No. 3 of 36 ·Candidate Screening Software

CandiSift

Web · Self-hosted · API

Freedom report

Two barsScore 6.3

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely1 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

CandiSift is ranked #3 of 36 in candidate screening software on Freedom251. 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: Yes
Deployment type: multi-platform

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The record

Product: CandiSift is an open-source applicant tracking system for AI resume screening, CV parsing, job description and candidate matching, and bias-audited ranking.
Screening flow: Its workflow parses resumes, strips personally identifiable information, applies hard filters, ranks candidates, and sends survivors to persona agents and human review.
File formats: Resume ingestion supports PDF, DOCX, and plain-text files, including multi-file uploads.
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.
Cost controls: Users can see an estimated processing cost before confirming a staged batch, and deterministic hard filters run before the paid LLM stage.
LLM integration: CandiSift integrates with Anthropic Claude through Agno persona agents; without an API key, it can use an offline stub LLM.
Security: The repository describes HTTP Basic authentication, security headers, rate limiting, request body limits, upload validation, and prompt-injection defenses.
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.
Bias audit: The API includes a bias-audit endpoint covering pass-through and recommendation mix.
Deployment and storage: The app can run in Docker, stores state in SQLite by default, and supports configuring a Postgres database URL.
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.
Intended users: The README describes a recruiter workflow for creating roles, screening uploaded resumes, reviewing ranked results, and accepting or rejecting candidates.
Price from: Free

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best Candidate Screening Software in 2026#3 of 36
Best AI Recruiting Assistants in 2026#4 of 30

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Sources

github.com/confused-ai/candisift· checked 4 Oct 2026