§ The result
Wonderlic leads Zappyhire by 9 points.
Wonderlic scores 43 and Zappyhire 34 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Wonderlic leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Zappyhire leads 1, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Wonderlic 52, Zappyhire 30 — and at a 20% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Wonderlic holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Wonderlic
Wonderlic Select (formerly WonScore) is a pre-employment assessment that combines cognitive ability, personality, and motivation tests to score and rank candidates for job fit.
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
Wonderlic 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 | Wonderlic | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 1937 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Wonderlic 52 · Zappyhire 30
4.4 weighted points to Wonderlic
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Wonderlic 48 · Zappyhire 28
3.6 weighted points to Wonderlic
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Wonderlic 55 · Zappyhire 45
0.8 weighted points to Wonderlic
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Wonderlic 38 · Zappyhire 42
0.6 weighted points to Zappyhire
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Wonderlic 33 · Zappyhire 28
0.6 weighted points to Wonderlic
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Wonderlic 52 · Zappyhire 50
0.2 weighted points to Wonderlic
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +9.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Wonderlic minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Wonderlic | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 30 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 28 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 28 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 34 (F) | +9 | +9.0 |
§ 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 | Wonderlic | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 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 domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Wonderlic has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 6 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 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for Wonderlic, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Wonderlic last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next