Every category where a model named HireRight 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%	12 of 59	32%	34	criticized challenger

Movement

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

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

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

Direct20 labels4

Paraphrase20 labels5

Comparative28 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labels3

Scale-constrained8 labelsNone

Negative22 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative110 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 16 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.

“traditional enterprise giants, great if you have heavy international hiring needs or highly regulated requirements, but their onboarding can be slower” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Background screening · scale prompt · alternative

“provides FCRA-compliant pre-employment background checks for companies from small businesses to global organizations” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Background screening · direct prompt · alternative

“self-service background check solution for small and medium-sized businesses looking for a more affordable option” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Background screening · budget prompt · alternative

“Choose Sterling, HireRight, or Cisive if you expect more enterprise-style compliance needs” GPT-5.4 mini · Background screening · paraphrase prompt · alternative

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.

“HireRight are massive players with deep international capabilities, they are generally a poor fit for mid-market B2B companies” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Background screening · direct prompt · hard negative

“HireRight Solutions was fined $2.6 million dollars for providing inaccurate criminal background checks.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Background screening · negative prompt · hard negative

“Large-scale enterprise giants (like First Advantage, which acquired Sterling, and HireRight) are often too rigid and slow for mid-market companies.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Background screening · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“the names most often called out by users are HireRight, Sterling, Intelius, TruthFinder, and Social Catfish” Perplexity Sonar · Background screening · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

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

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Checkr88 of 11040Not in the top three

First Advantage75 of 11017Not in the top three

Sterling65 of 1101Not in the top three

GoodHire55 of 11011Not in the top three

Accurate Background55 of 1101Not in the top three

Certn27 of 1101Not in the top three

Verified First20 of 1103Not in the top three

TruthFinder14 of 1100Not in the top three

BackgroundChecks.com13 of 1101Not in the top three

Instant Checkmate12 of 1100Not 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 HireRight. 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 92 of the 110 answers that named HireRight and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

checkr.com71

bib.com59

vetty.co45

fadv.com34

checkrreviews.com29

expertinsights.com29

goodhire.com29

pin.com28

pcmag.com20

verify.turingcerts.com20

364 of the 364 domain citations in answers naming HireRight came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bib.com/blog/best-background-screening-companies-comparison56

checkr.com/resources/articles/best-background-checks56

vetty.co/blog/best-background-check-companies-for-employers-in-2026-complete-comparison-gu44

expertinsights.com/compliance/the-top-background-check-solutions29

fadv.com/article/background-check-providers29

checkrreviews.com/best-background-check-services28

pin.com/blog/background-check-tools-recruiters28

goodhire.com/resources/articles/best-background-check-services20

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as HireRight

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

HireRight Solutions 2HireRight (part of ADP) 1

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