§ The result
Mercer | Mettl leads Toggl Hire by 5 points.
Mercer | Mettl scores 42 and Toggl Hire 37 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the Assessment cohort. Mercer | Mettl leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Toggl Hire leads 2, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Mercer | Mettl 42, Toggl Hire 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 65% of the weighted advantage Mercer | Mettl holds across the 4 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
Toggl Hire
Toggl Hire is a skills-first hiring platform (now being retired) that screens candidates with auto-graded skills tests, async video interviews and homework assignments, bundled with a lightweight ATS.
§ The record
Mercer | Mettl and Toggl Hire are both filed under Assessment 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 | Toggl Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | IN | EE |
| Founded | 2010 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercer | Mettl 42 · Toggl Hire 20
4.0 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Toggl Hire 30
1.6 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercer | Mettl 45 · Toggl Hire 52
0.8 weighted points to Toggl Hire
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Toggl Hire 35
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercer | Mettl 28 · Toggl Hire 30
0.3 weighted points to Toggl Hire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 52 · Toggl Hire 50
0.2 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +4.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +4.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercer | Mettl minus Toggl Hire.
| Category | Weight | Mercer | Mettl | Toggl Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 37 (F) | +5 | +4.9 |
§ 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 | Toggl Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 4 | 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; Toggl Hire has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Toggl Hire, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Toggl Hire last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next