§ The result
Jobscan leads LockedIn AI on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 36 points between Jobscan (Resume AI) and LockedIn AI (Live interview): 63 (D) for Jobscan, 27 (F) for LockedIn AI. Jobscan leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Application Honesty among them; LockedIn AI leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Employer & ATS Legitimacy (Jobscan 75, LockedIn AI 10) and Application Honesty at 20% (Jobscan 68, LockedIn AI 12), the second being 31% of the weighted advantage Jobscan holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
LockedIn AI
LockedIn AI is a real-time interview copilot that listens to a job seeker's live interview, coding round or online assessment and displays AI-generated answers, code and coaching on their screen, alongside free resume, cover-letter and job-tracking tools.
§ The record
Jobscan is filed under Resume & profile AI, LockedIn AI under Live interview assistance. They also share 1 secondary category: Tracker.
| Record | Jobscan | LockedIn AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Jobscan 68 · LockedIn AI 12
11.2 weighted points to Jobscan
15% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Jobscan 75 · LockedIn AI 10
9.8 weighted points to Jobscan
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Jobscan 78 · LockedIn AI 40
5.7 weighted points to Jobscan
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Jobscan 45 · LockedIn AI 10
4.2 weighted points to Jobscan
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Jobscan 72 · LockedIn AI 40
2.6 weighted points to Jobscan
10% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Jobscan 48 · LockedIn AI 33
1.5 weighted points to Jobscan
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Jobscan 52 · LockedIn AI 48
0.8 weighted points to Jobscan
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +35.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 35.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +36 beside that +35.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Jobscan minus LockedIn AI.
| Category | Weight | Jobscan | LockedIn AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 68 | 12 | +56 | +11.2 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.8 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 78 | 40 | +38 | +5.7 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 75 | 10 | +65 | +9.8 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 45 | 10 | +35 | +4.2 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 48 | 33 | +15 | +1.5 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 72 | 40 | +32 | +2.6 |
| Total | 100% | 63 (D) | 27 (F) | +36 | +35.7 |
§ 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 | Jobscan | LockedIn AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 26 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Jobscan has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; LockedIn AI has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Jobscan and LockedIn AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Jobscan, across 6 distinct source domains, and 30 for LockedIn AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Jobscan last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LockedIn AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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