Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Greenhouse vs Mercor
Greenhouse
End-to-end applicant tracking system and structured-hiring platform, now layered with 'Greenhouse AI' features such as resume parsing, Talent Matching, and interview summarisation.
Concerning
ATS-integrated
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Greenhouse leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 44 points between Greenhouse (ATS-integrated) and Mercor (Screening): 67 (D) for Greenhouse, 23 (F) for Mercor. Greenhouse is ahead of Mercor on all 7 criteria, every one of them by 20 raw points or more. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Greenhouse 86, Mercor 10, 18% weight), is only 31% of the weighted advantage Greenhouse builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Greenhouse7
- Mercor0
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency86 vs 10
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Greenhouse is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
Only Mercor is in scope of
| Record | Greenhouse | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2023 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight31% of the movement so far
Greenhouse86Mercor1013.7 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight57% of the movement so far
Greenhouse78Mercor2211.2 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight71% of the movement so far
Greenhouse64Mercor226.3 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight82% of the movement so far
Greenhouse58Mercor204.6 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight89% of the movement so far
Greenhouse42Mercor203.3 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight96% of the movement so far
Greenhouse66Mercor422.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Greenhouse64Mercor401.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +43.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 43.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +44 beside that +43.8.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Greenhouse minus Mercor, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Greenhouse | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 22 | +56 | +11.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 86 | 10 | +76 | +13.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +3.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 22 | +42 | +6.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 42 | +24 | +2.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 20 | +38 | +4.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 40 | +24 | +1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 67D | 23F | +44 | +43.8 |
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 | Greenhouse | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Greenhouse has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Greenhouse sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Greenhouse, across 3 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Greenhouse last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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