Best resume screening software for small teams
Eight tools that score or rank resumes, compared on what each vendor publishes on its own pricing page: entry price, what is limited, free plan or trial, and how screening works. Sources and the date we checked them are in the table.
Prices compared
| Tool and source | Published entry price (USD) | What is limited | Free plan or trial | CV screening / scoring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoApplyMax (Solo)Our pricing | $29 a month | 1 recruiter, up to 1,000 CVs a month | No free plan | Score out of 100 per CV (keywords and skills of your job), optional AI review |
| Workable (Standard)workable.com/pricing | $299 a month | Unlimited active jobs (fair use) | 15-day free trial | 3,000 free AI credits per paid account, then paid credits |
| Breezy HR (Startup)breezy.hr/pricing | $189 a month ($157 billed annually) | Unlimited users and positions | 14-day trial, no free plan | AI scoring (Breezy Intelligence) as an add-on, credits from $30 per 100,000 |
| Manatal (Professional)manatal.com/pricing | $15 per user a month billed annually ($19 monthly) | Up to 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates | 14-day free trial | Automatic AI candidate scoring included |
| CVViZ (Starter)cvviz.com/pricing | $29 per user a month | 2 active jobs, 200 AI screening credits per user a month | 7-day free trial | AI screening by credits |
| JazzHR (Hero)jazzhr.com/pricing | $1,000 a year, billed annually | Job postings starting at 3 a month | Not mentioned | AI-powered candidate matching from Plus ($3,480 a year) |
| Recruitee (Start)recruitee.com/pricing | Not published (quote) | 5 active job posts, one-year minimum commitment | Free trial | Not detailed on the pricing page |
| Zoho Recruitzoho.com/recruit/pricing | Shown per currency on the page | Free plan: 1 active job | Free-forever plan, 15-day trial | AI candidate matching from the Professional plan |
Prices as published on each vendor's own pricing page, checked 2026-11-12, before tax. They change: check the source before you buy.
How to read this table
The tools do not sell the same thing. Workable, Breezy HR, Recruitee, JazzHR and Zoho Recruit are applicant tracking systems (ATS): you publish jobs, candidates apply into a pipeline, your team moves them through stages, schedules interviews and sends offers. Screening is one feature among many, and you pay for the whole system. CVViZ is built around AI screening, priced per user with a monthly number of screening credits. Manatal is an ATS priced per user, with AI scoring included from its first plan.
AutoApplyMax is not an ATS. It ranks the CVs you already received — from a job board, by e-mail or exported from your ATS — against your job description, and it lets you post a job to people who are job hunting on AutoApplyMax. There is no pipeline, no interview scheduling and no careers page. If you need those, pick an ATS from the table.
Which one fits a small team
- You hire all year and want everything in one place: an ATS. Workable and Breezy HR include unlimited jobs; Manatal is the cheapest per seat if one or two people recruit.
- You only want to try an ATS on one job: Zoho Recruit has a free-forever plan limited to one active job.
- You already receive the CVs and only need to know which to read first: a ranking tool is enough. AutoApplyMax Solo is $29 a month for up to 1,000 CVs, with matched and missing keywords for each CV; you can cancel any time.
- You hire a few times a year: look at what you pay in the months you do not hire. A yearly commitment (Recruitee) or an annual-only plan (JazzHR) costs the same in a quiet month as in a busy one.
What to check before you buy
Whatever the tool, ask the same five questions. Can I see why each resume ranks where it does? Does the tool reject candidates on its own, or does a person decide? Where are the resumes stored, and are they added to the vendor's database? Is AI scoring included, or sold as credits on top of the plan? Can I leave after a month, or is there a minimum commitment? The pricing pages linked in the table answer most of these; the rest is worth asking during the trial.
How AutoApplyMax screens resumes
You paste the job description, mark the must-have skills and the minimum years, and upload the resumes as PDF or Word, up to 50 per upload. Each one gets a score out of 100 with the keywords and skills it matches and the ones it misses, so a long list becomes a short one. The score is a keyword and skills check, not a language model's opinion, so the same resume and the same job always give the same result. An optional AI review adds a short assessment of your top resumes next to the score, never instead of it. Resumes are read in your browser and are not kept; nobody is rejected automatically. Export the ranking as CSV to share it or import it into your ATS.
Pay for what you use
CV screening
Solo: 1 recruiter, up to 1,000 CVs a month.
$29 a monthJob post
Shown for 30 days to job seekers whose profile matches, with 10 recommended candidates.
$19 per jobRecruiter plan
2 job posts, CV screening for 1 recruiter and 30 contacts every month.
$59 a monthOpening soon. Payments for the pro space are not open yet. Leave your details and we will set up your account and reply by e-mail.
Resume screening software questions
Is there free resume screening software?
Zoho Recruit has a free-forever plan limited to one active job (checked 2026-11-12). Workable, Breezy HR, Manatal and CVViZ offer free trials. AutoApplyMax has no free plan for recruiters: CV screening starts at $29 a month.
Is AutoApplyMax an ATS?
No. It ranks the CVs you receive anywhere and lets you post jobs to AutoApplyMax job seekers, but it has no pipeline, interview scheduling or careers page. You can export rankings as CSV and import them into your ATS.
Does any of these tools reject candidates automatically?
AutoApplyMax never does: it orders CVs so you know what to read first, and a person decides. For the other tools, check how their scoring is configured during the trial.
How did you get these prices?
From each vendor's own public pricing page, linked in the table, on 2026-11-12. Prices are before tax and can change; the source is always the reference.
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