Checkr Introduces Unlimited County Criminal Search in Essential and Professional Plans, Enhancing Background Check Value
What happened
Between the Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025 captures of Checkr's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Essential and Professional plans now include 'Unlimited county criminal search' - previous model had conditional county searches triggered automatically at $15/check when national searches identified potential records; Aliases search add-on introduced at $8/candidate - allows searching for records under candidate's previously used or alternative names like nicknames, maiden names, or pseudonyms. Pulse files it as a packaging change (feature change, new add-on) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 5, 2026) lists Complete at $94.99 per report, Essential at $59.99 per report, Basic at $29.99 per report, Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) Report at $9.5 per check and Assess Premium at $4 per report.
Checkr's previous recorded change was "Checkr Introduces Tiered Pricing for Education Verification and New Add-Ons for Drug Testing and Postal Adverse Action Notifications" (Q3 2024). Checkr has been tracked since 2024-10-01.
In the same window Keepit, Zscaler, PreVeil, NordVPN and Material Security also changed their Cybersecurity & Identity Management pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Essential, County criminal search · FeatureFeature change
Essential and Professional plans now include 'Unlimited county criminal search' - previous model had conditional county searches triggered automatically at $15/check when national searches identified potential records
- Aliases · Add-onAddedNo Aliases search add-onAliases search add-on
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential, County criminal search | Feature | — | $15/check | Feature change |
| Aliases | Add-on | No Aliases search add-on | Aliases search add-on | Added |
Values as written on Checkr's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Checkr's pricing page (checkr.com) from Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where Aliases search add-on now appears.
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Checkr, the last 90 days
Full history- Jan 13, 2026packagingCheckr Renames Basic+ Plan to Basic, Streamlining Offerings
- Q2 2025packagingCheckr Discontinues Form I-9 Verification Service, Impacting Pricing Structure
- Q1 2025packagingCheckr Increases Complete Plan Price by 12.5% While Adding Federal and Unlimited State Criminal Searches
- Q4 2024packagingCheckr Introduces Unlimited County Criminal Search in Essential and Professional Plans, Enhancing Background Check Value · this change
- Q3 2024packagingCheckr Introduces Tiered Pricing for Education Verification and New Add-Ons for Drug Testing and Postal Adverse Action Notifications
Across Cybersecurity & Identity Management in the same window
All Cybersecurity & Identity Management changes- KeepitOct 26Keepit upgrades Core Continuity to unlimited hot storage
- ZscalerOct 26Zscaler adds bulk GraphQL data extraction to ZDX Advanced Plus
- PreVeilOct 26PreVeil adds FIPS 140-3 to Business, lists 10 TB+ storage
- NordVPNOct 26NordVPN: Black Friday intro discount deepens to 78% off (Complete plan)
- Material SecurityOct 26Material Security adds Drive Agent to auto-fix over-shared sensitive files
Questions about this change
Did Checkr raise prices in January 2025?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: feature change, new add-on.
What changed on Checkr's pricing page between Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025?
Essential and Professional plans now include 'Unlimited county criminal search' - previous model had conditional county searches triggered automatically at $15/check when national searches identified potential records; Aliases add-on: No Aliases search add-on → Aliases search add-on, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Checkr change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Checkr in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Checkr Introduces Tiered Pricing for Education Verification and New Add-Ons for Drug Testing and Postal Adverse Action Notifications" in Q3 2024; Checkr has been tracked since 2024-10-01.