General-Purpose AI Assistants · verified 4 September 2026

Best AI for Resume Screening

3 tools 3 with a free plan 3 built for this Prices verified 4 September 2026

The 3 that fit

ChatGPT

By OpenAISan Francisco, United States3 products across 8 categories

Built for this. The broadest feature set — voice, images, files, a large app ecosystem. Usually the easiest starting point.

Free plan
Yes
Ad supported; unlimited everyday text chats, limited image creation, memory and voice
Month to month
$8/mo
Go
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Check your data settings. On consumer tiers conversations may be used to improve models unless you turn that off.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier, ad supported; unlimited everyday text chats, limited image creation, memory and voice
Go$8/mo
Plus$20/moadvanced models, higher quality image creation, Work agent, Codex, 20GB of storage
Pro$100/mo
Business standard seat$25/mo · $20/mo yearly
Business premium seat$125/mo · $100/mo yearly5x the usage and no five-hour limit
Open ChatGPT Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Claude

By AnthropicSan Francisco, United States3 products across 7 categories

Built for this. Long documents and reasoning that holds together over many pages. Handles large uploads well.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with daily caps
Month to month
$20/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$17/mo
$200 a year, Pro plan −15%

Watch out: Free tier caps out quickly under heavy use. Judge it against the others yourself rather than trusting any ranking.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with daily caps
Pro$20/mo · $17/mo yearly
Max$100/mo
Team standard seat$25/mo · $20/mo yearly
Team premium seat$125/mo · $100/mo yearly
Enterprise$20/mo
Open Claude Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Gemini

By Google DeepMindLondon, United Kingdom6 products across 6 categories

Built for this. Sits inside Gmail, Docs and Drive, so it already has your context. Very large context windows and a generous free tier.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with generous limits
Month to month
$4.99/mo
Google AI Plus
Billed yearly
$4.17/mo
$49.99 a year, Google AI Plus plan −16%

Watch out: Which underlying model you get varies by tier, and quality varies with it. Plus and Pro were both showing introductory offers when checked — a fraction of the price for the first three months, or a discount on the first year — so the number on the page is not the standing price, and the rows here quote the standing one.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with generous limits
Google AI Plus$4.99/mo
Google AI Pro$19.99/mo
Google AI Ultra$99.99/mo
Google AI Ultra 20x$199.99/mo
Workspace with Gemini$14/mo
Open Gemini Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

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Every AI tool we track

All 750 products, one page each.

How to read this list

Two things separate these and both are on every card.

Fit

Whether a tool is built for this job, a strong fit for it, or able to do it without that being its focus.

Free plan

Whether there is a tier you can keep using rather than a trial that expires.

The order

Fit first, then a free plan, then alphabetical. There is no score, no weighting we decline to publish, and nothing on this site a company can buy.

Questions

What is the best ai for resume screening?

There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 3 rather than one: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. 3 of them are built for this kind of work rather than able to do it. Start with a free one.

Which of these have a free plan?

3 of the 3: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. Free means a real free tier you can keep using, not a trial that expires.

How was this list chosen?

By hand, from the 750 products this site tracks, and it is checked against the catalogue on every build — a product renamed or removed breaks the build rather than quietly disappearing from here. Nothing on this site can be paid for: no listing, no position, no wording.