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Index › Vendors › GoodHire · September 2026 Edition

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GoodHire

110Judge labels

24First choices

3Negative labels

12 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.

Best standing

38% in Background screening for small business buyers

Rank 2 of 59 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger

1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 2% of its 41 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.

Small business1 of 61

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 GoodHire 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	14%	2 of 59	2%	41	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for GoodHire 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 GoodHire 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	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	2	2	0	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	2	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	3	1	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	5	0	0	5
Mistral Small	1	0	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	2	1	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	1	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	3	0	0	5
Kimi K2	1	2	0	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	4	0	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	0	2

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

Direct23 labels5

Paraphrase22 labels10

Comparative24 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained26 labels8

Scale-constrained8 labels1

Negative7 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative110 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 28 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.

“My Verdict: Start with a demo from GoodHire. They strike the safest balance between the capability of an enterprise company and the agility of a startup.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Background screening · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“GoodHire - Great for small-to-mid-sized companies, offers transparent pricing and packages starting around $30/check” MiniMax M2.5 · Background screening · budget prompt · first choice

“providers like GoodHire (for ease of use) ... are generally recommended over the cheapest aggregators” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Background screening · negative prompt · first choice

“Checkr Professional and GoodHire Complete are frequently recommended” Mistral Small · Background screening · direct 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.

“Checkr acquired GoodHire, so the product roadmap and support structure may be evolving” Kimi K2 · Background screening · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as GoodHire, over the 110 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GoodHire was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Checkr100 of 11041Compare →

HireRight55 of 1103Not in the top three

Certn51 of 1108Compare →

Sterling43 of 1101Not in the top three

Accurate Background40 of 1102Not in the top three

BackgroundChecks.com37 of 1107Not in the top three

First Advantage36 of 1106Not in the top three

Verified First18 of 1101Not in the top three

Bchex15 of 1100Not in the top three

Mitratech AssureHire11 of 1101Not 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 GoodHire. 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 97 of the 110 answers that named GoodHire and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

checkr.com78

bib.com64

goodhire.comYour site44

checkrreviews.com42

firsthr.app35

fitsmallbusiness.com35

vetty.co34

gcheck.com32

pin.com30

fadv.com26

376 of the 420 domain citations in answers naming GoodHire came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

checkr.com/resources/articles/best-background-checks64

bib.com/blog/best-background-screening-companies-comparison63

checkrreviews.com/best-background-check-services42

firsthr.app/compare/general/employee-background-check-services35

fitsmallbusiness.com/best-background-check-companies33

vetty.co/blog/best-background-check-companies-for-employers-in-2026-complete-comparison-gu32

gcheck.com/blog/9-best-background-check-companies-for-small-businesses30

pin.com/blog/background-check-tools-recruiters29

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as GoodHire

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

GoodHire Complete 2

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Claim this page

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 GoodHire'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 GoodHire, 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 goodhire.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.