I'm split on this. I have been a paid subscriber for about a month and a half now and I had one interview with a recruiter. It wasn't a great fit, although it was one that I had selected manually. I didn't make the next round.
I'm debating if paying to have more applications submitted in the month is the answer, or if I should just quit and continue a more targeted approach. For the time, I'll probably keep the basic subscription, because there are many roles I'm not applying to otherwise.
There were 152 applications submitted and 6 were not able to be submitted because the role was already filled. Of those 95 were selected by me and 57 were selected by Sonara. Sometimes I had to dig deep to find good titles to apply for, and sometimes when I was short on time I'd grab more general selections.
I used ChatGPT to do the analysis. Sonara just lists the jobs, but doesn't give you the data.
I feel like the price is a little high for something that should be managed by an AI which is still in beta. For the role I did get an interview for, there is no way to provide feedback that I made it to the next round. You'd think this would help with the AI learning. Also there is no easy way to provide feedback to the development team, which for a product in Beta, I'd think they would want that.
After I find my next role, I may continue using Sonara to help me apply to titles that are a bit of a stretch.
Overall this is a time saver and adds a little more authenticity over LinkedIn's "Easy Apply". If it's where I land a job from, or I start seeing the interview count go up, then it could definitely get to 5 stars.
