§ The result
Turing leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Turing sits 13 points above Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 36 against 23 — with Turing filed under Assessment and Mercor under Screening. Turing leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Mercor 42 to Turing 45. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Mercor 22, Turing 44) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Mercor 22, Turing 42), the second being 30% of the weighted advantage Turing 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
Turing
Turing is an AI-powered talent platform that vets software engineers through automated multi-stage technical assessments and uses machine-learned ranking to score, match, and place them with client companies.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Turing under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercor | Turing |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Turing 42
4.0 weighted points to Turing
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Turing 44
3.3 weighted points to Turing
18% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Turing 28
3.2 weighted points to Turing
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Turing 27
0.8 weighted points to Turing
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Turing 25
0.8 weighted points to Turing
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Turing 48
0.6 weighted points to Turing
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Turing 45
0.4 weighted points to Turing
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Turing.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Turing | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 42 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 28 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 44 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 27 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 48 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 36 (F) | -13 | -13.1 |
§ 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 | Turing | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 8 | 7 | 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; Turing has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 14 for Turing, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Turing last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next