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Resume Compare

Two versions in, and what actually changed out: every added, removed and reworded line, plus how each quality dimension moved. Free, no account needed, and the comparison is entirely our own code.

  • Free tier, no signup
  • A free run every day
  • AI tier 1 credit

What happens to your data

The free tier runs entirely in our own code and never contacts a model, so the same two files always produce the same comparison. The AI tier redacts your name, email, phone, address and date of birth before anything leaves our servers; the model reads your documents and writes the prose, while every score is arithmetic over a fixed rubric in our code. One dimension, skill coverage, rests on the model's reading of which skills you evidence - so we store your comparison, and re-running the same pair returns it rather than a fresh one. We never invent a figure you did not supply.

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How this works

About Resume Compare

What it checks, what it deliberately does not, and how to read the output.

Why comparing versions is harder than it looks

After an hour of editing, nobody can remember what they changed. You know it feels better. You do not know whether you removed a bullet that was carrying real evidence, or whether the section you tightened lost the one number a screener was going to notice.

So this does two separate things. It diffs the two documents line by line - added, removed, reworded, unchanged - and it scores both versions on the same quality dimensions and shows the movement. The diff tells you what you did. The dimensions tell you what it cost or bought.

The free version makes no AI calls at all

Not "usually does not" - the free comparison never contacts a language model or an embedding service. It is a diff and a set of deterministic checks running in our own code, which is why it can be free, why it is fast, and why the result is identical every time you run it on the same two files.

It is also why it needs no account. Upload two files, get the comparison. Your uploads are deleted within 24 hours, and names, emails and phone numbers are removed before anything is stored.

The free version reports no total score, on purpose

One of the quality dimensions - skill coverage - needs a layer the free tier does not run. Rather than quietly re-weight the rest and print a total, we show every dimension we could measure and omit the headline, because a number built from a partial rubric would look exactly like a full Readiness Score and would not be comparable to one.

You still see which dimensions improved and which regressed, which is the part that answers the actual question. The signed-in version adds skill coverage, a real score for both documents, and a written read on whether the rewrite was worth it.

What this tool will not do

It will not tell you which version is better. It shows what moved and in which direction; deciding whether a tighter summary is worth a lost metric depends on the specific role you are applying to, and a diff cannot know that.

It will not merge them for you. There is no "best of both" output, because choosing between two of your own sentences is the editorial judgement that makes it your resume.

It will not compare more than two versions at once, and it is not version control. If you are tracking a resume across ten drafts, compare consecutive pairs.

FAQ

Questions people actually ask

The ones that come up before somebody uploads anything.

Do I need an account to use this?

Not for the comparison itself. Upload two versions and you get the full line-by-line diff and every dimension's movement without signing in - that path makes no AI calls at all, so there is nothing to charge for. There is a daily cap on it rather than unlimited use: one run a day without an account, four a day signed in, resetting at midnight UTC, and counted per tool so it does not touch your free ATS check or anything else. Signing in also adds the sixth quality dimension, a total score for both documents, and a written explanation of what the change did - that tier costs one credit a run, and re-running an identical pair of files is free because we recognise it and serve the result we already produced.

Why is there no overall score on the free version?

Because one of the dimensions - skill coverage - needs a layer the free tier does not run, and a total built from the rest would look exactly like a full Readiness Score without being comparable to one. Quietly re-weighting a partial rubric into a headline number is the kind of thing that seems helpful and then gets screenshotted next to a real score. You still get every dimension's movement, which is what answers the question you came with.

How does it decide a line was reworded rather than replaced?

By word overlap. Two lines are treated as a rewording when they share enough distinctive words to be recognisably the same bullet, and as an unrelated removal plus addition when they do not. That threshold is fixed and applied identically every time, so the same two files always produce the same diff - which matters, because a comparison that shifted between runs would be useless for deciding anything.

What happens to the two files I upload?

Names, emails and phone numbers are removed before anything is stored. If you are not signed in, the files themselves are deleted within 24 hours; for a signed-in user they are kept for 30 days so you can re-run without re-uploading. Nothing on the free path is sent to an AI provider at all.

Will it tell me which version to send?

No, and that is deliberate rather than a limitation we plan to remove. Whether a tighter summary is worth a lost metric depends on the specific role, the specific screener and what else is on the page. The tool shows you exactly what moved and in which direction; the trade-off is a judgement about one application, and it is yours.

Can I compare more than two versions?

Two at a time. If you are tracking a resume across several drafts, compare consecutive pairs - that also tends to be more informative than comparing draft one against draft six, because it shows you which specific edit caused which movement rather than the sum of all of them.

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