HR Breakers vs Habr Career: which one to use for your job search

At a glance

The short version:

• Habr Career: an IT job board with a professional profile, skills, salary statistics and company reviews.
• HR Breakers: a one-page, ATS-safe resume tailored to each specific vacancy — including stack and seniority wording.
• Habr Career is free for candidates; its paid services are mostly for employers.
• Use both: find the role on Habr Career, generate the tailored PDF in HR Breakers.

What Habr Career is built for

On Habr Career your profile lists skills, experience and expectations; companies find you through it, and you can respond to IT vacancies. Its salary calculator and company ratings help you judge offers.

The profile is one public version for everyone. Many IT employers still ask for a resume file, especially through their own ATS — and expect it to match the stack in the posting.

What HR Breakers is built for

HR Breakers does one job: it rewrites your real experience for one specific vacancy. You add the posting (a link or pasted text), pick your career profile, and get a one-page, ATS-readable PDF built around what that employer asked for — usually in about a minute.

The engine is constrained to the facts in your profile. It reorders, rephrases and emphasises what you have actually done, but it does not invent employers, dates, metrics or skills. Every vacancy you add also becomes a card on a Kanban board, so the tailored resume, the original link and the application stage stay together.

For IT roles the details matter: the exact stack, the seniority signals and the scope of your projects. HR Breakers reads the vacancy and brings the matching technologies and achievements forward — without adding tools you have not used.

Pricing models

Habr Career is free for candidates; its price changes in 2026 concern companies. HR Breakers is free for 3 tailored resumes a week, with Pro for unlimited use.

HR Breakers is free for 3 tailored resumes every week (they refresh on Monday, no card needed). Pro removes the limit for $3.99 a month by card or 300 ₽ for 30 days via SBP; the SBP option never renews by itself, and the card subscription can be cancelled any time.

Competitor pricing is summarised from public pricing pages and reviews as of October 2026. Prices, trials and regional rates change — check the current terms on Habr Career’s own site before you pay.

When Habr Career is the better choice

• You want recruiters at IT companies to find you through a skills-based profile.
• You want salary statistics and company ratings for the Russian-speaking IT market.
• You respond inside the platform and a profile is enough for that employer.

When HR Breakers is the better choice

• You apply to specific vacancies and want each resume rewritten for that posting, not just a nicer template.
• You want an ATS-safe, single-column, one-page PDF without fighting a layout editor.
• You want the tool to stay within your real experience.
• You want to try it properly for free before paying anything.

Verdict

Habr Career is where IT vacancies and recruiters are; HR Breakers is how you send a resume that matches each of them. Keep your Habr profile up to date and tailor the file for the roles you care about most.