§ The result
LandEarly leads LazyApply on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 separates LandEarly and LazyApply, both Auto-apply entries, by 25 points: 62 (D) for LandEarly, 37 (F) for LazyApply. LandEarly leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Application Honesty among them; LazyApply leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: User Control & Transparency (LandEarly 72, LazyApply 33) and Application Honesty at 20% (LandEarly 68, LazyApply 32), the second being 28% of the weighted advantage LandEarly holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
LandEarly
LandEarly is an AI auto-apply platform that monitors job boards, generates role-tailored resumes and cover letters from a job seeker's real history, and submits applications through supported applicant tracking systems, with a review-before-submit step and an optional autopilot mode.
Vendor profile
LazyApply
LazyApply is a Chrome extension that automatically mass-applies to jobs on LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Dice and Greenhouse by auto-filling application forms from a saved profile, and tracks the submitted applications in an analytics dashboard.
§ The record
LandEarly and LazyApply are both filed under Auto-apply tools. They also share 1 secondary category: Tracker.
| Record | LandEarly | LazyApply |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2026 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
LandEarly 68 · LazyApply 32
7.2 weighted points to LandEarly
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
LandEarly 72 · LazyApply 33
5.8 weighted points to LandEarly
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
LandEarly 60 · LazyApply 25
5.3 weighted points to LandEarly
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
LandEarly 66 · LazyApply 50
3.2 weighted points to LandEarly
10% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
LandEarly 63 · LazyApply 42
2.1 weighted points to LandEarly
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
LandEarly 50 · LazyApply 35
1.8 weighted points to LandEarly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
LandEarly 44 · LazyApply 42
0.2 weighted points to LandEarly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +25.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 25.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +25 beside that +25.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LandEarly minus LazyApply.
| Category | Weight | LandEarly | LazyApply | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 68 | 32 | +36 | +7.2 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 66 | 50 | +16 | +3.2 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 72 | 33 | +39 | +5.8 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 60 | 25 | +35 | +5.3 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 63 | 42 | +21 | +2.1 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 44 | 42 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 37 (F) | +25 | +25.6 |
§ 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 | LandEarly | LazyApply | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 3 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
LandEarly has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; LazyApply has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LazyApply sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for LandEarly, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for LazyApply, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- LandEarly last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LazyApply last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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