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 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Packages API, Partner API, Reports API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Background Checks, Employment Screening, Identity Verification, Human Resources, and Compliance.

The GoodHire catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

GoodHire’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, pricing, and 8 more developer resources.

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AccessPaid

1 published contract

Background Checks Employment Screening Identity Verification Human Resources Compliance FCRACheckr

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Human Capital Management

BC-300

Reports

POST /company/{company_id}/requestor/{requestor_id}/report/queue

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 27.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.1 / 15

Access Clarity 2.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · 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

Pagination 0 / 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 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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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 14.9 — up to +17.0 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 27.4 — up to +14.5 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 49.8 — up to +12.6 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Biometrics Testing (biometric recognition vendors, identity verification depth)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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 API

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

Open Collections 4

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

GoodHire Packages API

OPEN COLLECTION

GoodHire Packages Partner API

OPEN COLLECTION

GoodHire Packages Reports API

OPEN COLLECTION

GoodHire Packages Requestors API

OPEN COLLECTION

GoodHire API pricing

Not yet checked against GoodHire's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-03 from www.goodhire.com/pricing/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Basic paid	—
Essential paid	—
Complete paid	—
Custom / Add-Ons enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

API Requests: not published requests
Report Ordering: account-provisioned reports
Sandbox Usage: development-only requests

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against GoodHire's documentation. Rate-limit details →

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

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

GoodHire API Rules

66 rules · 62 error-severity 1 warn-severity 3 info-severity

SPECTRAL

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 (API Evangelist recommendations) 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 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

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: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/goodhire.png
tags:
- Background Checks
- Employment Screening
- Identity Verification
- Human Resources
- Compliance
- FCRA
- Checkr
tags_raw:
- Background Checks
- Employment Screening
- Identity Verification
- HR
- Compliance
- FCRA
- Checkr
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-10-06'
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:
  - Partners
  tags_raw:
  - 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 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:
- url: https://www.goodhire.com/blog/
  type: Blog
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/goodhire-capability-edges.yml
  name: GoodHire Business Capability Map
- 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

GoodHire API — frequently asked questions

Does GoodHire have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from GoodHire, including GoodHire Packages API, GoodHire Partner API and GoodHire Reports API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the GoodHire API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for GoodHire, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the GoodHire API?

GoodHire uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as GoodHire Authentication.

How much does the GoodHire API cost?

APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for GoodHire, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the GoodHire API ready for AI agents?

GoodHire has a Kin Score of 27.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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