Pricing
One line item: $5 per check.
Nothing else on the invoice — no platform minimum, no per-seat charge, no setup cost. You're billed for checks run, and that's it.
Three ways to pay. One price per check.
Buy checks one at a time or in a bundle — the per-report cost doesn't change. The platform itself has no separate bill.
Pay As You Go
One check, one charge — nothing to commit to upfront.
- Federal, state & county court records, searched in parallel
- All 50 state sex-offender registries
- FBI Most Wanted, OFAC & global watchlists
- Free biometric identity verification
- Human review of every record, FCRA-compliant
- Free address-history check on every application
Starter Pack · 10 Credits
$4.50 per check. Credits never expire.
- Everything in Pay As You Go
- 10 background check credits
- 10% savings vs single-check rate
- Credits roll over, never expire
- Bigger bundles up to 25% off in-app
- Usage dashboard & reporting
Platform Access
Bundled into every account — no separate license required.
- Everything in Pay As You Go
- Candidate pipeline tracking
- Audit-ready PDF & CSV reports
- Compliance status board
- Automated re-screening alerts
- AI offer & policy assistant (Claude)
Screening is always pay-as-you-go. Every management feature is included free.
Why $5
Most background check quotes aren't the real price.
The number on a screening vendor's pricing page is a starting bid, not an invoice. Once monthly platform fees, per-seat licenses, setup charges, and court pass-through fees are layered on, industry pricing analyses show the real cost of a “comprehensive” report routinely landing 40–70% above what was quoted.
Meanwhile, the National Employment Law Project estimates that roughly 70 million Americans — about 1 in 3 adults — carry an arrest or conviction record that could surface on a routine check.¹ Put differently: for the other two-thirds of candidates, you're paying a premium price for a report that was always going to come back clean. PreHireBadge charges what the search actually costs to run. No tiers to upsell you into, no platform fee hiding under the per-check price. That number is $5.
Typical Vendor Quote
What the pricing page says
Before the invoice arrives
- Entry-level package (advertised)$20–$40
- Comprehensive package (advertised)$80–$200+
- Monthly platform fee$100–$250/mo
- Setup / implementation fee$250–$1,000
- Jurisdiction pass-through feesBilled separately
- What actually hits your card40–70% above quote
PreHireBadge
What the invoice says
Same number, every time
- Entry-level package (advertised)$5
- Comprehensive package (advertised)$5
- Monthly platform fee$0
- Setup / implementation fee$0
- Jurisdiction pass-through feesIncluded
- What actually hits your card$5. Every time.
¹ National Employment Law Project, “Faulty FBI Background Checks for Employment.” Pricing benchmarks from SHRM's reliable-background-check cost analysis and industry fee disclosures.
FAQ
Everything employers want to know before they start screening candidates.
$5 per check, whether you buy one at a time or grab the 10-credit Starter Pack for $45 (a small discount over buying individually). There's no monthly fee, no setup charge, and credits don't expire, so occasional hiring doesn't cost more per-check than high-volume hiring.
Your next candidate is one $5 report away.
No credit card to sign up, no expiration on what you buy. Run one report for $5, or stock up with the 10-pack for $45 and use them whenever hiring picks up.