Every category where a model named Checkr 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	43%	1 of 59	6%	49	endorsed leader
HR compliance and policy management	Core HR and payroll	0%	29 of 84	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 16%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Checkr 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 Checkr across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	0	1	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	4	0	0	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	3	0	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	2	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	2	0	0	5
Mistral Small	1	1	2	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	3	1	1	7
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	3	0	0	0	3
Kimi K2	3	2	1	0	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	3	0	0	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	2	1	2	1	6

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

Direct31 labels15

Paraphrase29 labels14

Comparative41 labels24not counted in share

Budget-constrained30 labels7

Scale-constrained12 labels1

Negative14 labels6not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative157 labels in all, every segment counted; 37 of the 67 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.

“Checkr Professional and GoodHire Complete are frequently recommended due to their balance of features, ease of use, and compliance support” Mistral Small · Background screening · direct prompt · first choice

“Checkr consistently ranks as a top background check provider across industries, delivering 89% of criminal checks in just one hour” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Background screening · comparative prompt · first choice

“For most mid-market B2B companies, Checkr Professional offers the best balance of features, integrations, and reliability.” MiniMax M2.5 · Background screening · direct prompt · first choice

“Checkr solidified its place as the top choice for both automated enterprise screening and user-friendly SMB hiring.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Background screening · comparative prompt · first choice

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.

“Complaints have risen sharply: 153 in 2023, 187 in 2024, and 469 in 2025... errors in reports and difficulty disputing incorrect information.” MiniMax M2.5 · Background screening · negative prompt · hard negative

“watch out for additional court/DMV pass-through fees that can add 40–70% to the base price” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Background screening · budget prompt · soft negative

“their automated matching algorithms are a frequent source of false hits” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Background screening · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Checkr, over the 157 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Checkr was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GoodHire100 of 15716Compare →

HireRight88 of 15710Not in the top three

First Advantage74 of 15717Not in the top three

Accurate Background61 of 1571Not in the top three

Sterling58 of 1571Not in the top three

Certn56 of 1579Compare →

BackgroundChecks.com39 of 1576Not in the top three

Verified First25 of 1573Not in the top three

Bchex16 of 1570Not in the top three

Mitratech AssureHire14 of 1571Not 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 Checkr. 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 138 of the 157 answers that named Checkr and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

checkr.comYour site107

bib.com88

vetty.co54

goodhire.com50

checkrreviews.com48

fitsmallbusiness.com39

firsthr.app38

gcheck.com37

fadv.com36

pin.com35

425 of the 532 domain citations in answers naming Checkr came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

checkr.com/resources/articles/best-background-checks89

bib.com/blog/best-background-screening-companies-comparison85

vetty.co/blog/best-background-check-companies-for-employers-in-2026-complete-comparison-gu52

checkrreviews.com/best-background-check-services47

firsthr.app/compare/general/employee-background-check-services37

fitsmallbusiness.com/best-background-check-companies37

pin.com/blog/background-check-tools-recruiters35

expertinsights.com/compliance/the-top-background-check-solutions34

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Checkr

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Checkr; a claim can dispute any of them.

Checkr Professional 2Checkr (incorporating GoodHire) 1

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