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Index › Vendors › BeenVerified · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

BeenVerified

13Judge labels

0First choices

11Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. BeenVerified was named 6 times in Background screening, where Checkr led with 43%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business58 of 61

under the label threshold

Mid-market57 of 59

under the label threshold

Enterprise44 of 49

under the label threshold

In background screening · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named BeenVerified for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Background screening	Talent acquisition	0%	57 of 59	67%	6	under 10 labels · led by Checkr at 43%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for BeenVerified yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated BeenVerified across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	2	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative6 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“These sites are not consumer reporting agencies (CRAs)... do not use it for any professional background screening.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Background screening · negative prompt · hard negative

“Never use consumer search sites like BeenVerified or TruthFinder for hiring; they are not FCRA-compliant” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Background screening · budget prompt · hard negative

“not FCRA-compliant and can't be used for hiring/tenancy decisions—doing so risks fines/lawsuits” Grok 4.1 Fast · Background screening · comparative prompt · hard negative

“Why avoid: These are not FCRA-compliant consumer reporting agencies.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Background screening · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as BeenVerified, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BeenVerified was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TruthFinder11 of 130Not in the top three

Checkr10 of 135Not in the top three

HireRight9 of 130Not in the top three

Instant Checkmate8 of 130Not in the top three

Spokeo8 of 130Not in the top three

Certn7 of 132Not in the top three

First Advantage7 of 130Not in the top three

GoodHire6 of 131Not in the top three

Sterling6 of 130Not in the top three

Accurate Background5 of 130Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named BeenVerified. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 6 of the 13 answers that named BeenVerified and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bib.com4

checkr.com4

bbb.org3

firsthr.app3

ftc.gov3

hunton.com3

reddit.com3

trustpilot.com3

verify.turingcerts.com3

accusourcehr.com2

Thirty-one of the thirty-one domain citations in answers naming BeenVerified came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

checkr.com/resources/articles/best-background-checks4

bib.com/blog/best-background-screening-companies-comparison3

firsthr.app/compare/general/employee-background-check-services3

verify.turingcerts.com/guides/background-check-vendor-comparison3

accusourcehr.com/blog/hireright-review-2026-what-employers-are-actually-saying-ratings-com2

bbb.org/us/ca/irvine/profile/employment-background-check/accurate-background-1126-172015002

checkrreviews.com/best-background-check-services2

fadv.com/article/background-check-providers2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when BeenVerified's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as BeenVerified, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at beenverified.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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