{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "complyadvantage", "name": "ComplyAdvantage", "vendor": "IVXS UK Limited (trading as ComplyAdvantage)", "vendorUrl": "https://complyadvantage.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "identity-verification", "summary": "ComplyAdvantage screens people and companies against sanctions lists, watchlists, politically exposed person registers and adverse media, with ongoing monitoring and case management. Agents reach its Mesh platform through a REST API with a public OpenAPI spec.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/complyadvantage", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/complyadvantage.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/complyadvantage.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/complyadvantage.json", "license": "Proprietary service. No service agreement is published, and the terms page on complyadvantage.com covers the website only", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.mesh.complyadvantage.com", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "The Mesh API uses the OAuth2 client credentials flow. A Mesh admin, or a custom role with the API credential permissions, creates a credential in the web application under Settings, Access Management, API Credentials, choosing its permissions and an optional expiry date. The integration sends the access key and secret to `POST /v3/token` and receives a bearer token valid for 24 hours, with no refresh. A credential can't be edited, its secret is shown once, and deactivating it invalidates tokens already issued. The older username and password flow at `POST /v2/token` remains supported for existing integrations. Accounts are opened by ComplyAdvantage after a Starter Plan purchase or a sales contract, so there is no self-serve key (https://docs.mesh.complyadvantage.com/docs/getting-started, https://support.complyadvantage.com/articles/5045588818-creating-api-credentials, checked 2026-10-08).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "The Starter Plan is priced by monitored entities a month. Essentials runs from $119 a month for up to 100 entities to $383 for up to 2,000 on monthly billing ($99 to $319 on annual billing), and the Agentic version from $179 to $575. Entities over the allowance are charged at 1.5 times the unit rate. Enterprise, which adds transaction monitoring and payment screening, is priced on application. No free tier or trial was found. Sandbox and production logins come with a paid account, set up by staff within one working day, and the pricing page says the API is included. ComplyLaunch gives early-stage start-ups free access on application (https://complyadvantage.com/pricing/, https://complyadvantage.com/starter-plan/, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$119 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Mesh API docs, the OpenAPI spec or the pricing pages (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.mesh.complyadvantage.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.mesh.complyadvantage.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.mesh.complyadvantage.com/openapi/mesh-api.json", "capabilities": [ "kyc.screening", "kyc.cases" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "paid", "sandbox", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "aml", "sanctions", "audit-log", "iso27001", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.6, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 778, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 28, "payments": 10, "reliability": 42, "schema": 82, "security": 68, "transparency": 50 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec with 165 operations, each with a summary and description, and 124 naming the permission the call needs", "API credentials carry their own permissions and optional expiry, and deactivation invalidates tokens already issued", "Six audit log endpoints cover the account, cases, customers, roles, transactions and users", "Rate limits are published (1,000 requests a minute in production, 300 in Sandbox) with `Ratelimit-Limit`, `Ratelimit-Remaining` and `Ratelimit-Reset` headers", "`llms.txt` on the docs site, and every guide and reference page is served as Markdown" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public status page or incident history was found. `status.complyadvantage.com` does not resolve", "No changelog or release notes were found for the Mesh API", "No service agreement, data processing agreement or subprocessor list is published. The terms page covers the website only", "No free tier or self-serve trial. The Starter Plan starts at $119 a month and accounts are set up by staff within a working day", "No official SDK was found. Access tokens last 24 hours with no refresh", "Screening results carry third-party adverse media text, and no prompt-injection guidance was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "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", "Create a screening configuration first and keep its `configuration_identifier`. Creating and screening a customer needs it", "Give each customer a unique external identifier. A concurrent request for the same identifier returns 409 with a pointer to the first workflow", "Read `Ratelimit-Remaining` and `Ratelimit-Reset` on every response. A 429 body is only `API rate limit exceeded`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 28, "payments": 10, "reliability": 42, "schema": 82, "security": 68, "transparency": 40 }, "provenanceScore": 59 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.mesh.complyadvantage.com/v3/token \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"access_key\": \"\u003cyour access key\u003e\", \"secret\": \"\u003cyour secret\u003e\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/kyc.screening", "tool": "https://letme.dev/complyadvantage" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Essentials Starter Plan, up to 100 monitored entities", "unit": "month", "usd": 119, "note": "monthly billing; $99 a month on annual billing" }, { "item": "Essentials Starter Plan, up to 1,000 monitored entities", "unit": "month", "usd": 323, "note": "monthly billing; $269 a month on annual billing" }, { "item": "Essentials Starter Plan, up to 2,000 monitored entities", "unit": "month", "usd": 383, "note": "monthly billing; $319 a month on annual billing" }, { "item": "Agentic Starter Plan, up to 100 monitored entities", "unit": "month", "usd": 179, "note": "monthly billing; $149 a month on annual billing" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "IVXS UK Limited (trading as ComplyAdvantage)", "domain": "complyadvantage.com", "domainRegistered": "2014-07-05", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://complyadvantage.com/privacy-notice/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The privacy notice (last updated 12 June 2026) names IVXS UK Limited, trading as ComplyAdvantage, 86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE, registered with the UK Information Commissioner under ZA054290, and covers its products and services as well as the website.", "No `terms` is given. https://complyadvantage.com/terms-and-conditions/ is the website's terms of use, and no service agreement, API terms or data processing agreement was found on the site, the docs or the help centre.", "The Mesh API answers at api.mesh.complyadvantage.com and regional hosts under mesh.complyadvantage.com.", "https://complyadvantage.com/.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt return 404.", "status.complyadvantage.com does not resolve, and no status page is linked from the site, the docs or the help centre. docs.mesh.complyadvantage.com/changelog returns 404.", "RDAP for complyadvantage.com gives a registration date of 2014-07-05." ], "score": 59 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/complyadvantage.json", "live": { "slug": "complyadvantage", "probe": { "target": "https://api.mesh.complyadvantage.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T09:59:42.92206275Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 146, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 53, "p95ms24h": 139, "samples24h": 248, "samples30d": 1392, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 50, "ok": 50 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 103, "ok": 103 } ] }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://complyadvantage.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:45:31.64069716Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.mesh.complyadvantage.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T14:11:18.127835004Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "complyadvantage.com", "registered": "2014-07-05", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/complyadvantage.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:15:58.065922793Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://complyadvantage.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:11:51.055276487Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a521866ec1b7" }, { "url": "https://complyadvantage.com/privacy-notice/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:11:53.113143517Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b6f42c55074a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:59:42.92206275Z" } }, "answer": "Plaid Identity Verification scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against ComplyAdvantage's 52.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ComplyAdvantage leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "plaid-identity-verification", "name": "Plaid Identity Verification", "vendor": "Plaid Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://plaid.com/products/identity-verification/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "identity-verification", "summary": "Plaid Identity Verification checks a person against data sources, identity documents, selfies with liveness and SMS, with risk scoring and optional Monitor watchlist screening. Sessions run in Plaid Link or through a backend-only API flow.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plaid-identity-verification", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plaid-identity-verification.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plaid-identity-verification.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/plaid-identity-verification.json", "repo": "https://github.com/plaid/plaid-openapi", "license": "Proprietary service under Plaid's developer policy and end-user terms. The OpenAPI file and client libraries are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "plaid" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "plaid-python" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "`client_id` and `secret` in the JSON body of each POST to https://sandbox.plaid.com or https://production.plaid.com, with a separate secret per environment. No scopes. Sandbox for Identity Verification is enabled self-serve from the Dashboard Products page (since 12 August 2026). Production needs a product access request, and the integrating company must be based in the US, Canada or the UK (checked 2026-10-14).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. Each session is billed an Anti-Fraud Engine fee plus fees for data source verification (by country), document checks and selfie checks, and retries are billed as new sessions. Exact rates appear after applying for Production. Sandbox is free (https://plaid.com/docs/account/billing/, checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Identity Verification docs, the API reference or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 1238045, "pypiWeekly": 656200, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://plaid.com/docs/identity-verification/", "llmsTxt": "https://plaid.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plaid/plaid-openapi/master/2020-09-14.yml", "capabilities": [ "kyc.identity", "kyc.documents", "kyc.screening" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sandbox", "status-page", "python", "typescript", "go", "java", "ruby", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-13", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.1, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 278, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 15, "reliability": 68, "schema": 91, "security": 61, "transparency": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Plaid Identity Verification has four typed endpoints in Plaid's public OpenAPI file, an idempotent create, a backend-only flow for data source checks and frequent changelog entries. Prices appear only after applying for Production, the secret has no scopes, and the rate-limit and error pages are disallowed to crawlers.", "bestFor": "US, Canadian and UK companies that want KYC with data source checks, documents and selfies, especially those already on Plaid or wanting Monitor screening in the same flow.", "strengths": [ "Four typed endpoints in the public OpenAPI file, with llms.txt and Markdown docs", "Backend-only flow runs data source checks from user data with no Link session", "`is_idempotent` on create returns the existing session instead of making a second", "Six dated Identity Verification changelog entries between 9 July and 13 October 2026", "Self-serve Sandbox since 12 August 2026, with sample identities for test outcomes" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public prices. Rates appear only after a Production application", "One team secret reaches every Plaid product, with no scopes or read-only key", "Integrating companies must be based in the US, Canada or the UK", "Data stays only while the contract is active, and access to past sessions ends with it", "Rate-limit and error pages sit under a path robots.txt disallows, so we didn't read them" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass `is_idempotent: true` to /identity_verification/create so a retry returns the existing session", "Use the backend-only flow (data source template, `gave_consent: true`) when you already hold the user's details. Documents and selfies need the person in Link", "Wait for the STATUS_UPDATED webhook or poll /identity_verification/get. Link's onSuccess doesn't mean the user passed", "Don't issue retries casually. Each retry is a new session billed again", "Enable Sandbox for Identity Verification on the Dashboard Products page before the first call" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 15, "reliability": 68, "schema": 91, "security": 61, "transparency": 57 }, "provenanceScore": 97 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://sandbox.plaid.com/identity_verification/create \\\n-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n-d '{\n \"client_user_id\": \"user-sandbox-b0e2c4ee-a763-4df5-bfe9-46a46bce993d\",\n \"client_id\": \"${PLAID_CLIENT_ID}\",\n \"secret\": \"${PLAID_SECRET}\",\n \"is_shareable\": true,\n \"template_id\": \"idvtmp_52xR9LKo77r1Np\",\n \"gave_consent\": true\n}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/kyc.identity", "tool": "https://letme.dev/plaid-identity-verification" }, "sameCompany": [ "plaid" ], "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Plaid Inc.", "domain": "plaid.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-08-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://plaid.com/legal/#developer-policy", "privacy": "https://plaid.com/legal/#privacy-statement", "statusPage": "https://status.plaid.com", "changelog": "https://plaid.com/docs/changelog/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "Same entity, legal pages and status page as the plaid listing. Plaid Financial Ltd and Plaid, B.V. cover the UK and the EEA.", "plaid.com/.well-known/security.txt lists HackerOne and security@plaid.com and expires 2026-12-31.", "plaid.com was registered in 1995, before Plaid was founded." ], "score": 97 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plaid-identity-verification.json", "live": { "slug": "plaid-identity-verification", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.plaid.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T09:53:20.159743826Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:53:20.159743826Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "IVXS UK Limited (trading as ComplyAdvantage)", "b": "Plaid Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.mesh.complyadvantage.com", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service. No service agreement is published, and the terms page on complyadvantage.com covers the website only", "b": "Proprietary service under Plaid's developer policy and end-user terms. The OpenAPI file and client libraries are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-16", "b": "2026-10-13", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2025-12-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-06-12", "b": "2025-12-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "1.2M npm/wk, 656k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Plaid Identity Verification scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against ComplyAdvantage's 52.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ComplyAdvantage leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, ComplyAdvantage or Plaid Identity Verification?" }, { "answer": "ComplyAdvantage uses an OAuth sign-in. Plaid Identity Verification needs an API key.", "question": "Do ComplyAdvantage and Plaid Identity Verification need an API key?" }, { "answer": "ComplyAdvantage has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mesh.complyadvantage.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Plaid Identity Verification.", "question": "Can an agent call ComplyAdvantage and Plaid Identity Verification without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 61" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "complyadvantage", "watchFor": "No public status page or incident history was found. `status.complyadvantage.com` does not resolve" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 68 against 42", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 91 against 82", "Agent ergonomics, 75 against 67", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 15 against 10", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 28", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 50" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "US, Canadian and UK companies that want KYC with data source checks, documents and selfies, especially those already on Plaid or wanting Monitor screening in the same flow.", "slug": "plaid-identity-verification", "watchFor": "No public prices. Rates appear only after a Production application" } ], "job": { "capability": "kyc.screening", "name": "Sanctions screening" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alloy-vs-plaid-identity-verification.json", "title": "Alloy vs Plaid Identity Verification", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alloy-vs-plaid-identity-verification" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complycube-vs-plaid-identity-verification.json", "title": "ComplyCube vs Plaid Identity Verification", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complycube-vs-plaid-identity-verification" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/didit-vs-plaid-identity-verification.json", "title": "Didit vs Plaid Identity Verification", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/didit-vs-plaid-identity-verification" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-plaid-identity-verification.json", "title": "Entrust Identity 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Verification vs Shufti", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-shufti" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-socure-riskos.json", "title": "Plaid Identity Verification vs Socure RiskOS", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-socure-riskos" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-stripe-identity.json", "title": "Plaid Identity Verification vs Stripe Identity", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-stripe-identity" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-sumsub.json", "title": "Plaid Identity Verification vs Sumsub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-sumsub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-trulioo.json", "title": "Plaid Identity Verification vs Trulioo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-trulioo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-veriff.json", "title": "Plaid Identity Verification vs Veriff", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-veriff" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-vouched.json", "title": "Plaid Identity Verification vs Vouched", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-vouched" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alloy-vs-complyadvantage.json", "title": "Alloy vs ComplyAdvantage", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alloy-vs-complyadvantage" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-complycube.json", "title": "ComplyAdvantage vs ComplyCube", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-complycube" }, { "json": 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Veriff", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-veriff" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-vouched.json", "title": "ComplyAdvantage vs Vouched", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-vouched" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 26, "complyadvantage": 42, "edge": "plaid-identity-verification", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "plaid-identity-verification": 68, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "complyadvantage": 82, "edge": "plaid-identity-verification", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "plaid-identity-verification": 91, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "complyadvantage": 67, "edge": "plaid-identity-verification", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "plaid-identity-verification": 75, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 7, "complyadvantage": 68, "edge": "complyadvantage", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "plaid-identity-verification": 61, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "complyadvantage": 10, "edge": "plaid-identity-verification", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "plaid-identity-verification": 15, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 55, "complyadvantage": 28, "edge": "plaid-identity-verification", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "plaid-identity-verification": 83, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 27, "complyadvantage": 50, "edge": "plaid-identity-verification", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "plaid-identity-verification": 77, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Plaid Identity Verification scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against ComplyAdvantage's 52.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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Prices appear only after applying for Production, the secret has no scopes, and the rate-limit and error pages are disallowed to crawlers." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-plaid-identity-verification", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-plaid-identity-verification.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-plaid-identity-verification.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-plaid-identity-verification.min.md" }, "markdown": "Plaid Identity Verification scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against ComplyAdvantage's 52.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ComplyAdvantage leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do sanctions screening.\n\n- ComplyAdvantage: grade D, 52.6/100, rank #778 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/complyadvantage.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/complyadvantage.json\n- Plaid Identity Verification: grade B, 67.1/100, rank #278 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plaid-identity-verification.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/plaid-identity-verification.json\n- Best identity and business verification APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/identity-verification/index.md\n- All 119 verification comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/identity-verification/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### ComplyAdvantage (D)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No public status page or incident history was found. `status.complyadvantage.com` does not resolve\n\n### Plaid Identity Verification (B)\n\nGood for: US, Canadian and UK companies that want KYC with data source checks, documents and selfies, especially those already on Plaid or wanting Monitor screening in the same flow.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 68 against 42\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 91 against 82\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 67\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 15 against 10\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 28\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 50\n\nWatch for: No public prices. Rates appear only after a Production application\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | ComplyAdvantage | Plaid Identity Verification | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 42 | 68 | Plaid Identity Verification +26 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 91 | Plaid Identity Verification +9 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 75 | Plaid Identity Verification +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 61 | ComplyAdvantage +7 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 15 | Plaid Identity Verification +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 28 | 83 | Plaid Identity Verification +55 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 77 | Plaid Identity Verification +27 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.6 · D** | **67.1 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | ComplyAdvantage | Plaid Identity Verification |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | IVXS UK Limited (trading as ComplyAdvantage) | Plaid Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.mesh.complyadvantage.com` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service. No service agreement is published, and the terms page on complyadvantage.com covers the website only | Proprietary service under Plaid's developer policy and end-user terms. The OpenAPI file and client libraries are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-10-13 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-12-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-12 | 2025-12-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 1.2M npm/wk, 656k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Plaid Identity Verification.** Plaid Identity Verification has four typed endpoints in Plaid's public OpenAPI file, an idempotent create, a backend-only flow for data source checks and frequent changelog entries. Prices appear only after applying for Production, the secret has no scopes, and the rate-limit and error pages are disallowed to crawlers.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### ComplyAdvantage\n\n1. 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\n2. 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\n3. Create a screening configuration first and keep its `configuration_identifier`. Creating and screening a customer needs it\n4. Give each customer a unique external identifier. A concurrent request for the same identifier returns 409 with a pointer to the first workflow\n5. Read `Ratelimit-Remaining` and `Ratelimit-Reset` on every response. A 429 body is only `API rate limit exceeded`\n\n### Plaid Identity Verification\n\n1. Pass `is_idempotent: true` to /identity_verification/create so a retry returns the existing session\n2. Use the backend-only flow (data source template, `gave_consent: true`) when you already hold the user's details. Documents and selfies need the person in Link\n3. Wait for the STATUS_UPDATED webhook or poll /identity_verification/get. Link's onSuccess doesn't mean the user passed\n4. Don't issue retries casually. Each retry is a new session billed again\n5. Enable Sandbox for Identity Verification on the Dashboard Products page before the first call\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, ComplyAdvantage or Plaid Identity Verification?\n\nPlaid Identity Verification scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against ComplyAdvantage's 52.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ComplyAdvantage leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do ComplyAdvantage and Plaid Identity Verification need an API key?\n\nComplyAdvantage uses an OAuth sign-in. Plaid Identity Verification needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call ComplyAdvantage and Plaid Identity Verification without installing anything?\n\nComplyAdvantage has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mesh.complyadvantage.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Plaid Identity Verification.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-plaid-identity-verification.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-plaid-identity-verification.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"complyadvantage\", \"b\": \"plaid-identity-verification\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare complyadvantage plaid-identity-verification`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/complyadvantage.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/plaid-identity-verification.json\n\n## Other comparisons with ComplyAdvantage or Plaid Identity Verification\n\n- [Alloy vs Plaid Identity Verification](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alloy-vs-plaid-identity-verification.md)\n- [ComplyCube vs Plaid Identity Verification](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complycube-vs-plaid-identity-verification.md)\n- [Didit vs Plaid Identity Verification](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/didit-vs-plaid-identity-verification.md)\n- [Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Plaid Identity Verification](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-plaid-identity-verification.md)\n- [Jumio vs Plaid Identity Verification](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jumio-vs-plaid-identity-verification.md)\n- [Middesk vs Plaid Identity Verification](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/middesk-vs-plaid-identity-verification.md)\n- [Persona vs Plaid Identity Verification](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/persona-vs-plaid-identity-verification.md)\n- [Plaid Identity Verification vs Shufti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-shufti.md)\n- [Plaid Identity Verification vs Socure RiskOS](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-socure-riskos.md)\n- [Plaid Identity Verification vs Stripe Identity](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-stripe-identity.md)\n- [Plaid Identity Verification vs Sumsub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-sumsub.md)\n- [Plaid Identity Verification vs Trulioo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-trulioo.md)\n- [Plaid Identity Verification vs Veriff](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-veriff.md)\n- [Plaid Identity Verification vs Vouched](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-identity-verification-vs-vouched.md)\n- [Alloy vs ComplyAdvantage](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alloy-vs-complyadvantage.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs ComplyCube](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-complycube.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Didit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-didit.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-entrust-identity-verification.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Jumio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-jumio.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Middesk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-middesk.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Persona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-persona.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Shufti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-shufti.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Socure RiskOS](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-socure-riskos.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Sumsub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-sumsub.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Trulioo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-trulioo.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Veriff](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-veriff.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Vouched](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-vouched.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-14", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "ComplyAdvantage vs Plaid Identity Verification", "url": "" } ], "description": "Plaid Identity Verification scores 67.1 (B) to ComplyAdvantage's 52.6 (D) for sanctions screening. 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