Best AI for job applications and CVs
As of 2026-07-18, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) is the strongest model for this task in our daily benchmark, where over 350 AI models are evaluated and the best are presented.
An AI-written application is easy to spot — and recruiters read a lot of them. The value is not in letting the model write the letter for you, but in using it to tighten your own.
For application text we rank by language quality, since a letter with anglicisms or a stiff tone is dismissed immediately. Ranked by language score, from today’s benchmark.
Today’s ranking
| Model | Provider | Score | Language | Speed | Input price/1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) | anthropic | 8.3/10 | 9.3/10 | 131 t/s | $10.00 |
| Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 | anthropic | 8.0/10 | 9.3/10 | 113 t/s | $1.00 |
| Google: Gemma 3 4B | 8.0/10 | 9.3/10 | 237 t/s | $0.05 | |
| Cohere: Command R+ (08-2024) | cohere | 7.5/10 | 9.3/10 | 160 t/s | $2.50 |
| Perplexity: Sonar Pro | perplexity | 7.7/10 | 9.0/10 | 68 t/s | $3.00 |
| Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | meta-llama | 5.2/10 | 9.0/10 | 392 t/s | $0.05 |
| Mistral: Mistral Small 3 | mistralai | 7.8/10 | 8.7/10 | 234 t/s | $0.05 |
| IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro | ibm-granite | 5.4/10 | 8.3/10 | 179 t/s | $0.02 |
Use AI as an editor, not an author
Write the draft yourself, in your own voice, and ask the model to cut repetition, tighten sentences and flag claims you have not backed up. That keeps what makes the application yours — concrete experience and examples — and removes only the filler.
What the recruiter sees through
Phrases like “passionate about”, “dynamic environment” and “unique combination of skills” are the default output of a model that was given nothing concrete to work with. Give it the job ad, your CV and three real examples from your work, and the text becomes specific enough to stand out.
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