§ The result
Harver leads Mercer | Mettl on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Harver sits 14 points above Mercer | Mettl under rubric v1.0, 56 against 42, with both filed under Assessment. Harver leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Mercer | Mettl is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Harver leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Harver 40 to Mercer | Mettl 38. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Harver 80, Mercer | Mettl 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Harver holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Harver
Pre-employment assessment suite covering cognitive ability, behavioral, and situational judgement, including the legacy Pymetrics games product.
Vendor profile
Mercer | Mettl
Mercer | Mettl is an online talent assessment and remote-proctoring platform offering psychometric, aptitude, coding, and skills tests plus AI-assisted exam proctoring and scoring for hiring, certification, and L&D.
§ The record
Harver and Mercer | Mettl are both filed under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Harver | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | IN |
| Founded | 2015 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Harver 80 · Mercer | Mettl 42
6.8 weighted points to Harver
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Harver 65 · Mercer | Mettl 38
5.4 weighted points to Harver
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Harver 35 · Mercer | Mettl 28
1.1 weighted points to Harver
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Harver 60 · Mercer | Mettl 52
0.6 weighted points to Harver
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Harver 50 · Mercer | Mettl 45
0.6 weighted points to Harver
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Harver 40 · Mercer | Mettl 38
0.2 weighted points to Harver
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +14.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Harver minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Harver | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 38 | +27 | +5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 42 | +38 | +6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 42 (F) | +14 | +14.8 |
§ 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 | Harver | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Harver has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 0 documented absences; Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 24 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Harver, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Harver last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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