Background screening · RankedGoodHire
GoodHire is a background screening service that provides FCRA-compliant employment background checks for companies · goodhire.com ↗
Leads at small business. Ranked 11 of 50 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is Checkr at 31%.
Checkr is first at 53%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Checkr is first at 46%.
Why models recommend it
“Start with GoodHire if you want the simplest, most budget-conscious setup for occasional hires”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Look for FCRA-certified, BBB-accredited options with strong track records like GoodHire”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · first choice
“Best overall for businesses, offers over 100 screening products”Mistral Small · Comparative question · first choice
“like Checkr, Rippling built-in checks, or GoodHire”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“be cautious when using these services due to issues such as opaque pricing, lack of advanced support options”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
“While GoodHire is generally well-regarded, there are some red flags to consider.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as GoodHire, over the 121 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 106 | 51 | Compare → | |
| 70 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 47 | 2 | View → | |
| 45 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 45 | 1 | View → | |
| 36 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 35 | 5 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 14 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of GoodHire →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on GoodHire's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- companies
- Price stated
- Competitively-priced background checks for all businesses
- Starting price
- 29.99
- Certifications
- FCRA, SOC 2 Type II
- Customers named
- MarleySpoon, Devoted Health, Inc., Renewal by Andersen, thredUP, MHG Hotels, Woodgrain Millwork, Gale Healthcare Solutions, S.A.F.E. Management
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 111 of the 121 answers that named GoodHire and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
315 of the 352 domain citations in answers naming GoodHire 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 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 200 | undated | Pay equity | ||
| Report or ebook | 21 | undated | Background screening | ||
| News or press | 12 | undated | |||
| Case study | 9 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 8 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 6 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page goodhire.com 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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.