Career Advice
hirecomb vs Teal (2026): A Résumé Workbench Next to an Applier
David Eric ·
The first thing I owe you here is the part I couldn't check.
Every tealhq.com URL we requested on September 8, 2026 returned a 403 to automated fetches, across three attempts and a plain curl. That's an ordinary anti-bot setting, not a verdict on the product. It does mean we could not confirm a single price, cap, or feature claim from Teal's own pages, so everything below is labeled with where it came from.
What is clear from Teal's page titles is the shape of the product: a résumé builder, a job tracker, and an "Autofill Job Applications" Chrome extension. Nothing we saw suggests it submits anything, which puts it in the autofill-tracker column of the full 22-tool comparison.
Pick Teal if the work you need help with is the résumé and the record. Pick hirecomb if it's the sending.
What Teal actually is
A résumé workbench with a tracker attached and an autofill extension for the forms.
Teal's own pages, by title, cover résumé building, job tracking, and "Autofill Job Applications." There's no auto-submit language in anything we could reach, and in this category that absence is usually the answer: the extension puts your saved details into the fields, and you read the form and press submit.
The prices, carefully. A search-engine snippet of tealhq.com/pricing reads "$13 per week, billed weekly; $29 every 30 days; or $79 every 90 days." We could not open that page to confirm it, so treat those figures as unconfirmed and check before paying. Third-party write-ups also describe a free tier; we couldn't confirm that either. Caps, ATS coverage, and card requirements are not verifiable from here.
I'd rather hand you a gap than a number I can't stand behind. Teal at least has a public pricing page, it just wasn't readable by anything but a browser.
What hirecomb actually is
A web app plus a Chrome extension that does the step Teal leaves to you.
The extension applies inside your own Chrome session. It opens the posting, fills the form from your profile and a résumé tailored to that posting, attaches the file, and submits. If a captcha stops it, the tab comes back with every field already filled and you click submit. We never ask for your job-site passwords. Coverage is Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and Workday, plus the guest-apply forms careers pages wrap around them, and no LinkedIn Easy Apply.
Matching is free forever with no card: every new posting scored against your actual résumé, not a keyword list. Queued applications get the résumé rewritten in the posting's wording, an ATS score before and after, and a verification pass that strips invented skills and numbers before you see the draft. Word files are edited in place, and you approve every version.
Pace is capped on purpose: a daily background limit you set at 10, 20, 25, or 50, and no more than 2 roles per company in a rolling 24 hours, because an ATS reads ten applications to one company in an afternoon as noise. Everything sent lands in Applied Jobs with live status and follow-up reminders.
Plans: Basic $50/mo for 750 auto-applies, Pro $100/mo for 1,500, Ultra $150/mo for 3,000. The trial is Pro, free for seven days with 20 real auto-applies, card at Stripe checkout, cancel before day seven and pay nothing. The honest limitation: nothing sends while Chrome is closed.
Side by side
| Feature | hirecomb | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Web app + Chrome agent | Résumé builder + tracker + autofill extension |
| Where the applying runs | Your own Chrome session | Your hands, in your browser |
| Submits for you? | Yes, in the background | No evidence of auto-submit |
| Price | $50 / $100 / $150 a month | Unconfirmed snippet: $13/week, $29/30 days, $79/90 days |
| Application cap | 750 / 1,500 / 3,000 a month; 10 to 50 a day; 2 per company | Not published |
| Free tier / trial | Free matching, no card; 7-day Pro trial, 20 applies | Third-party reports say a free tier exists; not verifiable |
| ATS or board coverage | Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, guest-apply forms | Not published |
| Résumé tailoring | Per posting, ATS score, fabrication check | Résumé builder, per its page titles |
| Control before send | You approve every résumé version | Total, you press submit |
| Restrictions | Chrome must be open. No Easy Apply | Not published |
Where Teal wins
→ Price, on the snippet numbers. $13 a week or $29 a month, if those hold, is well under our $50 entry. For résumé work and tracking, we'd be the wrong buy.
→ The résumé is its main event. We tailor one because an application needs it. Teal's product is built around the document, and if you want to sit down and make one strong résumé better, a workbench beats an assembly line.
→ Weekly billing. A one-week option, if the snippet is right, fits a search that might end in ten days. Our shortest commitment after the trial is a month.
Where hirecomb wins
→ It submits. Autofill saves the typing. It doesn't save the tab, the scroll, and the click, times 30 a week.
→ Matching and tailoring before the send. Every posting is scored against your résumé, and the tailored version runs through a check that strips invented skills and numbers, because a résumé claiming a tool you've never used costs you the interview.
→ The pace matches ATS reality. Two roles per company a day, 50 a day at most, which is why submissions land instead of arriving as one noisy batch.
Who should pick which
Take Teal if your bottleneck is the document and the memory of what you sent. You're applying at a pace your hands can manage and you want a résumé tool with tracking attached. Confirm the price on the page yourself before you pay.
Take hirecomb if the applying is the bottleneck. Thirty postings a week at twenty minutes each is a second job, and doing it by hand is what pushes people into spraying one résumé everywhere, which is the loop that made hiring worse for everyone. We match first, tailor per posting with a check against invention, and submit from your own browser. The price is a laptop that has to stay open.
FAQ
Does Teal actually submit applications for you?
Nothing we could read says it does. Teal's public pages describe a résumé builder, a job tracker, and an "Autofill Job Applications" extension, which fills fields and leaves the submit button to you. We couldn't open the site to check further, so if auto-submit matters, ask Teal before you pay.
How much does Teal cost?
Unconfirmed. A search-engine snippet of Teal's pricing page shows $13 per week billed weekly, $29 every 30 days, or $79 every 90 days, and we could not load the page to verify it. Third-party write-ups also mention a free tier. Check the live page before relying on any of it. hirecomb is $50, $100, and $150 a month for 750, 1,500, and 3,000 applications.
What's the difference between hirecomb and Teal?
Teal helps you write the résumé and remember the search; the applications are still yours to send. hirecomb matches postings to your résumé, tailors it per posting with a fabrication check, and submits from a Chrome extension in your own browser on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and Workday. Different jobs, and running both is reasonable.
Sources: Teal's pricing page returned 403 to automated fetches on September 8, 2026, across three attempts plus curl; the price figures above come from a search-engine snippet of that page and are unconfirmed. hirecomb figures are from our own live pricing. For the whole category, see the full 22-tool table. Prices in this category change monthly; check the vendor page before relying on a number.