§ The result
Jobscan leads Massive by 13 points.
Jobscan sits 13 points above Massive under rubric js-v1.0 — 63 (D) against 50 (F) — with Jobscan filed under Resume AI and Massive under Auto-apply. Jobscan leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Employer & ATS Legitimacy, while Massive leads 2, including Effectiveness Evidence. Employer & ATS Legitimacy is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Jobscan 75, Massive 40, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 35% of the weighted advantage Jobscan holds across the 5 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
Massive
Massive is an AI job-application copilot that matches roles, generates a tailored resume and cover letter for each job, and auto-fills and submits applications on a job seeker's behalf across job boards and company sites.
§ The record
Jobscan is filed under Resume & profile AI, Massive under Auto-apply tools. They also share 1 secondary category: Tracker.
| Record | Jobscan | Massive |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Jobscan 75 · Massive 40
5.3 weighted points to Jobscan
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Jobscan 68 · Massive 50
3.6 weighted points to Jobscan
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Jobscan 78 · Massive 55
3.4 weighted points to Jobscan
8% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Jobscan 72 · Massive 50
1.8 weighted points to Jobscan
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Jobscan 45 · Massive 55
1.2 weighted points to Massive
20% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Jobscan 52 · Massive 57
1.0 weighted points to Massive
10% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Jobscan 48 · Massive 40
0.8 weighted points to Jobscan
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Jobscan minus Massive.
| Category | Weight | Jobscan | Massive | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 68 | 50 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 52 | 57 | -5 | -1.0 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 78 | 55 | +23 | +3.4 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 75 | 40 | +35 | +5.3 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +0.8 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 72 | 50 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 63 (D) | 50 (F) | +13 | +12.7 |
§ 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 | Massive | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 2 | 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; Massive has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Jobscan and Massive sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Jobscan, across 6 distinct source domains, and 18 for Massive, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Jobscan last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Massive last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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