Pricing
Pay only for the screens you run.
No platform fees. No seat licenses. No minimums. Per-check pricing that scales with your hiring volume — and a written quote inside one business day.
Our pricing includes access to SOC 2 Type II infrastructure, industry-leading compliance protections, 3,000+ digital courts and award-winning support.
Short answer
SafestHires allows you to customize any package to your specific needs, with no platform fees or minimums.
How much does a background check cost? With SafestHires, you can build your own package using the live pricing calculator below. There are no platform fees, seat licenses, monthly minimums, or setup fees, and pricing scales down with monthly volume through tiered discounts. Court access fees and third-party costs such as drug labs, MVR, and verifications are itemized on every invoice, with written quotes returned inside one business day.
Customized pricing
Configure your package. Watch the math change live.
Pick your monthly volume, choose the state(s) you hire in, and select the searches you need. County and statewide criminal search pricing adjusts to reflect the average courthouse research costs across the states you select.
Volume discounts kick in at 25, 50, 100, 200, and 500 package orders per month.
Criminal database record verification is required with a county or statewide search at the listed price. Jurisdiction and/or other third-party access fees may increase the final package price, if applicable.
Build a package from the searches below. Volume discounts apply to the total package price.
Court access and third-party fees (drug labs, MVR, verifications) are itemized on every invoice.
Access fees · Court & agency costs
Every court fee, published.
Some courts and third-party verifiers charge access fees, which get itemized on every invoice. Choose where you are hiring and tick the searches you run to see exactly what access fees might be added to your orders.
Step 1 · Where are you hiring?
Leave the county blank to see the court fee for that state. If available, pick a county to see the court fee for that county.
Step 2 · Which searches?
Want the background, the national averages, and the answers to the common questions? Read the full access fees guide.
The honest fine print
Pricing FAQ.
Are there platform fees or minimums?
No. You only pay for the screens you run. No seat licenses, monthly minimums, or setup fees.
How is per-check pricing determined?
Volume tier pricing scales with monthly check count and the mix of services you run. We send a written quote inside one business day.
Are court access fees added?
Yes. Court access fees and third-party costs (drug labs, MVR, international) are itemized on every invoice.
What about candidate-paid screens?
We support candidate-paid models for contractor, gig, and volunteer use cases.
How quickly can we onboard?
Most clients are onboarded same-day and are placing live orders inside one week. Activating ATS integrations can take 1–6 weeks, depending on the platform.
Is there a contract?
Month-to-month service agreement. No annual commitments. We earn the renewal every month.
Written quote inside one business day.
Send us your current vendor invoice and a week of volume. We will return an apples-to-apples comparison you can take into your next renewal conversation.