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 15 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.
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The verdict: AI Applyd vs Tsenta
AI Applyd and Tsenta split on one thing: what happens once the form is filled in.
Pick AI Applyd if
- Tsenta asks for your approval before each send, so its 4,500-application plan is 4,500 approvals. AI Applyd on Autopilot sends without asking, and your evening stays yours.
- An application counts as sent here only when the employer's own hiring system confirms it, in an inbox we watch for you.
- We name all 15 hiring systems we submit on, so you can check the list one name at a time before you pay.
- Every posting is scored against your resume before a field is filled, so the applications that go out are the ones worth sending.
- If the employer demands an account, the agent creates it and completes the email verification itself. Nothing comes back to you to finish.
Pick Tsenta if
- Tsenta states coverage of "30+ ATSes" and "50,000+ career pages".
- Large monthly allowances: 600, 1,500 and 4,500 applications for $19, $39 and $99.
- 25 free applications to try it, once.
- Backed by Y Combinator.
- If you want to approve every application before it leaves, that is exactly how Tsenta works.
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.
No other tool we read publishes a position on that step.
Price
Tsenta charges $19, $39 and $99 a month for 600, 1,500 and 4,500 applications, plus 25 free applications once. Read off tsenta.com/pricing on 24 September 2026.
Free tier
25 free applications, once. Every plan after that is paid.
Tsenta is a Y Combinator company with a big number on its site: "30+ ATSes" and "50,000+ career pages", and plans sized at 600, 1,500 and 4,500 applications a month. Read one more line and the product changes shape. Tsenta asks for your approval before each application is sent. So the top plan is not 4,500 applications done for you. It is 4,500 approvals waiting for you, one click at a time, every month. That is a to-do list with a better interface, and it moves at the speed of your evening. AI Applyd is built for the opposite outcome. Switch on Autopilot and it scores every new posting against your resume, skips the weak fits, rewrites the resume and the cover letter for the ones worth sending, answers the screener questions from your own history, creates and verifies any account the employer demands, and submits on the employer's own hiring system. You do not approve anything. Then it waits for the one signal that matters: the employer's own confirmation, landing in an inbox we watch for you. That is the moment an application counts here. Auto-Apply That Ends on an Interview, not in an approval queue.
Where AI Applyd pulls ahead
AI Applyd sends the application for you. Tsenta waits for your approval on every one.
Tsenta asks for your approval before each send, so its 4,500-application plan is 4,500 approvals.
AI Applyd on Autopilot sends without asking, and your evening stays yours.
An application counts as sent here only when the employer's own hiring system confirms it, in an inbox we watch for you.
We name all 15 hiring systems we submit on, so you can check the list one name at a time before you pay.
AI Applyd vs Tsenta
Capability by capability, and we did not round in our own favour. Every Tsenta line is drawn from their own public pricing and marketing pages, and every row they take is on the chart in their colour.
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
Hands it back to you. Prepares the application, then waits for you. Tsenta asks for your approval before each send.
Read on tsenta.com on 24 September 2026: approval before each send, plans of 600, 1,500 and 4,500 applications a month, and a stated “30+ ATSes”.
Everything below is argued out in full, both sides quoted from their own pages.
Who sends the application
AI Applyd takes thisAI ApplydAI Applyd does. On Autopilot the resume is tailored, the form is filled and the application is submitted on the employer's own hiring system, with no approval step in between.
TsentaYou do. Tsenta asks for your approval before each application is sent.
What a plan asks of you
AI Applyd takes thisAI ApplydA plan that runs without you. Hired in 30 sends about 70 applications a week from $21.99, and not one of them waits in a queue for your click.
TsentaTsenta sizes its plans at 600, 1,500 and 4,500 applications a month. Each one waits for your approval, so the top plan is 4,500 approvals a month.
When an application counts as sent
AI Applyd takes thisAI ApplydWhen the employer's own hiring system confirms it. That confirmation lands in an inbox we watch for you, and it is the only thing we count as sent.
TsentaTsenta's flow is built around your approval before each send.
Hiring systems you can check by name
AI Applyd takes thisAI Applyd15 hiring systems, named in full so you can check every one before you pay: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, iCIMS, Personio, Teamtailor, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, Breezy, Workable, Rippling, BambooHR, JazzHR and softgarden.
TsentaTsenta states "30+ ATSes" and "50,000+ career pages".
Weak fits kept out of your plan
AI Applyd takes thisAI ApplydEvery posting is scored against your resume first. Anything under your fit floor is skipped, so your plan is spent on jobs worth sending.
TsentaTsenta's plans are sized by application count: 600, 1,500 or 4,500 a month.
What the price is
EvenAI ApplydHired in 30 is $21.99 a week or $38.99 a month. Hired Yesterday is $37.99 a week or $89.99 a month. Auto-apply is in the plan.
TsentaTsenta charges $19, $39 and $99 a month.
Starting without paying
EvenAI ApplydFree every month with no card: 10 ATS scores, 5 tailored resumes and 5 cover letters. Sending is on the paid plans.
Tsenta25 free applications, once.
Where Tsenta genuinely wins
If one of these is the single thing your search is blocked on, buy Tsenta. Everywhere else, AI Applyd is the one that gets your application in front of a human.
Tsenta states coverage of "30+ ATSes" and "50,000+ career pages".
Large monthly allowances: 600, 1,500 and 4,500 applications for $19, $39 and $99.
25 free applications to try it, once.
Backed by Y Combinator.
If you want to approve every application before it leaves, that is exactly how Tsenta works.
Considering Tsenta? Common questions.
The other comparisons
Same question, different logo. Which one submits the application, and which one fills it in and then hands it back to you to finish.
