§ The result
Spark Hire leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Spark Hire finishes 19 points clear of Zappyhire under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 34 — across the Video interview and Screening cohorts. Spark Hire leads every one of the 7 criteria, Zappyhire none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Spark Hire 30 to Zappyhire 25. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Spark Hire 62, Zappyhire 28, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
Vendor profile
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Spark Hire is filed under Video interview AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Spark Hire | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2012 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Spark Hire 62 · Zappyhire 28
6.1 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Spark Hire 58 · Zappyhire 30
5.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Spark Hire 60 · Zappyhire 42
2.7 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Spark Hire 64 · Zappyhire 45
1.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Spark Hire 62 · Zappyhire 50
1.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Spark Hire 38 · Zappyhire 28
1.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Spark Hire 30 · Zappyhire 25
0.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +19 beside that +19.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Spark Hire minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Spark Hire | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 30 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 28 | +34 | +6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 45 | +19 | +1.5 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 34 (F) | +19 | +19.3 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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