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Head to head · Sanctions screening · October 2026 research run

ComplyAdvantage vs Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against ComplyAdvantage's 52.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ComplyAdvantage leads on security & auth. Both do sanctions screening.

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ComplyAdvantageIVXS UK Limited (trading as ComplyAdvantage) · HTTP API D52.6/100#778 of 1076 Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)Onfido Ltd (Entrust) · HTTP API B62.1/100#472 of 1076

Which one, for what

ComplyAdvantage D

Best for An agent that screens customers and companies against sanctions, politically exposed person and adverse media data, keeps them under monitoring and works the resulting alerts and cases.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 68 against 58

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No public status page or incident history was found. status.complyadvantage.com does not resolve

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) B

Best for A company already contracted with Entrust that wants an agent to create applicants, start workflow runs and read reports through typed libraries and a public spec.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 70 against 42
  • Payments & pricing, 20 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 58 against 28
  • Transparency & trust, 70 against 50

Watch for

entrust.com answered 403 to every request, so the terms, privacy notice, pricing page and security.txt weren't read

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runComplyAdvantageEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)Edge
Reliability16%204270Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +28
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28284Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +2
Agent ergonomics13%16.26765ComplyAdvantage +2
Security & auth14%17.56858ComplyAdvantage +10
Payments & pricing10%12.51020Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82858Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +30
Transparency & trust7%8.85070Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +20
Negative events≤1500
TotalD 52.6/100B 62.1/100

Facts side by side

FactComplyAdvantageEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorIVXS UK Limited (trading as ComplyAdvantage)Onfido Ltd (Entrust)
Hosted endpointhttps://api.mesh.complyadvantage.comno (local only)
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service. No service agreement is published, and the terms page on complyadvantage.com covers the website onlyProprietary service under Entrust's terms. The OpenAPI spec and the server libraries (onfido-java, onfido-node, onfido-php, onfido-python, onfido-ruby) are MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-09-162026-08-31
Terms last updatedno document linkedcouldn't be read
Privacy policy last updated2026-06-12
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be read
Popularitynone59k npm/wk, 27k PyPI/wk

Verdicts

ComplyAdvantage

The Mesh API has a public OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec with 165 described operations, per-credential permissions and audit log endpoints, which suits an agent screening customers and working alerts. No status page, changelog, SDK, service agreement or subprocessor list was found in public, and access starts with a paid plan bought by a person.

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)

The v3.6 API has a public MIT OpenAPI file, server libraries in five languages, OAuth client credentials with scopes and an 18-month deprecation notice. Entrust's own site answered 403, so terms, privacy notice, pricing and security.txt weren't read. There is no idempotency key, and live tokens need a Dashboard account with billing details.

Before you call either

ComplyAdvantage

  1. Exchange the access key and secret at POST /v3/token for a bearer token. It lasts 24 hours and can't be refreshed, so request a new one before expiry
  2. Ask for a credential with only the permissions the task needs. Permissions can't be edited later, and each reference page names the ones a call requires
  3. Create a screening configuration first and keep its configuration_identifier. Creating and screening a customer needs it
  4. Give each customer a unique external identifier. A concurrent request for the same identifier returns 409 with a pointer to the first workflow
  5. Read Ratelimit-Remaining and Ratelimit-Reset on every response. A 429 body is only API rate limit exceeded

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)

  1. Use the regional host for the account (api.eu, api.us or api.ca.onfido.com/v3.6). v3.6 has no default region
  2. Prefer an OAuth client with only the scopes the task needs over a live API token, and refresh the 60-minute access token
  3. Stay under 400 requests a minute live and 120 in sandbox, and back off on a 429 rate_limit error
  4. Check before retrying a POST. There is no idempotency key, so a retry can create a second applicant or check
  5. Treat webhook events as duplicates or out of order, and verify X-SHA2-Signature over the raw body

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ComplyAdvantage or Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)?

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against ComplyAdvantage's 52.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ComplyAdvantage leads on security & auth.

Do ComplyAdvantage and Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) need an API key?

ComplyAdvantage uses an OAuth sign-in. Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call ComplyAdvantage and Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) without installing anything?

ComplyAdvantage has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mesh.complyadvantage.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido).

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