AI Applyd vs Tsenta: who decides your application was actually sent
AI Applyd fills and submits on the employer's own hiring system, across the 12 applicant tracking systems with a real apply path, and counts an application as sent only once the employer's own confirmation arrives. Here is exactly where Tsenta fits.
THEIR CLAIMS, IN THEIR WORDSREVIEWED 2026PRICES READ OFF THEIR OWN PAGE
Le verdict : AI Applyd face à Tsenta
AI Applyd and Tsenta split on one thing: what happens once the form is filled in.
Pick AI Applyd if
- Tsenta's positioning line ends on its own click: it opens the form, it hits submit. Ours ends one step later, when the employer's own system writes back, and that write-back is the only thing we count as sent.
- A Tsenta per-application record has four parts and three of them are its own input: the fields it filled, the answers it gave, the files it sent. We do not treat any equivalent of ours as evidence.
- Tsenta documents a needs_review escalation for questions its agent cannot answer. Our run has no state that hands the application back to a person: screener answers come from your own history and the application keeps moving.
- We publish the 12 systems by name and we name the one where our own resume upload is still broken. A number is a claim; a list is checkable.
- Every posting is scored against your resume before a single field is filled, so the applications that go out are the ones worth sending.
Pick Tsenta if
- Tsenta states coverage of 29 applicant tracking systems. That is broader than the 12 we cover, and we are not going to race the number.
- Their monthly allowances are far larger than ours at every tier: 600, 1,500 and 4,500 applications for $19, $39 and $99.
- The 25 free applications are a cleaner way to test raw submission than our free tier, which hands you the scoring and writing tools rather than free applies.
- A documented human escalation path on a question the agent cannot answer is a genuine safety valve. We deliberately do not have one, which is a trade rather than a free win.
Our pick: AI Applyd. It is not finished here when we press submit. It is finished when the company writes back to say your application arrived.
Pick Tsenta if its reasons describe the week you actually have, not the week you keep planning to have.
Getting it sent is not the finish line. The reply is.
An application only counts here once the company's own system writes back to say it arrived. That message is written by somebody who does not work for us, which is the only reason it proves anything.
AI Applyd matches or beats on 8 core capabilities below. The step that decides it, the company writing back, is the one no other tool we read publishes a position on.
Prix
Tsenta publishes three monthly tiers: $19, $39 and $99, sized at 600, 1,500 and 4,500 applications a month, plus 25 free applications once. Figures read from their own pricing page on 2026-08-10.
Offre gratuite
25 free applications, once. After that every published tier is paid.
Tsenta and AI Applyd agree on the hard part. A real agent should open the employer's own form and complete it, rather than hand you a browser extension and a longer to-do list. Where the two products separate is what each one accepts as evidence that the job is done. Tsenta's per-application record has four parts: the fields that were filled, the answers given to the open-ended questions, the resume and cover letter that went out, and a confirmation back from the ATS. Read that list again. Three of the four are Tsenta reading back what Tsenta typed. They are a log of intent, and a log of intent is the cheapest artefact in this category to produce, because you already hold every value in it before anything is sent. Only the fourth item comes from the other side of the wire. AI Applyd counts the fourth item and nothing else. An application is not marked sent here when we click. It is marked sent when a confirmation arrives from the employer's own system into an inbox we watch on your behalf. Tsenta covers more systems than we do and sells much larger monthly allowances, and both of those are real advantages. What it does not do is refuse to count its own click.
Là où AI Applyd prend l’avantage
AI Applyd ends the run on the employer's confirmation, not on its own submit click
Tsenta's positioning line ends on its own click: it opens the form, it hits submit.
Ours ends one step later, when the employer's own system writes back, and that write-back is the only thing we count as sent.
A Tsenta per-application record has four parts and three of them are its own input: the fields it filled, the answers it gave, the files it sent.
We do not treat any equivalent of ours as evidence.
Tsenta documents a needs_review escalation for questions its agent cannot answer.
Our run has no state that hands the application back to a person: screener answers come from your own history and the application keeps moving.
AI Applyd face à Tsenta
Capacité par capacité, sans arrondir en notre faveur. Chaque ligne Tsenta vient de leurs propres pages publiques de tarifs et de marketing, et chaque point qu’ils remportent figure sur le graphique dans leur couleur.
Four things have to happen to a job application. Someone finds the job, the form gets filled in, it gets sent, and the company writes back to say it arrived.
- Found
- Filled in
- Sent
- Confirmed
- AI Applyd
Goes all the way. The company’s own system writes back to say your application arrived, and nothing is marked sent here until that message lands.
Every application goes out from an address we watch for you, so the company’s reply comes back somewhere it can be matched to the job you applied for.
- Tsenta
Stops at sent. Says it sends the application for you. We found nothing on their site about waiting for the company to write back.
Their homepage says “Hands off.” Their own FAQ says you pick the job from the feed or paste a link, and that auto-apply is a separate paid feature still rolling out. Read 11 August 2026.
Everything below is argued out in full, both sides quoted from their own pages.
What counts as an application being sent
AI Applyd takes thisAI ApplydOnly an inbound confirmation from the employer's own system marks an application sent. Our submit click, our screenshots and our own logs are our input read back, and none of them count.
TsentaTsenta's per-application record lists the fields that were filled, the answers given to open-ended questions, the resume and cover letter that went out, and a confirmation back from the ATS. Three of those four are Tsenta reading back what Tsenta typed.
Who acts last on your application
AI Applyd takes thisAI ApplydThe employer. The run is not finished when we submit. It is finished when their system writes back.
TsentaTsenta, by its own positioning line: it opens the form and it hits submit. The run ends on their click.
Hard screener questions
AI Applyd takes thisAI ApplydAnswered from your own history and submitted with the form. There is no state in which the application stops and waits for a person.
TsentaTsenta documents a needs_review state that escalates a question its agent cannot answer to a human.
ATS coverage you can check name by name
AI Applyd takes thisAI Applyd12, named in full so you can check them one by one: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, iCIMS, Personio, Teamtailor, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, Breezy, Workable and Rippling. Every one of the 12 is carrying live jobs in our index today.
TsentaA number Tsenta publishes about itself, and its own sources do not agree on it: over 10 (the founder, quoted by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), nineteen (their own site), over 30 (their Y Combinator profile). We are not calling any of those false. We are pointing out that it is one number, published three ways, and never checked by anyone outside the company.
Telling you what does not work yet
AI Applyd takes thisAI ApplydWe name the one that is not finished. SmartRecruiters is on our list and our own resume upload there is still broken, so we say so rather than count it as done.
TsentaWe found no published list of where Tsenta's own coverage falls short.
Per-posting ATS score before anything is submitted
AI Applyd takes thisAI ApplydEvery posting is scored against your resume before a field is filled, with the requirements mapped and the gaps ranked, so a bad-fit application is not sent at all.
TsentaTsenta's published product is the submission pipeline itself, and its plans are sized in applications.
What the price buys
EvenAI ApplydOne monthly price for a running pipeline. A run that errors or is skipped does not burn your allowance.
TsentaTsenta sells the applications: $19, $39 and $99 a month for 600, 1,500 and 4,500 of them.
Starting without paying
EvenAI ApplydA free tier that keeps working every month, with no card: 10 ATS scores, 5 tailored resumes and 5 cover letters. Auto-apply sits on the paid plans.
Tsenta25 free applications, once. After that every published tier is paid.
Là où Tsenta gagne vraiment
Si l’un de ces points est le seul verrou de votre recherche, prenez Tsenta. Partout ailleurs, c’est AI Applyd qui met votre candidature sous les yeux d’un humain.
Tsenta states coverage of 29 applicant tracking systems. That is broader than the 12 we cover, and we are not going to race the number.
Their monthly allowances are far larger than ours at every tier: 600, 1,500 and 4,500 applications for $19, $39 and $99.
The 25 free applications are a cleaner way to test raw submission than our free tier, which hands you the scoring and writing tools rather than free applies.
A documented human escalation path on a question the agent cannot answer is a genuine safety valve. We deliberately do not have one, which is a trade rather than a free win.
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