Xref and ClearHire, side by side
Automated reference checking for employers, priced monthly by company size.
Who is better served by which
Better served by Xref
Choose Xref if you run many reference checks a month and want surveys, reminders and reports in one tool.
Better served by ClearHire
Choose ClearHire if the record should be the person's, confirmed once, and read by every later employer without a new check.
What each one charges
Xref’s prices are copied as its pages print them, with the plan name and the page. Ours come from the same list our pricing page reads.
| Plan | Price | Note | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $70 a month | 1-74 employees; $80/month when paid monthly | xref.com/pricing (opens in a new tab) |
| Growth | $140 a month | 76-150 employees; $160/month when paid monthly | xref.com/pricing (opens in a new tab) |
ClearHire’s plans
- Free
- No cost. Not a trial, and it does not end.
- Pro
- $9 a month, or $90 a year.
- Team
- $7 a seat a month, or $70 a seat a year. At least 3 seats, so from $210 a year.
How a paid plan is bought today is on the pricing page.
Feature by feature
A row that reads “not stated” means the pages we read did not say. It does not mean no, and we did not guess.
| What | Xref | ClearHire |
|---|---|---|
| A free plan that does not end | XrefNoxref.com/pricing (opens in a new tab) | ClearHireYes |
| A named company countersigns a role, and the record is then locked | XrefPartlyxref.com/pricing (opens in a new tab) | ClearHireYes |
| Covers roles you have already left | XrefNot stated on the pages we checked | ClearHireYes |
| People write about companies in public | XrefNot stated on the pages we checked | ClearHireYes |
What ClearHire does not do
This list is the same on every page here, and it is true today.
Only resumes leave in six formats
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. A paid plan removes it.
No career path on your record
The roadmap and skills-gap pages are reading, not a plan we keep for you.
A company’s answer stays private
What a company writes about a person is read by that person and the company’s admins. Nobody else sees it.
Check us
We read these pages on 7 November 2026. Prices move, and this page only knows what was true that day.
The pages we read
Open Xref’s site (opens in a new tab)Moving from Xref to ClearHire, in the docs (opens in a new tab)