Checkr and ClearHire, side by side
Background checks for employers, with employment verification as a per-check add-on priced by lookback.
Who is better served by which
Better served by Checkr
Choose Checkr if you are the employer and need a criminal, identity or employment check run on a candidate after the offer.
Better served by ClearHire
Choose ClearHire if the proof should exist before the offer, be free, and be the person's own to show.
What each one charges
Checkr’s prices are copied as its pages print them, with the plan name and the page. Ours come from the same list our pricing page reads.
| Plan | Price | Note | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce Basic | $29.99 per report | Employment verification not included | checkr.com/pricing (opens in a new tab) |
| Employment verification add-on, current employer | $12.50 per check | Starting from $12.50/check; 3 years $15, 5 years $25, 7 years $35, 10 years $50 | checkr.com/pricing (opens in a new tab) |
| Personal profile | $0 once | Free; identity, sex offender registry and national criminal search | checkr.com/pricing (opens in a new tab) |
ClearHire’s plans
- Free
- No cost. Not a trial, and it does not end.
- Pro
- $9 a month, or $90 a year.
- Team
- $7 a seat a month, or $70 a seat a year. At least 3 seats, so from $210 a year.
How a paid plan is bought today is on the pricing page.
Feature by feature
A row that reads “not stated” means the pages we read did not say. It does not mean no, and we did not guess.
| What | Checkr | ClearHire |
|---|---|---|
| A free plan that does not end | CheckrPartlycheckr.com/pricing (opens in a new tab) | ClearHireYes |
| A named company countersigns a role, and the record is then locked | CheckrPartlycheckr.com/pricing (opens in a new tab) | ClearHireYes |
| Covers roles you have already left | CheckrYescheckr.com/pricing (opens in a new tab) | ClearHireYes |
| People write about companies in public | CheckrNot stated on the pages we checked | ClearHireYes |
What ClearHire does not do
This list is the same on every page here, and it is true today.
Only resumes leave in six formats
Cover letters copy out as plain text, and a portfolio has no export.
Free exports name us
A resume exported on Free carries one “built with” line. A paid plan removes it.
No career path on your record
The roadmap and skills-gap pages are reading, not a plan we keep for you.
A company’s answer stays private
What a company writes about a person is read by that person and the company’s admins. Nobody else sees it.
Check us
We read these pages on 7 November 2026. Prices move, and this page only knows what was true that day.
The pages we read
Open Checkr’s site (opens in a new tab)Moving from Checkr to ClearHire, in the docs (opens in a new tab)