Resume parsing, job search and tailoring — one career API
Parse a resume from PDF or DOCX for $0.05, then search jobs, score matches, tailor documents and run interview prep from the same pay-per-use API. Priced per operation, with a $5 trial credit on your first key. Works with LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenClaw, and MCP.
pip install resumlyDownload the test-drive notebook — free cells only by default; every priced call is commented out.
from resumly import Resumly
resumly = Resumly(api_key="rly_...")
# Refresh a saved search, then read the matched-jobs board
searches = resumly.queries()["queries"]
resumly.refresh(searches[0]["_id"]) # $0.05 per search run
board = resumly.jobs(min_match_score=0.75) # reading is free
best_match = board["result"][0]
# Tailor a resume for the best match
tailored = resumly.tailor(job_id=best_match["_id"]) # $0.25
print(f"Tailored resume ready: {tailored['resume_id']}")Who Uses the Resumly API?
Whether you're a solo developer, a startup, or a global institution — the API scales to fit your use case.
Startup Founders
Build a career-tech product without building career infrastructure. Launch a job board, resume optimizer, or career coaching tool using Resumly as your backend — and pay only for what your users actually run.
See Use Cases →Universities & Bootcamps
Embed AI resume reviews, job matching, and interview prep directly into your career services portal. Pay-per-use pricing scales down to a single student.
Contact Sales →Career Centers & Workforce Agencies
Automate resume workshops, job placement pipelines, and outcome tracking. Help more clients land jobs with fewer staff hours.
Contact Sales →Immigration & Settlement NGOs
Help newcomers create locally-optimized resumes, navigate job markets, and apply to relevant opportunities in their new country.
Contact Sales →AI Agent Developers
Give your autonomous agents career superpowers. Every SDK method is a tool call — ready for LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenClaw, or MCP.
Read the Docs →Staffing & Recruiting Firms
Use resume parsing, match scoring, and company research inside your internal tools — per-operation pricing with no platform fee.
Contact Sales →What Will You Build?
From single-purpose scripts to fully autonomous career agents — the API adapts to your architecture.
Autonomous Career Agent
Build end-to-end career agents that run searches, evaluate match scores, tailor resumes, and apply — paying only for the operations they actually complete.
MCP Tool Server
Expose Resumly as an MCP server so header-capable clients — including Cursor, Claude Code, and VS Code — can use career tools natively. Hosted Claude and ChatGPT require Resumly's separate OAuth rollout.
Multi-Agent Crew
Assign specialized roles: one agent researches companies, another tailors resumes, a third tracks applications. CrewAI + Resumly.
Resume Pipeline
Create tailored resumes and cover letters programmatically at $0.25 and $0.10 per document — no subscription, no minimum volume.
HR & Recruiting Automation
Use resume parsing, match scoring, and company research inside your recruiting workflows via API.
Career Platform Integration
Embed Resumly's job matching, tailoring, and application tracking into job boards, career coaches, and workforce tools.
Up and Running in Minutes
Three steps from zero to your first API call.
Create Your API Key
In the Resumly app, open Settings → API. Any plan works — including Free — with a verified email. Your first key includes a one-time $5 trial credit.
# app.resumly.ai → Settings → APIInstall the SDK
One command. Python 3.8+, zero config.
pip install resumlyBuild
45+ endpoints, 12 pay-per-use operations, free reads. Ship in minutes, not weeks.
resumly = Resumly(api_key="rly_...")Long-Running Work, One Poll Loop
Tailoring takes under a minute. An application takes several — a worker is driving a real ATS. Those return 202 with an operation_id; poll one endpoint and read one status vocabulary.
| Operation | Typical duration |
|---|---|
POST /jobs/{id}/tailor | 20–60 seconds |
POST /jobs/{id}/apply | minutes — a worker drives the ATS |
POST /queries/{id}/refresh | seconds |
POST /resumes/{id}/export-pdf | seconds |
POST /applications/{id}/retry | minutes |
queuedAccepted, not started yet.runningIn progress.succeededDone — read result.failedDone — read error. Never billed.needs_attentionAn application a human must finish. Not a failure — your reservation stays open.
from resumly import Resumly
resumly = Resumly(api_key="rly_...")
# Anything that returns 202 gives you an operation_id.
queued = resumly.tailor(job_id=job["_id"]) # $0.25
# One wait loop works for tailoring, applying, refreshing and exports.
done = resumly.wait(queued["operation_id"], timeout=300)
print(done["status"]) # succeeded
print(done["result"]["download_url"])
# Applications take minutes, so give them a longer budget.
app = resumly.apply(job["_id"], done["result"]["resume_id"]) # $0.50
final = resumly.wait(app["operation_id"], timeout=900)
if final["status"] == "needs_attention":
# Still live: a human is finishing it and the money stays reserved.
print(final["error"]["message"])45+ Endpoints. One SDK.
Twelve pay-per-use operations plus free reads for everything else. No UI required.
Jobs & Search
- Matched-jobs board with match scores (free)
- Salary + applicability on every job (free)
- Saved-search CRUD + supply check (free)
- Plain-English query builder (free)
- Refresh jobs — run a search ($0.05)
- Import a job by URL ($0.05)
Resumes & Documents
- Parse base resume ($0.05)
- AI-tailored resume per job ($0.25)
- Full resume rewrite ($0.50)
- Cover letter generation ($0.10)
- Translate to 40+ languages ($0.10)
- PDF export ($0.02) · DOCX free
Applications
- Server-side application submission ($0.50)
- Billed only on confirmed submission
- Applications tracker (free)
- Autopilot controls (free)
- Classified employer inbox + replies (free)
Interview & Research
- Company research per job ($0.25)
- Interview questions per job ($0.10)
- Answer feedback & scoring ($0.05)
- Balance + usage ledger (free)
Code That Speaks for Itself
Clean, Pythonic methods. No boilerplate. Every operation is a single function call with full type hints and docstrings.
- Automatic rate-limit retry with backoff
- Idempotency keys — safe retries never double-bill
- Free reads: jobs, applications, balance, usage ledger
- File upload helpers for PDF/DOCX resumes
from resumly import Resumly
resumly = Resumly(api_key="rly_...")
# Refresh a saved search, then read the matched-jobs board
searches = resumly.queries()["queries"]
resumly.refresh(searches[0]["_id"]) # $0.05 per search run
board = resumly.jobs(min_match_score=0.75) # reading is free
best_match = board["result"][0]
# Tailor a resume for the best match
tailored = resumly.tailor(job_id=best_match["_id"]) # $0.25
print(f"Tailored resume ready: {tailored['resume_id']}")How AI Agents Use Resumly
Your agent handles the entire career pipeline through a sequence of API calls.
Build It Yourself vs. One API Call
Every feature you'd spend weeks building is already a single endpoint.
| Feature | Build from Scratch | With Resumly API |
|---|---|---|
| Job search + match scoring | 2-4 weeks | Free reads · $0.05 per search run |
| Tailored resume (ATS-optimized) | 3-6 weeks | 1 call · $0.25 |
| Cover letter generation | 1-2 weeks | 1 call · $0.10 |
| Server-side application submission | 4-8 weeks | 1 call · $0.50 on confirmation |
| Company research | 1-2 weeks | 1 call · $0.25 |
| Interview questions + answer feedback | 1-3 weeks | $0.10 + $0.05 per answer |
| Resume parsing | 2-4 weeks | 1 call · $0.05 |
| Application tracking + employer inbox | 2-3 weeks | Free reads |
Works With Every Agentic Framework
Resumly is designed for the agentic era. Every SDK method is a stateless, atomic API call — a natural fit as a tool in any agent framework.
LangChain
Wrap SDK methods as @tool-decorated functions for any LangChain agent.
CrewAI
Create BaseTool subclasses with typed Pydantic schemas for role-based crews.
AutoGen
Register tools on ConversableAgent for multi-agent conversations.
OpenClaw
Add career tools to your OpenClaw character with async tool functions.
MCP
Expose Resumly as an MCP server for header-capable clients such as Cursor, Claude Code, and VS Code. Hosted Claude and ChatGPT require Resumly's separate OAuth rollout.
OpenAI Agents
Use function tools with the OpenAI Agents SDK for GPT-powered workflows.
from langchain_core.tools import tool
from resumly import Resumly
resumly = Resumly(api_key="rly_...")
@tool
def find_jobs() -> str:
"""Return the user's top matched jobs (free read)."""
board = resumly.jobs(min_match_score=0.75)
return str(board["result"][:5])
@tool
def tailor_resume(job_id: str) -> str:
"""Create an ATS-optimized resume tailored to a matched job."""
tailored = resumly.tailor(job_id=job_id)
return f"Resume created: {tailored['resume_id']}"
@tool
def research_company(job_id: str) -> str:
"""Research the employer behind a matched job."""
brief = resumly.company_research(job_id)
return str(brief["research"])Use Resumly from your MCP client
Connect Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, or another header-capable client to Resumly's hosted MCP server and drive your job search in plain English. Hosted Claude and ChatGPT remain unavailable until Resumly activates and verifies OAuth.
https://mcp.resumly.ai/mcpWhy Agents Choose Resumly
Every design decision in the API was made with autonomous agents in mind.
from resumly import Resumly
resumly = Resumly(api_key="rly_...")
# Full pipeline: refresh -> match -> tailor -> apply
for search in resumly.queries()["queries"]:
resumly.refresh(search["_id"]) # $0.05 / search run
board = resumly.jobs(min_match_score=0.75, auto_apply=True)
for job in board["result"][:3]:
tailored = resumly.tailor(job_id=job["_id"]) # $0.25
resumly.apply(job["_id"], tailored["resume_id"]) # $0.50 on confirmed
print(f"Applied: {job['title']}") # submission
# Reads are free — check outcomes any time
print(resumly.applications(status="interview"))Security & Reliability
Production-grade infrastructure you can trust with your users' career data.
Scoped API Keys
Public-scope keys are valid only on /api/v1 — they can never touch your account or billing settings. Rotate or revoke instantly from the app.
Encrypted & Hashed
All traffic is encrypted in transit with TLS. Keys are stored as SHA-256 hashes and shown exactly once at creation — we can't read them either.
Per-Plan Rate Limits
Free: 10/min · 200/day. Starter: 20/min · 500/day. Professional: 60/min · 2,000/day. Max: 120/min · 5,000/day. The SDK retries 429s with backoff.
Prepaid Spend Safety
Your balance is your spend cap. When it hits zero the API returns 402 — nothing runs on credit, and failed operations are never billed.
Simple, Transparent API Pricing
No subscriptions, no minimums. Every plan — including Free — can create an API key and pay per successful operation from a prepaid balance. Your balance is your spend cap.
Every Plan
API access is included on every Resumly plan — including Free. Create a key in the app and pay only for what you run.
- ✓ Self-serve API key — Settings → API in the app
- ✓ $5 one-time trial credit on your first key
- ✓ Pay only for successful operations
- ✓ Prepaid top-ups from $10 to $100
- ✓ Free reads: jobs board, tracker, inbox, ledger
- ✓ No subscription, no minimums
Rate Card
Twelve pay-per-use operations, each billed per successful call. Failures are never billed.
- ✓ Tailored resume $0.25 · Cover letter $0.10
- ✓ Submitted application $0.50 — billed only on confirmed submission
- ✓ Search refresh, job import, resume parse $0.05 each
- ✓ Company research $0.25 · Resume rewrite $0.50
- ✓ Interview questions $0.10 · Answer feedback $0.05
- ✓ Translate $0.10 · PDF export $0.02
Agency
For agencies, recruiters, and career services running job search & auto-apply for their clients. Priced per successful application — unlimited client profiles.
- ✓ Pay per successful application (volume tiers)
- ✓ Unlimited client profiles under your tenant
- ✓ Dedicated applicant inbox per client
- ✓ AI-tailored resume per application
- ✓ Application webhooks (submitted / completed)
- ✓ White-label — your clients never see Resumly
- ✓ Dedicated support channel
The Full Rate Card
Per successful operation. Failed operations are never billed.
| Operation | Price |
|---|---|
| Refresh jobs (run a search) | $0.05 |
| Import a job | $0.05 |
| Parse base resume | $0.05 |
| Tailored resume | $0.25 |
| Cover letter | $0.10 |
| PDF export | $0.02 |
| Submitted applicationBilled only when the application is confirmed submitted | $0.50 |
| Company research | $0.25 |
| Interview questions | $0.10 |
| Interview answer feedback | $0.05 |
| Resume rewrite | $0.50 |
| Translate | $0.10 |
Free with your key: matched-jobs board with match scores, salary, and applicability · saved-search crud, supply check, and plain-english query builder · applications tracker · classified employer inbox and replies · autopilot controls · docx downloads · balance and usage ledger.
Start Building Your Career Agent Today
Every plan includes API access. $5 trial credit on your first key. Install the SDK and ship your first agentic integration in minutes.
Developer FAQ
Common questions about the Resumly API, Python SDK, and agentic framework integrations.
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