The GoodHire alternative that scales past small-business packages.
GoodHire is a clean self-serve product for small teams — but growing programs hit limits on verifications, automation, and fraud defense. Ethur keeps the simplicity and adds payroll-direct verifications, biometric identity, and a real API.
Why teams move from GoodHire to Ethur.
Room to grow
Same easy ordering, plus configurable packages, adjudication automation, and ATS sync as your hiring volume climbs.
Verifications included
Payroll-direct employment and bank-direct income are part of the bundle, not per-verification add-ons.
Fraud defense built in
Passive liveness, document authenticity, and synthetic-identity cross-checks on every candidate.
What replacing GoodHire actually looks like.
Real Ethur surfaces — the dashboard your recruiters open, the portal your candidates see, and the biometric verifications running behind them.
- Name
- Marcus Bennett
- Date of birth
- February 10, 1992
- Phone number
- (415) 555-3030
- marcus.b@mail.com
Texas Health & Human Services
- Authority
- Texas Health & Human Services
- Full name
- Marcus Bennett
- Registry database
- Texas Medicaid Provider Exclusion and Suspension List
- Sanction 1
- Federal Exclusion
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Payroll-direct verifications
Employment history in seconds via direct payroll — no phone calls, no waiting.
AI-fraud defenses
Liveness + document authenticity built to defeat generated IDs and deepfakes.
Transparent pricing
One package price. No per-check surcharges, no county passthrough surprises.
Modern API + webhooks
Ship a working integration in a day, not a quarter.
Ethur vs. GoodHire
| Capability | Ethur | GoodHire |
|---|---|---|
| Payroll-direct employment | Included, 50+ providers | Add-on, manual outreach |
| Bank-direct income | Included | Not offered |
| Biometric IDV | FIDO-grade passive liveness | Basic identity check |
| AI document tampering review | Included | Not standard |
| Continuous monitoring | Included | Limited |
| Adjudication automation | Configurable matrix | Manual review |
| REST API & webhooks | First-class, versioned | Limited |
| Enterprise/high-volume support | Yes | SMB-focused |
Comparison based on publicly available product documentation and customer reports as of 2026. GoodHire is a trademark of its respective owner and is not affiliated with Ethur.
Purpose-built for the AI-fraud era.
Self-serve without a ceiling
Start in minutes, then scale into enterprise packages, adjudication rules, and API-driven ordering.
Source-of-record verification
Employment and income anchored to payroll and bank data instead of resumes and reference numbers.
Fraud-first design
Built for a world where fake IDs, fake employers, and deepfakes are cheap to produce.
FCRA-defensible by default
Pre-adverse, adverse action, and dispute workflows with full audit trails.
Switching from GoodHire.
Is Ethur as easy to start as GoodHire?
Yes — you can order your first check the same day, with no implementation project required.
What do I gain by switching?
Payroll-direct employment and income verification, biometric identity, continuous monitoring, and a real API — all bundled rather than billed per add-on.
Can Ethur support us as we grow?
Yes — the same account scales from a handful of checks a month to high-volume programs with adjudication rules and ATS sync.
Ready to switch from GoodHire?
See a live Ethur report on your own hiring workflow. Most teams migrate in under two weeks.