Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
HackerRank vs Keka
HackerRank
HackerRank is a technical skills assessment platform for developer hiring that uses coding tests, interviews, and AI-based features (question generation, ML plagiarism/AI-code detection, and image-analysis proctoring) to evaluate candidates.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
Keka
Keka is an HR and payroll suite whose Keka Hire ATS scores each applicant against recruiter-defined role requirements and runs an AI screening conversation that decides which candidates reach the shortlist.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
HackerRank leads Keka on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, HackerRank (Assessment) opens an 18-point lead on Keka (ATS-integrated), 55 to 37. Of the 7 criteria Keka wins none, and the narrowest lead HackerRank holds is on FRIA Support, HackerRank 35 to Keka 30. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HackerRank 68, Keka 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage HackerRank holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- HackerRank7
- Keka0
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency68 vs 20
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
HackerRank is filed under Assessment AI, Keka under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
Only HackerRank is in scope of
| Record | HackerRank | Keka |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2009 | 2014 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight47% of the movement so far
HackerRank68Keka208.6 weighted points to HackerRank
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight79% of the movement so far
HackerRank60Keka306.0 weighted points to HackerRank
- 3
Human Oversight Design
12% weight86% of the movement so far
HackerRank60Keka501.2 weighted points to HackerRank
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight90% of the movement so far
HackerRank35Keka300.8 weighted points to HackerRank
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight94% of the movement so far
HackerRank55Keka500.8 weighted points to HackerRank
- 6
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight97% of the movement so far
HackerRank45Keka400.6 weighted points to HackerRank
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
HackerRank62Keka550.6 weighted points to HackerRank
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +18.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HackerRank minus Keka, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | HackerRank | Keka | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 30 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 20 | +48 | +8.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 55F | 37F | +18 | +18.5 |
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 | HackerRank | Keka | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HackerRank has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Keka has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HackerRank sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains, and 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HackerRank last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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