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Scorafy vs Surpass (Scora)

Surpass is built around the high-stakes exam event - secure delivery, test centres, proctoring - with Scora marking scripts against expert-calibrated criteria. Scorafy is built around ongoing assessment work: it marks each open-ended submission against a rubric you author yourself, with per-criterion evidence, a release gate, and an override ledger, and you can be running it the same day.

Scorafy

AI-powered assessment platform that analyses each respondent's specific answers and generates a unique, personalised report with personalised strengths, development areas, and recommendations.

Free plan available. Self-serve paid plans from $39 USD/month (Starter) to $249/month (Pro), with Business and Enterprise plans quoted. Per-respondent AI assessment is included on every paid plan.

Surpass (Scora)

Surpass is an end-to-end assessment platform for high-stakes testing - authoring, item banking, delivery, scoring, and reporting for credentialing and licensure bodies, with a global test-centre network and integrated remote proctoring. Scora is its AI-supported marking product, which digitises and marks scripts against expert-calibrated criteria with teachers reviewing every output.

Enterprise pricing quoted on request, not self-serve. Checked 16 Aug 2026 - see surpass.com for current terms.

Feature by feature

Feature comparison

A side-by-side look at what each platform offers.

FeatureScorafySurpass (Scora)
High-stakes exam delivery (test centres, secure driver)
Remote proctoring integration
Paper script scanning and OCR
AI-assisted marking of written answersScora
Marking criteriaRubric you authorExpert-calibrated
Human review of every result
Per-criterion rubric marks with cited evidence
Release gate before respondent sees any resultTeacher releases results
Override ledger (AI score + reviewer decision retained)
Audit Pack export per result
AI marking of audio, video and file responses
Item banking and authoring workflowBasic
Self-serve sign-up + free plan

Honest take

Where each platform excels

An honest look at what each platform does best.

Surpass (Scora) strengths

  • End-to-end platform for high-stakes testing, trusted by credentialing and licensure bodies
  • Global test-centre network and integrated remote proctoring for secure delivery
  • Scora digitises paper scripts via OCR and marks against expert-calibrated criteria
  • Teachers review every Scora output before results are released
  • Mature item authoring, banking, and SME management workflow
Scorafy advantages
  • Marks against a rubric you author yourself - no calibration project before first use
  • Cites evidence from the submission for every criterion score
  • Overrides retain the AI-proposed score and the reviewer decision, with identity and timestamp
  • Audit Pack export produces the complete record for any result
  • AI-marks audio, video, and file submissions, not only written scripts
  • Self-serve, transparent pricing, and a free plan - running the same day, no procurement cycle
Why Scorafy

Why choose Scorafy?

The fundamental difference is in how responses are analysed. Most platforms - including Surpass (Scora) - treat responses as data points for aggregate reporting or template-based result pages.

Scorafy reads each respondent's specific answers - including free-text responses - and generates a completely unique assessment report. Every person gets personalised strengths, development areas, and actionable recommendations written specifically for them.

Unique

Report per respondent

~1 min

AI analysis time

All plans

AI reports included

The verdict

Our honest recommendation

Surpass is the right choice for high-stakes exam delivery - licensure and credentialing programmes that need secure test drivers, test centres, and proctoring, with Scora adding AI-supported marking under teacher review. Scorafy has no proctoring, no test-centre network, and no exam-event security model. Choose Scorafy for the assessment work that is not a proctored exam: coursework, competency evidence, workplace and RTO submissions, marked against your own rubric with per-criterion evidence, a release gate, and an audit trail, without an enterprise procurement cycle.

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