GoodHire

GoodHire is an FCRA-compliant employment background check platform aimed at small and midsize businesses, offering criminal, identity, employment, education, and reference screening with candidate self-consent workflows. GoodHire was acquired by Checkr (the developer-first background check company) in 2021 - the deal was reported at roughly $400M - and now operates as "GoodHire, A Checkr Company." The GoodHire API is a RESTful, FCRA-compliant background screening API split into a Customer API (a single company ordering its own reports) and a Partner API (HR platforms that let their employer customers order GoodHire reports). Background checks are ordered by creating a report object tied to a candidate and a package; status changes are delivered via webhooks. API keys are gated - developers request access from api@goodhire.com and build against a sandbox before production.

GoodHire publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Packages API, Partner API, Reports API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Background Checks, Employment Screening, Identity Verification, HR, and Compliance.

GoodHire’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, and 7 more developer resources.

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38.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessPaid

1 APIs

Background Checks Employment Screening Identity Verification HR Compliance FCRACheckr

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 38.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.6 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 4.5 / 18

Access Clarity 9.0 / 18

Operational Transparency 3.7 / 12

Contract Governance 0.0 / 11

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 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

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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APIs 5

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

GoodHire Packages API

List available screening packages (product bundles) and prices.

GoodHire Partner API

Partner API app-access flow for embedded HR platforms.

GoodHire Reports API

Order and track background check reports.

GoodHire Requestors API

Manage the users who order and are associated with reports.

GoodHire GoodHire API

The GoodHire API API from GoodHire — 0 operation(s) for goodhire api.

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

GoodHire Packages API

OPEN COLLECTION

GoodHire Packages Partner API

OPEN COLLECTION

GoodHire Packages Reports API

OPEN COLLECTION

GoodHire Packages Requestors API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Goodhire Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Goodhire Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Goodhire Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Goodhire Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Goodhire Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Goodhire Agentic Access

8 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: goodhire
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/goodhire/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: GoodHire
kind: company
description: GoodHire is an FCRA-compliant employment background check platform aimed at small and midsize businesses, offering
  criminal, identity, employment, education, and reference screening with candidate self-consent workflows. GoodHire was acquired
  by Checkr (the developer-first background check company) in 2021 - the deal was reported at roughly $400M - and now operates
  as "GoodHire, A Checkr Company." The GoodHire API is a RESTful, FCRA-compliant background screening API split into a Customer
  API (a single company ordering its own reports) and a Partner API (HR platforms that let their employer customers order
  GoodHire reports). Background checks are ordered by creating a report object tied to a candidate and a package; status changes
  are delivered via webhooks. API keys are gated - developers request access from api@goodhire.com and build against a sandbox
  before production.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/goodhire.png
tags:
- Background Checks
- Employment Screening
- Identity Verification
- HR
- Compliance
- FCRA
- Checkr
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: goodhire:goodhire-packages-api
  name: GoodHire Packages API
  description: List available screening packages (product bundles) and prices.
  humanURL: https://www.goodhire.com/api/
  baseURL: https://api.goodhire.com
  tags:
  - Packages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/goodhire-packages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.goodhire.com/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://help.goodhire.com/docs/partner-reports
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://help.goodhire.com/docs/partner-requestors
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/goodhire-plans-pricing.yml
- aid: goodhire:goodhire-partner-api
  name: GoodHire Partner API
  description: Partner API app-access flow for embedded HR platforms.
  humanURL: https://www.goodhire.com/api/
  baseURL: https://api.goodhire.com
  tags:
  - Partner
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/goodhire-partner-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.goodhire.com/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://help.goodhire.com/docs/partner-reports
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://help.goodhire.com/docs/partner-requestors
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/goodhire-plans-pricing.yml
- aid: goodhire:goodhire-reports-api
  name: GoodHire Reports API
  description: Order and track background check reports.
  humanURL: https://www.goodhire.com/api/
  baseURL: https://api.goodhire.com
  tags:
  - Reports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/goodhire-reports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.goodhire.com/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://help.goodhire.com/docs/partner-reports
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://help.goodhire.com/docs/partner-requestors
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/goodhire-plans-pricing.yml
- aid: goodhire:goodhire-requestors-api
  name: GoodHire Requestors API
  description: Manage the users who order and are associated with reports.
  humanURL: https://www.goodhire.com/api/
  baseURL: https://api.goodhire.com
  tags:
  - Requestors
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/goodhire-requestors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.goodhire.com/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://help.goodhire.com/docs/partner-reports
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://help.goodhire.com/docs/partner-requestors
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/goodhire-plans-pricing.yml
- aid: goodhire:goodhire-goodhire-api-api
  name: GoodHire GoodHire API
  description: The GoodHire API API from GoodHire — 0 operation(s) for goodhire api.
  humanURL: https://www.goodhire.com/api/
  baseURL: https://api.goodhire.com
  tags:
  - GoodHire API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/goodhire-goodhire-api-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/goodhire-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/goodhire-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/goodhire-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/goodhire
- type: Website
  url: https://www.goodhire.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.goodhire.com/api/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.goodhire.com/pricing/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/goodhire-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/goodhire-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/goodhire-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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