Benchmark

How Blockout compares

Every tool that redacts CVs (or could). All figures from public vendor websites; marketing claims are labelled as such.

public pricing verified 8 July 2026
$6 vs $99
100 CVs/mo: Blockout Pro vs Redactable Pro Plus, 16× cheaper
10 vs 5.5
hiring capabilities out of 11, nearly double the next best (MeVitae)
2min vs weeks
to your first redacted CV (no sign-up), vs MeVitae's sales-led rollout
0 vs
cloud copies of your documents; Redactable and Affinda keep files on their servers
The numbers

16× cheaper than Redactable. 4× cheaper than RedactProof.

Cheapest plan on each product that covers 100 CVs a month, in USD. Nobody else is close.

Blockout
£4.99 (~$6)
RedactProof
$25
Affinda
~$67/mo in credits
Redactable
$99
MeVitae
$10k+/yr contract

Redactable $23/mo Starter caps at 15 docs; 100 docs needs the $99 Pro Plus. Affinda ≈ $0.80/parse at entry volume. MeVitae is sales-led and annual.

Blockout wins 10 of the 11 things a hiring team needs

The one we don't: verification certificates, a legal-disclosure feature, and it's on our roadmap.

has it  partial / paid extra   missing

Blockout
Redactable
RedactProof
Affinda
MeVitae
Try with no sign-up
Word / DOCX natively
Scanned docs (OCR)
Signal generalisation
Plain-English commands
Multiple redaction styles
Batch processing
Encrypted share links
No cloud copy of your docs
Verification certificates
Built for blind hiring
Coverage score: full = 1, partial = ½Blockout: ~2× the closest competitor
Blockout
10/11
MeVitae
5.5/11
Affinda
4/11
RedactProof
3.5/11
Redactable
3/11
Speed & workflow

First redacted CV: 2 minutes here, weeks elsewhere

Illustrative; includes sign-up, procurement and setup, not just processing.

Blockout
~2 min, no account needed
RedactProof
~10 min, email + on-device model
Redactable
~15 min, account + cloud upload
Affinda
days: trial, then API integration
MeVitae
weeks: sales & ATS rollout
Blockout
Upload → review → download in one screen

No install, no sales call, no template setup. Guest users get a redacted CV back before competitors finish onboarding. Batch of 50 ships as one encrypted ZIP link.

Redactable
“Over 98% time savings” (vendor claim)

Wizard-driven, genuinely fast per document, but every file uploads to their cloud first, and the Starter cap (15 docs/mo) means volume work forces the $99 tier.

RedactProof
“Up to 10× faster on supported hardware” (vendor claim)

On-device AI is quick on modern machines, slower on older ones. Review flow is thorough (built for legal disclosure), so more ceremony per document than hiring needs.

MeVitae / Affinda
Fast once integrated; weeks to integrate

Both are pipeline tools: near-instant per CV once wired into your ATS or code, but procurement, contracts and integration come first. Nothing to try in a browser today.

Usage models

What happens to your bill as volume grows

Monthly cost (vertical) as CVs per month increase (horizontal).

Flat monthly: Blockout

£4.99 covers 100 CVs a month; £29 team plan is unlimited. One small step, then flat forever.

Per document: Redactable

$23 → $99 → $7.50 each beyond the cap. Every extra CV costs money.

Per seat: RedactProof · iDox.ai

$25–$59 per user per month. Each recruiter you add is another step up.

Credits / API: Affinda

~$0.80 per parse at entry, discounts at volume. Developer-first, quote-based.

Enterprise: MeVitae · Pinpoint · CaseGuard

~$10k+/yr from CV number one. Powerful inside an ATS; inaccessible to small teams.

The wider market

Where everyone sits

Price for a hiring workload (→ pricier) vs how purpose-built for blind hiring (↑ more).

↑ blind hiringgeneral pdf toolspricier →
cheap + purpose-built: the corner everyone else misses
Blockout
MeVitae
Pinpoint (ATS)
Affinda
Redactable
RedactProof
SafeRedact
iDox.ai
Foxit / Nitro
CaseGuard
Adobe · Smallpdf
Justee · BlindCV.de

Adjacent rather than competing: Sapia.ai removes bias at the interview stage with structured AI chat interviews; it never touches the CV. BlindCV.app is pre-launch; BlindHire.com is dormant.

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