§ The result
ZipRecruiter leads HireQuotient by 6 points.
ZipRecruiter finishes 6 points ahead of HireQuotient under rubric v1.0, 40 to 34, both scored as Sourcing entries. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter is ahead on Data Governance Disclosure and HireQuotient on Human Oversight Design. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HireQuotient 40, ZipRecruiter 52, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 29% of the weighted advantage ZipRecruiter holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace whose AI matching engine sends employers' job postings out, alerts matched job seekers and invites them to apply, and labels and ranks applicants (for example as 'Great Match') in the employer's candidate dashboard.
§ The record
HireQuotient and ZipRecruiter are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · ZipRecruiter 52
1.8 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
12% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · ZipRecruiter 40
1.2 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · ZipRecruiter 24
1.1 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · ZipRecruiter 40
1.0 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · ZipRecruiter 27
0.8 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.3 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · ZipRecruiter 55
0.2 weighted points to HireQuotient
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 24 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 27 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 54 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 40 (F) | -6 | -5.9 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; ZipRecruiter has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ZipRecruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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