§ The result
3 points separate Testlify and Tengai.
Testlify holds a 3-point edge over Tengai under rubric v1.0, 45 to 42, across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Testlify: Testlify is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Tengai on Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Tengai 33, Testlify 42) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Tengai 45, Testlify 52), the second being 32% of the weighted advantage Testlify holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Tengai
Tengai runs structured screening interviews through a browser-based AI avatar and combines candidates' yes/no qualification answers, a Five-Factor-based personality score and recruiter ratings of open answers into an automatically ranked shortlist.
Vendor profile
Testlify
Testlify is a skills-assessment and AI-interviewing platform that ranks candidates on a scored leaderboard from pre-built or AI-generated tests, with an AI résumé screener, AI-scored video, voice and chat interviews, and AI-assisted proctoring.
§ The record
Tengai is filed under Screening AI, Testlify under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Tengai | Testlify |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | SE | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tengai 45 · Testlify 52
1.4 weighted points to Testlify
12% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tengai 33 · Testlify 42
1.1 weighted points to Testlify
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tengai 28 · Testlify 33
0.8 weighted points to Testlify
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Tengai 50 · Testlify 55
0.8 weighted points to Testlify
18% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tengai 33 · Testlify 30
0.5 weighted points to Tengai
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tengai 55 · Testlify 60
0.4 weighted points to Testlify
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tengai 58 · Testlify 55
0.4 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -3.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -3.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tengai minus Testlify.
| Category | Weight | Tengai | Testlify | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 30 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 33 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 42 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 45 (F) | -3 | -3.5 |
§ 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 | Tengai | Testlify | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Testlify has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 78 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains, and 36 for Testlify, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Testlify last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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