§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Pin on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SmartRecruiters (ATS-integrated) opens a 22-point lead on Pin (Sourcing), 62 (D) to 40 (F). Of the 7 criteria Pin wins none, and the narrowest lead SmartRecruiters holds is on Post-Market Monitoring, Pin 45 to SmartRecruiters 48. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Pin 35, SmartRecruiters 78) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Pin 30, SmartRecruiters 70), the second being 36% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pin
Pin is an AI recruiting agent that searches a database of 850M+ candidate profiles, scores and ranks candidates for fit, can automatically screen out non-matches (each with a one-line reason), and runs outreach and interview scheduling.
Vendor profile
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Pin is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated 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.
| Record | Pin | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2024 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pin 30 · SmartRecruiters 70
8.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pin 35 · SmartRecruiters 78
7.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pin 30 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pin 50 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pin 50 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pin 55 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pin 45 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -22.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -22 beside that -22.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pin minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Pin | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 70 | -40 | -8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 78 | -43 | -7.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 48 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 62 (D) | -22 | -22.2 |
§ 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 | Pin | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 32 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pin has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Pin, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pin last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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