§ The result
Xobin leads Zoho Recruit by 8 points.
Xobin scores 50 and Zoho Recruit 42 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Xobin, with 1 level: Xobin is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Zoho Recruit on Post-Market Monitoring. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Xobin 43, Zoho Recruit 24, 18% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Xobin builds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Xobin
Xobin is a talent-assessment platform that sells skills, coding, communication and psychometric tests alongside generative-AI answer scoring (AI Evaluate), AI-led interviews, AI proctoring and NURA, an AI recruiting agent that parses resumes, interviews candidates and builds shortlists.
Vendor profile
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Xobin is filed under Assessment AI, Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Xobin | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Low |
| Headquarters | IN | IN |
| Founded | 2016 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Xobin 43 · Zoho Recruit 24
3.4 weighted points to Xobin
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Xobin 62 · Zoho Recruit 45
3.4 weighted points to Xobin
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Xobin 58 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.0 weighted points to Xobin
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Xobin 35 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.8 weighted points to Xobin
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Xobin 57 · Zoho Recruit 55
0.3 weighted points to Xobin
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Xobin 38 · Zoho Recruit 40
0.2 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +8.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Xobin minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Xobin | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 43 | 24 | +19 | +3.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 42 (F) | +8 | +8.6 |
§ 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 | Xobin | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Xobin has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Xobin 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: 32 for Xobin, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Xobin last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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