§ The result
3 points separate ZipRecruiter and Toggl Hire.
ZipRecruiter holds a 3-point edge over Toggl Hire under rubric v1.0, 40 to 37, across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Toggl Hire on FRIA Support. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Toggl Hire 30, ZipRecruiter 40 — and at a 20% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage ZipRecruiter holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace whose AI matching engine sends employers' job postings out, alerts matched job seekers and invites them to apply, and labels and ranks applicants (for example as 'Great Match') in the employer's candidate dashboard.
§ The record
Toggl Hire is filed under Assessment AI, ZipRecruiter under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Toggl Hire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Toggl Hire | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | EE | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Toggl Hire 30 · ZipRecruiter 40
2.0 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Toggl Hire 20 · ZipRecruiter 24
0.7 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Toggl Hire 35 · ZipRecruiter 40
0.6 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Toggl Hire 30 · ZipRecruiter 27
0.4 weighted points to Toggl Hire
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Toggl Hire 55 · ZipRecruiter 52
0.4 weighted points to Toggl Hire
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Toggl Hire 52 · ZipRecruiter 55
0.4 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Toggl Hire 50 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.3 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -3.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.9 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 -3.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Toggl Hire minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | Toggl Hire | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 24 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 54 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 40 (F) | -3 | -3.1 |
§ 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 | Toggl Hire | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Toggl Hire has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; ZipRecruiter has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ZipRecruiter 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: 14 for Toggl Hire, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Toggl Hire last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next