Xref and ClearHire
Xref: Automated reference checking for employers, priced monthly by company size. This page is the practical half: what carries across, in what order, and where it stops. For this one, very little does.
Who should stay, and who should move
Choose Xref if you run many reference checks a month and want surveys, reminders and reports in one tool.
Choose ClearHire if the record should be the person's, confirmed once, and read by every later employer without a new check.
There is nothing to move
Xref sells a check to the employer or lender who orders it. ClearHire keeps a record that belongs to the person it is about. One does not replace the other, and no Xref report comes across.
- If the history is yours, start with Request employment verification.
- If you run a company and people name it on their claims, start with ClearHire for companies.
What we checked
Every row was read on Xref’s own pages on 7 November 2026. A page that did not say gets “not stated”, never “no”. Open Xref’s site and check us.
| What | Xref | ClearHire | Xref’s page |
|---|---|---|---|
| A free plan that does not end | No | Yes | xref.com/pricing |
| A named company countersigns a role, and the record is then locked | Partly | Yes | xref.com/pricing |
| Covers roles you have already left | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes | — |
| People write about companies in public | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes | — |
| Xref plan | Price | Note | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $70 a month | 1-74 employees; $80/month when paid monthly | xref.com/pricing |
| Growth | $140 a month | 76-150 employees; $160/month when paid monthly | xref.com/pricing |
ClearHire’s plans and prices are on Paid plans, and the full side-by-side is on ClearHire’s comparison page.
Where ClearHire falls short
- Only resumes leave in six formats. A resume exports as PDF, Word, JSON, HTML, Markdown or XML. Cover letters copy out as plain text, and a portfolio has no export.
- Free exports name us. A resume exported on Free carries one “built with” line. Paid plans remove it.
- There is no career path on your record. The roadmap and skills-gap pages are reading, not a plan kept for you.
- A company’s answer about a person stays private. Only that person and the company’s admins can read it.
Built and maintained by the ClearHire team — aoneahsan.com · GitHub.