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CandiSift

Ch 086.6of 36 Candidate Screening Software
  1. 1Runs onAPI, self-hosted, Web
  2. 2CostsFree plan
  3. 3Application screeningYes
  4. 4Deployment typemulti-platform
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Overview

CandiSift is ranked #8 of 36 in candidate screening software on Specifiction. It runs on API, Self-hosted, Web. There is a free plan.

CandiSift plans and pricing

All plans
Open-source self-hosted Free No software fee stated; LLM processing can incur per-token costs github.com · 4 Oct 2026

Compared on candidate screening software

Application screening
Yesgithub.com
Deployment type
multi-platformgithub.com

Facts

Product
CandiSift is an open-source applicant tracking system for AI resume screening, CV parsing, job description and candidate matching, and bias-audited ranking.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
Screening flow
Its workflow parses resumes, strips personally identifiable information, applies hard filters, ranks candidates, and sends survivors to persona agents and human review.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
File formats
Resume ingestion supports PDF, DOCX, and plain-text files, including multi-file uploads.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
Ranking and review
The product provides token-cosine ranking, technical and risk persona agents, synthesis, and a recruiter interface with ranked results and accept or reject decisions.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
Cost controls
Users can see an estimated processing cost before confirming a staged batch, and deterministic hard filters run before the paid LLM stage.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
LLM integration
CandiSift integrates with Anthropic Claude through Agno persona agents; without an API key, it can use an offline stub LLM.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
Security
The repository describes HTTP Basic authentication, security headers, rate limiting, request body limits, upload validation, and prompt-injection defenses.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
Privacy and audit
CandiSift says it strips PII before a model sees candidate data and keeps an append-only audit log of scores, rationales, decisions, and versions.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
Bias audit
The API includes a bias-audit endpoint covering pass-through and recommendation mix.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
Deployment and storage
The app can run in Docker, stores state in SQLite by default, and supports configuring a Postgres database URL.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
Notable limits
The project says it has no shipped accuracy benchmark and that OCR, embeddings/FAISS, and skillNER are documented swaps rather than included default capabilities.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
Intended users
The README describes a recruiter workflow for creating roles, screening uploaded resumes, reviewing ranked results, and accepting or rejecting candidates.github.com · 4 Oct 2026

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