§ The result
TestDome leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
TestDome sits 14 points above Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 37 against 23 — with TestDome filed under Assessment and Mercor under Screening. TestDome takes all 7 criteria and Mercor none of them; the nearest contest is Bias Audit Transparency, Mercor 10 to TestDome 15. Even Data Governance Disclosure, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Mercor 22, TestDome 50, 15% weight), is only 30% of the weighted advantage TestDome builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
Vendor profile
TestDome
TestDome sells pay-per-candidate online skills tests for coding, Excel and more than 100 other skills. The tests are scored automatically, and open-ended answers can be scored by AI. AI analysis of webcam and screen proctoring recordings flags possible cheating, and a live code-interview tool is included.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, TestDome under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercor | TestDome |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | HR |
| Founded | 2023 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · TestDome 50
4.2 weighted points to TestDome
20% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · TestDome 40
3.6 weighted points to TestDome
8% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · TestDome 60
1.6 weighted points to TestDome
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · TestDome 28
1.2 weighted points to TestDome
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · TestDome 52
1.2 weighted points to TestDome
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · TestDome 30
1.2 weighted points to TestDome
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · TestDome 15
0.9 weighted points to TestDome
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -13.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus TestDome.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | TestDome | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 40 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 15 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 28 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 50 | -28 | -4.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 37 (F) | -14 | -13.9 |
§ 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 | Mercor | TestDome | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 27 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; TestDome has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 31 for TestDome, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestDome last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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