§ The result
1 point separates LoopCV and Sonara.
Within the Auto-apply cohort, LoopCV edges Sonara by 1 point under rubric js-v1.0, 50 to 49. LoopCV leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Pricing & Cancellation Fairness, while Sonara leads 3, including Data & Credential Safety. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Sonara takes Data & Credential Safety at 20%, LoopCV 40 to Sonara 50, 49% of the weighted advantage Sonara holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Pricing & Cancellation Fairness, LoopCV 65 to Sonara 45.
Vendor profile
LoopCV
LoopCV is a job-search automation platform that continuously matches a job seeker's CV to postings across 30+ job boards and applies on their behalf via ATS form-fills, LinkedIn Easy Apply, and templated emails to recruiters.
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
LoopCV and Sonara are both filed under Auto-apply tools. They also share 2 secondary categories: Job matching and Tracker.
| Record | LoopCV | Sonara |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | GR | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
LoopCV 40 · Sonara 50
2.0 weighted points to Sonara
10% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
LoopCV 65 · Sonara 45
2.0 weighted points to LoopCV
15% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
LoopCV 38 · Sonara 48
1.5 weighted points to Sonara
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
LoopCV 60 · Sonara 52
1.2 weighted points to LoopCV
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
LoopCV 55 · Sonara 50
1.0 weighted points to LoopCV
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
LoopCV 68 · Sonara 58
0.8 weighted points to LoopCV
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
LoopCV 35 · Sonara 40
0.6 weighted points to Sonara
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LoopCV minus Sonara.
| Category | Weight | LoopCV | Sonara | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -2.0 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 38 | 48 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 65 | 45 | +20 | +2.0 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 49 (F) | +1 | +0.9 |
§ 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 | LoopCV | 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% | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | — |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 2 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 3 | — |
LoopCV has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 2 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 LoopCV 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: 14 for LoopCV, across 6 distinct source domains, and 19 for Sonara, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- LoopCV 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