6 Fetcher alternatives for engineering recruiting

If you used Fetcher, you need a new sourcing tool this month. In early October 2026, Juicebox announced an agreement to buy Fetcher's intellectual property and other assets. The Fetcher platform retired on 16 October, and remaining account data is deleted after 19 November. This list of Fetcher alternatives is for teams who used Fetcher to hire engineers.

Juicebox is the official landing spot: its offer to eligible Fetcher customers runs through 19 November. But according to beri.net's reading of the deal, it "does not carry their accounts, pipelines or integrations across". Whichever tool you pick, you set it up again.

So do two things before 19 November: export what you still need, and revoke Fetcher's access to your mailbox and your ATS. Then pick the tool that fits how you hire engineers. The six below are AyHire, Juicebox, SeekOut, Pin, Gem and hireEZ, with prices checked on 22 October 2026.

Before you pick: a 3-item checklist

These come from beri.net's summary of Fetcher's transition FAQ and Juicebox's announcement, both dated 6 October 2026.

1. Export your candidates and pipelines. beri.net says the FAQ pointed to per-position CSVs from the Talent Pipeline view and a full account export from Fetcher support, which takes up to three business days. The platform has retired, so if you have nothing yet, ask support now. Candidate data reaches Juicebox only if you become a Juicebox customer and upload it.
2. Revoke Fetcher's access. Fetcher asked customers to revoke its access in their Google or Microsoft account settings, "and delete the API key you created for Fetcher in your ATS." Admins can revoke it for everyone from Google Workspace or Microsoft Entra. In Entra, also set a user consent policy, because revoking alone doesn't stop users granting access again. Replies to messages sent from your own connected mailbox still reach you; replies to messages sent through Fetcher's email service won't.
3. Write down the ATS you need. Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby or something else. The tools below differ most on which plan includes an ATS connection, so check this first.

The short version

• AyHire: best for engineering roles judged from shipped work, with the evidence linked.
• Juicebox: best for a like-for-like move, with Fetcher's offer and email outreach from its Starter plan.
• SeekOut: best for a documented GitHub coder rating, with outreach in the same tool.
• Pin: best for a cheap self-serve start with sequences, and a free plan.
• Gem: best for teams that want sourcing and a CRM beside their ATS.
• hireEZ: best for a full platform at volume.

At a glance

Prices are the lowest published paid price, checked 22 October 2026. "GitHub" is what the vendor's own pages that we read say about using GitHub.

• AyHire: no outreach · Greenhouse, Lever and 11 more ATSs plus a webhook, on both plans · $99 a month, or $82.50 a month billed yearly; Team $79 a person a month (2+) · GitHub: commits, pull requests and READMEs, judged per role
• Juicebox: email outreach from Starter · ATS or CRM integrations (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and more) listed on Business only · $99 a seat a month billed yearly · GitHub: a search signal (its product page)
• SeekOut: email campaigns on Core · ATS export on Core, full ATS integration on the custom Integration plans · $149 a month billed yearly, 3 seats · GitHub: yes, Coder Score
• Pin: sequences, email-only on Free · 120+ ATSs, an add-on on Solo and Professional · free, then $99 a user a month billed yearly · GitHub: not mentioned on its pricing page
• Gem: multi-channel sequences · bi-directional ATS sync · custom by company size, Startup Program $130 a month billed yearly · GitHub: not mentioned on its pricing page
• hireEZ: email, SMS and InMail sequencing · 40+ native ATS integrations · solo from $494 a month · GitHub: sourcing filters (its blog)

1. AyHire, best for engineering roles judged from shipped work

AyHire is our product, so read this entry with that in mind. It does one part of Fetcher's job: finding engineers and deciding who is worth talking to. You describe the role in a sentence. AyHire plans the searches and shows them before they run, finds the people who wrote the matching public repos, and judges the top few against your role's criteria from their commits, pull requests and READMEs, with a link behind every judgement. You can have anyone else judged from the role page.

What you get is a call: who to talk to first, one line of why, and one thing to check. How AyHire decides explains the rules, including why an unknown never counts against anyone. Once an owner connects your workspace's ATS, each person you shortlist goes to it by default, with the contact details AyHire found and the reason they were picked.

Key features

• Criteria per role (Must have, Important, Nice to have), each judged from public work with links. See writing criteria.
• Four general scores of someone's public work, kept one click behind the call.
• Who is open to work, LinkedIn and email, each with its source and how sure it is.
• Shortlisted people go to Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Teamtailor, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, Personio, Pinpoint, Breezy HR, Recruit CRM, Loxo or Manatal, or to any other ATS through a webhook for Zapier, Make or n8n.
• For roles that are mostly not code (GTM, sales or solutions engineering), the role's search in the web app also looks on LinkedIn and lists those people apart, from what their LinkedIn profile says.
• Works from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents over MCP.

Best for

• Founders and engineering managers who need to know which engineers are good.
• In-house and agency recruiters on technical roles who want evidence to put in front of a hiring manager.

Pricing

• 14-day free trial, no card needed.
• AyHire: $99 a month for one person.
• Team: $79 a person a month, at least 2 people. Yearly billing on both gives 2 months free. See plans and pricing.

Pros

• ATS push is on both plans.
• Every claim about a person links to the work behind it, so you can check it before you write to them.
• Once people are judged against the role's criteria, AyHire only says "talk to them first" when every must-have is clearly shown in their work.

Cons

• No outreach and no sequences. AyHire never contacts anyone for you: you send the intro from your own inbox. If automated email was why you bought Fetcher, this is the gap.
• Reads public work only. When someone's best work is in private company repos, their criteria show as Unknown. That never counts against them, but they rank below people whose public work shows the fit, so ask about it on the call.
• Weaker for roles with little public code.

2. Juicebox, best for a like-for-like move with Fetcher's offer

Juicebox is where Fetcher sent its customers. Its announcement says "Effective immediately, Fetcher's customers can move to Juicebox," with "an exclusive offer available through November 19" and a team "ready to help you get set up quickly". beri.net reports that the offer has no published price and is only for teams that haven't used Juicebox or taken a demo with it in the past six months. Ask for the terms in writing.

It is the closest match to what Fetcher did: people search plus email outreach. Email outreach and AI templates start on Starter, with one mailbox; Growth gives three mailboxes a seat. As beri.net reads the deal, your accounts, pipelines and integrations do not come with you.

Key features

• People search, with unlimited searches from Starter.
• Activity signals from GitHub, publications and speaking, according to its PeopleGPT product page.
• Email outreach and AI email templates from Starter.
• Juicebox Agents as an add-on at $199 per agent a month.

Best for

• Fetcher customers who want outreach to keep running with the least change.
• Small teams and agencies on the Growth plan.

Pricing (from Juicebox's pricing page)

• Free: limited searches and 5 one-off contact credits.
• Starter: $99 a seat a month billed yearly, $119 monthly.
• Growth: $179 a seat a month billed yearly, $199 monthly.
• Business: custom, annual only.

Pros

• The official migration path, with an offer until 19 November and help getting set up.
• Outreach is on the cheapest paid plan.

Cons

• Its ATS integrations, including Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby, are listed only on Business, so connecting one means a custom plan.
• It lists GitHub as one activity signal among many. For engineering roles, ask how it shows a person's code. Our Juicebox alternatives cover the tools teams compare it with.

3. SeekOut, best for GitHub coder ratings with outreach

SeekOut is a sourcing platform for recruiters. Its help centre describes a GitHub search that indexes repository descriptions, analyses each contribution, and merges GitHub data with public profiles such as LinkedIn. Each GitHub member gets a Coder Score from one to five stars (five is the top 2%), overall and for each language. The two biggest inputs are how many people contribute to a project and how often someone's code is forked.

That makes it a good pick if you want a GitHub signal and outreach in one place for engineers and other roles. The score is a rating of someone's code in general; you still read the work to decide for your role.

Key features

• Coder Score per GitHub member and per language.
• Email integration with sending on your behalf, and AI multi-step campaigns.
• 500 contact credits and 1,000 exports a month on Core.

Best for

• Recruiting teams that hire engineers alongside other roles and want one tool for both.
• Teams that want outreach and a GitHub signal together.

Pricing (from SeekOut's pricing page)

• Sourcing Core: $149 a month paid yearly ($1,788 a year) or $179 billed monthly, with 3 seats.
• 14 days free, no card.
• Other plans: custom, billed yearly.

Pros

• A published, documented GitHub rating (Coder Score).
• Three seats on the entry plan.

Cons

• Sourcing Core exports to your ATS (with Excel and PDF). The full ATS integration, with rediscovery of people already in your ATS, starts on Sourcing + Integration, priced by quote. The page's FAQ lists ATS integration under SeekOut Sourcing, against its own comparison table, so confirm it on a call.
• The pricing page doesn't say which plans include GitHub search, so confirm it on the trial. Our SeekOut alternatives compare it with AyHire in more depth.

4. Pin, best for a cheap self-serve start with sequences

Pin is a self-serve AI sourcing tool whose pricing FAQ says it searches 850M+ profiles across several sources. It has a free plan with published limits, and its paid plans include multi-channel sequences, so it covers the outreach side of Fetcher at a low price.

Key features

• Free plan with email-only sequences.
• Multi-channel sequences from Solo.
• AI agents: two on Solo, two per user on Professional.
• An FAQ that says it integrates with 120+ applicant tracking systems, including Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby.

Best for

• A solo recruiter or founder who wants to try before paying.
• Small teams that mainly need sequences and contact data.

Pricing (from Pin's pricing page)

• Free: 5 contact lookups a week, 3 searches a day, 1 job position.
• Solo: $99 a user a month, billed yearly only.
• Professional: $135 a user a month billed yearly.
• Business: custom.

Pros

• A real free plan, plus a free trial with no card.
• Sequences on every plan, email-only on Free.

Cons

• ATS integration is an add-on on Solo and Professional; Business lists premium ATS integrations.
• Its pricing page doesn't mention GitHub.

5. Gem, best for teams that want sourcing and CRM beside their ATS

Gem is a recruiting platform you can run next to your ATS (Gem + Your ATS) or instead of it (All-in-One, with an ATS built in). It covers sourcing, a candidate CRM, multi-channel outreach sequences, scheduling and analytics, with bi-directional ATS sync.

Key features

• Multi-channel, multi-stage sequences, and AI-personalised outreach on its AI seat.
• Bi-directional ATS sync, with its own page for Greenhouse.
• One-click add from 20+ sourcing sites, and unlimited email-finding.

Best for

• In-house teams that want their sourcing CRM and their ATS to agree.
• Startups that qualify for its small-company offers.

Pricing (from Gem's pricing page)

• Gem + Your ATS and All-in-One: custom, based on how many people your company employs.
• Startup Program (1 to 10 employees): $130 a month billed yearly.
• Under 30 employees: All-in-One free for six months, then 50% off a paid plan.

Pros

• Bi-directional ATS sync is part of the product.
• A published $130-a-month price for companies of 1 to 10 people, and six months of All-in-One free for companies under 30.

Cons

• Beyond startups, there is no published price: you talk to sales.
• Its pricing page doesn't mention GitHub.

6. hireEZ, best for a full platform at volume

hireEZ is a full recruiting platform that searches the open web and partner networks across 45+ platforms, with outreach and sequencing by email, SMS and InMail, and 40+ native ATS integrations. It is built for teams that hire many people across many functions, and its enterprise pricing is set by what it replaces.

Key features

• Search across 45+ platforms.
• GitHub sourcing filters, and a Chrome extension that works on GitHub profiles, according to its blog (15 July 2024).
• Email, SMS and InMail sequencing.
• 40+ native ATS integrations.

Best for

• High-volume recruiting teams.
• Enterprises replacing several tools at once.

Pricing (from hireEZ's pricing page)

• Solo: from $494 a month, with a 7-day free trial.
• Enterprise: "configured to the stack hireEZ replaces rather than a flat per-seat rate times headcount."

Pros

• Search across 45+ platforms and outreach by email, SMS and InMail in one tool.
• A published solo price and trial.

Cons

• The highest published entry price on this list.
• It is built for volume across functions. Its GitHub sourcing is a search filter, so read the code yourself.

How we compared these Fetcher alternatives

We used five things, because they decide whether a move off Fetcher works for engineering roles:

• Fit for engineering roles: does the tool show what someone built, or only what their profile says?
• Outreach: does it send email for you, as Fetcher did?
• ATS: which plan connects to Greenhouse, Lever or yours?
• Self-serve pricing: is there a published price you can start on today?
• Migration effort: nothing carries over from Fetcher, so how fast is setup?

Every price comes from the vendor's own pricing page on 22 October 2026. We left out ratings and review counts. HeroHunt's list (14 October) covers more general tools; this one is for engineering roles.

How to choose

If outreach automation was why you bought Fetcher

• Pick Juicebox for the closest match and the migration offer.
• Pick Pin for a free plan and self-serve sequences.
• Pick Gem if you also want a CRM tied to your ATS.

If your hard part is knowing which engineers are good

• Pick AyHire for a call on each person from their shipped work, with links you can check.
• Pick SeekOut for a documented GitHub rating in a sourcing tool that also sends outreach.
• Juicebox and hireEZ also say they use GitHub signals, so ask them to show you how.
• Doing it by hand first? Our guide to finding engineers on GitHub shows the method, and our comparison of GitHub recruiting tools covers the tools built around that work.

If you need your ATS on the cheapest plan

• Compare tier by tier. AyHire's ATS push is on both plans, Pin's is an add-on on Solo and Professional, SeekOut's Core exports to your ATS with full integration on a custom plan, and Juicebox lists it on Business.

If you hire beyond engineering, at volume

• Pick hireEZ for channels and ATS coverage, or Gem for a full stack.

Questions people ask

What happened to Fetcher?

Juicebox agreed to buy Fetcher's intellectual property and other assets, announced in early October 2026, and Fetcher wound down its product. The Business Wire release says Fetcher was founded in 2016 and "has served more than 1,500 customers and over 5,000 recruiters worldwide." The platform retired on 16 October.

When is Fetcher data deleted?

After 19 November 2026. beri.net, citing Fetcher's transition FAQ, says remaining account data is deleted after that date and isn't transferred to anyone outside Fetcher. Export what you need before then.

Does my Fetcher data move to Juicebox?

Not on its own. beri.net reads the deal as not carrying accounts, pipelines or integrations across. Candidate data reaches Juicebox only if you become a customer and upload it yourself.

What is the best Fetcher alternative for technical recruiting?

It depends on which half of Fetcher you need. For outreach, Juicebox is the closest match. For deciding which engineers to talk to from their actual work, AyHire reads the repos and judges each person against your role. SeekOut gives each GitHub member a Coder Score. Juicebox and hireEZ also say they use GitHub signals (Juicebox: "activity signals from GitHub"; hireEZ: GitHub sourcing filters), so ask them to show you how.

Which Fetcher alternatives integrate with Greenhouse?

Gem, Juicebox, Pin and AyHire all name Greenhouse. Gem has bi-directional ATS sync and a Greenhouse page. Juicebox lists Greenhouse among its ATS integrations, which come with the custom Business plan. Pin's FAQ names Greenhouse among 120+ ATSs, as an add-on on Solo and Professional. AyHire sends shortlisted people to Greenhouse from its Integrations settings, on both plans. hireEZ lists 40+ native integrations, and SeekOut's full ATS integration starts on a custom plan. For those two, ask whether Greenhouse is included.

Is there a free Fetcher alternative?

Yes. Pin has a free plan with 5 contact lookups a week and email-only sequences, and Juicebox has a free plan with limited searches. AyHire and SeekOut have free trials with no card, of 14 and 14 days.

Sources, all opened on 22 October 2026: Juicebox on acquiring Fetcher's assets (6 October 2026), Business Wire release on Yahoo Finance (6 October 2026), beri.net on the deal (6 October 2026), HeroHunt's Fetcher alternatives (14 October 2026), Juicebox pricing, Juicebox PeopleGPT, SeekOut, SeekOut pricing, SeekOut GitHub search and Coder Score (1 September 2026), Pin pricing, Gem pricing, hireEZ pricing, hireEZ on sourcing from GitHub (15 July 2024)