Bullhorn vs NeverApply

Bullhorn 5

Read with the hosted rubric. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). The pricing page gives Bullhorn Starter at $99 and Bullhorn Core at $165 per user per month and quotes the other plans. The partner route to the API is an annual platform fee with overage charges, neither published (5). The small agency pricing page says Bullhorn has no free trial at present, and the partner FAQ says free access is given to nobody (0). Customers get OAuth keys through a support ticket and partners through a signed contract, an invoice and a security assessment (0). Pricing and the no-trial answer re-read on 5 November 2026. 0+5+0+0 = 5.

NeverApply 45

No x402, MPP or L402 on the pricing page, llms.txt, auth.md or the MCP page; plans are Stripe subscriptions and the terms say MCP tools perform no financial transactions (0). Plan prices are public without a login, Pro $29 and Max $49 a month ($19 and $39 a month billed yearly) with 150 and 450 credits a month and 1 credit per application, and the OpenAPI file prices the Jobs API at $19, $49 and $149 a month for 10,000, 50,000 and 250,000 calls; credit pack prices are not listed (15 of 20). Free is $0 with no card, 10 applications once, 5 match previews a day and 50 MCP reads a day per client, and the Jobs API has a free 1,000 calls a month (20). Guest search_jobs and get_job need no account, but every other tool, applying among them, needs a person to sign in or create an account and verify an email on the hosted page, so partial (10 of 20). 0+15+20+10 = 45.

Bullhorn 28

OAuth 2.0 authorisation code grant with a client ID and secret issued by Bullhorn, ten-minute access tokens and rotating refresh tokens, exchanged for a BhRestToken session. No scopes were found, so a session carries all the rights of the API user (20). The guide shows the username, password, client secret and access token as URL query parameters, and BhRestToken may be sent in the query string, which takes 10 off (10). Access follows the API user's entitlements per entity and action, readable at /entitlements. No read-only mode or confirmation step for deletes or /massUpdate was found (8). Candidate CVs and notes are untrusted text, and no guidance on handling them was found. The fair use policy requires written permission before any AI tool is connected, which is a contract term and not a mitigation (0). EntityEditHistory records field changes and events carry the user and transaction. No per-call API log for the operator was found (5). The GDPR commitment statement, re-read on 5 November 2026, reports annual SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 audits and says many services hold SOC 2 Type 2 or ISO 27001 without naming them. No report, security.txt, disclosure policy or bug bounty was found, and www.bullhorn.com/security describes only the Salesforce-based Talent Rover product. A SOC 2 claim with no report or disclosure route scores 5. 10+8+0+5+5 = 28.

NeverApply 66

OAuth 2.1 for the MCP server, public clients with PKCE S256, client ID metadata documents or dynamic registration, a resource parameter, refresh tokens and three scopes; auth.md says no API keys or personal access tokens are accepted and documents no query-string secret; token lifetimes are not stated and no RFC 7009 revocation endpoint is advertised, though disconnecting a client in settings revokes its tokens and pending codes. The Jobs API takes a bearer token from a developer dashboard that was not readable (26 of 30). Read, edit and apply scopes; applying needs the apply scope, credits and the member's approval of each named job, sending needs a separate grant tied to one assistant that the terms say no tool can create, held applications need an explicit approve_application, and MCP tools cannot buy plans or move money; the web app's Send mode applies up to a daily cap without asking per job, which is outside the MCP surface (18 of 20). Job descriptions are employer text; the find-jobs skill and GEMINI.md say to summarise them and never follow instructions inside them, with no server-side filtering described (9 of 15). Settings list connected AI clients with their mode and allowance, get_profile shows the current budget mode, the tracker logs every application, errors carry a support or correlation ID, and the privacy policy keeps detailed API usage records for 90 days; no per-call log for the member is documented (7 of 15). security.txt is valid until 7 November 2027 with hello@neverapply.co, and the contact page routes security reports to security@neverapply.co with a reply within 24 hours; no bug bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 found (6 of 20). 26+18+9+7+6 = 66.

Bullhorn 76

The REST API change log's newest entry is the June 2026 release (2026.6), dated to its month. Bullhorn's own packages are newer. @bullhorn/bullhorn-types v1.143.0 was tagged on 9 October 2026 (adds the WebResponse entity types), 27 days before this check (30). Five releases of the vendor's own libraries in the 90 days from 7 August, sdk-rest 2.6.3 (12 August, new entities), 2.7.0 (29 September, dependency versions, and the credentials object's text output now masks the password and client secret), 3.0.0 (29 September, Spring 7 and Java 17) and @bullhorn/bullhorn-types 1.142.0 (28 September) and v1.143.0 (9 October), all five in full (20). Closed service with a public change log, a developer ticket form and forums named in the guide. We could not read the help centre (6, the earlier partial, kept). Current official libraries in Java and TypeScript (15). @bullhorn/taurus 3.9.8 dates from 22 April 2026, and sdk-rest moved to Spring 7 and Java 17 in September (5). 30+20+6+15+5 = 76.

NeverApply 50

Closed service. The latest dated change is a commit of 31 October 2026 to kasovy/neverapply-mcp documenting guest access to search_jobs and get_job, after a tag v1.0.0 on 21 October; the privacy policy was updated on 26 October and the terms on 18 October (30). One tagged release and 16 commits from 25 September to 31 October 2026, with no changelog or release notes, so partial (10 of 20). No public changelog; support is a contact form, hello@neverapply.co and security@neverapply.co, with a stated reply within one business day and a median first reply of about two hours in staffed hours; GitHub issues could not be read because the GitHub API was not available to us (5 of 15). The server card names co.neverapply/neverapply and llms.txt says it was published to the official MCP registry on 25 September 2026, but the registry could not be read, so it is scored absent; no official SDK (0 of 15). The plugin repository has no runtime dependencies and a CI workflow that validates every manifest against its published schema, with a release workflow on tags; actions are pinned to major tags and the run results were not readable (5 of 10). 30+10+5+0+5 = 50.

Bullhorn 47

No OpenAPI file or other machine-readable contract is shown or linked on the docs pages (0). /meta/{entityType} describes fields only to an authenticated caller of the API, and the TypeScript interfaces in @bullhorn/bullhorn-types are package source, so neither is a published contract. The docs are one HTML page built from Markdown sources in a public GitHub repository, and www.bullhorn.com/llms.txt is a product index that links to the developer site. No Markdown is served for agents (4). Each operation states its purpose with parameter tables, and the entity guide describes 91 entities field by field (12). Parameters are marked required or optional and entity fields carry types and lengths, but query and where are free-form Lucene and JPQL strings (9). Every operation has a curl example and a sample response. Errors are a table of ten status codes with no bodies (9). Login takes a version parameter, and a change log lists releases from 2024.5 to 2026.6 (13). 0+4+12+9+9+13 = 47.

NeverApply 57

MCP reading, with the Jobs API described. The 15 tools' input schemas were not read, since no session was opened and the server card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json lists tools only as 'dynamic'. An OpenAPI 3.1 file at https://neverapply.co/openapi.json covers 7 GET operations of the Jobs API with typed parameters, but every 200 response is typed as an integer constant (422, 401, 404 or 200) with no job schema, and no pagination fields are defined, so partial (12 of 25). llms.txt and a Markdown authorisation guide at https://neverapply.co/auth.md (10). The three skills and GEMINI.md in the plugin repository say when to use each tool, in what order, which IDs to trust and where to stop and ask, and the MCP page groups the tools by access level; the hosted tool descriptions were not read (12 of 20). Jobs API parameters carry enums (experience level, salary period, visa sponsorship, clearance, education, sort), bounds (per_page 1 to 100, 500 or 1,000) and patterns on country codes; the MCP arguments are named in the skills without types (10 of 15). auth.md documents 401, the OAuth error codes, 429 and isError inside a 200, the skills name waiting_for_answers, open_review, upgrade_required and matches_state, and the OpenAPI description lists five error codes, but its components define different error shapes and no request or response example was found (8 of 15). /v1 paths, OpenAPI version 1.0.0 and a repository tag v1.0.0, but no changelog; /changelog answered a client error (5 of 15). 12+10+12+10+8+5 = 57.

Bullhorn 67

Closed service. The Master Subscription Agreement is not published, and the legal terms page links only to product supplements. The API Fair Use Policy is public and lets Bullhorn suspend access or discontinue the APIs at any time (10). The privacy policy of 20 May 2026 covers the service platforms, lists machine learning and product enhancement among its purposes, and keeps data while an account is active with no fixed periods. No public DPA was found beyond the standard contractual clauses pages (18). No deprecation policy was found. The reference notes that fields=* is deprecated and will be blocked, without a date (3). The sub-processor list, version 25 August 2026, gives each provider's purpose, location and covered services, with a form to subscribe to changes (20). Privacy policy (20 May 2026) and sub-processor list (25 August 2026) re-read on 5 November 2026. 10+18+3+20 = 51.

NeverApply 57

Closed hosted service under terms (last updated 18 October 2026) naming Kasovy LLC, registered in Wyoming, with Wyoming law and a liability cap of 12 months' fees or USD 100; the plugin repository of manifests and skills is MIT, copyright Kasovy LLC (17 of 30). The privacy policy (26 October 2026) gives retention periods (7 days for resumes uploaded without an account, 90 days for detailed API usage records and relay mail, a 30-day frozen period before deletion, and what is kept after it), says providers don't train on content under their API terms and that demographic answers are not used for matching, and the extension has its own policy (28 September 2026) saying nothing leaves the device unless AI answers are turned on; no DPA was found, and hashed emails and click IDs go to ad platforms (22 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices; the terms promise notice by email or in the product before material changes, and the switch to guest search was recorded only in a commit (4 of 20). Providers are named (OpenAI and Anthropic through Cloudflare's AI Gateway, Google Gemini, AWS S3 and SES, TypeSafe, Stripe, Apple, Google, RevenueCat, Expo, PostHog, Sentry, Gravatar, and Meta, TikTok, Google and X for ads), resume files are stored in AWS eu-central-1, and most providers are in the United States under standard contractual clauses (16 of 20). 17+22+4+16 = 59.

Bullhorn 50

Read with the hosted rubric, for the REST API. Statuspage at status.bullhorn.com, read from its history page on 5 November 2026, with 94 components by product and cluster (Bullhorn ATS/CRM and its CLS clusters, a Sandbox component) and no REST API component (15, the reading for a vendor page with no component for the product). The history page covers 1 September to 5 November 2026. It lists 37 incidents across all products, 24 minor, six major, four critical and three with no impact. On Bullhorn ATS/CRM the one full outage was on 21 October, when users on every cluster could not log in from 1.35 pm to 6.10 pm ET, which we read as one major (10). The 1 September Greenshades integration fault and the 15 October Daxtra Search & Match fault touch one integration or function, so they count as minor. 7 to 31 August is not on the page and gets no credit of its own. No numeric rate limit is in the API reference. The partner FAQ gives an allowance of 200,000 calls a month, and the guide says login rates are strictly limited without a figure (5, the earlier partial, kept). The error table says to wait 1 second on 429 and retry until successful, which is backoff guidance alone. No idempotency keys or safe-retry guidance for writes was found (10). No SLA was found on the public site (0). The API is generally available at version 2.0 (10). 15+10+5+10+0+10 = 50.

NeverApply 45

Hosted reading, for the MCP server at https://neverapply.co/mcp with the Jobs API described. No status page was found. None is linked from the home page, llms.txt (which lists none) or the MCP page, and https://neverapply.co/status answered a client error (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). auth.md publishes budgets with numbers per member and OAuth client, 60 requests a minute on Free and 300 with full access, 50 or 2,000 read calls and 500 or 10,000 search rows a day, 3 or 30 application sends a day and 5 concurrent requests per token, with daily resets at midnight UTC; the page says they are monitor-only for now, and the OpenAPI file gives the Jobs API 1,000 to 250,000 calls a month by plan (15). auth.md says to respect Retry-After on 429 and the reset and retry fields on MCP limit errors, to retry safe reads with bounded backoff and never to repeat an application action blindly; the apply-to-jobs skill passes an idempotency_key on apply_to_job and a review_version on approvals and answers (15). No SLA on any plan was found (0). Nothing on the MCP page, auth.md or llms.txt labels the server beta or preview; the Telegram agent and Envoy marked 'soon' are not this surface (10). 0+5+15+15+0+10 = 45.