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 "id": "gcheck",
 "name": "GCheck",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "gcheck.com",
 "category": "HR & People",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "US employment background screening sold per check: criminal, identity, sanctions and driving records, verifications, drug testing and I-9/E-Verify, with FCRA workflows and ATS and HRIS integrations for hiring teams.",
 "best_for": "US employers running a steady number of hires, especially in healthcare, nonprofits, education and staffing, who want published per-check prices with no setup fee or contract and are happy to open an account through GCheck's sales team rather than a checkout",
 "skip_if": "you want to buy a single check online today without talking to anyone, since every order button on the pricing page leads to a contact form; you need to know the full cost in advance, because third-party fees and every add-on beyond the three packages are unpriced; or you screen candidates outside the US as your main need rather than as an extra",
 "honest_knock": "The pricing page reads like self-serve and is not. “Pay per screen” sits above three published prices, but every Get Started with Basic, Standard or Advanced button on that page opens the same contact form as Book a Demo, asking for your company name. There is no checkout: an employer who wants to run one check this afternoon starts with a sales conversation, and the price you are quoted after it is the one to hold them to.\n\nThe $18.95 check is narrower than the headline suggests. Basic searches county court records only in the candidate's current county of residence, and GCheck's own FAQ calls the county search the gold standard for criminal record accuracy while describing the national database search as covering participating jurisdictions. A candidate who moved last year has their previous counties searched only from Standard at $39.95, which is the package GCheck itself marks Most Popular. Then there is the asterisk under every price: third-party fees may apply to some products and are passed through with no markup, and nothing on the site says which products or how much. County court access fees are the usual example in this industry, so budget for the package price plus fees you will see for the first time on an invoice.\n\nThe rest of the catalogue is unpriced. Drug tests, driving records, employment and education verification, credit and civil searches, fingerprinting and international searches are all listed and none carries a figure, so a role that needs an MVR or an employment verification on top of the criminal search is a quote, not a sum. The same goes for integrations: GCheck's integrations page names 18 ATS and HRIS systems, including Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, BambooHR and Rippling, but the pricing page places integrations under the custom quote for employers running more than 50 checks a year, and its FAQ sends you to sales for the list.\n\nOn track record we can tell you less than we would like. The 12–24 hour average turnaround and same-day results in many regions are GCheck's own figures. Its Better Business Bureau profile and the usual review sites blocked our reader, and a Reddit search turned up no thread about GCheck specifically, so we found no independent account of turnaround or accuracy to weigh against the site's claims. GCheck does publish an FCRA dispute form for candidates with a stated 30-day response. We have not ordered a check from GCheck.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$18.95",
  "entry_price_terms": "Basic · per year, per background check, current county of residence only",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-10-16 on gcheck.com/pricing-packages after GCheck's partner mail announced a lower Basic price, and again on 2026-11-12 with its comparison page; first read 2026-09-29, including its FAQ) Three packages, each priced per background check, with no setup fees, no minimums and no long-term contracts. Basic is $18.95 per check (it was $19.95 when we first read the page on 29 September) and covers an SSN trace and address history, a national criminal database search, the nationwide sex offender registry, the OIG excluded parties list, OFAC sanctions lists, global watchlists and a county criminal search in the candidate's current county of residence only. Standard, marked Most Popular, is $39.95 per check and adds biometric identity verification and county criminal searches in every county on the candidate's full address history. Advanced, marked Recommended, is $49.95 per check and adds a federal criminal search across every federal district on that same address history. An asterisk on all three prices reads: additional third-party fees may apply to some products and are passed through with no markup; the page does not list those fees. Employers running more than 50 checks a year are pointed to a custom quote, which is where the page places ATS and HRIS integrations and customised workflows, and GCheck states that volume pricing and merit-based nonprofit discounts exist without publishing either. Everything else in the catalogue — drug tests (DOT, 5-panel and 10-panel), motor vehicle and CDL records, employment, education and reference verification, credit, bankruptcy, eviction, liens and judgments searches, fingerprinting, Form I-9 and E-Verify, and international searches — carries no public price. GCheck is based at 8335 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, and gives its phone number as 844-424-3254. Re-read on 12 November 2026: the three prices are unchanged. The plan cards still say Standard covers \"a candidate's full address history\", but the FAQ on the same page and GCheck's comparison page (gcheck.com/pricing-packages/compare, \"Prices checked November 2026\") limit the county searches on Standard and Advanced to counties of residence in the last 7 years, and the federal search on Advanced to districts on that seven-year history. The comparison page also states a charge the cards do not show: on every package, if the national database search finds possible records in counties the package does not cover, those counties are searched automatically at $9.95 each, and court fees may come on top.",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-12",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 18.95,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Basic, per background check, current county of residence only; Standard is $39.95 with county searches across the last 7 years of addresses (the cards say full address history) and biometric identity verification, Advanced $49.95 adds federal criminal searches; third-party fees passed through on top without a published schedule; no setup fee, minimum or contract; any county outside the package with a possible national-database hit is searched automatically at $9.95. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-11-12.",
   "page": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/gcheck-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Checkr",
  "why": "Checkr is the per-report comparison in our own dossiers. On our reading of 17 August 2026 Checkr charged $29.99 for Basic, $59.99 for Essential (the tier that adds identity verification and unlimited county criminal searches) and $94.99 for Complete, pay-as-you-go without a subscription, with employment verification and MVRs priced as separate add-ons. GCheck's closest step, Standard with biometric identity verification and county searches across the seven-year address history, was $39.95 on 29 September 2026, and its Basic was $19.95 against Checkr's $29.99. Both add third-party fees on top of the headline, and neither package price is what you pay. The practical difference is how you buy: Checkr publishes its add-on prices, GCheck publishes only the three packages and routes every order through a contact form. A team that wants to know the whole bill before it starts fits Checkr's published add-ons; a team hiring for county-level coverage on a budget can use GCheck's lower package prices as the opening number in a sales conversation."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/gcheck.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/gcheck-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/gcheck/",
  "vendor_site": "https://gcheck.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.gcheck.com/6h8ivvjx37bv",
  "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.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "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."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "gcheck: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": "gcheck:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "gcheck:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "gcheck: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"
  }
 }
}