Background screening · RankedCertn
Certn is a background screening service that provides background checks for teams that need results quickly · certn.co ↗
Strongest at mid-market. Ranked 5 of 50 for enterprise buyers.
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%. 3 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Checkr is first at 46%.
Why models recommend it
“Checkr or Certn offer the best combination of modern technology, transparent pricing, scalability, and integration capabilities”Kimi K2 · Direct question · first choice
“Certn is the cheapest option at $13.99/month, making it a strong choice for budget-conscious businesses”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“If you need the absolute lowest price per report: Choose Certn.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“I'd strongly recommend [Certn](https://certn.co) as your first option”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Certn, over the 102 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 93 | 59 | Compare → | |
| 70 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 49 | 6 | View → | |
| 49 | 4 | View → | |
| 37 | 2 | View → | |
| 35 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 25 | 0 | View → | |
| 21 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Certn →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Certn's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- teams who can’t afford to wait
- Price stated
- Only pay for what you use. Pay per check with no setup fees or minimums.
- Starting price
- 4.49
- Free plan or trial
- null
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, ISO 27001
- Hosting
- Canada, EMEA, ANZ, US, United Kingdom, Australia
- Customers named
- WestJet, ATB Financial, MYOB, Fantuan, cside, Tesla, Bell, Deloitte
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 100 of the 102 answers that named Certn and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
372 of the 372 domain citations in answers naming Certn 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 61 | 0 | 2026-05-29 | Applicant tracking syste, Background screening | |
| News or press | 33 | undated | Background screening, Applicant tracking syste | ||
| Case study | 14 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 10 | undated | Background screening | ||
| Comparison | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-05-29Conditions dutilisation du site web blog
- 2026-05-29Addenda sur le traitement de donnees blog
- 2026-05-29Applicant terms of use blog
- 2026-05-29Conditions dutilisation du demandeur blog
- 2025-11-03Optimizing team performance with physics why hr leaders are moving beyond traditional personality tests blog
- 2025-10-20Designing fair pay how to connect rewards trust and performance blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page certn.co exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.