Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Greenhouse vs SmartRecruiters
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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
Concerning
ATS-integrated
The result
Greenhouse leads SmartRecruiters by 5 points.
Greenhouse scores 67 and SmartRecruiters 62 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Greenhouse: Greenhouse is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and SmartRecruiters on FRIA Support. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Greenhouse 58, SmartRecruiters 48) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Greenhouse 78, SmartRecruiters 70), the second being 31% of the weighted advantage Greenhouse holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Greenhouse6
- SmartRecruiters1
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring58 vs 48
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Greenhouse and SmartRecruiters are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Sourcing and Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Greenhouse | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2010 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight29% of the movement so far
Greenhouse78SmartRecruiters701.6 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight55% of the movement so far
Greenhouse86SmartRecruiters781.4 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight76% of the movement so far
Greenhouse58SmartRecruiters481.2 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight85% of the movement so far
Greenhouse66SmartRecruiters620.5 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight93% of the movement so far
Greenhouse42SmartRecruiters450.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight99% of the movement so far
Greenhouse64SmartRecruiters620.3 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Greenhouse64SmartRecruiters630.1 weighted points to Greenhouse
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +4.6.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Greenhouse minus SmartRecruiters, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Greenhouse | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 70 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 86 | 78 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 63 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 67D | 62D | +5 | +4.6 |
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 | Greenhouse | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Greenhouse has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Greenhouse and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Greenhouse, across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Greenhouse last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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