# Best identity and business verification APIs for AI agents (slim)

> Didit (BB), Persona (B) and Sumsub (B) lead the 11 ranked identity and business verification APIs. Picks by need, strengths, weaknesses and prices from the Anchor benchmark.

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The 10 highest-scoring of 11 identity and business verification APIs on the Anchor benchmark, with a pick for each need and where each one falls short. Scores come from public evidence, re-checked as vendors change.

- Ranked: 11 · agent-ready (BB or better): 1 · accept x402: 0 · hosted endpoints: 9
- Full ranked table: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/identity-verification.md
- Head-to-head comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/identity-verification/index.md (55)
- Methodology: https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/index.md

## The shortlist

| # | Tool | Grade | Score | Best for | Price | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Didit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/didit.md) | BB | 75 | A team that wants document, liveness, screening and business registry checks from one API with public prices and no sales step, and an agent that has to set itself up. | $0.15 / tx | hosted and local |
| 2 | [Persona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/persona.md) | B | 69.5 | A company that already runs Persona and wants an agent to create inquiries from templates, read verification and report results, screen against watchlists and work review cases with a permission-limited key. | $250 / mo | hosted |
| 3 | [Sumsub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sumsub.md) | B | 68.5 | An agent that starts verifications, sends links, reads results and AML cases, and works case queues for a regulated business, with one token limited to those permissions. | $1.35 / tx | hosted |
| 4 | [ComplyCube](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/complycube.md) | B | 63.7 | An agent that creates clients, uploads documents, starts document, identity and AML screening checks and reads results for a regulated business, with low entry cost ($99 a month) and a scripted sandbox. | $99 / mo | hosted |
| 5 | [Socure RiskOS](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/socure-riskos.md) | B | 63.5 | A company in the United States that wants one decision from combined KYC, document, fraud and watchlist checks through a single evaluation call. | $0.80 / tx | hosted |
| 6 | [Veriff](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/veriff.md) | C | 61.1 | A team that needs document and selfie verification with public per-verification prices and a trial, and that can run a webhook receiver and HMAC signing. | $0.80 / tx | local |
| 7 | [Middesk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/middesk.md) | C | 59 | An agent onboarding or re-checking US businesses for a bank, lender or marketplace that already holds a Middesk contract, with registry, TIN, sanctions and lien data in one object. | Paid | hosted |
| 8 | [Trulioo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trulioo.md) | C | 58.2 | An agent doing business due diligence (search, verification, ownership, reports) or person checks across many countries for a company that already has a Trulioo contract, and for teams that want to test verification flows against synthetic data first. | Paid | hosted |
| 9 | [Shufti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shufti.md) | C | 57.8 | A team that wants document, face, address, AML and KYB checks behind one endpoint, a free plan for low volume, and an MCP server that hands the person a hosted verification link. | $1.50 / tx | hosted |
| 10 | [Jumio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jumio.md) | C | 55 | An enterprise with a Jumio contract that wants document, selfie and liveness checks, watchlist screening and Latin American, Thai and Australian database checks behind OpenAPI-described endpoints. | Paid | local |

## Picks by need

- Highest score overall: [Didit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/didit.md), BB, 75/100 on the benchmark. Also [Persona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/persona.md), B, 69.5/100.
- Reliability: [ComplyCube](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/complycube.md), 84/100 on reliability, against 80 for the overall leader.
- Agent ergonomics: [Trulioo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trulioo.md), 78/100 on agent ergonomics, against 69 for the overall leader.
- Security & auth: [Sumsub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sumsub.md), 80/100 on security & auth, against 76 for the overall leader.
- Transparency & trust: [Sumsub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sumsub.md), 74/100 on transparency & trust, against 63 for the overall leader.

## How to choose

- Identity, business and screening checks: Check whether identity, business registry and watchlist screening are all covered, since a listing that covers only one leaves a gap the agent cannot close itself.
- Status events and callbacks: Check whether status changes arrive by callback, since an agent that polls for a result wastes calls and may read a stale status.
- Retention, deletion and redaction: Check how long documents and selfies are kept, whether they can be deleted, and if results are redacted, so stored personal data stays minimal.
- Result fields for each check: Check which result fields come back for a person and a business, and whether a sandbox run returns the same fields as live, so tests reflect production decisions.

- How the benchmark tests this category: One test person and one test business run through each listing's sandbox. A verification is started, completed with the vendor's test documents and read back, with a watchlist screen. We check the result fields, status events, retention controls and redaction. In this run listings are graded from public evidence against the published checklist.

Each listing's verdict, strengths and weaknesses: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/identity-verification/index.md