§ The result
HireVue leads softgarden by 16 points.
HireVue finishes 16 points clear of softgarden under rubric v1.0 — 58 against 42 — across the Video interview and ATS-integrated cohorts. softgarden takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Customer Documentation among them, against 6 for HireVue, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HireVue 80, softgarden 22) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 64% of the weighted advantage HireVue holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HireVue
Asynchronous video interviewing platform with optional AI-driven assessment scoring of candidate responses.
Vendor profile
softgarden
softgarden is a German cloud applicant tracking system (multiposting, career sites, applicant management and onboarding) with optional AI features: AI-Assisted Applicant Matching, which highlights applicants who closely match a job's requirements, and a newer LLM-based Screening Assistant, which scores each applicant against screening criteria.
§ The record
HireVue is filed under Video interview AI, softgarden 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 | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2004 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireVue 80 · softgarden 22
10.4 weighted points to HireVue
20% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireVue 65 · softgarden 42
4.6 weighted points to HireVue
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireVue 35 · softgarden 30
0.8 weighted points to HireVue
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireVue 60 · softgarden 58
0.2 weighted points to HireVue
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireVue 55 · softgarden 58
0.2 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireVue 55 · softgarden 54
0.1 weighted points to HireVue
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireVue 45 · softgarden 44
0.1 weighted points to HireVue
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +16.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireVue minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | HireVue | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 42 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 22 | +58 | +10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 54 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 44 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 42 (F) | +16 | +16.1 |
§ 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 | HireVue | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HireVue has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HireVue sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for HireVue, across 4 distinct source domains, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireVue last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next