§ The result
4 points separate SmartRecruiters and HireVue.
SmartRecruiters (ATS-integrated) edges HireVue (Video interview) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 62 (D) to 58 (F). SmartRecruiters leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while HireVue leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. FRIA Support is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HireVue 35, SmartRecruiters 45, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 31% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HireVue
Asynchronous video interviewing platform with optional AI-driven assessment scoring of candidate responses.
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
HireVue is filed under Video interview AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only HireVue is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireVue | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 29% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireVue 35 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireVue 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireVue 65 · SmartRecruiters 70
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireVue 55 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
18% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireVue 80 · SmartRecruiters 78
0.4 weighted points to HireVue
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireVue 45 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireVue 60 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireVue minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | HireVue | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 70 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 78 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 48 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 62 (D) | -4 | -4.4 |
§ 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 | HireVue | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 2 | 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 |
HireVue has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 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 HireVue and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for HireVue, across 4 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireVue last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next