§ The result
HiPeople leads Xobin on 5 of the 7 criteria.
HiPeople sits 11 points above Xobin under rubric v1.0, 61 (D) against 50 (F), with both filed under Assessment. Xobin is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: HiPeople takes 5, the remaining 2 are level, and the nearest of those 5 is Data Governance Disclosure, HiPeople 58 to Xobin 57. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiPeople 84, Xobin 43 — and at an 18% weight it carries 66% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Xobin
Xobin is a talent-assessment platform that sells skills, coding, communication and psychometric tests alongside generative-AI answer scoring (AI Evaluate), AI-led interviews, AI proctoring and NURA, an AI recruiting agent that parses resumes, interviews candidates and builds shortlists.
§ The record
HiPeople and Xobin are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiPeople | Xobin |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | DE | IN |
| Founded | 2019 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · Xobin 43
7.4 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · Xobin 38
2.6 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiPeople 62 · Xobin 58
0.5 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · Xobin 60
0.5 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiPeople 58 · Xobin 57
0.1 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +11.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +11.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus Xobin.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | Xobin | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 43 | +41 | +7.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 38 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 50 (F) | +11 | +11.1 |
§ 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 | Xobin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 27 | 5 | Sources 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; Xobin has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiPeople and Xobin sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 32 for Xobin, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Xobin last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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