Background screening · RankedAccurate Background
Accurate Background is a background screening service from Accurate, offered under the positioning of employment screening and background check services · accurate.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
GoodHire is first at 42%.
Checkr is first at 53%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Checkr is first at 46%.
Why models recommend it
“I'd start with Accurate Background. It explicitly serves mid-market employers”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · first choice
“the strongest default recommendation is Accurate Background”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Accurate (Top Pick for Mid-Sized Businesses)”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“sells to mid-market and enterprise buyers who want configurable packages without the heavyweight process of the top incumbents”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
“The worst background check agency on the planet. They will take MONTHS to complete your background check...”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Major established players like Accurate, Checkr, HireRight, and First Advantage are widely used, but even they have some consumer complaints about accuracy and turnaround times.”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Accurate Background, over the 70 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 62 | 26 | Compare → | |
| 49 | 3 | View → | |
| 41 | 12 | View → | |
| 36 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 34 | 0 | View → | |
| 33 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Accurate Background →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Accurate Background's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Access the tools and information you need to keep track of your background check.
- Integrations
- 2
- Certifications
- ISO 27001
- Hosting
- U.S. & Canada, UK & EMEA, Australia & APAC
- Customers named
- Osborne Clarke Services, Capco UK
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 65 of the 70 answers that named Accurate Background and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
201 of the 201 domain citations in answers naming Accurate Background came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |