When asked for the best employment background check service, 6 AI assistants named 4 brands between them this month. Checkr was named most often, followed by GoodHire and Sterling. 2 brands were named by every assistant that answered: Checkr, GoodHire.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checkr | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| GoodHire | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Sterling | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| HireRight | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 4 brands, in this order: GoodHire, Checkr, Sterling, HireRight.
Selecting the best employment background check service for a small business depends on several factors such as the types of checks needed, the budget, compliance requirements, and ease of use.
Perplexity
Named 2 brands, in this order: GoodHire, Checkr.
For most small businesses, GoodHire is a strong overall choice because it is repeatedly recommended for SMBs, emphasizes compliance support, and is described as a good fit for occasional hiring.
Claude
Named 4 brands, in this order: Checkr, GoodHire, HireRight, Sterling.
Here are some top options to consider:
Grok
Named 3 brands, in this order: Checkr, Sterling, GoodHire.
If you want even more hand-holding and transparency:
DeepSeek
Named 4 brands, in this order: Checkr, GoodHire, Sterling, HireRight.
There isn't a single "best" service — it depends on your budget, hiring volume, industry, and how much compliance support you want.
Cohere
Named 4 brands, in this order: Checkr, GoodHire, Sterling, HireRight.
Choosing the best employment background check service for a small business depends on your specific needs, budget, and industry requirements.
The questions asked
- What is the best employment background check service for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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