§ The result
HireVue leads ZipRecruiter on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, HireVue (Video interview) opens an 18-point lead on ZipRecruiter (Sourcing), 58 to 40. Of the 7 criteria ZipRecruiter wins none, and the narrowest lead HireVue holds is on Customer Documentation, HireVue 55 to ZipRecruiter 54. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HireVue 80, ZipRecruiter 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage HireVue holds across the 7 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
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
HireVue is filed under Video interview AI, ZipRecruiter under Candidate sourcing 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 | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireVue 80 · ZipRecruiter 24
10.1 weighted points to HireVue
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireVue 65 · ZipRecruiter 40
5.0 weighted points to HireVue
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireVue 35 · ZipRecruiter 27
1.2 weighted points to HireVue
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireVue 60 · ZipRecruiter 55
0.6 weighted points to HireVue
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireVue 45 · ZipRecruiter 40
0.6 weighted points to HireVue
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireVue 55 · ZipRecruiter 52
0.4 weighted points to HireVue
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireVue 55 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.1 weighted points to HireVue
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +18.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireVue minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | HireVue | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 40 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 24 | +56 | +10.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 27 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 54 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 40 (F) | +18 | +18.0 |
§ 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 | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 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% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 28 | 5 | Sources 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; ZipRecruiter has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HireVue and ZipRecruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for HireVue, across 4 distinct source domains, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireVue last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next