We'd rather tell you exactly what changes with Premium than leave you to guess, so here's the honest, specific breakdown, not a vague "unlock more features" pitch.
What's Actually Free
The free plan is a genuinely usable job search tool on its own, not a crippled trial:
- Guest mode on the resume builder, no account at all, fill the form, preview live, download the PDF.
- One saved resume if you log in, editable anytime from My Resumes.
- The AI assistant, once logged in, up to 20 messages a day, shared across the resume builder's drafting chat and the browser extension's AI-answered application questions.
- The full browser extension autofill, name, contact details, work authorization, resume upload, voluntary self-identification fields you've set, across every supported site, with no Premium requirement at all.
If you're putting together a single resume for a one-off application, or your job search is more about the extension saving you retyping than it is about AI-drafted answers at volume, free covers the actual work.
What Premium Adds
Premium is currently $4.99 a month, and it removes the specific friction points that show up once you're running a real search rather than a single application:
- Up to 5 saved resumes instead of 1, so you can keep genuinely different versions (a technical-lead-forward one, a more IC-forward one) rather than overwriting your only saved copy every time you want to lead with something different.
- A higher daily AI message cap, useful if you're drafting or refining several application answers a day rather than an occasional one.
- .tex source download, for full manual control of the resume's LaTeX source in your own editor, not just the generated PDF.
How to Actually Decide
If you're applying to a handful of roles over a few weeks, one saved resume and 20 AI messages a day is very unlikely to be the thing slowing you down. Free is the right call, upgrading wouldn't change much about your experience.
If you're running an active search, applying broadly, keeping more than one tailored resume version alive, and using the AI assistant or the extension's AI-answered questions regularly enough to hit the daily cap, Premium removes exactly that friction for less than the cost of a single lunch out. The math there is less about "more features" and more about whether you're actually running into the free plan's real limits, not hypothetical ones.
You can see your current plan and upgrade directly from your profile once you're logged in.
