§ The result
HireVue leads Testlify by 13 points.
HireVue, filed under Video interview, comes out 13 points above Testlify, filed under Assessment: 58 against 45 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of HireVue, with 1 level: HireVue is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Testlify on Customer Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HireVue 80, Testlify 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 70% of the weighted advantage HireVue holds across the 5 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
Testlify
Testlify is a skills-assessment and AI-interviewing platform that ranks candidates on a scored leaderboard from pre-built or AI-generated tests, with an AI résumé screener, AI-scored video, voice and chat interviews, and AI-assisted proctoring.
§ The record
HireVue is filed under Video interview AI, Testlify under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | HireVue | Testlify |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireVue 80 · Testlify 30
9.0 weighted points to HireVue
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireVue 65 · Testlify 52
2.6 weighted points to HireVue
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireVue 60 · Testlify 55
0.6 weighted points to HireVue
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireVue 55 · Testlify 60
0.4 weighted points to Testlify
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireVue 45 · Testlify 42
0.4 weighted points to HireVue
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireVue 35 · Testlify 33
0.3 weighted points to HireVue
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +12.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireVue minus Testlify.
| Category | Weight | HireVue | Testlify | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 52 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 30 | +50 | +9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 33 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 45 (F) | +13 | +12.5 |
§ 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 | Testlify | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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; Testlify 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 Testlify, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireVue last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Testlify last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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