Jobscan built its name on ATS resume scanning — paste your resume and a job description, get a match rate. Its LinkedIn optimization lives inside the same subscription: $49.95 month-to-month, or $29.98/month billed as $89.95 every three months with a 7-day free trial (verified on jobscan.co/pricing, September 2026 — check their site for current rates). There is a free tier — five resume scans a month — but the LinkedIn Optimizer sits in the paid plans.
Standout does one thing: your LinkedIn profile’s visibility in recruiter search. Paste your LinkedIn URL and get a free 0–100 visibility score in under a minute. If you want the fixes, the full audit — a keyword-optimized headline, a rewritten About section, and your top-3 experience bullets, all paste-ready — costs $1. One-time. No subscription, no account, nothing to cancel.
Different tools for different bottlenecks. Jobscan optimizes your resume against applicant tracking systems; Standout optimizes your LinkedIn profile against recruiter search.
| Jobscan Premium | Standout | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $49.95/month, or $29.98/month billed $89.95 quarterly — renews until you cancel (7-day free trial on the quarterly plan) | $1 — one single charge |
| Core focus | Resume ATS match + a job-search suite; the LinkedIn scan is one feature | LinkedIn recruiter-search visibility only — one thing, done well |
| What you get | Match rates and keyword reports you act on yourself | 3 paste-ready rewrites written for you, plus a 0–100 score |
| Account | Signup required; full scans sit behind the paywall | None — paste your LinkedIn URL |
| Commitment | Subscription; renews until you remember to cancel | Nothing to renew, pause or cancel |
| Best for | Tailoring one resume to dozens of job postings | Being findable when recruiters search LinkedIn |
If you're tailoring a resume to every job description and tracking ATS match rates across dozens of applications, Jobscan's subscription can honestly pay for itself. Standout doesn't scan resumes or score ATS match — by design.
Jobscan bundles a resume builder, job tracker and cover-letter tools in one dashboard. Standout does exactly one thing — your LinkedIn profile's search visibility — and does it for $1.
Submitting 10+ tailored applications a week? A monthly tool with unlimited scans beats any one-time audit. But if the bottleneck is recruiters not finding you, that's the part Standout fixes.
What it is.Jobscan is a job-search toolkit built around one idea: match your application to the job description. Its core scanner compares your resume against a specific posting and returns an ATS match rate; around it sit a resume builder, a job tracker, an AI cover-letter generator, an AI bullet-point generator, auto-apply credits and interview practice. The LinkedIn Optimizer is one feature of the same subscription: per its own LinkedIn optimization page, you paste your LinkedIn profile URL, add at least three job descriptions, and its scan returns a personalized profile score with tailored keyword recommendations, plus headline and summary generators. A signup is required, and the pricing page cites 1,000,000+ job seekers (the vendor’s own figure).
What’s genuinely good. The job-description-first approach is genuinely tailored — the keywords it suggests come from the postings you paste, not a generic list — and the free tier is real: five resume scans a month at $0. The suite is broad, with tracking, templates and builders in one dashboard, and for a resume-heavy search the unlimited scans on Premium honestly earn their keep. The LinkedIn scan itself is a simple two-step process (your URL plus job descriptions), and the score-plus-tips format tells you exactly what to fix.
The trade-offs, stated plainly. Premium renews automatically until you cancel. The LinkedIn Optimizer is a paid feature — desktop-only per the pricing page — and on the quarterly plan it unlocks only after the 7-day trial. The scan scores your profile and suggests keywords; you still write every word of the fix yourself. And its center of gravity is the resume you submit per application, not the profile a recruiter finds when they search today. If what you want is the profile itself fixed — headline, About section and experience bullets written for you — that is the gap a $1 done-for-you audit fills: see a real sample report before you spend anything.
The free plan costs $0, forever.Five resume scans a month, five ATS & recruiter findings, the job tracker, resume builder and Chrome extension — verified on jobscan.co/pricing, September 2026. The LinkedIn Optimizer is not part of the free tier.
Premium is a subscription.Verified on jobscan.co/pricing, September 2026: $49.95/month billed monthly, or $29.98/month billed as $89.95 every three months (badged “Save 40%”). Both paid plans include unlimited resume scans, the AI cover-letter and bullet-point generators, and the LinkedIn Optimizer (desktop only); the quarterly plan starts with a 7-day free trial and unlocks the LinkedIn Optimizer after the trial ends.
Every paid plan renews until you cancel.The vendor’s own line is “Cancel any time” — billing continues monthly or quarterly until you do. At $49.95 month-to-month, a year of Premium comes to $599.40 — the model to compare is recurring, not one-time.
Five resume scans a month plus the job tracker, resume builder and Chrome extension. The LinkedIn Optimizer is not included.
Unlimited scans, the AI generators and the LinkedIn Optimizer (desktop only), billed monthly until canceled.
Billed as $89.95 every three months ('Save 40%') after a 7-day free trial; the LinkedIn Optimizer unlocks after the trial.
One single charge for the full-profile audit with three paste-ready rewrites. No account, no subscription, nothing to cancel.
For how $1 compares to every major tool’s published pricing, see the full 2026 tools comparison.
A real before-and-after from the audit — the same treatment your headline gets. The rewrite names the exact terms a recruiter types, then adds a proof point that earns the click.
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The single highest-weighted field in LinkedIn search, rewritten around the exact terms recruiters type for your target role.
First-person, keyword-dense and skimmable — built to rank in recruiter search and convert the recruiter who clicks through.
Your most important bullets reworded for recruiter search: outcomes first, numbers named, keywords matched.
One review, three paste-ready rewrites: a keyword-optimized headline, a rewritten About section, and your top-3 experience bullets — built from the profile text you paste, delivered instantly after checkout.
Yes. Jobscan is one of the longest-running ATS resume scanners — its pricing page cites 1,000,000+ job seekers (the vendor's own figure) — and it bundles a resume builder, job tracker, AI cover-letter and bullet-point generators, and a LinkedIn Optimizer into one subscription. This page is Standout's own comparison, and every claim on it was verified on jobscan.co in September 2026.
Verified on jobscan.co/pricing, September 2026: the free plan is $0 forever (five resume scans a month). Premium is $49.95/month billed monthly, or $29.98/month billed as $89.95 every three months (badged 'Save 40%') with a 7-day free trial on the quarterly plan. Paid plans renew automatically until you cancel — the vendor's own line is 'Cancel any time.' Standout's LinkedIn profile audit costs $1, one-time, with nothing to cancel.
Partly. The free tier gives you five resume scans and five ATS & recruiter findings a month at $0. Unlimited scans, the AI generators and the LinkedIn Optimizer are Premium features (desktop only, per the pricing page) — and on the quarterly plan the LinkedIn Optimizer unlocks only after the 7-day free trial ends. Standout's 0–100 visibility score is free with no signup at all.
Per its own LinkedIn optimization page: paste your LinkedIn profile URL, add at least three job descriptions, and click Scan. You get a personalized profile score, tailored keyword recommendations, and headline and summary generators — then you implement the tips yourself. A signup is required, and the LinkedIn Optimizer is a paid, desktop-only feature. Standout's free score needs no signup or job descriptions, and its $1 audit writes the fixes for you, paste-ready.
Three paste-ready rewrites built from your own profile: a keyword-optimized headline, a rewritten About section, and your top-3 experience bullets reworded for recruiter search — plus the 0–100 visibility score, which is free before you pay anything. Delivery is instant, the payment is one-time, and there is no subscription to cancel.
They solve different problems. If your bottleneck is tailoring a resume to every job description and tracking ATS match rates across dozens of applications, Jobscan's subscription is built for exactly that. If your bottleneck is recruiters not finding your LinkedIn profile when they search, that fix is Standout's $1 one-time audit. Many job seekers need both at different moments: the resume wins the application, the profile wins the inbound search.
Comparing beyond Jobscan? See the $1-audit alternative to Resume Worded and Standout vs. Teal, side by side, check the best AI LinkedIn profile review roundup for the tools that top the raw query, or start from the full 2026 comparison of AI LinkedIn review tools— every price on these pages was verified on the vendors’ own sites.
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