§ The result
PageUp leads Mercer | Mettl on all 7 criteria.
PageUp finishes 22 points clear of Mercer | Mettl under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 42 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. PageUp leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercer | Mettl none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Mercer | Mettl 55 to PageUp 63. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap (Mercer | Mettl 42, PageUp 80) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Mercer | Mettl 38, PageUp 74), 32% of the weighted advantage PageUp builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Mercer | Mettl
Mercer | Mettl is an online talent assessment and remote-proctoring platform offering psychometric, aptitude, coding, and skills tests plus AI-assisted exam proctoring and scoring for hiring, certification, and L&D.
Vendor profile
PageUp
PageUp is an enterprise talent acquisition suite (ATS, recruitment marketing/CRM, onboarding, learning and performance). Its AI Skills Matching sorts each applicant's resume against skills taken from the job ad into five bands, from Excellent Match to Not a Match, and recruiters reach those results through Paige, its conversational assistant.
§ The record
Mercer | Mettl is filed under Assessment AI, PageUp under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Mercer | Mettl is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercer | Mettl | PageUp |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | AU |
| Founded | 2010 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 38 · PageUp 74
7.2 weighted points to PageUp
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercer | Mettl 42 · PageUp 80
6.8 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercer | Mettl 45 · PageUp 64
2.3 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercer | Mettl 38 · PageUp 55
2.0 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercer | Mettl 28 · PageUp 40
1.8 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercer | Mettl 55 · PageUp 63
1.2 weighted points to PageUp
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 52 · PageUp 63
0.9 weighted points to PageUp
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -22.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -22 beside that -22.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercer | Mettl minus PageUp.
| Category | Weight | Mercer | Mettl | PageUp | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 74 | -36 | -7.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 80 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 64 | -19 | -2.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 63 | -11 | -0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 64 (D) | -22 | -22.2 |
§ 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 | Mercer | Mettl | PageUp | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for PageUp sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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