§ The result
Mercer | Mettl takes the total, Recruitly takes more of the criteria.
Mercer | Mettl holds a 1-point edge over Recruitly under rubric v1.0, 42 to 41, across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Recruitly leads more of the criteria, 5 against 2 for Mercer | Mettl, yet Mercer | Mettl takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Mercer | Mettl 42, Recruitly 15 — and at an 18% weight it carries 76% of the weighted advantage Mercer | Mettl holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
§ The record
Mercer | Mettl is filed under Assessment AI, Recruitly 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 | Recruitly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | IN | AE |
| Founded | 2010 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercer | Mettl 42 · Recruitly 15
4.9 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercer | Mettl 45 · Recruitly 60
1.8 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercer | Mettl 55 · Recruitly 45
1.5 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Recruitly 45
1.4 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercer | Mettl 28 · Recruitly 35
1.1 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Recruitly 45
0.8 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 52 · Recruitly 58
0.5 weighted points to Recruitly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercer | Mettl minus Recruitly.
| Category | Weight | Mercer | Mettl | Recruitly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 45 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 15 | +27 | +4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 45 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 41 (F) | +1 | +0.8 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains, and 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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