Brevy vs LinkedIn
two tools that stop in different places
Let's start with the only advice that matters: don't leave LinkedIn. That's where your network is, where recruiters are, and where a huge share of openings live. No tool replaces that, and Brevy doesn't try.
The useful question is narrower: how far LinkedIn carries you, and where the work starts again.
What LinkedIn does, and does well
- It surfaces roles that match your profile without you searching.
- It holds your network, and the network is still the best way into a company.
- It gives recruiters a place to find you.
- With Premium, it adds AI tools: profile rewriting, fit assessment against a posting, writing assistance.
On paper that's close to what Brevy does. In practice, two differences change everything.
Difference 1: a profile is not an application
This is the most misunderstood point.
LinkedIn optimizes your profile — a single, permanent object, built to be found by a recruiter's search. That's a discoverability job.
An application is the opposite: one document per posting, written for a specific ad, sent once. Your profile can't be tailored to forty roles at once — there's only one of it.
An excellent profile gets you contacted. It doesn't fill in the application form that asks for a resume as a PDF.
Difference 2: LinkedIn shows you LinkedIn's jobs
That's logical and legitimate: LinkedIn is a marketplace, and companies post and sponsor listings there.
But plenty of roles never pass through it. They're published on the company's own career page, hosted on an ATS like Greenhouse, Lever or Workday, and picked up very unevenly by aggregators. These are public openings — just poorly indexed.
Brevy goes to that source, through a directory of career pages built and maintained by hand. More on this in The jobs that aren't on Indeed.
The table
| Brevy | ||
|---|---|---|
| Network and recruiter visibility | ✅ Irreplaceable | ❌ Not its job |
| Jobs that come to you | ✅ | ✅ |
| Where the jobs come from | The LinkedIn marketplace | Company career pages (ATS) |
| What gets optimized | Your profile, single | A resume and letter per posting |
| PDF ready to send | ❌ | ✅ |
| Tailoring to each ad | Partial, via Premium | ✅ The core of the product |
| Price | Free; Premium around $40/mo depending on plan and country (see their page) | Free; Pro EUR 9.90/mo |
How the two stack
They aren't head-to-head competitors, and the right way to use them is to layer them:
- LinkedIn for your profile, your network, and recruiter visibility.
- Brevy for the openings LinkedIn doesn't surface, and to turn each posting into a tailored resume and letter.
The only case where one replaces the other is if you were going to pay for LinkedIn Premium purely for its application-writing help. There the comparison is direct — and the price-to-use ratio tilts clearly.
What Brevy does not do
- Brevy does not apply for you. You send every application yourself.
- Brevy does not replace your network. No tool does.
- Brevy does not know whether a company replied. You enter your application statuses yourself.
FAQ
Is LinkedIn Premium worth it for a job search?
It depends what you're there for. For InMails, seeing who viewed your profile, and recruiter access, it's coherent — nobody else can sell you that. If you're mainly taking it for the AI application help, compare first: that's the most easily replaced part of the bundle, and the cheapest to get elsewhere.
Does LinkedIn tailor my resume to each job?
Not really. LinkedIn mainly optimizes your profile, which is single and permanent, and Premium adds a fit assessment against a posting. That isn't the same as producing a different resume PDF for each of the forty jobs you apply to.
Are all job openings on LinkedIn?
No. A significant share of roles are published only on the company's own career page, hosted on an ATS like Greenhouse, Lever or Workday. Those openings are public but unevenly carried by aggregators, and many candidates never see them.
Should I stop using LinkedIn if I use another tool?
No, and it would be a bad idea. LinkedIn holds the network and recruiter visibility, which no application tool provides. The two layer: LinkedIn to be found, a tailoring tool for what you send.
What's the difference between optimizing a LinkedIn profile and tailoring a resume?
A profile is one document, optimized to be found by a recruiter's search — that's discoverability. A tailored resume is one document per posting, written to answer a specific ad, that you send yourself. The first gets you contacted; the second gets you through screening when you're the one applying.
In short
LinkedIn makes you findable. It also surfaces openings, and that's real.
It stops at the moment the form asks for a resume PDF matched to the role. That's where the work Brevy takes over begins — on LinkedIn's jobs as much as on the ones that aren't there.