Weighted criteria for AI vendor bake-offs

AI Vendor Evaluation Scorecard

Use this interactive worksheet to score and compare AI vendors across weighted evaluation criteria relevant to enterprise procurement and vendor management. Scorecards help structure decision-making for cost, performance, support, and compliance.

AI vendor selection often involves evaluating multiple criteria that impact total cost of ownership, technical fit, compliance, and vendor support. This interactive scorecard helps buyers assign weights to key factors, score vendors objectively, and calculate comparative totals.

Enter your priority weights and vendor scores below. The calculator will compute weighted totals to assist in side-by-side vendor comparisons. Scores range from 1 (poor) to 10 (excellent).

Inputs

Weight: Total cost of ownership (1-10)

Assign importance on a scale where 10 indicates highest impact on your decision.

Vendor 1 score: Total cost of ownership (1-10)

Vendor 2 score: Total cost of ownership (1-10)

Weight: Model accuracy and latency (1-10)

Vendor 1 score: Model accuracy and latency (1-10)

Vendor 2 score: Model accuracy and latency (1-10)

Weight: Vendor support and SLAs (1-10)

Vendor 1 score: Vendor support and SLAs (1-10)

Vendor 2 score: Vendor support and SLAs (1-10)

Weight: Compliance and data privacy (1-10)

Vendor 1 score: Compliance and data privacy (1-10)

Vendor 2 score: Compliance and data privacy (1-10)

Result

Vendor 1 weighted average score

((weight-cost * score-cost-vendor1) + (weight-performance * score-performance-vendor1) + (weight-support * score-support-vendor1) + (weight-compliance * score-compliance-vendor1)) / (weight-cost + weight-performance + weight-support + weight-compliance)

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Vendor 2 weighted average score

((weight-cost * score-cost-vendor2) + (weight-performance * score-performance-vendor2) + (weight-support * score-support-vendor2) + (weight-compliance * score-compliance-vendor2)) / (weight-cost + weight-performance + weight-support + weight-compliance)

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Compare Vendors

Note

Ensure all weights sum logically to represent your priorities. This scorecard compares vendors on relative terms but does not account for absolute cost or contract terms.

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