Yardstik review

Yardstik is a workforce trust platform for employers and platforms that need to screen workers, prevent fraud or keep track of workforce risk. It combines background screening with fraud checks, credential verification and ongoing monitoring rather than selling only a one-time criminal check.

Before screening, its fraud prevention features flag synthetic identities, deepfakes and AI-generated credentials. Screening options include criminal, motor vehicle, drug, DOT, healthcare and social media checks. Yardstik can also verify employment history, education and professional licenses, then monitor for changes such as criminal records, sex offender records and arrests.

For platform teams, a REST API can trigger screens, retrieve results and manage workflows programmatically. Fraud Insights provides aggregate fraud-risk signals across a workforce. That makes Yardstik relevant both to businesses hiring workers directly and to companies embedding screening and trust features in their own products.

The main advantage is breadth: Yardstik brings fraud prevention, screening, credential checks and ongoing monitoring into one workforce trust offering. That can suit teams that need more than a one-off criminal search, particularly platforms building screening into their own workflows.

Its screening menu covers several distinct use cases, including motor vehicle, drug, DOT, healthcare and social media checks. Credential verification adds employment, education and professional-license checks, while monitoring can flag changes involving criminal records, sex offender records and arrests. Fraud Insights gives teams an aggregate view of fraud-risk signals rather than limiting the product to individual screening results.

The API is another practical fit for platforms: per the product details, it supports triggering screens, retrieving results and managing workflows programmatically. That gives product teams a route to embed screening instead of relying only on a separate manual process. The price schedule also provides per-screen rates at five volume tiers, so buyers can compare listed screening costs at 25, 50, 100, 250 and 500 screens before asking about larger volumes.

The biggest buying drawback is that Yardstik does not publish monthly or annual package prices. The listed prices are per screen, so they do not establish a predictable subscription cost or explain what a broader bundle might cost. Trial terms are not published, and no free plan is listed in the published pricing details.

The published criminal-screening rates are tiered, not flat: Standard costs $25 per screen at 25 screens and falls to $16.50 at 500; Premium costs $35 at 25 and $28.50 at 500. Those are volume-based prices for the named criminal packages, not a complete price for every screening option. State or county surcharges may also apply.

The schedule stops at 500 screens. For more than 500, Yardstik offers custom pricing, but does not publish the rate. Buyers comparing vendors therefore need a quote to estimate larger programs, and should confirm whether their required checks, monitoring and fraud features are included or priced separately. The published details do not specify those package boundaries.

Yardstik lists screening prices per screen, not monthly or annual package fees. The Standard Criminal Package costs $25 per screen at 25 screens, falling to $23.50 at 50, $21.50 at 100, $19 at 250 and $16.50 at 500. Premium costs $35, $33.50, $31.50, $29 and $28.50 per screen at those same volumes. That makes Premium $10 more per screen at volumes up to 250, and $12 more at 500.

The lower per-screen rates come with larger screening batches, so compare the quoted tier with the number you expect to order—not just the entry price. More than 500 screens requires custom pricing, which Yardstik does not publish. State or county surcharges may also apply, so the listed rate may not be the final cost. The published pricing information lists no free plan, and a free trial is not published. Ask for a written quote covering surcharges and any other screening or monitoring charges before budgeting.

Yardstik’s REST API can trigger screens, retrieve results and manage workflows, according to the published product information. Teams moving to Yardstik should map those actions to their existing hiring or platform workflows, then confirm which records and statuses need to move. The available information does not say whether Yardstik supports bulk imports, data exports or migration assistance, so get those details in writing before committing.

Leaving could take more planning if your product depends on Yardstik’s API or ongoing monitoring. Confirm how to retrieve screening results and what happens to monitoring when an account closes; those terms are not published on the vendor's site. We also don’t have Reddit posts or comments to substantiate why users leave, so we won’t attribute churn reasons to Reddit. Before switching, ask both providers about export formats, retention, API changes and any costs for keeping access to historical results. The main lock-in risk to assess is the work involved in replacing integrations and rebuilding workflows—not a confirmed Yardstik restriction.