Jobscan is the best-known name in resume scanning, it's been at this for years, and its Premium product is genuinely feature-rich — LinkedIn optimization, cover letter tools, a job tracker. We built JobFit anyway, because we think the two products answer different questions: theirs is a subscription platform for managing a job search; ours is a $79-once checker for making sure a recruiter's search can find you. Here's the factual side-by-side so you can pick for yourself.
| 🎯 JobFit | Jobscan | |
|---|---|---|
| Price model | $79 once. No subscription — there's nothing to cancel. | Subscription: Premium is $49.95/month, or $89.95 billed every 3 months (≈$29.98/month). Bills until you cancel. |
| Free tier | The full report is free, unlimited: match score, every missing keyword, all 8 formatting checks. Paying unlocks the fix tools, not the diagnosis. | 5 free scans per month, metered per account (unused scans roll over, capped at 5). Unlimited scanning requires Premium. |
| Account required | No. No sign-up, no email, ever — including for the free report. | Yes. Free scans are tracked per account; even the pricing page lives inside the logged-in app. |
| Where your resume is processed | In your browser only. The scan is client-side JavaScript — your resume is never uploaded, transmitted, or stored. | On Jobscan's servers. It's a cloud app: your resume is uploaded to your account, which is how features like scan history and the resume manager work. |
| Guarantee / refunds | 30-day money-back, any reason — one email to your Gumroad receipt. Plus: use it on five real applications, and if your interview rate doesn't improve, we insist on refunding you. | Refund available within 2 calendar days of a billing period's start, only if no Premium features were used that period; a 3.5% processing fee applies. Cancelling stops future billing but does not itself trigger a refund. |
Competitor details verified 2026-07-18 from Jobscan's published pricing page and cancellation policy, and may have changed since — check their pages for current terms.
Honestly: if you want a full job-search platform — a tracker for dozens of applications, LinkedIn profile optimization, cover letter tooling — and you'll use it hard for a month or two, Jobscan's subscription buys you more surface area than we offer. We're not trying to be that.
If what you need is the core job — does the parser read my resume, and will the recruiter's keyword search find me? — you shouldn't need a subscription for it, or an account, or to upload your resume to anyone's cloud. JobFit's full diagnosis is free with no meter, the fixes are $79 exactly once, and the whole thing runs in your browser, so the privacy answer isn't a policy — it's architecture. Curious how we think about scanning honestly? Read how ATS actually work, including what no checker (ours included) can fix.
Paste your resume and the job posting. Your match score, every missing keyword, and all 8 formatting checks in 10 seconds — free, unmetered, entirely in your browser.
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