§ The result
Mercer | Mettl and Talview tie at 42.
Mercer | Mettl (Assessment) and Talview (Video interview) tie at 42 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Mercer | Mettl leads 4 of the 7 criteria and Talview 2, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Mercer | Mettl 38, Talview 50 — and at a 20% weight it carries 67% of the weighted advantage Talview 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
Talview
AI-powered hiring and exam-integrity platform spanning video interviewing, skills assessments, identity verification, and AI proctoring.
§ The record
Mercer | Mettl is filed under Assessment AI, Talview under Video interview AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercer | Mettl | Talview |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Talview 50
2.4 weighted points to Talview
12% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercer | Mettl 45 · Talview 55
1.2 weighted points to Talview
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercer | Mettl 55 · Talview 48
1.1 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
18% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercer | Mettl 42 · Talview 38
0.7 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Talview 32
0.7 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercer | Mettl 28 · Talview 25
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercer | Mettl minus Talview.
| Category | Weight | Mercer | Mettl | Talview | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 50 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 32 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 42 (F) | - | -0.7 |
§ 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 | Talview | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 6 | 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; Talview has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Talview, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talview last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next