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Index › Vendors › Intelius · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Intelius

6Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

5 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

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Intelius was named 5 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 business48 of 61

under the label threshold

Mid-market53 of 59

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Intelius 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%	53 of 59	60%	5	under 10 labels · led by Checkr at 43%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Intelius 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 Intelius 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	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
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

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

“providers that should be avoided or approached with caution, including Intelius and Truthfinder, which are described as "awful" on Reddit” Llama 4 Maverick · Background screening · negative prompt · hard negative

“often not appropriate for hiring, tenant screening, credit, or insurance decisions and may not meet legal reporting requirements” Perplexity Sonar · Background screening · negative prompt · hard negative

“consumer lookups, not hiring-grade screening” GPT-5.4 mini · Background screening · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Intelius, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Intelius was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TruthFinder6 of 60Not in the top three

First Advantage4 of 60Not in the top three

HireRight4 of 60Not in the top three

Sterling4 of 60Not in the top three

Checkr3 of 62Not in the top three

GoodHire3 of 61Not in the top three

Accurate Background3 of 60Not in the top three

Instant Checkmate3 of 60Not in the top three

PeopleFinders3 of 60Not in the top three

Spokeo3 of 60Not 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 Intelius. 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 5 of the 6 answers that named Intelius and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bib.com4

goodhire.com3

aofirs.org2

checkr.com2

fadv.com2

gartner.com2

jdsupra.com2

pcmag.com2

pin.com2

reddit.com2

Twenty-three of the twenty-three domain citations in answers naming Intelius came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bib.com/blog/best-background-screening-companies-comparison4

goodhire.com/resources/articles/best-background-check-services3

aofirs.org/articles/best-background-checks-websites-and-services2

checkr.com/resources/articles/best-background-checks2

fadv.com/article/background-check-providers2

gartner.com/reviews/market/background-check-software2

jdsupra.com/legalnews/best-background-check-software-2026-top-10055352

pcmag.com/picks/the-best-employment-background-check-services2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Is this your product?

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 Intelius'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 Intelius, 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 intelius.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.