§ The result
1 point separates Recruitly and ZipRecruiter.
Recruitly (ATS-integrated) edges ZipRecruiter (Sourcing) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 41 to 40. ZipRecruiter takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 5 for Recruitly, whose share includes FRIA Support. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing are the same criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, and ZipRecruiter holds it (Recruitly 15, ZipRecruiter 24, 18% weight), worth 61% of the weighted advantage ZipRecruiter builds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
Vendor profile
ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace whose AI matching engine sends employers' job postings out, alerts matched job seekers and invites them to apply, and labels and ranks applicants (for example as 'Great Match') in the employer's candidate dashboard.
§ The record
Recruitly is filed under ATS-integrated AI, ZipRecruiter under Candidate sourcing 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 | Recruitly | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AE | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitly 15 · ZipRecruiter 24
1.6 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
15% weight · 44% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitly 35 · ZipRecruiter 27
1.2 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitly 45 · ZipRecruiter 52
1.1 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitly 45 · ZipRecruiter 40
1.0 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruitly 60 · ZipRecruiter 55
0.6 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitly 45 · ZipRecruiter 40
0.6 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitly 58 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.3 weighted points to Recruitly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.4 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 Recruitly minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | Recruitly | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 15 | 24 | -9 | -1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 27 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 40 (F) | +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 | Recruitly | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; ZipRecruiter has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ZipRecruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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