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Background screening · Ranked

TruthFinder

#86Best rank (mid-market)
12/14Models named it
0First choices
30Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inBackground screening #86 mid-market

Why models recommend it

“In-depth criminal history and public court records”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative

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
“Services such as TruthFinder and US Search are not FCRA-compliant and cannot legally be used for those decisions.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Consumer sites like TruthFinder and BeenVerified cannot be used for hiring, tenant screening, or credit decisions.”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · warning
“Do not use consumer-facing sites like TruthFinder, Spokeo, or Instant Checkmate for official employment decisions.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as TruthFinder, over the 33 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

What the models named instead of TruthFinder →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

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

The sites and pages the answers that named TruthFinder came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 32 of the 33 answers that named TruthFinder and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ftc.gov13
goodhire.com13
money.com12
bib.com11
fitsmallbusiness.com11
consumerfinance.gov10
firsthr.app8
leadchangegroup.com6
creditdonkey.com5
files.consumerfinance.gov5

No domain is on file for TruthFinder, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on TruthFinder across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00011
Gemini 3.5 Flash01023
Perplexity Sonar00011
Grok 4.2000022
Mistral Small00112
DeepSeek V4 Flash00011
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00022
Kimi K200033
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00011
Muse Glimmer 30B00000