Free ATS resume checker.
Upload your resume and get its ATS score out of 100, free, no account, no credit card. SupaCV runs six rule-based checks on the text extracted from your file: keywords, formatting, bullet quality, completeness, quantification and language quality.
Upload your resume and add your email. Your score and the first fixes appear right here.
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PDF or DOCX, max 5MB
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How it works
A score out of 100, with two of the issues explained in full and the rest counted.
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Upload your resume
Drop a PDF or DOCX file (max 5MB) into the checker.
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Add your email
Your score appears on this page and the readable fixes are emailed to you, no account or credit card needed.
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Read your score and fixes
You get an ATS score out of 100, a category breakdown across keywords, formatting, completeness, quantification and bullet quality, plus two of the issues explained in full and a count of the rest.
What ATS actually does
The goal isn't to beat the ATS. It's to parse cleanly for the software and read clearly for the human, since both decide whether you get an interview.
An ATS is a tracking database, not an auto-reject robot. Recruiters use it to store applications, search them by keyword, and route candidates into a review queue. Most platforms score or sort; they don't reject anyone without a human ever opening the file.
What actually causes an instant, algorithmic rejection is usually a knockout question, not formatting: visa sponsorship, location or relocation, a required license or certification. If a company's ATS is set to require a specific answer to one of these before a resume is ever reviewed, no amount of clean formatting changes the outcome.
Formatting still matters, just not for the reason most advice claims. Tables, columns and graphics can genuinely garble how text gets extracted, and a resume the parser mangles is one the human reviewer never gets to read properly either. That's the real reason single-column, plain-text-first formatting works: it's the same resume, read the same way, by both. Read the full breakdown of where the 75% rejection stat actually came from.
What your score means
The free check grades on the same three bands as the SupaCV dashboard, so a number here means exactly what it means in the product.
Strong
Your resume parses cleanly and reads well, and 75 is the same bar the SupaCV dashboard uses to call a resume strong. Past it, generic fixes stop being the bottleneck: the next lever is tailoring keywords and evidence to each specific job description, not more polish on the resume itself.
See how tailoring to a job description works→Getting there
The structure works, but real issues remain: typically missing keywords, thin quantification, or formatting that garbles how text gets extracted. Your report explains two of the issues in full. Fix those first and check again, rather than polishing everything at once.
Needs work
Scores here are usually structural: the parser is losing whole sections, dates, or contact details, often because of tables, columns, or graphics. Rebuild on a single-column layout with standard section headings, then rescore before you touch any wording.
A score measures how cleanly you parse and how well you read. It is not a prediction of any one company's decision, and no checker can honestly promise interviews.
Go deeper
The checker scores your resume. These four pieces explain the decisions behind the fixes.
Where the "75% rejected by ATS" stat came from
The paper trail behind the most-repeated stat in job search advice, and what actually causes instant rejection.
Read the article →STAR, XYZ, or CAR: which bullet formula works?
The three formulas collapse into the same bullet in practice; what a strong bullet actually needs.
Read the article →Is the one-page resume rule real?
Where the rule comes from, what recruiters say in practice, and a tiered way to think about length instead of a fixed cap.
Read the article →Does AI-written show on a resume?
The patterns reviewers actually flag, and why the honest answer is AI as editor, not author.
Read the article →Frequently asked questions
What is an ATS?+
ATS stands for applicant tracking system: the software companies use to store, search, and rank the resumes they receive. Most don't auto-reject resumes; they parse your resume into a profile recruiters filter and search. SupaCV scores how cleanly your resume survives that parsing, and how it reads to the human afterwards.
Where the ATS rejection myth came from→What is a good ATS score?+
SupaCV grades on three bands, the same ones the product dashboard uses: 75 or above is Strong, 50 to 74 is Getting there, and below 50 is Needs work. Strong means your resume parses cleanly and reads well, and per-role tailoring becomes the next lever. No score guarantees interviews; fit with each specific job still decides that.
What does the free ATS check include?+
Upload a PDF or DOCX, drop your email, and we return your ATS score out of 100, a category breakdown, two of the issues in full, plus a count of every other issue we found. No credit card.
How accurate is the ATS scoring?+
The score is rule-based: six checks on the text extracted from your file, covering keywords, formatting, bullet quality, completeness, quantification and language quality. AI is used only to read the file into sections. It measures what those checks find, not any one company's decision. On a free scan the keyword check uses a general vocabulary; on Pro and Career, a Target Role scores it against the posting you add.
Do you sell my data?+
No. We never sell your resume or your email. A free scan stores your email and the extracted text to send your score and a few follow-ups, and deletes both after 24 months. Peer benchmarks compare your score with a public research dataset of resumes; no SupaCV user's resume is added to it.
Your score is step one. Fixing it, tailoring per role, preparing for the interview and tracking to offer is the rest of SupaCV.
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