The short answer
If you want a conversation that ends with your resume and cover letter changed, Kaizen is built for that. If you want AI inside a job tracker, look at Teal, Huntr or Careerflow. If you want match scoring against postings, Jobscan or Rezi. If you want a human, Careerflow lists paid coaching services, and no AI tool replaces a person who knows your industry. A general-purpose AI assistant can also give career advice for free or cheaply, but it does not keep your documents, tracker and score in one place.
How we compared them
What we did: on 3 November 2026 we read each tool's own pricing page, plus its product pages where a claim needed them, and wrote down plans, prices, free-plan limits and features exactly as published. Kaizen's figures come from our own product code.
What we did not do: we did not run a hands-on test of every competitor for this update, so we do not rate output quality, template design or support, and we do not give scores. Where a line comes from a page we could not read today, we say so or leave it out.
Prices are in the currency each page showed us and change often, and some tools show different prices by country. Check the tool's own page before you pay. If you spot something out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
- What the AI does: chat, generation, scoring or interview practice, as the tool’s own pages describe it.
- What it touches: does it change your documents, or only advise?
- Cost: every plan and billing period on the tool’s own pricing page.
- Limits: free-plan caps and credit allowances.
- We did not check whether any tool’s advice is correct. That needs hands-on testing, which we have not done for this update.
Side by side
Prices as shown on each tool's own site on 3 November 2026.
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| Tool | What the AI does | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Kaizen | Coach chat edits your resume and cover letter | Pro $24.95 a month, $49.95 a quarter or $119.95 a year, excluding VAT |
| Teal | AI bullet, summary and cover letter generators | Teal+ is $13 per week, $29 for 30 days or $79 for 90 days (USD). |
| Careerflow | AI resume builder, cover letter and mock interview | Premium: $8.99 a week, $23.99 a month, $54.99 a quarter or $172.99 a year. Premium Plus: $19.99 a week, $44.99 a month, $119.99 a quarter or $299.99 a year. |
| Huntr | AI tailored resumes, cover letters and resume reviews | Pro: $40 a month, $90 every 3 months or $160 every 6 months (USD). |
| Jobscan | AI optimisations, cover letter and bullet generators | Quarterly: $89.95 every 3 months after a 7-day free trial (shown as $29.98 a month). Monthly: $49.95. |
| Rezi | AI resume writer, AI Resume Agent chat and AI interviews | Pro is $29 a month; Lifetime is a one-time $149; Enterprise is $99 a month per 200 users. |
Kaizen
Kaizen’s coach is a chat that reads whatever you attach: a resume, a cover letter or a job posting. It asks about your experience and proposes edits as changes you apply or skip, shows the ATS points they add, and each applied change can be undone. Around it sit the builder, a live ATS score, an application tracker, job search (beta) and interview prep (beta). Voice interview practice is coming soon, not available yet.
Free plan: unlimited drafts, 5 of 14 resume templates and 5 of 11 cover letter templates, live ATS score, the application tracker, one résumé PDF, a small monthly AI allowance. Pro raises the AI allowance to enough for up to 125 tailored resume and cover letter pairs a month if it is used only for tailoring. Pro $24.95 a month, $49.95 a quarter or $119.95 a year, excluding VAT.
Trade-offs: no human coaching, no browser extension, and the free allowance is enough to try it on one real application, not to live in. See Kaizen features and pricing.
Teal
The AI side: AI generators for resume bullets, professional summaries and cover letters, metered by credits on the free plan and unlimited on Teal+. We did not find a conversational coach on its pricing page. Site: tealhq.com.
Pricing on 3 November 2026: Teal+ is $13 per week, $29 for 30 days or $79 for 90 days (USD).
Free plan: Free forever: unlimited resumes and job tracking, 10 templates, the top 5 job-description keywords, basic resume analysis and a small AI credit allowance (5 for bullets, 2 for a summary, 2 for a cover letter).
Who it suits: People managing many applications who want one place to track them and a resume builder attached.
Careerflow
The AI side: an AI resume builder and optimiser, AI cover letter and AI mock interview, with interview analysis on Premium Plus. The page lists paid human coaching, resume review and LinkedIn makeover services; their prices are not shown there. Site: careerflow.ai.
Pricing on 3 November 2026: Premium: $8.99 a week, $23.99 a month, $54.99 a quarter or $172.99 a year. Premium Plus: $19.99 a week, $44.99 a month, $119.99 a quarter or $299.99 a year.
Free plan: Basic plan at $0.
Who it suits: People who want LinkedIn and networking tools next to the resume tools.
Huntr
The AI side: AI tailored resumes, AI cover letters, AI resume reviews and AI resume generation on Pro; a few complimentary AI credits on the free plan. Site: huntr.co.
Pricing on 3 November 2026: Pro: $40 a month, $90 every 3 months or $160 every 6 months (USD).
Free plan: Free: unlimited base resumes, all templates, free PDF export, tracking for up to 100 jobs, 2 job-tailored resumes, 2 application packets and a few AI credits.
Who it suits: People who want the tracker first and the documents second.
Jobscan
The AI side: unlimited AI optimisations (desktop only), an AI cover letter generator, an AI bullet point generator and an AI job match on paid plans; interview practice is discounted 20% after the trial, so it is a separate purchase. Site: jobscan.co.
Pricing on 3 November 2026: Quarterly: $89.95 every 3 months after a 7-day free trial (shown as $29.98 a month). Monthly: $49.95.
Free plan: Free: 5 resume scans a month, 5 ATS and recruiter findings, a job tracker, a resume builder and a Chrome extension.
Who it suits: People applying to many listings who want a match score for each.
Rezi
The AI side: the pricing page lists an AI resume writer and editor and AI interviews (1 on free, unlimited on Pro). Rezi’s own AI Resume Agent page describes a chat that rewrites your resume to a job description. Site: rezi.ai.
Pricing on 3 November 2026: Pro is $29 a month; Lifetime is a one-time $149; Enterprise is $99 a month per 200 users.
Free plan: Free: 1 resume, 1 AI interview, 3 PDF downloads, unlimited cover letters, limited Rezi Score and keyword targeting.
Who it suits: People who want a resume score and prefer to pay once instead of subscribing.
How to choose
- Want your documents rewritten through conversation: Kaizen.
- Want a tracker first, AI second: Teal or Huntr.
- Want LinkedIn and networking tools plus AI: Careerflow.
- Want a match score for each listing: Jobscan or Rezi.
- Want a person: use a human coach. Careerflow lists services; ask for prices and examples first.
- Want to try free first: every tool here has a free plan. Check the limits above before you rely on it.
AI can draft and score, but it cannot know your target employer. Check every number and claim it adds to your resume, and keep facts it cannot verify out of the document. See the features, the free ATS resume checker and Kaizen vs Teal. The STAR method guide is a good way to give any coach better material.
Questions people ask
It can save time on drafting and tailoring. It does not replace judgement about which jobs to chase. Start on a free plan and pay only when you hit a real limit.
Yes, for advice and drafts. The trade-off is that your documents, applications and score live elsewhere, and a general assistant has no ATS score or tracker built in.
A badly set up one can. Check every number and claim it adds, and keep facts it cannot verify out of the document.
No. We make Kaizen, so weigh our view accordingly, and we list its gaps in its own section.
Prices and features were read on each tool’s own site on 3 November 2026.