§ The result
Wonderlic leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Wonderlic finishes 20 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 43 against 23 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Wonderlic leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Mercor 20 to Wonderlic 25. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Mercor 10, Wonderlic 48, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage Wonderlic 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
Wonderlic
Wonderlic Select (formerly WonScore) is a pre-employment assessment that combines cognitive ability, personality, and motivation tests to score and rank candidates for job fit.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Wonderlic 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 | Wonderlic |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 1937 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Wonderlic 48
6.8 weighted points to Wonderlic
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Wonderlic 52
6.0 weighted points to Wonderlic
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Wonderlic 38
2.4 weighted points to Wonderlic
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Wonderlic 33
1.6 weighted points to Wonderlic
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Wonderlic 52
1.2 weighted points to Wonderlic
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Wonderlic 55
1.2 weighted points to Wonderlic
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Wonderlic 25
0.8 weighted points to Wonderlic
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -20 beside that -19.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Wonderlic.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Wonderlic | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 52 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 48 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 38 | -16 | -2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 33 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 43 (F) | -20 | -19.9 |
§ 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 | Wonderlic | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 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 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 9 | 6 | 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; Wonderlic has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 15 for Wonderlic, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wonderlic last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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