Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Paylocity vs Prevue HR
Paylocity
Paylocity is a cloud-based HCM and payroll platform whose talent suite includes an applicant tracking system with generative-AI job-description and invite drafting, one-way video interviews, candidate self-scheduling, and a conversational "AI Assistant."
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
Prevue HR
Prevue HR's psychometric platform tests candidates' aptitude, personality and motivations and compares the results with a custom role benchmark to produce a percentage Job Suitability score and Job-Fit report, alongside an optional applicant tracking system (APS Pro).
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
1 point separates Prevue HR and Paylocity.
Prevue HR holds a 1-point edge over Paylocity under rubric v1.0, 44 to 43, across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to Paylocity and Prevue HR, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side Prevue HR holds, headed by Bias Audit Transparency, settle the total. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paylocity 33, Prevue HR 44 — and at an 18% weight it carries 74% of the weighted advantage Prevue HR holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Paylocity3
- Prevue HR3
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency33 vs 44
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Paylocity is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Prevue HR under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Paylocity | Prevue HR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 1997 | 1994 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight47% of the movement so far
Paylocity33Prevue HR442.0 weighted points to Prevue HR
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight68% of the movement so far
Paylocity54Prevue HR480.9 weighted points to Paylocity
- 3
Human Oversight Design
12% weight79% of the movement so far
Paylocity50Prevue HR540.5 weighted points to Prevue HR
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight90% of the movement so far
Paylocity30Prevue HR270.4 weighted points to Paylocity
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight95% of the movement so far
Paylocity42Prevue HR400.2 weighted points to Paylocity
- 6
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight100% of the movement so far
Paylocity44Prevue HR450.2 weighted points to Prevue HR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.1.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paylocity minus Prevue HR, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Paylocity | Prevue HR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 45 | -1 | -0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 44 | -11 | -2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 48 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 54 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 43F | 44F | -1 | -1.1 |
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 | Paylocity | Prevue HR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Prevue HR has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Prevue HR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Prevue HR, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Prevue HR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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