§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Zoho Recruit on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 20 points clear of Zoho Recruit inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 62 (D) against 42 (F). SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, Zoho Recruit none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, SmartRecruiters 63 to Zoho Recruit 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SmartRecruiters 78, Zoho Recruit 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
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
SmartRecruiters and Zoho Recruit are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Zoho Recruit is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SmartRecruiters | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2010 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SmartRecruiters 78 · Zoho Recruit 24
9.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SmartRecruiters 70 · Zoho Recruit 45
5.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SmartRecruiters 45 · Zoho Recruit 30
2.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SmartRecruiters 62 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SmartRecruiters 62 · Zoho Recruit 55
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SmartRecruiters 48 · Zoho Recruit 40
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SmartRecruiters 63 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +20.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +20.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SmartRecruiters minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 45 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 24 | +54 | +9.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 30 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 42 (F) | +20 | +20.7 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 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 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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