Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Mercer | Mettl vs Tengai
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.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
Tengai
Tengai runs structured screening interviews through a browser-based AI avatar and combines candidates' yes/no qualification answers, a Five-Factor-based personality score and recruiter ratings of open answers into an automatically ranked shortlist.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Mercer | Mettl and Tengai tie at 42.
Mercer | Mettl (Assessment) and Tengai (Screening) tie at 42 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Mercer | Mettl leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Tengai 3, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Bias Audit Transparency, at 18%, is the heaviest weighted swing and goes to Mercer | Mettl (Mercer | Mettl 42, Tengai 33), 55% of the weighted advantage it holds, while the widest raw gap is Human Oversight Design, Mercer | Mettl 45 to Tengai 58.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Mercer | Mettl3
- Tengai3
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Human Oversight Design45 vs 58
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Mercer | Mettl is filed under Assessment AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Mercer | Mettl | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | SE |
| Founded | 2010 | 2019 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight26% of the movement so far
Mercer | Mettl42Tengai331.6 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
- 2
Human Oversight Design
12% weight52% of the movement so far
Mercer | Mettl45Tengai581.6 weighted points to Tengai
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight74% of the movement so far
Mercer | Mettl38Tengai451.4 weighted points to Tengai
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight86% of the movement so far
Mercer | Mettl55Tengai500.8 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight96% of the movement so far
Mercer | Mettl38Tengai330.6 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Mercer | Mettl52Tengai550.2 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.2 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 -0.2.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercer | Mettl minus Tengai, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Mercer | Mettl | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 45 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 33 | +9 | +1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 42F | 42F | - | -0.2 |
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 | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 37 | 5 | Sources 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; Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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