# HireRight review (2026): is it worth it? > Global employment background screening, sold by quote Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. HireRight is an employment background screening provider covering criminal searches, employment verification, ID checks, drug and alcohol testing and I-9 and E-Verify management. It says it covers 200+ countries and territories and offers 70+ ATS and HCM integrations. Pricing is not published; buyers request a customized quote. - **Category:** Hiring & Applicant Tracking - **Made by:** HireRight - **Website:** https://www.hireright.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a price before talking to anyone, as none is published. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing HireRight's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Criminal searches:** County criminal, felony and misdemeanor searches, a healthcare statewide criminal check and a global criminal search of government record sources. - **Employment verification:** Confirms a candidate's stated employment history with employers or their authorized agents, in the US and in other countries. - **Global ID check:** Validates a candidate's passport or national identity document to determine whether it is authentic. - **Drug and alcohol testing:** Instant and lab-based testing options for pre-employment and ongoing screening. - **I-9 and E-Verify:** An online service for managing US employment eligibility verification, listed alongside the screening products. - **Extended workforce screening:** A separate online solution for managing background screening of contractors and other extended workforce. ## Good for - Employers that screen candidates in many countries - Companies that want screening inside an existing ATS or HCM system - Regulated hirers needing drug testing or healthcare checks ## Worth knowing - No prices are published; the pricing page only offers a customized quote. - Sold through sales (Talk to Sales); no self-serve sign-up or free trial is shown. - The vendor says it screens over 85M people a year, so it is built for larger programs. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. HireRight covers criminal searches, employment checks, ID checks, drug testing and I-9 and E-Verify, in 200+ countries and territories. The pricing page only offers a custom quote, there is no self-serve sign-up, and the vendor says it screens over 85M people a year, so it is built for big programs. - **Value for money: C.** The pricing page publishes no figure at all, only a customized quote, so there is nothing to set against this category's $95 middle price. We leave it at the ordinary grade and say so. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial is shown. Everything starts with a sales request. - **Features: B.** Criminal, employment, ID, drug and alcohol, I-9 and E-Verify and extended workforce screening, with global coverage. The listing shows no gap in the core work of screening. - **Ease of use: C.** Bought through sales and wired into an HR or applicant tracking system, so there is setup before it works. No store rating is on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with the vendor listing 70 integrations across 45+ HCM and ATS providers. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from HireRight'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 - HireRight'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 HireRight 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, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [Checkr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/checkr): Pay-per-report background checks for hiring, with an API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/checkr-vs-hireright) - [First Advantage](https://toolgpa.com/tools/first-advantage): Background screening and identity checks for employers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/first-advantage-vs-hireright) - [GoodHire](https://toolgpa.com/tools/goodhire): Employment background checks priced per check, with custom quotes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/goodhire-vs-hireright) - [Accurate](https://toolgpa.com/tools/accurate-background): Global employment background screening, sold through sales. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/accurate-background-vs-hireright) - [Certn](https://toolgpa.com/tools/certn): Self-serve background checks billed per check, US and Canada. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/certn-vs-hireright) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.hireright.com/pricing - https://www.hireright.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/hireright Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).