§ The result
Zoho Recruit leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Zoho Recruit finishes 19 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 42 against 23 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Zoho Recruit leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Data Governance Disclosure among them; Mercor leads none. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Mercor 22, Zoho Recruit 55, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 27% of the weighted advantage Zoho Recruit 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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated 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 | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2023 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Zoho Recruit 55
5.0 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Zoho Recruit 45
4.6 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Zoho Recruit 24
2.5 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Zoho Recruit 40
2.4 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Zoho Recruit 60
1.6 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Zoho Recruit 30
1.5 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.0 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 45 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 24 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 55 | -33 | -5.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 40 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 42 (F) | -19 | -18.5 |
§ 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 | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | — | 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 | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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