§ The result
Teal leads Jobright.ai on all 7 criteria.
Teal finishes 19 points clear of Jobright.ai under rubric js-v1.0 — 65 (D) against 46 (F) — across the Tracker and Job matching cohorts. Teal leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Application Honesty among them; Jobright.ai leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Pricing & Cancellation Fairness (Jobright.ai 40, Teal 66) and Application Honesty at 20% (Jobright.ai 35, Teal 60), the second being 27% of the weighted advantage Teal holds across the 7 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
Teal
Teal is a freemium platform for job seekers offering an AI resume builder, a job-application tracker/CRM, and resume-to-job-description keyword matching, plus a Chrome extension that saves postings from 40+ job boards; it does not auto-apply, so the user manually submits every application.
§ The record
Jobright.ai is filed under AI job matching, Teal under Application trackers. They also share 1 secondary category: Resume AI.
| Record | Jobright.ai | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Jobright.ai 35 · Teal 60
5.0 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 45% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Jobright.ai 55 · Teal 78
3.4 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Jobright.ai 45 · Teal 68
3.4 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Jobright.ai 54 · Teal 68
2.8 weighted points to Teal
10% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Jobright.ai 40 · Teal 66
2.6 weighted points to Teal
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Jobright.ai 60 · Teal 70
0.8 weighted points to Teal
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Jobright.ai 38 · Teal 44
0.7 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Jobright.ai minus Teal.
| Category | Weight | Jobright.ai | Teal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 35 | 60 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 54 | 68 | -14 | -2.8 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 55 | 78 | -23 | -3.4 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 45 | 68 | -23 | -3.4 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 38 | 44 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 40 | 66 | -26 | -2.6 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 65 (D) | -19 | -18.8 |
§ 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 | Teal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 20 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Jobright.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Teal has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Jobright.ai, across 6 distinct source domains, and 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Jobright.ai last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Teal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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