Background screening · RankedInstant Checkmate
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“the FTC said TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate deceived users about criminal-record accuracy and violated FCRA requirements”GPT-5.4 mini · Negative question · warning
“Do not use consumer-facing sites like TruthFinder, Spokeo, or Instant Checkmate”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“I'd avoid using their people-search reports to make hiring or rental decisions.”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“are NOT FCRA-compliant. Using them to make employment decisions is illegal”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Instant Checkmate, over the 27 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 0 | View → | |
| 21 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 8 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 3 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Instant Checkmate →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Instant Checkmate's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Also from Instant
- Instant Financial
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 26 of the 27 answers that named Instant Checkmate and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-three of the seventy-three domain citations in answers naming Instant Checkmate 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |