Compared
Airtight vs Jobscan
Jobscan is the original ATS scanner: paste a resume and a posting and get a Match Rate with the missing hard skills, soft skills, title and education. Around it sit an AI optimizer that inserts the missing skills, a free tracker and builder, its own job board, and a credit-based Auto Apply that drafts applications for you to approve. Airtight writes the documents from your history in the first place and checks them back against it.
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Choose Jobscan if
- You want the most detailed keyword report for a posting, and LinkedIn profile optimization alongside it.
- You want applications drafted for you at volume and are happy to approve each one. Airtight will never fill an employer's form.
- You only need a few scans a month: five are free.
Choose Airtight if
- You want the resume and cover letter written for the posting, not a list of skills to insert into your existing one.
- You want to know a line is true to your history, not only that it contains the keyword.
- You want a lower monthly price: Jobscan Premium is $49.95 a month.
Side by side
| Airtight | Jobscan | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29 a month, $69 a quarter, or $15 a week. One plan, everything included. | Premium is $49.95 a month or $89.95 every three months (with a seven-day trial on the quarterly plan). Auto Apply credits are extra beyond two a month. |
| Free plan | Three complete applications free, forever, no card: fit check, resume, cover letter and prep sheet for each. The fit check on any posting is free and does not count. | Five scans a month with a condensed report, the job tracker and the resume builder with free download. |
| Resume for a posting | A resume and cover letter written for the posting from your own history, in the posting's terms, with every line traceable to something you did. | AI Optimize takes your resume as it is and inserts the skills the posting wants; a cover letter generator on Premium. |
| Claims checked against your history | Yes. After the documents are written, every employer, title, date and claim is checked against your history. Anything unsupported is flagged before you send; gaps are named, never filled. | No. The optimizer adds missing skills; nothing checks that the result is true to what you did. |
| Keyword and ATS check | Keyword coverage and structure check on every document, against the posting. | The Match Rate report: hard skills, soft skills, title and education against the posting, with 75 percent recommended. This is Jobscan's core. |
| Job tracker | A board with Not sent, Applied, Interview, Offer and Closed. Rounds with dates, notes under each round, the documents and the fit check on the card. | Yes, free: a board from Applied to Interviewed, with interview times, contacts, notes and tasks, and the match score on each card. |
| Finding jobs | Roles crawled twice a day from company job boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, a remote feed and aggregators), scored against your history. Or paste any posting. | Its own job board of verified postings matched to your resume, plus a Chrome extension that saves jobs from Indeed, LinkedIn and Glassdoor. |
| Auto-apply | Never. You apply on the employer's site and click submit yourself. | Yes, with review: Auto Apply drafts the full application on twenty-plus applicant tracking systems and submits after you approve. Credit based. |
| Interview prep | A prep sheet per role: the fit check as an editable Word file, with every requirement, the evidence for it and how to position the gaps. | AI interview practice is listed as new; details are thin on the site. |
| Refunds and cancelling | First payment refunded on request within 14 days (monthly and quarterly) or 48 hours (weekly). Cancel in two clicks. Nothing you made is taken away. | Refunds within two days of a billing period start, only if unused, minus a 3.5 percent fee. No prorated refunds. |
Common questions
- Is Jobscan free?
- Five scans a month are free, with a condensed report, plus the tracker and builder. The full Match Report, AI Optimize, cover letters and LinkedIn optimization are on Premium at $49.95 a month or $89.95 a quarter.
- Does Jobscan write the resume for me?
- It optimizes the one you have: AI Optimize keeps your resume as it is and inserts the skills the posting wants. Airtight writes a new resume and cover letter for the posting from your history, then checks every line.
- Does Jobscan apply to jobs for me?
- Its Auto Apply drafts applications on many applicant tracking systems and submits after you approve each one; it uses credits. Airtight never fills or submits an employer's form. You apply and mark it applied.
- Which is cheaper?
- Airtight is $29 a month or $69 a quarter. Jobscan Premium is $49.95 a month or $89.95 a quarter. Jobscan's free five scans a month suit an occasional check; Airtight's free plan is three complete applications with unlimited free fit checks.
See the difference on a real posting.
Paste one and get the fit check, the resume and the cover letter, with every line checked against your history. The first three applications are free, no card.
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