Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 57 → 51 of 52
1 category · RankedHireRight
120Judge labels
17First choices
36Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
27% in Background screening for enterprise buyers
Rank 10 of 83 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 29% of its 34 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of HireRight →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business58 of 59
0%20 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market10 of 83
2%34 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise1 of 71
27%63 labels
accepted challenger
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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Background screening | Talent acquisition | 2% | 10 of 83 | 29% | 34 | criticized challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, HireRight held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Background screening · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 12 → 9 of 70
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 27% → 28%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
28%from 27% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 2 → 1 of 62
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Background screening | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 12 → 10 of 83 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated HireRight across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated HireRight across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct19 labels7
Paraphrase20 labels5
Comparative31 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained13 labels4
Scale-constrained10 labels1
Negative27 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative120 labels in all, every segment counted; 17 of the 22 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.
“Many reputable providers like First Advantage, HireRight, and others generally have better track records.” MiniMax M2.5 · Background screening · negative prompt · first choice
“HireRight or Checkr offer the best balance of features, integrations, and scalability” MiniMax M2.5 · Background screening · direct prompt · first choice
“If you hire internationally or need enterprise coverage, HireRight and First Advantage are usually stronger fits.” Perplexity Sonar · Background screening · comparative prompt · alternative
“Stick with well-established, accredited providers like Sterling, HireRight, GoodHire, or TransUnion SmartMove” Mistral Small · Background screening · negative 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.
“Avoid Enterprise Giants (for now): ... their implementation times can be painfully slow” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Background screening · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“FCRA violations on record — the FTC fined HireRight Solutions $2.6 million” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Background screening · negative prompt · hard negative
“2012 FTC Penalty: $2.6 million civil penalty ... Complaints nearly tripled in 2025” Kimi K2 · Background screening · negative prompt · hard negative
“Many background check companies, including Checkr, HireRight, First Advantage, Sterling, Accurate Background, and Asurint, rely on automated systems to match records” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Background screening · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as HireRight, over the 120 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as HireRight, over the 120 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 112 of the 120 answers that named HireRight and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
checkr.com68
pin.com58
selectsoftwarereviews.com51
fadv.com39
mitratech.com39
peoplemanagingpeople.com37
bib.com34
goodhire.com34
pcmag.com29
techradar.com29
418 of the 418 domain citations in answers naming HireRight came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
hireright.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, HireRight takes 2% of first choices and Checkr takes 31%.ShowHide
Search and answers
hireright.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, HireRight takes 2% of first choices and Checkr takes 31%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “background check provider”
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not in the top ten
Position for “background check providers”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 74,000 a month (“hireright”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,249 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 65,054 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,634 · 409 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,340
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 10 of 83 in background screening
Segment leader
31%
Checkr
- First choices
- 17 across its categories
- Named in
- 120 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 112 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on hireright.com
1,300
subdomains included
Content
772
counted in the table below
Documentation
201
Product · Integration
0 · 46
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 610 | 9 | 2026-09-21 | Background screening, Applicant tracking syste | |
| News or press | 129 | undated | Background screening, Pay equity | ||
| Case study | 9 | undated | Background screening | ||
| Conference or event | 8 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 6 | undated | Background screening | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 6 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-21Biometric laws in employment practices understanding the impact in screening workflows blog
- 2026-09-01Defining success background screening implementation global rollout blog
- 2026-08-055 real world examples and case narratives of employment fraud and insider threat blog
- 2026-07-302026 midyear hiring compliance building for a changing legal landscape blog
- 2026-07-27Why following the rules may no longer be enough blog
- 2026-07-225 hidden risks in your screening process you need to know blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page hireright.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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 / Sterling (now First Advantage) 1
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The company
HireRight is its own company.ShowHide
The company
HireRight is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Hiring Never Felt So Right
- For
- organizations of all sizes
- Price stated
- access contracted supplier pricing with our cooperative partners hireright.com/partners
- Integrations claimed
- 70 hireright.com
- Certifications
- ISO 27001:2022ISO 27701SOC 2 Type IISIGHECVAT
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, hosting, customers
What HireRight's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: hireright.com, trust.hireright.com, hireright.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for HireRight by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where HireRight is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name HireRight, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.