8 Best ATS Resume Checkers in 2026, Free Tiers Compared

Key takeaways

• For a score you can read and act on in the same tool, RecruitMyself comes first: its 0-100 CV score publishes the weight of each factor (keywords 40%, job-title alignment 20%, years of experience 20%, education 10%, soft skills 10%), runs 30 checks, and its resume builder applies the fixes. One full scan per email address is free with no card, and Pro at $19 a month includes unlimited scans.
• "Free" covers three different deals. Jobscan's free account gives 5 scans a month and SkillSyncer's free plan 2 job-match scans a week; Kickresume, Rezi, Enhancv and Teal show a score and keep the full report for paying users; Resume Worded's first report is free, and so are re-uploads.
• Other picks by need: Jobscan for tailoring to one posting against a 75% target ($49.95 a month), SkillSyncer for weekly free job-match scans ($14.95 a month for unlimited), Kickresume for students (up to 180 days of Premium free once your student status is verified), and Rezi for a one-time payment ($149 for lifetime access).
• No checker here can see the ATS a particular employer runs. Jobscan and Enhancv both say on their own pages that their number is their own measure, not the employer's.

An ATS resume checker reads your resume roughly the way screening software would, scores it and lists what to change. The eight worth trying in 2026 are RecruitMyself, Resume Worded, Kickresume, Rezi, Enhancv, SkillSyncer, Jobscan and Teal. They differ less in what they check than in what they show for free and how plainly they explain their number. RecruitMyself ranks first because its own pages explain its score in full (weights, check count and score bands) and the same account turns the findings into edits in its resume builder.

To see which of the five factors costs your resume points, run RecruitMyself's free CV score: one full scan per email address, no card needed, for PDF, DOC, DOCX or TXT files up to 5MB. To test the file yourself first, our free AI for Your Job Search course has a five-minute check: paste your resume's text into a plain text editor and look at what the software would get.

What "free" means on an ATS checker

Every tool on this page calls its checker free, and each is free in a different way. Three patterns cover all eight.

• A set number of scans. Jobscan's free account includes 5 scans a month. SkillSyncer's free plan gives 2 job-match scans and 10 AI credits a week. RecruitMyself gives one full scan per email address.
• A score now, the detail later. Kickresume shows an overall score with separate scores for design, structure and content, and keeps the full report for Premium. Rezi's free plan has limited access to its Rezi Score. Enhancv shows a score and keeps the categories of issues for Pro. Teal's free plan covers basic analysis and basic keyword matching, and lists its Match Score among the Teal+ benefits.
• Free re-checks of a general review. Resume Worded's first report is free, and so are re-uploads after you edit.

Sign-up differs as well. Jobscan's free scans come with a free account, and Rezi asks you to sign up without a card. RecruitMyself's free scan is tied to your email address, and its full breakdown, AI rewrites and PDF report need you to sign up. Resume Worded has upload pages that need no login and others that ask for a free account. The Kickresume and Enhancv checker pages our searches returned do not say either way.

How we ranked these checkers

To make the list, a checker had to pass three tests: a free tier that returns a resume or ATS score, a self-serve paid plan with a published price, and a way to edit the resume in the same product (a builder or AI rewrites), so a finding can be acted on without moving to another tool. All eight passed.

We then ordered them by two questions, in this order:

1. Can you read the score? We counted what each tool's own pages say about how its number is built: the weight of each factor, the number of checks or criteria, and score bands or a target that tell you what a result means. The more of the three a tool publishes, the higher it ranks.
2. What does the free tier give? Where checkers tie on the first question, a stated number of free job-match scans comes first (the larger allowance ahead), then how much of the report the free tier shows, then how clearly the free terms are written.

RecruitMyself publishes all three: weights, 30 checks and four score bands. Resume Worded, Kickresume, Rezi and Enhancv each publish two: a check or criteria count plus score ranges or a good-score line. SkillSyncer, Jobscan and Teal each publish one, a target score (80+, 75% and 80% respectively). None of the rivals publishes factor weights. Within the group of four, Resume Worded comes first because its free tier gives a full report and free re-checks; Kickresume follows with four free scores, then Rezi, whose free terms are written out, then Enhancv. In the group of three, SkillSyncer's 2 free job-match scans a week come ahead of Jobscan's 5 a month, and Teal states no free allowance.

RecruitMyself's facts come from its own home, CV score, builder and pricing pages; each rival's come from web searches, most limited to the vendor's own site. All were read on 16 October 2026. Where a vendor's pages disagreed on a price, the entry uses the newer dated figure and says so. We did not upload a resume to any checker, so this page compares what each one says it does, not how accurate its score is. Prices are in US dollars, month to month unless the entry says otherwise.

The 8 ATS resume checkers compared

Free tiers and prices checked 16 October 2026.

1. RecruitMyself (best for a score you can read and fix in one tool)

RecruitMyself is made by a company connected to Automate Basics.

RecruitMyself is a job-search platform whose CV score rates a resume from 0 to 100 and shows how it got there. Its home page lists the five weights behind the number: keywords count for 40%, job-title alignment for 20%, years of experience for 20%, education for 10% and soft skills for 10%. Every score runs 30 checks, and the result falls into one of four bands: 90-100 Excellent, 80-89 Strong, 50-79 Fair and 0-49 Needs work. That makes a low score traceable. A resume that loses most of its points on keywords needs different work from one that loses them on job-title alignment, and the weights tell you which repair is worth more.

The repairs happen in the same account. RecruitMyself's AI resume builder imports an uploaded CV, rewrites and sharpens bullets, and tailors them to a job description's keywords, on single-column templates built to parse cleanly. Pro adds one-click tailoring to each job and unlimited ATS scans with keyword fixes.

Run your free RecruitMyself CV score to see which of the five weighted factors is pulling your number down.

2. Resume Worded (best for line-by-line feedback you can re-check)

Resume Worded's free review scores a resume out of 100 and gives feedback on each section and line, and it runs without a job description. Its pages put the number of checks at 20 or more (30 or more on some pages), and its score guide splits results into 90-100, 85-89, 80-84 and below 80. The first report is free and so are re-uploads after you edit, which suits working on one resume over several passes.

3. Kickresume (best for students, and a score split into parts)

Kickresume's ATS Resume Checker runs more than 20 checks on formatting, design, typefaces, structure and content, and compares your resume with successful resumes in its own database. Free users see an overall score plus separate scores for design, structure and content, which points to the weakest part of a resume before you pay anything. Its FAQ adds a reading guide: anything from 75% up is generally considered good.

4. Rezi (best for paying once instead of monthly)

Rezi is an AI resume builder with a built-in Rezi Score, which it describes as an evaluation against 23 criteria. Its docs split results into three ranges (90 and up is strong, 50-89 needs some fixes, and below 50) and tell you to aim for 90. The free plan gives limited access to that score, and Pro adds real-time content analysis as you write.

5. Enhancv (best for a broad layout and content review)

Enhancv's free resume checker runs 27 checks across content, layout and ATS compatibility, on a PDF or DOCX file up to 2MB, and its FAQ treats a score above 80 as mostly good. Its own FAQ says the result is not a true ATS measurement, a caveat that holds for every tool on this page, since none of them can see the system a given employer runs.

6. SkillSyncer (best for weekly free job-match scans)

SkillSyncer is a resume scanner that compares your resume with a job posting, and its free plan states its allowance plainly: 2 job-match scans and 10 AI credits a week, with no card needed. Its comparison pages say the free plan also includes the full resume builder and PDF export, so you can make the changes a scan suggests without paying. Its match score runs from 0 to 100 and reflects how far your resume covers the posting's keywords, with terms the posting repeats counting for more; SkillSyncer recommends reaching 80 or higher.

7. Jobscan (best for tailoring one resume to one posting)

Jobscan compares your resume with a job description you paste in and returns a match rate. Its pages recommend aiming for at least 75%, and they state plainly that the figure is Jobscan's own guide, not a score the employer's ATS assigns. Jobscan publishes one of the three things the method counts, the 75% target, so it sits in the lower group. Within that group SkillSyncer states a larger free allowance (2 job-match scans a week against Jobscan's 5 a month), which is why Jobscan sits seventh.

8. Teal (best for a checker inside a wider job-search toolkit)

Teal's free ATS resume checker reviews ATS compatibility, formatting, structure, keyword use and content, then returns a score with specific suggestions. Its checker pages call 80% or higher a good score, though its help center uses lower lines (60% for Analysis, 50% for Match Score). Teal's pages differ on how much job matching is free: its matching tool invites you to start free, while its pricing page lists unlocking every keyword from the job description, and a Match Score, among the Teal+ benefits.

Which ATS resume checker should you use?

Start with the question you need answered. If it is "why did my resume score this, and what do I change?", RecruitMyself's weighted 0-100 score and its builder answer both in one place, with one full scan per email free and Pro at $19 a month. If it is "how close is this resume to this posting?", Jobscan (5 free scans a month) and SkillSyncer (2 a week) are built around that comparison. For a free general review you can repeat as you edit, use Resume Worded.

Whichever checker you pick, it only scores the version you give it. If you apply to many roles, set up one master resume and an AI tailoring pass per posting first, so each scan starts from a version written for that job.

Before you run a check

Free allowances and prices in this category change often. Every figure on this page was read on 16 October 2026, so check the tool's own page before you pay. To see your resume's 0-100 score across five weighted factors and 30 checks, then sign up to fix what it finds in the same builder, run RecruitMyself's free CV score. If you would rather learn to tailor each application with AI yourself, without inventing a line, take the free AI for Your Job Search course.

To read the number a checker gives you, see what counts as a good ATS score; to raise it, work through our 13-point ATS checklist.