An open alternative to LazyApply
What LazyApply costs and does, what applyNchill costs and does, and which one fits which kind of job hunt. Their numbers are quoted from their own pricing page.
Updated 17 September 2026
LazyApply is the tool most people find first when they search for automatic job applications. It is a Chrome extension that mass-applies on the big job boards. This page is a comparison, not a takedown: it does a different job from ours, and for some people it is the better fit.
Their prices and limits below are taken from lazyapply.com/pricing, read on 17 September 2026, and are quoted rather than summarised. Check their site before deciding; pricing changes.
| applyNchill | LazyApply | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free on your own Mistral key. Two 30-day passes are planned, Apply at ₹399 and Hunt at ₹599; checkout is not open yet. | Annual plans listed at $99, $149 and $999 a year. |
| Daily applications | 12 a day free; 25 and 50 a day on the planned passes. | 15, 150 and 1500 a day by plan. |
| Where it applies | Employers own boards: Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Oracle Cloud, SmartRecruiters, Naukri and others. | Job boards and aggregators, described on their site as "platforms like Greenhouse, Dice, Indeed and Ziprecruiter". |
| The resume | Rewritten for each posting from your own history, on your own AI key. | Resume profiles you set up in advance: 1, 5 or 20 depending on plan. |
| Who submits the form | Your browser, in your own signed-in session. | Also a Chrome extension running in your browser. |
| The code | Open source and self-hostable; you can read exactly what it sends. | Closed source. |
The real difference is volume versus aim
A plan that submits 1500 applications a day is built on the belief that applying is a numbers game. Sometimes it is. But every one of those is the same resume, and at that rate nobody is reading the posting, including you.
We built the opposite: a smaller number of applications, each aimed at the posting it goes to, on boards that belong to the employer rather than to an aggregator. Twelve a day free is a deliberate limit, not a trial restriction.
When LazyApply is the better choice
- You are applying mostly through Indeed, ZipRecruiter or Dice, which we do not fill.
- You want one payment, one setup, and the largest possible number of submissions.
- You would rather not deal with an AI key of your own.
When this one is
- You apply mainly through company career pages running Workday, Greenhouse, Lever or Oracle.
- You want the resume to differ per application, without writing each one.
- You want to read the code, or run the whole thing yourself.
- You would rather pay nothing while it is in beta, and bring your own free AI key.
applyNchill is in beta. The extension is on the Chrome Web Store, the source is public, and nothing is charged today.
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