§ The result
1 point separates SmartRecruiters and HiPeople.
SmartRecruiters (ATS-integrated) edges HiPeople (Assessment) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 62 to 61. HiPeople and SmartRecruiters each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split SmartRecruiters holds (headed by Article 11 Technical Documentation) adds up to more weighted points. SmartRecruiters takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (HiPeople 62, SmartRecruiters 70), which is 43% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, HiPeople 60 to SmartRecruiters 48.
Vendor profile
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
Vendor profile
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.
§ The record
HiPeople is filed under Assessment AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only HiPeople is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiPeople | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiPeople 62 · SmartRecruiters 70
1.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 48% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiPeople 35 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.4 weighted points to HiPeople
18% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · SmartRecruiters 78
1.1 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiPeople 58 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.2 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 70 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 78 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 48 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 63 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 62 (D) | -1 | -0.9 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 8 | 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 |
HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiPeople and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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