Background Check Quotes

Background Check Quotes aggregates pricing information from U.S. employment and tenant background screening providers. It lists 25 companies from the CFPB consumer reporting list, showing which publish prices (median $29.99) and which require quotes. The site is run by Joseph Ellul and provides data, guides, and tools for professionals needing background check cost insights.

Background Check Quotes publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Background Checks, Pricing, Employment, Tenants, and Data.

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13.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessOpen

2 published contracts 1 MCP Servers 1 Agent Skills

Background Checks Pricing Employment Tenants Data

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 13.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.1 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 0.8 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Employment & Payroll regime (on an ambiguous tag, where no other regime matched), so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 6.4 — up to +18.7 composite points
Access Clarity scores 10.5 — up to +17.9 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Background Check Quotes API

Background Check Quotes API provides dataset and enquiry tools for US background screening pricing.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Background Check Quotes MCP Server

Remote MCP server at backgroundcheckquotes.com.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

dataset-tools

AGENT SKILL

Background Check Quotes API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Backgroundcheckquotes Com Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Backgroundcheckquotes Com Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Backgroundcheckquotes Com Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Backgroundcheckquotes Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Backgroundcheckquotes Com Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Backgroundcheckquotes Com Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Conformance

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: backgroundcheckquotes-com
name: Background Check Quotes
description: Background Check Quotes aggregates pricing information from U.S. employment and tenant background screening providers.
  It lists 25 companies from the CFPB consumer reporting list, showing which publish prices (median $29.99) and which require
  quotes. The site is run by Joseph Ellul and provides data, guides, and tools for professionals needing background check
  cost insights.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/backgroundcheckquotes-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-02 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-02'
modified: '2026-11-02'
tags:
- Background Checks
- Pricing
- Employment
- Tenants
- Data
tags_raw:
- Background-Check
- Pricing
- Employment
- Tenant
- Data
image: https://backgroundcheckquotes.com/favicon.svg?v=0.5.0
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/backgroundcheckquotes-com-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://backgroundcheckquotes.com/terms
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/backgroundcheckquotes-com-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/backgroundcheckquotes-com-llms.txt
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/backgroundcheckquotes-com-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/backgroundcheckquotes-com-mcp.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/backgroundcheckquotes-com-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/backgroundcheckquotes-com-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/backgroundcheckquotes-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/backgroundcheckquotes-com-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://backgroundcheckquotes.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://backgroundcheckquotes.com/privacy/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/backgroundcheckquotes-com-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/backgroundcheckquotes-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://backgroundcheckquotes.com/
apis:
- name: Background Check Quotes API
  description: Background Check Quotes API provides dataset and enquiry tools for US background screening pricing.
  humanURL: https://backgroundcheckquotes.com/
  baseURL: https://backgroundcheckquotes.com
  aid: backgroundcheckquotes-com:background-check-quotes-api
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 33
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=oss,contract=oss,surfaces=oss,docs=oss,regulatory=oss

Background Check Quotes API — frequently asked questions

Does Background Check Quotes have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Background Check Quotes, including Background Check Quotes API.

How do I authenticate with the Background Check Quotes API?

Background Check Quotes documents its authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Backgroundcheckquotes Com Authentication.

Does Background Check Quotes have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Background Check Quotes: Remote MCP server at backgroundcheckquotes.com.

Is the Background Check Quotes API ready for AI agents?

Background Check Quotes has a Kin Score of 13.3 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 12.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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