§ The result
Resume Worded leads Sonara by 11 points.
Resume Worded sits 11 points above Sonara under rubric js-v1.0 — 60 (D) against 49 (F) — with Resume Worded filed under Resume AI and Sonara under Auto-apply. Resume Worded leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Employer & ATS Legitimacy, while Sonara leads 2, including Effectiveness Evidence. Employer & ATS Legitimacy is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Resume Worded 75, Sonara 48, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage Resume Worded holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Resume Worded
Resume Worded scores an uploaded resume or LinkedIn profile PDF out of 100 against its own recruiter-derived checklist and returns line-by-line feedback, AI rewrite suggestions and job-description keyword matching, but does not search for or submit job applications.
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
Resume Worded is filed under Resume & profile AI, Sonara under Auto-apply tools. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Resume Worded | Sonara |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Resume Worded 75 · Sonara 48
4.0 weighted points to Resume Worded
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Resume Worded 72 · Sonara 52
3.0 weighted points to Resume Worded
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Resume Worded 64 · Sonara 50
2.8 weighted points to Resume Worded
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Resume Worded 58 · Sonara 50
1.6 weighted points to Resume Worded
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Resume Worded 34 · Sonara 40
0.7 weighted points to Sonara
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Resume Worded 66 · Sonara 58
0.6 weighted points to Resume Worded
10% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Resume Worded 42 · Sonara 45
0.3 weighted points to Sonara
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +11.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Resume Worded minus Sonara.
| Category | Weight | Resume Worded | Sonara | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 64 | 50 | +14 | +2.8 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 72 | 52 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 75 | 48 | +27 | +4.0 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 34 | 40 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.3 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 60 (D) | 49 (F) | +11 | +11.1 |
§ 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 | Resume Worded | Sonara | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 3 | — |
Resume Worded has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Sonara has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Resume Worded, across 6 distinct source domains, and 19 for Sonara, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Resume Worded last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sonara last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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