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 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Packages API, Partner API, Reports API, and 1 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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39.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessPaidSelf serve

4 APIs

Background Checks Employment Screening Identity Verification HR Compliance FCRACheckr

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 39.6/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.8 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Access Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 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 Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 4

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

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.

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.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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
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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