§ The result
3 points separate Personio and Toggl Hire.
Personio (ATS-integrated) edges Toggl Hire (Assessment) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 40 to 37. Personio leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Toggl Hire leads 2, including Human Oversight Design, and 2 are level. Personio takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Personio 40, Toggl Hire 30), which is 45% of the weighted advantage Personio holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, Personio 48 to Toggl Hire 35.
Vendor profile
Personio
Personio is a European cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized companies that combines an HRIS with recruiting/ATS, time tracking, payroll and an AI assistant, and is adding agentic AI candidate sourcing and application screening through its 2026 acquisition of aurio.
Vendor profile
Toggl Hire
Toggl Hire is a skills-first hiring platform (now being retired) that screens candidates with auto-graded skills tests, async video interviews and homework assignments, bundled with a lightweight ATS.
§ The record
Personio is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Toggl Hire under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Toggl Hire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Personio | Toggl Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | DE | EE |
| Founded | 2015 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Personio 40 · Toggl Hire 30
2.0 weighted points to Personio
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Personio 48 · Toggl Hire 35
1.6 weighted points to Personio
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Personio 25 · Toggl Hire 20
0.9 weighted points to Personio
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Personio 48 · Toggl Hire 52
0.5 weighted points to Toggl Hire
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Personio 52 · Toggl Hire 55
0.4 weighted points to Toggl Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +3.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +3.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Personio minus Toggl Hire.
| Category | Weight | Personio | Toggl Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 37 (F) | +3 | +3.5 |
§ 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 | Personio | Toggl Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | 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% | 13 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Personio has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Toggl Hire has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Personio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Personio, across 5 distinct source domains, and 14 for Toggl Hire, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Personio last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Toggl Hire last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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