§ The result
Jobscan leads Jobright.ai by 17 points.
Jobscan finishes 17 points clear of Jobright.ai under rubric js-v1.0 — 63 (D) against 46 (F) — across the Resume AI and Job matching cohorts. Jobscan leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Application Honesty, while Jobright.ai leads 1, including Data & Credential Safety. Application Honesty is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Jobright.ai 35, Jobscan 68, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 38% of the weighted advantage Jobscan holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Jobscan
Jobscan scores a job seeker's resume against a specific job description on a 0-100 ATS match rate, flags missing hard- and soft-skill keywords and ATS formatting problems, and bundles a resume builder, LinkedIn optimizer, cover-letter generator, application tracker and a review-gated Auto Apply that drafts answers to ATS-hosted application forms.
§ The record
Jobright.ai is filed under AI job matching, Jobscan under Resume & profile AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Auto-apply.
| Record | Jobright.ai | Jobscan |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Jobright.ai 35 · Jobscan 68
6.6 weighted points to Jobscan
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Jobright.ai 45 · Jobscan 75
4.5 weighted points to Jobscan
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Jobright.ai 55 · Jobscan 78
3.4 weighted points to Jobscan
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Jobright.ai 60 · Jobscan 72
1.0 weighted points to Jobscan
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Jobright.ai 38 · Jobscan 45
0.8 weighted points to Jobscan
10% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Jobright.ai 40 · Jobscan 48
0.8 weighted points to Jobscan
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Jobright.ai 54 · Jobscan 52
0.4 weighted points to Jobright.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -16.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Jobright.ai minus Jobscan.
| Category | Weight | Jobright.ai | Jobscan | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 35 | 68 | -33 | -6.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 55 | 78 | -23 | -3.4 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 45 | 75 | -30 | -4.5 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 38 | 45 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 40 | 48 | -8 | -0.8 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 60 | 72 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 63 (D) | -17 | -16.8 |
§ 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 | Jobright.ai | Jobscan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Jobright.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Jobscan has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Jobscan sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Jobright.ai, across 6 distinct source domains, and 33 for Jobscan, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Jobright.ai last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Jobscan last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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