{
 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "checkr",
 "name": "Checkr",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "checkr.com",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "AI-powered background check and screening platform for hiring: fast criminal, employment and identity verification with automated adjudication and ATS integrations — speeds up onboarding while staying FCRA-compliant.",
 "best_for": "companies hiring hourly or gig workers at volume that need fast, API-driven, compliant background checks",
 "skip_if": "you hire only a handful of people a year — a one-off check from a simpler provider costs less hassle than onboarding a screening platform",
 "honest_knock": "The headline per-check price is rarely what you actually pay — passthrough fees vary wildly by county and search type, so budget for the effective cost, not the advertised one. It's overkill unless you hire at real volume.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$29.99",
  "entry_price_terms": "per report",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-08-17 and again 2026-09-30) Pay-as-you-go per report, no subscription: Basic $29.99, Essential $59.99 and Complete $94.99 per report, with Enterprise quote-only. Tenant screening is priced separately at $24.99, $34.99 and $44.99 per report, and personal checks start from $49.99. Add-ons stack on top: MVR report $9.50 per check, identity verification $4.99 per check, and employment verification from $12.50 a check for the current employer, rising to $15, $25, $35 and $50 for three, five, seven and ten years back, with third-party court and database fees passed through at cost. The $59.95 (employment) and $64.95 (income and employment) figures on the same page belong to Checkr's separate pay-as-you-go verification product for mortgage lending, billed per verification with no commitment or contract, not to the hiring add-ons.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
  "source_url": "https://checkr.com/pricing"
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "Tenant screening is priced separately at $24.99, $34.99 and $44.99 per report, and personal checks start from $49.99.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
   "source_url": "https://checkr.com/pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "GoodHire or Sterling",
  "why": "other background-check providers"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/checkr.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/checkr-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/checkr/",
  "vendor_site": "https://checkr.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://get.checkr.com/dlmrvlliqgxm",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "checkr:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "checkr:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "checkr:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "checkr:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}