§ The result
Stepstone leads Toggl Hire on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Stepstone sits 12 points above Toggl Hire under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 37 — with Stepstone filed under Screening and Toggl Hire under Assessment. Stepstone leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Toggl Hire is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Stepstone leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Stepstone 38 to Toggl Hire 35. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Stepstone 50, Toggl Hire 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage Stepstone holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Stepstone
Stepstone is a German job marketplace whose Stepstone Recruit employer platform includes an AI Screening Agent, which rates each application against requirements taken from the job ad, and a Talent Finder, which recommends candidates from a CV database of more than 4 million profiles.
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
Stepstone is filed under Screening AI, Toggl Hire under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | Stepstone | Toggl Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | DE | EE |
| Founded | 1996 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Stepstone 50 · Toggl Hire 20
5.4 weighted points to Stepstone
20% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Stepstone 55 · Toggl Hire 30
5.0 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Stepstone 58 · Toggl Hire 52
0.7 weighted points to Stepstone
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Stepstone 58 · Toggl Hire 50
0.6 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Stepstone 38 · Toggl Hire 35
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +12.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Stepstone minus Toggl Hire.
| Category | Weight | Stepstone | Toggl Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 30 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 20 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 37 (F) | +12 | +12.1 |
§ 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 | Stepstone | Toggl Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Stepstone has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 4 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 Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains, and 14 for Toggl Hire, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Toggl Hire last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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