§ The result
3 points separate TestDome and Zappyhire.
TestDome (Assessment) edges Zappyhire (Screening) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 37 to 34. Zappyhire takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for TestDome, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Zappyhire takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (TestDome 15, Zappyhire 28), 100% of the weighted advantage it builds, while the widest raw gap is on Customer Documentation, TestDome 60 to Zappyhire 45.
Vendor profile
TestDome
TestDome sells pay-per-candidate online skills tests for coding, Excel and more than 100 other skills. The tests are scored automatically, and open-ended answers can be scored by AI. AI analysis of webcam and screen proctoring recordings flags possible cheating, and a live code-interview tool is included.
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
TestDome is filed under Assessment AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | TestDome | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | HR | IN |
| Founded | 2013 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
TestDome 15 · Zappyhire 28
2.3 weighted points to Zappyhire
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
TestDome 40 · Zappyhire 30
2.0 weighted points to TestDome
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
TestDome 50 · Zappyhire 42
1.2 weighted points to TestDome
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
TestDome 60 · Zappyhire 45
1.2 weighted points to TestDome
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
TestDome 28 · Zappyhire 25
0.4 weighted points to TestDome
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
TestDome 52 · Zappyhire 50
0.2 weighted points to TestDome
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
TestDome 30 · Zappyhire 28
0.2 weighted points to TestDome
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.7 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 +3.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is TestDome minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | TestDome | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 15 | 28 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 34 (F) | +3 | +3.0 |
§ 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 | TestDome | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
TestDome has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 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 Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for TestDome, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- TestDome last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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