Sonara | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 22 | 50 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 20 | 48 | -28 | -4.2 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.0 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 49 (F) | -13 | -13.3 |
§ 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 | Final Round AI | Sonara | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 3 | — |
Final Round AI has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Sonara has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Final Round AI, across 4 distinct source domains, and 19 for Sonara, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Final Round AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sonara last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next