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Job-Search Tools, Independently Priced
What job-search software actually costs and does, read from each vendor's own pages and dated. No affiliate links, no sponsored placements, no paid inclusion.
8 products · 6 comparisons · 3 categories · Pricing verified 2026-08-22
Almost every comparison of job-search software is written by one of the products being compared. We checked: on the searches we looked at for alternatives to the biggest tools, every result on the first page was published by a competing vendor.
This is the independent version. Every price here was read from the vendor’s own pricing page on the date shown. We have not tested these products and do not pretend to have — what we can do is make sure the facts are current, sourced, and comparable.
How this was compiled
We have not tested these products. Every price was read from the vendor’s own pricing page on the date shown, and every capability is marked with how we know it. Where we could not establish something it is recorded as not established, rather than guessed.
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Every product
What we have verified so far.
Products appear here once their pricing has been read from the vendor and recorded with a date.
Huntr
Tracking applications on a board, with AI resume tailoring attached
Free plan · from $160 every 6 months · Checked 2026-08-22
Jobscan
Scoring a resume against a specific job description for keyword match
Free plan · from $89.95 per quarter · Checked 2026-08-22
Kickresume
Building a well-designed resume from templates, with AI assistance
Free plan · from €96 per year · Checked 2026-08-22
LoopCV
Running searches that apply to matching jobs automatically
Free plan · from €8.99 per month · Checked 2026-08-22
Resume.io
Building a resume and cover letter from templates
No free plan · from $49.95 per quarter · Checked 2026-08-22
Rezi
Building an ATS-oriented resume with AI assistance
Free plan · from $29 per month · Checked 2026-08-22
SkillSyncer
Scanning a resume against a posting, at a lower price than the category leader
Free plan · from $34.86 per quarter · Checked 2026-08-22
Teal
Tracking applications and tailoring a resume to each one
Free plan · from $13 per week · Checked 2026-08-22
By category
Grouped by the job they do.
Resume optimisation
6 products
Teal, Huntr, Jobscan, SkillSyncer
Comparisons
Pairs people actually compare.
Curated rather than generated. Seven products would produce twenty-one pairings and most would answer a question nobody asks.
The two products are near-substitutes and the pairing appears repeatedly in search results, where every page-one result we examined was written by a competing vendor.
Same job — scoring a resume against a posting — at a three-fold price difference, which is the entire decision and is not made clear anywhere we looked.
Frequently compared despite doing different jobs. The comparison is worth publishing precisely to show they are not substitutes.
The two dedicated resume builders in the set, with genuinely different pricing models — one-time versus annual subscription — and different emphases.
A common cross-category comparison: an all-in-one workspace against a focused resume builder, at similar monthly prices.
The two most expensive monthly plans in the set, bought for different reasons. Worth comparing on what $40 versus $49.95 a month actually buys.
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Scope
What this directory does not yet cover.
This is not a complete market survey. The job-search software market runs to dozens of products, and only those whose pricing we have read directly from the vendor appear here. Several well-known tools are absent for that reason alone, not because of any judgement about them.
Nothing here is based on hands-on testing. Where a product’s capability could not be established from its own documentation, it is recorded as not established rather than guessed, which is why some comparison rows are shorter than you might expect.
Prices go stale. Every page shows when its figures were last read, and the vendor’s own page is always authoritative over ours.