In this work, we propose a comparative study of fatigue assessment of artificial surface defects based on affected depth (AD). The defect is assumed to be a void (semi-spherical, elliptical, or circumferential notches) on the surface of a material subjected to fatigue loading.An elastic-plastic model of Chaboche is implanted in Abaqus to simulate the cyclic Finite Element (FE) calculations.The AD model is exploited with Crossland, Dang Van, and Papadopoulos fatigue criteria to determine Kitagawa diagrams. The experimental data of the defective material C35 steel are used for model validation and comparison. The proposed comparative study of fatigue assessment provides interesting results.