NeverApply vs SmartRecruiters

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.

SmartRecruiters 95

Graded on the public REST API. Statuspage at status.smartrecruiters.com with 11 components, among them Customer API and Marketplace API (20). The 7 October reading came from the page's /api/ data path, which its robots.txt disallows, so it is struck and the record is read from history.atom and the incident pages. From 6 August the one incident is a 20-minute login fault on 7 September in the EU datacentre, which affected Recruiter Apps only. The 21 July major has left the window. None touches the API, so a clean record (30). Limits are published at 10 requests a second and 8 concurrent per credential (15). X-RateLimit headers on every response and guidance to retry on an exponential backoff schedule, but Retry-After is documented only for the deprecated Analytics API and no idempotency keys were found for writes (10). SLA of 99.9 per cent annual availability for paid subscriptions (10). The API is generally available, with single fields marked alpha (10). 20 + 30 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 95.

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.

SmartRecruiters 3

No x402, MPP or L402 (0). On 4 November the pricing page names the plans with no prices and asks visitors to talk to an expert; the Essential "starting at $14,995" figure read on 7 October is gone (0). No free tier or trial found (0). A customer administrator has to create the credential in a browser. The Posting API returns published jobs with no credential, which earns partial credit (3).

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.

SmartRecruiters 79

Editorial half. Closed service with a public Master Subscription Agreement (version 15 November 2024) and an archive of earlier versions (15). Privacy notice updated 2 March 2026, a pre-signed DPA, 30 days of API access after termination followed by deletion, and 26 months of audit retention. The AI addendum lets SmartRecruiters train on anonymised or pseudonymised data, and the detailed retention documents sit in the trust centre (24). Written policy of at least 10 months' notice before a sunset and 24 months of support for earlier versions (18). Sub-processor list with purposes and locations, default hosting in Frankfurt with Ohio and Sydney as alternatives (18).

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.

SmartRecruiters 75

Each reference page carries an OpenAPI 3.0.1 definition and a Swagger page exists. We found no single downloadable spec file (23). llms.txt of 511 lines and every docs page served as Markdown (10). Descriptions are uneven. Candidate search and status updates explain behaviour, while creating an interview has an empty description (9). Inputs are typed with enums, minimum and maximum values, patterns and required fields (12). Error codes are named per operation, such as REQUIRED_SUB_STATUS_OMITTED, with an ErrorResponse schema, but the definitions we read had no examples and the Get Started example posts a user body to /jobs (8). Dated changelog with an RSS feed, and a written breaking changes policy with versioned endpoints (13).

NeverApply 66

MCP reading. 15 tools, 6 read, 6 edit and 3 apply, in the 11 to 30 band (15); guests see a two-tool subset and scopes split read, edit and apply access, though whether tools/list narrows by scope was not read (2 back, 17 of 25). search_jobs takes the user's filters with up to 20 results a call, get_matches pages with next_cursor, list_applications filters by status (needs_answer, ready_to_send, stale, interview, offer), and the Jobs API has a fields sparse fieldset, per_page and cursor feeds (18 of 20). auth.md gives an action for 401, 429 and the OAuth errors, MCP limit errors carry reset and retry fields, and results carry status and next_action the skills act on; no full code list, and the Jobs API's documented envelope and component schemas disagree (13 of 20). apply_to_job takes an idempotency_key, approvals and answers take review_version, a repeat tailor_resume call reads the same copy without paying twice, and auth.md says never to repeat an application blindly; readOnlyHint and destructiveHint were not read (12 of 20). Most tools need one ID, but there is no official SDK (6 of 15). 17+18+13+12+6 = 66.

SmartRecruiters 51

List endpoints take limit up to 100 with a default of 10, and webhooks carry IDs only. No field selection found (12). Cursor paging by pageId and filters such as status, jobId and updatedAfter, though some endpoints still page by offset (16). Errors return a code and message, with the codes listed per operation (14). No idempotency keys found. The docs advise backoff and a 128-second client timeout (3). Few required parameters and sensible defaults, but no official SDK in any language (6).

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.

SmartRecruiters 58

Newest changelog entry 13 October 2026, exposing external source metadata on job and candidate properties in the Configuration API (30). Ten dated entries in the changelog feed from 1 September to 13 October, inside the 90 days from 6 August, covering the Offer, Users, Audit, Jobs and Configuration APIs (20). Closed service with a changelog and RSS feed. API issues go through Contact Support inside a customer account, and no public developer forum was found (8). No official SDKs (0). No packages to assess (0).