Rezi vs Teal: writing a résumé, or running a search

Both products will build you a résumé and both will show you a score. The difference is what sits at the centre.

Rezi's centre is the document. Templates, AI writing tools, its own Rezi Score, exports, interview practice. The search is context for the résumé.

Teal's centre is the search. A tracker fed by a browser extension, with a builder attached so the résumé lives next to the applications.

Ask which one you would still open on a day you are not applying to anything. That is the one you are buying.

Disclosure: SchoolWhool makes a competing product. It appears once, for the case neither of these covers.

Prices, read on 2026-09-20

Rezi (rezi.ai): Free — 1 résumé, 1 AI interview, 3 PDF downloads, limited Rezi Score, keyword targeting and real-time content analysis. Pro — $29/month, unlimited résumés, AI interviews and downloads, full Rezi Score and keyword targeting, all AI writing tools, one expert résumé review per month, all template formats. Lifetime — $149 one-time, everything in Pro except the monthly expert review. Enterprise — $99/month per 200 users. All plans carry a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Teal (tealhq.com): Teal+ at $13 every 7 days, $29 every 30 days, or $79 every 90 days, unlocking unlimited matching, analysis, templates, advanced design controls and AI use. The free tier includes the job tracker and résumé builder.

The lifetime option is the unusual thing on this list. It is a reasonable bet if you expect to job-hunt repeatedly over years and a bad one if this is a single three-month search — in which case Teal's 7-day plan is the cheaper shape by a wide margin.

Where Rezi wins

You do not have a résumé yet, or the one you have is beyond repair. Rezi is a builder in a way Teal's builder is not; the templates, the export formats and the writing tools assume you are producing a document from parts.

You want structure imposed. Real-time content analysis and the Rezi Score push toward a conventional, parseable résumé. For a first professional résumé that structure is genuinely useful.

You want the one-time price. $149 lifetime removes the "cancel before it renews" problem entirely.

You want interview practice bundled. The AI interview is part of the free tier in limited form.

Where Teal wins

You already have a résumé and a search in progress. Teal's tracker, extension and per-posting matching are built for the applying phase, not the writing phase.

You want to tailor per posting rather than rebuild. Attaching a job description to a résumé for a match score and keyword pull is the core loop, and it assumes a résumé exists.

Your search is short. $13 for a week is the cheapest serious trial on this page.

You save jobs from many boards. The extension is the feature with no equivalent in Rezi.

The thing to test in both free tiers

Both will write résumé content with AI. Before paying either:

Take your real résumé content and a posting asking for one thing you have genuinely never done. Generate. Then read every line against what you supplied, looking for a skill that appeared, a number that appeared, a "contributed to" that became "led", and a group project that became yours.

Builders have a particular version of this risk: when you are assembling a document from prompts rather than editing an existing one, there is no original to compare against, so invention is harder to notice. Keep your own plain-text copy of what is true before you start.

Rezi's free tier allows 1 résumé and 3 PDF downloads — enough. Teal's builder is usable free.

On both scores

The Rezi Score and Teal's match score are each the vendor's model of relevance. No third-party tool reads an employer's applicant tracking system. Use either as a prompt to look again at a section, not as a threshold to clear, and stop optimising when the sentences stop reading like a person wrote them.

Choose neither if

Your problem is that you do not have enough roles worth applying to. Rezi assumes the document is the constraint; Teal assumes you are finding jobs elsewhere and bringing them in.

If discovery is the gap, SchoolWhool is built around it: a catalogue crawled from 285 companies' own career boards through each provider's public API, free to browse with no account at /jobs, with every role linking out to the employer's own posting and closed roles marked rather than left in the feed. Pro adds a ranked feed over the whole catalogue, saved jobs, a tracker and AI reviews whose suggested edits must each quote an exact passage of your uploaded résumé, with invented figures removed before you see them.

It does not build a résumé from scratch. If that is your task, Rezi is the better purchase here.

What this page does not claim

We have not published side-by-side outputs from both tools on a shared résumé. Every figure above is what the vendor's own page said on 2026-09-20; plans change, so check before buying.

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