# What is the highest-rated Employee Referral software demonstrating measurable cost-per-hire reduction outcomes for recruiters?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">"Highest-rated" and "measurable cost-per-hire reduction" are actually two different claims, and it's worth checking whether they refer to the same product before answering this question about <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/employee-referral">employee referral software</a>.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"><strong>What we're hoping to find:</strong></p><ul>
<li>A star rating backed by enough review volume to trust the pattern</li>
<li>A specific, quantified cost-per-hire figure, not a vague efficiency claim</li>
<li>Evidence that the reduction is measured against a real baseline, not just vendor-reported</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Here's how a few platforms line up:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/erin/reviews"><strong>ERIN</strong></a><strong>:</strong> 4.6 stars across 810 reviews, the largest sample in the category, with built-in ROI reporting giving recruiters visibility into bonus spend against actual hire outcomes.</li>
<li>
<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/boon-inc-boon/reviews"><strong>Boon</strong></a><strong>:</strong> 4.7 stars, with a specific vendor-reported figure of up to 40% savings per hire, a concrete number worth testing against your own baseline before treating it as guaranteed.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/staffing-referrals/reviews"><strong>Staffing Referrals</strong></a><strong>:</strong> 4.9 stars, the highest rating in the category, though on a smaller review sample than ERIN's.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">The rating and the cost claim don't necessarily point to the same product once you weigh sample size against the actual number. Which mattered more to your evaluation: the star rating, or the specific dollar figure a vendor put in front of you?</p>

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## Comments
### Comment 1

Same honest caveat as the referral-cost question: G2&#39;s employee referral category is mostly recruiting suites with a referral module, not referral-only platforms, so a clean &quot;highest-rated for measurable cost-per-hire reduction&quot; ranking is hard to pull straight from reviews. The well-rated recruiting tools here that include referral features are Spark Hire and Hireology, with Workable also solid. To be real though, no software &quot;demonstrates&quot; cost-per-hire reduction on its own, that&#39;s something you measure from your own funnel, so I&#39;d ask any vendor to show exactly what referral reporting and cost-per-hire tracking they provide, and whether it ties source to hire cleanly. Then baseline your current cost-per-hire before you start so you can actually prove the delta. Are you trying to prove ROI to leadership, or just pick the tool? That changes what reporting matters most.

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