Honest comparison
JobCannon vs MyPlan: established catalogue or validated assessment battery?
MyPlan.com wins on catalogue breadth and US university-search integration — decade-plus career profiles and college-major-by-school data. JobCannon wins on validated psychometric depth, AI career mapping, and modern UX. Many programmes run both.
In Brief
MyPlan.com has been running since the early 2000s as a college and career exploration platform with broad catalogue coverage — careers, majors, US universities, degree costs — plus interest, personality, skills, and values assessments. The strongest layer is the US university-search integration (browse colleges by major, region, admission profile) for grade 11-12 college-exploration conversations. JobCannon ships a different category of platform: 128 validated psychometric instruments including Big Five (OCEAN), RIASEC, EQ, Multiple Intelligences, Skills Audit, IQ, with AI career match across a 2,536-career, 1,533-skill, 64,317-edge knowledge graph and skill-gap analysis with recommended free courses. Pricing differs structurally: MyPlan charges individuals a monthly subscription for full access; JobCannon free tier is permanent for individuals, Scale tier $199/mo flat for institutional dashboards covering 200 learners a month. Many districts run both — JobCannon for assessment and grades 6-11 career exploration, MyPlan for US university-search at grades 11-12.
Where the platforms diverge
Catalogue platform vs validated assessment platform.
Assessment battery comparison
What each platform ships.
Pricing comparison
For a school district of 5,000 students per year
When JobCannon wins
Switch from MyPlan
For US grade 11-12 college-exploration with university-search as the primary deliverable, keep MyPlan. For grades 6-11 career exploration, validated psychometric depth, and modern UX, JobCannon is the better choice. Many districts run both; the JobCannon free tier covers individuals at no cost.
Free
For micro-teams trying the platform
- ▸10 assessments/month (resets the 1st of each month)
- ▸All 186+ assessments
- ▸Premium result for every candidate you invite
- ▸Every candidate profile fully open — nothing blurred
- ▸Share link via email or Slack
- ▸Free trial of the coordinator dashboard
Starter
For solo coaches and small HR
- ▸30 assessments/mo included; extra assessments are $2 each
- ▸All 186+ assessments
- ▸Premium report (archetype + blind spots + work-style brief)
- ▸Coach notes per candidate
- ▸PDF export (client-ready)
- ▸Session prep recommendations
- ▸Candidate progress tracking
Team
For startups, teams and HR
- ▸80 assessments/mo included; extra assessments are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Starter
- ▸Team DNA dashboard
- ▸Compatibility matrix
- ▸Conflict-pattern detection
- ▸Compare 2-3 team members
- ▸Manager prep briefings
- ▸Shared admin access (2 seats)
Scale
For agencies, L&D and scale-ups
- ▸200 assessments/mo included; extra assessments are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Team
- ▸Integrity + social-desirability scales (fake-good detection)
- ▸White-label PDFs (your logo)
- ▸Full assessment API (start, score, retrieve results)
- ▸Custom assessment builder (beta)
- ▸Admin seats not billed per seat
- ▸Priority email support
Growth
For high-volume screening without a contract
- ▸1,000 assessments/mo included; extra assessments are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸Invoice / PO billing, not just card
- ▸Named support contact with a response-time target
- ▸Annual billing option
Enterprise
For 200+ person companies
- ▸Candidate volume set in your contract, all assessments
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸SLA (99.9% uptime)
- ▸Dedicated Customer Success
- ▸Custom integrations built against your tenant (Greenhouse and Ashby ship today)
- ▸Annual billing, invoice payments
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Request a migration plan
Tell us your current MyPlan spend, your cohort size, and which grades you serve. We respond with a switch plan within three business days.
Catalogue breadth and US university-search integration. MyPlan.com has been running since the early 2000s and ships a broad catalogue of careers, college majors, US graduate programmes, and degree-cost data, plus interest, personality, skills, and values assessments. The university-search integration (browse colleges by major, region, or admission profile) is genuinely useful for grade 11-12 exploration. The platform is established and recognised in school-counsellor circles.
Three layers. (1) Validated psychometric depth — MyPlan's assessments are interest-tag and personality-style instruments without the published validation studies behind Big Five (OCEAN); JobCannon ships 128 validated instruments including Big Five, RIASEC, EQ, Multiple Intelligences, IQ. (2) AI career mapping — MyPlan returns career list lookups; JobCannon maps results across a 2,536-career, 1,533-skill, 64,317-edge graph with skill-gap analysis. (3) Modern UX — MyPlan UX feels mid-2010s; JobCannon UX is mobile-first and conversational.
Two specific layers. (1) US university-search integration — MyPlan ships a US college-major-by-school catalogue with admission profile data; JobCannon does not duplicate this catalogue and is not US-university-focused. (2) Long-tail career catalogue with text-based career profiles — MyPlan has invested in long-form career-page content over 20 years; JobCannon ships its own career catalogue (2,536 careers) but the text depth per career profile is lighter.
MyPlan offers individual paid subscriptions (monthly, for full assessment access) and institutional licensing that varies by district. JobCannon free tier is permanent for individuals (full assessment battery, full Career Guide); Scale tier $199/mo flat for institutional dashboards covering 200 learners a month. For individuals, JobCannon free tier is genuinely free where MyPlan charges; for institutions, JobCannon's flat rate does not scale with learner count the way MyPlan's district-varying licensing does.
Two scenarios. (1) US grade 11-12 college-exploration use case where the major-by-school catalogue is the primary deliverable. (2) Counsellors with established MyPlan workflows where switching cost exceeds savings. For everything else — broader assessment depth, AI career matching, institutional dashboards, modern UX, free individual access — JobCannon is the better choice.
Yes. Common pattern: JobCannon runs the assessment and Career Guide output for grades 6-11; MyPlan provides the US university-search integration for grade 11-12 college-exploration conversations. JobCannon does not duplicate the MyPlan college catalogue; MyPlan does not duplicate the JobCannon assessment depth. The two complement each other if your district serves the late-high-school college-application arc.
Request a migration plan
Tell us your current MyPlan spend, your cohort size, and which grades you serve. We respond with a switch plan within three business days.