The job search is broken in a specific way: the volume is up, the signal is down, and AI tools keep promising to fix it. Most of them don't. They put another layer of buttons between you and the same bad listings.
We built RemoteHunt because we needed it. So we have a bias, and we won't pretend otherwise. What we can do is be honest about where each tool actually wins, and where ours falls short — because if RemoteHunt isn't right for you, you should use whichever tool is. Below is a head-to-head on the five that come up most in our user interviews: Teal, Huntr, Jobright, LazyApply, and us.
Scope: this is for English-speaking remote knowledge workers — engineers, designers, product, ops, marketing. If your search is mostly office or hybrid, none of the remote-focused angles below will weigh much for you.
The contenders
Five tools, roughly the same wedge — "AI helps you apply better" — but each picks a different leg of that promise to optimize for.
| Tool | Free tier | Paid | Strength |
| Teal HQ | yes | $29/mo | Resume builder UI |
| Huntr | yes | $40/mo | Job tracker |
| Jobright | yes | $30–40/mo | Auto-apply |
| LazyApply | no | $99 lifetime / $39/mo | Bulk apply volume |
| RemoteHunt | yes (50 credits) | $9–29/mo | Remote-first scoring, free to browse |
A note on the table: most of these tools paywall their match score behind the paid plan. We don't — every job in your feed is scored 0–100 against your resume on the free tier, before you pay for anything.
Pricing breakdown
The cheapest plan tells you what each company thinks you'll pay for.
- Teal — free with limits; Teal+ is $29/month (sometimes discounted to $9 weekly trials). The paid tier unlocks unlimited AI bullets, the matching score, and the email tracker.
- Huntr — free for basic tracking; $40/month for AI tailoring, contact lookups, and the autofill extension.
- Jobright — free tier with limited matches; Pro at $30/month, Turbo at $40/month for higher auto-apply caps.
- LazyApply — no free tier. $99 lifetime "Basic" or $39/month for higher daily apply caps. Lifetime pricing has shifted twice in the last year.
- RemoteHunt — free signup with 50 credits. Background scoring is free forever — no cap, no paywall on browsing scored jobs. You spend credits on cover letters (3) and AI coach messages (1). Paid plans top up credits at $9–29/month.
The interesting line in that list isn't a price, it's a free-tier policy. Teal, Huntr, and Jobright all paywall the match score itself. You see jobs — you don't see how well you fit them — until you pay. We made the opposite call: the score is the thing that decides whether you bother applying, so it should be free. Pay us only when you ask the AI to do work for you.
Teal HQ — strong resume builder, weak remote filtering
Teal is the most polished resume builder on this list, full stop. The drag-to-reorder UI, the bullet-by-bullet AI suggestions, and the ATS keyword matcher are well-executed. If you've never built a resume that looked good, Teal will get you to a good one.
Where it falls short for remote-first searchers: Teal aggregates from major boards (LinkedIn, Indeed, etc.) without aggressively filtering fake-remote listings — the postings tagged "remote" that quietly require US-Eastern hours, or "hybrid one day a week," or "remote within commuting distance." If you live outside a US metro, you'll spend real time filtering these out. The match score is also paywalled at $29/month.
Best for: people building their first proper resume, or anyone whose search is general (not remote-only).
Huntr — best tracker, generic AI score
Huntr's pitch is "Trello for job applications," and it delivers. The kanban tracker, the contact directory, the email and outreach templates — this is the most complete CRM-for-job-search on the market. If you're already deep into an active search and need to organize twenty parallel applications, nothing else comes close.
The AI side is thinner. Huntr's match score is computed against the job description, but the personalization to your resume is shallower than dedicated scoring tools — it reads more like a keyword overlap than a structured judgment. Cover letter and outreach generation work, but at $40/month the AI features feel priced more like a tracker upsell than a primary value.
Best for: people already mid-search who need organization across many applications.
Jobright — auto-apply works, quality is the catch
Jobright's auto-apply is real — it'll submit applications for you, and the volume math is impressive on paper (hundreds of applies per week on the higher tier). The match scoring is decent, the resume tailoring is competent, the UX is fine.
The honest issue is what auto-apply does to your conversion rate. Recruiters at remote-first companies notice mass-apply patterns — your name showing up on a high-volume aggregator's apply list flags you in the same bucket as the "I applied to 800 jobs this month" candidates. We've heard this directly from hiring managers we talk to. Auto-apply optimizes for the count, not the response rate. If you're in a market where the quality of the application matters more than the number — which is most senior remote roles — this trade-off cuts the wrong way.
Best for: career changers or early-career searchers willing to spray-and-pray on volume, especially when the alternative is not applying at all.
LazyApply — bulk only, not built for fit
LazyApply is the most honest about what it is: a bulk-apply bot. The lifetime price ($99 at last check, but it's moved) is appealing if you do not want a recurring bill. The browser extension fills out and submits applications across LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and others.
There's no real quality control. No scoring of fit. No tailoring of the application to the role. It will happily apply to roles that don't match your skill set or location — that's the design, not a bug. Conversion rates are predictably low; the value proposition is "applications cost effectively zero, so spray and let the survivors call back."
Best for: very early-career searchers in markets where any callback is upside, with strict bandwidth constraints on doing applications manually.
RemoteHunt — remote-first scoring, smaller pool, no auto-apply
What we do well: every job we surface is scored 0–100 against your specific resume, and that score is free — you can browse and decide where to spend effort without paying us a cent. Our scrapers run on remote-first sources (WeWorkRemotely, Remotive, Himalayas, Greenhouse/Ashby/Lever boards filtered for remote roles, plus a few others) and skip postings that are remote in name only. If you want a tailored resume or a cover letter for a specific job, you spend credits — 3 for a cover letter, 0 for the score that told you it was worth one.
What we don't do well, and won't pretend to: our pool is smaller. We focus on quality remote postings rather than scraping every aggregator on the internet, which means a senior backend engineer in the US sees fewer total listings here than on Teal or Jobright. We also don't do auto-apply, on purpose — see the Jobright section for why. And we're focused on English-speaking roles for now; if you're searching in German or Japanese, this isn't yet the right tool.
Best for: thoughtful remote-first searchers who want to apply better, not more.
When to choose which
If you can only pick one tool, the decision tree is roughly:
- Remote-only search, want AI to filter the noise → us. The free scoring tier is the cheapest way to see if our pool fits your search.
- Resume needs serious work → Teal. Build the resume there, then plug it into a scoring tool.
- Active search across many roles, need organization → Huntr. Pair it with a scoring tool if you can afford both.
- Career changer, willing to take volume bets → Jobright. Eyes open about the conversion math.
- Early-career, very high-volume, low-overhead strategy → LazyApply. Cheapest per application by a wide margin.
- Office-based or hybrid search → not us. Teal or Huntr are better fits.
Many people we talk to use two of these together — the resume builder from one, the scoring or tracking from another. There's no rule against it. If you're paying for Teal+ already and want a remote-first scoring layer on top, our free tier slots in cleanly.
Conclusion
We don't think we're right for everyone. We're right for people whose search is remote, who'd rather apply to ten jobs well than a hundred jobs badly, and who want the score that decides "is this worth my afternoon?" to be visible without a subscription.
If that's you, sign up — 50 credits free, no card needed. If you read this list and Teal or Huntr sounds like a better fit, go use those. Better that than fighting your tool for a year.