Tofu is a fraud specialist: it checks applicants against its own fraud database and watches live interviews for deepfakes. SquarePeg catches fake candidates as part of screening: every candidate is ranked against your criteria with the resume evidence behind the score, and the authenticity check is included in the same credit, so you don't pay for a separate fraud tool.
Tofu (HireTofu) is a candidate-fraud startup that sells to remote-hiring tech companies and, through an API, to hiring platforms. It says it validates applicants across 4B+ data points and a Fraudbase of 18M+ profiles, and flags synthetic identities, impersonation and state-sponsored actors. It detects deepfakes and seat swaps in Zoom, Meet and Teams interviews, offers AI resume screening, connects to 45+ ATSs, and powers Gem's fraud detection agent.
Based on each company's public website and announcements, checked October 2026. Unknown means we couldn't find it described there.
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Tofu and SquarePeg both check applicants for fraud. Tofu goes further into the interview stage; SquarePeg goes further into screening and finding candidates.
Every score shows its evidence. SquarePeg scores applicants as they apply, plus past candidates and sourced profiles, against criteria you write in plain language or generate from the job description, each marked Required, Preferred or Bonus. Every criterion gets a 0–100 subscore with a written explanation and the resume lines it's based on, so you review the best people first and can explain every ranking. Eligibility rules (location or radius, time zone, screening answers, a previous rejection reason or the application source) run first, so ineligible applicants are never scored or charged.
Tofu's AI Resume Review is a paid add-on that ranks applicants against must-have and nice-to-have criteria and draws on company data. Its site doesn't say whether you get a score for each criterion or the resume evidence behind a ranking.
SquarePeg connects to Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, iCIMS, Recruitee and other ATSs and syncs your jobs and applicants. SquarePeg makes rejections and stage changes in your ATS just as if you had made them there, so your ATS emails and automations still run, and the Chrome extension opens it right next to the job or candidate you're viewing. No migration and no new system for your team to learn.
Tofu connects to 45+ ATSs, including Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workday and Oracle, writes fraud labels to candidate profiles, and has a Chrome extension.
Every candidate gets an authenticity confidence rating (High, Mixed, Limited, Low or Unknown), kept separate from their score. It's built from LinkedIn, phone, email and resume signals, and it also flags a phone, email or resume shared with a differently named applicant. It's included in the credit that scores the candidate. Signals inform your review; nothing is rejected automatically.
This is Tofu's focus. It checks applicants against public and social data and a shared Fraudbase it says holds 18M+ profiles, and it watches live interviews for deepfakes and seat swaps.
Rediscovery searches past applicants in your ATS for people who fit a new opening and scores them on the same criteria as today's applicants. Outbound sourcing finds new candidates outside your ATS on the same scale, and you reveal an email only for the people you want to contact. Every resume gets company context such as industry, headcount, funding and public or private status. And you can find, compare and fine-tune just by asking: the SquarePeg agent finds past candidates who fit a new role, compares your top applicants, explains any score, and can review and update a job's criteria and eligibility rules, in the web app or inside your ATS.
Tofu's site doesn't describe rediscovery or outbound sourcing as of October 2026. Its product extends toward interviews and fraud APIs for hiring platforms.
Credits work across every feature, there are no seat fees and no platform fee, and your whole team can log in. Scoring an applicant or a rediscovered candidate uses 1 credit; sourcing a candidate uses 1 and revealing their email 2. Rediscovery also has a one-time fee to index your ATS, charged at cost. Rescoring is always free, the agent is free, applicants who fail your eligibility rules cost nothing, and new accounts start with 2,000 free credits, no credit card required. See the pricing page for current rates.
Tofu's Growth plan starts at $833 a month, billed annually, for up to 15,000 applicants and 500 interviews a year, and AI Resume Review is an add-on. Enterprise is quoted.
Before SquarePeg: "I'll spend time setting up a call with somebody, going to LinkedIn profile, trying to decipher if they're a real person, and then get them on the phone, and they're in no way matched up to the actual profile I had."
No. SquarePeg's authenticity checks run on the application: LinkedIn, phone, email and resume signals, plus contact details shared with a differently named applicant. Interview-stage deepfake detection is something Tofu offers.
Yes. Both connect to your ATS, so you can use SquarePeg to score and rank applicants and Tofu for interview-stage fraud checks.
Yes. The demo on our homepage lets you score up to three of your own resumes or LinkedIn profiles for free, or explore sample jobs that are already scored, without connecting an ATS. When you connect your ATS, you start with 2,000 free credits and no credit card.
Credits work across every feature, there are no seat fees and no platform fee, and your whole team can log in. Scoring an applicant or a rediscovered candidate uses 1 credit; sourcing a candidate uses 1 and revealing their email 2. Rediscovery also has a one-time fee to index your ATS, charged at cost. Rescoring is always free, the agent is free, applicants who fail your eligibility rules cost nothing, and new accounts start with 2,000 free credits, no credit card required. See the pricing page for current rates.
Last checked October 2026. Tofu details come from Tofu's public website and announcements; SquarePeg details describe the product as it works today.
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Connect your ATS and SquarePeg scores your applicants, checks every candidate's authenticity, resurfaces past applicants and finds new ones, with the evidence behind every score. Credits work across every feature, there are no seat fees, and rescoring is always free.
