Best AI Resume Builder — Rezi vs Teal vs Kickresume vs Zety

This tool does not guess and does not call an AI model. It runs a deterministic weighted-match score over a fixed table of nine builders — Rezi, Teal, Kickresume, Enhancv, Zety, Novoresume, Resume.io, Canva and the free “ChatGPT + manual” route. Every feature bit and price in that table is a factual claim taken from the vendor's own pricing or features page, snapshotted on 2026-07-18. The same number therefore comes out for the same inputs, every time.

1. Budget filter. For each builder the tool picks the best plan whose monthly price fits your cap. If the entry paid plan is within budget it scores the paid feature set; otherwise it falls back to a genuinely usable free tier; builders with neither are dimmed, not hidden, so you can still compare them.
2. Priority weight.Your chosen priority — ATS optimization, AI bullet writing, design & templates, or one-click job tailoring — is given weight 3. The other three dimensions get weight 1 each.
3. Requirement toggles.Turning on “need a cover letter” or “need LinkedIn import” adds a weight-2 term that a builder only earns if it actually ships that feature.
4. Score. The match score is score = Σ (weightᵢ × hasFeatureᵢ), where each hasFeatureᵢ is 1 or 0 straight from the vendor data. The recommendation card shows every term so the total is auditable at a glance.
5. Ties.Equal scores break by lower plan price, then a larger free-tier allowance, then name A→Z — so the ordering is fully reproducible. Experience level only re-frames the “why” copy; it never changes a score.

The ATS-friendliness definition follows Jobscan's guidance: a resume passes an applicant-tracking system when its text is machine-readable and its wording matches the job posting. That is a property of the exported document and the keywords, not of the tool's brand — which is why the “ATS” column marks text-based builders yes and flags graphical, design-first layouts as a parsing risk.

Each builder's row is sourced from its own pricing / features page, checked on 2026-07-18. Prices are month-to-month USD as of 18 July 2026; annual billing is usually cheaper.

• Rezi — pricing & features
• Teal — pricing & features
• Kickresume — pricing & features
• Enhancv — pricing & features
• Zety — pricing & features
• Novoresume — pricing & features
• Resume.io — pricing & features
• Canva — pricing & features
• ChatGPT + manual — pricing & features
• Jobscan — what makes a resume ATS-friendly (definition only)