§ The result
Sonara leads LazyApply on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Sonara sits 12 points above LazyApply under rubric js-v1.0, 49 against 37, with both filed under Auto-apply. Sonara leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so LazyApply is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Sonara leads is Pricing & Cancellation Fairness, LazyApply 42 to Sonara 45. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Employer & ATS Legitimacy (LazyApply 25, Sonara 48) and Application Honesty at 20% (LazyApply 32, Sonara 50), the second being 30% of the weighted advantage Sonara holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Sonara
Sonara is an AI auto-apply service (now owned by BOLD LLC) that scans job boards, matches openings to a job seeker's uploaded resume and preferences, and auto-fills and submits applications on the user's behalf from a single tracking dashboard.
§ The record
LazyApply and Sonara are both filed under Auto-apply tools. They also share 1 secondary category: Tracker.
| Record | LazyApply | Sonara |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2020 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
LazyApply 32 · Sonara 50
3.6 weighted points to Sonara
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
LazyApply 25 · Sonara 48
3.4 weighted points to Sonara
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
LazyApply 33 · Sonara 52
2.9 weighted points to Sonara
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
LazyApply 42 · Sonara 58
1.3 weighted points to Sonara
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
LazyApply 35 · Sonara 40
0.6 weighted points to Sonara
10% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
LazyApply 42 · Sonara 45
0.3 weighted points to Sonara
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -12.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -12.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LazyApply minus Sonara.
| Category | Weight | LazyApply | Sonara | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 32 | 50 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 33 | 52 | -19 | -2.9 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 25 | 48 | -23 | -3.4 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.3 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 49 (F) | -12 | -12.1 |
§ 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 | LazyApply | Sonara | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 3 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 3 | — |
LazyApply has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; Sonara has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for LazyApply, across 4 distinct source domains, and 19 for Sonara, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- LazyApply last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sonara last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
Scored against