§ The result
3 points separate Jobright.ai and AIApply.
Jobright.ai (Job matching) edges AIApply (Auto-apply) by 3 points under rubric js-v1.0, 46 to 43. Jobright.ai leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Pricing & Cancellation Fairness, while AIApply leads 2, including Application Honesty. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — AIApply takes Application Honesty at 20%, AIApply 42 to Jobright.ai 35, 88% of the weighted advantage AIApply holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Support & Accountability, AIApply 44 to Jobright.ai 60.
Vendor profile
AIApply
AIApply is an AI job-search suite for job seekers that auto-applies to matched jobs on their behalf and generates tailored resumes and cover letters plus real-time interview coaching.
Vendor profile
Jobright.ai
Jobright.ai is an AI job-search copilot for job seekers that matches candidates to listings, tailors resumes and cover letters, surfaces insider referrals, and offers an auto-apply agent (Orion) that fills and submits applications across supported job boards.
§ The record
AIApply is filed under Auto-apply tools, Jobright.ai under AI job matching. They also share 1 secondary category: Resume AI.
| Record | AIApply | Jobright.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
AIApply 42 · Jobright.ai 35
1.4 weighted points to AIApply
10% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
AIApply 27 · Jobright.ai 40
1.3 weighted points to Jobright.ai
8% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
AIApply 44 · Jobright.ai 60
1.3 weighted points to Jobright.ai
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
AIApply 38 · Jobright.ai 45
1.1 weighted points to Jobright.ai
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
AIApply 50 · Jobright.ai 55
0.8 weighted points to Jobright.ai
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
AIApply 33 · Jobright.ai 38
0.6 weighted points to Jobright.ai
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
AIApply 55 · Jobright.ai 54
0.2 weighted points to AIApply
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -3.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -3.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is AIApply minus Jobright.ai.
| Category | Weight | AIApply | Jobright.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 55 | 54 | +1 | +0.2 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 38 | 45 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 33 | 38 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 27 | 40 | -13 | -1.3 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 44 | 60 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 46 (F) | -3 | -3.4 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | AIApply | Jobright.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | — |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
AIApply has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; Jobright.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for AIApply, across 6 distinct source domains, and 20 for Jobright.ai, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- AIApply last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Jobright.ai last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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