Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
HackerEarth vs Retorio
HackerEarth
HackerEarth is a technical-hiring platform that auto-scores coding assessments under AI proctoring, runs FaceCode live coding interviews with AI-generated summaries, and offers OnScreen, an AI video-avatar interviewer that scores candidates against a fixed rubric.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
Retorio
Video-based AI that analyses words, voice, and facial expression/body language to infer Big Five (OCEAN) personality and behavioural traits.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
2 points separate HackerEarth and Retorio.
Within the Assessment cohort, HackerEarth edges Retorio by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 46 to 44. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of HackerEarth, with 1 level: HackerEarth is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Retorio on Bias Audit Transparency. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HackerEarth 42, Retorio 33, 12% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage HackerEarth holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- HackerEarth5
- Retorio1
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring42 vs 33
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Post-Market Monitoring12% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
HackerEarth and Retorio are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of
| Record | HackerEarth | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2012 | 2018 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight25% of the movement so far
HackerEarth42Retorio331.1 weighted points to HackerEarth
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight48% of the movement so far
HackerEarth55Retorio501.0 weighted points to HackerEarth
- 3
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight69% of the movement so far
HackerEarth35Retorio400.9 weighted points to Retorio
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight82% of the movement so far
HackerEarth57Retorio500.6 weighted points to HackerEarth
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight93% of the movement so far
HackerEarth56Retorio520.5 weighted points to HackerEarth
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight100% of the movement so far
HackerEarth32Retorio300.3 weighted points to HackerEarth
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +2.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.3 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 +2.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HackerEarth minus Retorio, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | HackerEarth | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 33 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46F | 44F | +2 | +2.5 |
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 | HackerEarth | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HackerEarth has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Retorio has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for HackerEarth, across 1 distinct source domain, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HackerEarth last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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