# Accurate review (2026): is it worth it? > Global employment background screening, sold through sales Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Accurate is an employment background screening provider covering criminal, credit, driving history, drug and health, identity and sanctions checks, plus Form I-9 and E-Verify. It offers a background check API, a candidate portal, a client ordering platform and integrations. The site publishes no prices; buyers contact sales. - **Category:** Hiring & Applicant Tracking - **Made by:** Accurate - **Website:** https://www.accurate.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a price on the page, because none is published. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Accurate's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Criminal and sanctions searches:** Criminal background checks, sanctions searches and global searches, with an automated court access service listed on the site. - **Verifications and identity:** Employment and education style verifications, identity verification, credit checks and social media searches. - **Drug, health and driving:** Drug and health screening and driving history checks, aimed at industries such as healthcare and transportation. - **I-9 and monitoring:** Form I-9 and E-Verify handling plus monitoring services for people after they are hired. - **API and client platform:** A background check API, a client ordering platform, a candidate portal and integrations with hiring systems. ## Good for - Multinational employers screening across several continents - Staffing, healthcare and transportation hirers with set compliance needs - Teams that want screening inside their own system through an API ## Worth knowing - No prices are published; the pricing path on the site returns a 404 and all buying goes through Contact Sales. - There is no self-serve sign-up or free trial on the pages read. - The vendor positions itself for multinational and large-organization programs as well as small business. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Accurate offers criminal, credit, driving, drug, identity and sanctions checks plus I-9 and E-Verify, with an API and a client ordering platform. The site publishes no price, its pricing path returns a 404, and buying goes through Contact Sales. - **Value for money: C.** The site publishes no price and the pricing path returns a 404, so there is no figure to set against this category's $95 middle price. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or trial on the pages we read. - **Features: B.** Criminal and sanctions searches, verifications, identity, drug, health and driving, I-9 and monitoring. The listing shows no gap in the core work of screening. - **Ease of use: C.** Bought through sales, then wired into your HR systems via the client platform or API. No store rating is on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with a background check API, a candidate portal, a client ordering platform and integrations. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Accurate's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among hiring and applicant tracking tools - Accurate's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 54 of the 101 other hiring and applicant tracking tools we grade, and level with 21. - It stands best on features (B, above 75 of 101) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hiring ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Accurate you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. - You could make: Applicant tracking and employee records: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Applicant tracking, Employee records, Public API, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [Checkr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/checkr): Pay-per-report background checks for hiring, with an API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/accurate-background-vs-checkr) - [HireRight](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hireright): Global employment background screening, sold by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/accurate-background-vs-hireright) - [First Advantage](https://toolgpa.com/tools/first-advantage): Background screening and identity checks for employers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/accurate-background-vs-first-advantage) - [GoodHire](https://toolgpa.com/tools/goodhire): Employment background checks priced per check, with custom quotes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/accurate-background-vs-goodhire) - [Certn](https://toolgpa.com/tools/certn): Self-serve background checks billed per check, US and Canada. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/accurate-background-vs-certn) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.accurate.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/accurate-background Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).