§ The result
TestGorilla leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
TestGorilla finishes 24 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 47 against 23 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. TestGorilla leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Mercor leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Mercor 22, TestGorilla 56) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Mercor 22, TestGorilla 52), the second being 26% of the weighted advantage TestGorilla holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a pre-employment skills-assessment platform offering a large test library plus AI features for resume scoring, candidate sourcing, and one-way/conversational AI video interviews to support skills-based hiring.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, TestGorilla under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercor | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2023 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · TestGorilla 52
6.0 weighted points to TestGorilla
15% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · TestGorilla 56
5.1 weighted points to TestGorilla
18% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · TestGorilla 38
5.0 weighted points to TestGorilla
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · TestGorilla 60
2.2 weighted points to TestGorilla
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · TestGorilla 38
2.2 weighted points to TestGorilla
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · TestGorilla 30
1.5 weighted points to TestGorilla
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · TestGorilla 58
1.4 weighted points to TestGorilla
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -23.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 23.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -24 beside that -23.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus TestGorilla.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | TestGorilla | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 52 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 38 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 56 | -34 | -5.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 47 (F) | -24 | -23.4 |
§ 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 | TestGorilla | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; TestGorilla has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for TestGorilla sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 19 for TestGorilla, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestGorilla last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next