Shopping for a LinkedIn profile review, you'll find three kinds: free automated tools, human review services at $99–$650+, and Standout's $1 instant review. Each is genuinely right for someone — the honest breakdown of who, below. Or skip ahead: your 0–100 recruiter-visibility score is free, right here.
Type your name — or paste your LinkedIn URL — and get your 0–100 recruiter-visibility score free, right on this page. No sign-in, no account access.
Instant, but the fixes are on you — or behind a ~$49/mo subscription.
A person reviews and rewrites everything — in days to weeks.
Free 0–100 score + 3 paste-ready rewrites, instantly. One-time.
Three options, each with the case forit stated honestly — including the two that aren't ours. Human-service price ranges come from the sourced breakdown on our profile-writer cost page; free-tool facts checked October 6, 2026.
An automated grade or activity score plus generic tips — e.g. LinkedIn's own SSI (measures social-selling activity, not recruiter visibility) or freemium graders like Resume Worded (free score; unlimited reviews and rewrite help sit in the ~$49/month Pro tier).
When it's the right choice: Right choice if you just want a rough pulse-check and you're happy writing every fix yourself. The catch: SSI scores how actively you post and sell, which is not what a recruiter's search query matches on, and freemium graders are built to convert you to a subscription — the score is the free sample, the fixes are the product.
A person reads your whole profile — photo, banner, skills, narrative — then rewrites it after an intake questionnaire or call, with revision rounds and someone accountable for the result.
When it's the right choice: Right choice when your situation needs judgment, not just keywords: a career change needing a new narrative, executive positioning against a specific industry, or a profile too thin to optimize. You're paying for the interview, the iteration, and the accountability — see the full sourced price breakdown on our cost page before you buy.
An algorithmic recruiter-visibility audit: a free 0–100 score, then exactly 3 paste-ready rewrites — keyword-optimized headline, rewritten About, top 3 experience bullets reworded for recruiter search.
When it's the right choice: Right choice when you want to know where you stand and fix the three sections recruiter search actually matches on, now, for $1. Deliberately narrow: no photo or banner feedback, no intake call, no revision rounds, no human reviewers, and it never asks for account access. If you still want a human afterward, you'll walk in knowing exactly what to ask them to fix.
Same table, no spin: each option does something the others don't.
| Option | Price | Turnaround | What you get | Rewrites included | Visibility score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free automated tools | $0 (upsells to ~$49/mo) | Instant | An automated grade or activity score plus generic tips — e.g. LinkedIn's own SSI (measures social-selling activity, not recruiter visibility) or freemium graders like Resume Worded (free score; unlimited reviews and rewrite help sit in the ~$49/month Pro tier) | No — tips only, or paywalled | Sometimes — rarely recruiter-search specific |
| Human review services | $99 – $650 ($750 – $2,500+ executive) | 3 days – 2+ weeks | A person reads your whole profile — photo, banner, skills, narrative — then rewrites it after an intake questionnaire or call, with revision rounds and someone accountable for the result | Yes — full profile, after days | No |
| Standout | $1 one-time | Instant (score free in ~60s) | An algorithmic recruiter-visibility audit: a free 0–100 score, then exactly 3 paste-ready rewrites — keyword-optimized headline, rewritten About, top 3 experience bullets reworded for recruiter search | Yes — 3 paste-ready, instantly | Yes — free, recruiter-search specific |
Human-service ranges as sourced on the cost page; free-tool facts checked October 6, 2026. Prices change — verify before you buy.
Type your name — or paste your LinkedIn URL — and get your 0–100 recruiter-visibility score free, right on this page. No sign-in, no account access.
Recruiters find candidates by typing keywords into LinkedIn's search — so the review that matters most is of the three fields that search matches on: your headline, your About section, and your experience bullets. A review that grades your photo, banner, and posting streak can still be useful, but it won't move whether you appear in a recruiter's results for your target role.
That's why Standout's review is scored against your target role's search keywords and returns rewrites for exactly those three fields — nothing else. See real before/after output in the 2026 LinkedIn Visibility Benchmark and its headline, About, and experience-bullet example pages — and if you're weighing a human rewrite, the full sourced price breakdown on what profile writers charge.
A LinkedIn profile review is an assessment of how well your profile performs — usually against recruiter search and first-impression criteria — plus recommendations to fix what's weak. Reviews come in three forms: free automated tools, paid human review services, and instant algorithmic reviews like Standout's, which scores your recruiter visibility 0–100 and returns 3 paste-ready rewrites for $1.
Free tools cost nothing but typically either measure something other than recruiter visibility or gate the actual fixes behind a subscription. Human review-and-rewrite services run $99–$650 (executive packages $750–$2,500+) and take days to weeks. Standout's instant review is $1 one-time: the 0–100 visibility score is free, and $1 unlocks exactly 3 paste-ready rewrites.
Some are genuinely useful for a pulse-check. The catch is what they don't do: LinkedIn's own SSI score measures social-selling activity, not recruiter visibility; freemium graders like Resume Worded give a free score but put unlimited reviews and rewrite help behind a ~$49/month subscription; and checklists leave all the writing to you. If you just want to know roughly where you stand, start free — Standout's score is also free.
A free 0–100 recruiter-visibility score first, then — for a one-time $1 — exactly 3 paste-ready rewrites: a keyword-optimized headline, a rewritten About section, and your top 3 experience bullets reworded for recruiter search. Delivered instantly, no subscription, no human reviewers, and no LinkedIn account access.
It's a different product. A good human reviewer interviews you, covers your whole profile including photo and skills, and iterates with you — worth $300–$650 for a career change or executive repositioning. Standout is deliberately narrow: the three sections recruiter search actually matches on, scored and rewritten in minutes. The rational order is to run the free score and $1 review first, then decide if you still need to spend hundreds.
Standout's doesn't. You paste your public profile URL or type your details — there's no sign-in, no account access, and no auto-posting. Be cautious with any tool that asks you to connect your LinkedIn account just to review your profile.
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