§ The result
HireQuotient leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
HireQuotient sits 11 points above Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 34 against 23 — with HireQuotient filed under Sourcing and Mercor under Screening. HireQuotient is ahead of Mercor on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being FRIA Support at HireQuotient 22 to Mercor 20. Even Data Governance Disclosure, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HireQuotient 40, Mercor 22, 15% weight), is only 25% of the weighted advantage HireQuotient builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
Vendor profile
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
§ The record
HireQuotient is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · Mercor 22
2.7 weighted points to HireQuotient
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · Mercor 22
2.6 weighted points to HireQuotient
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · Mercor 42
1.8 weighted points to HireQuotient
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · Mercor 10
1.4 weighted points to HireQuotient
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · Mercor 20
1.2 weighted points to HireQuotient
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · Mercor 40
0.8 weighted points to HireQuotient
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · Mercor 20
0.3 weighted points to HireQuotient
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.8 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 +10.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 22 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 10 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 20 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 22 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 42 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 23 (F) | +11 | +10.8 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next