Head to head · Kyc screening · October 2026 research run
ComplyAdvantage vs Veriff
Veriff scores 61.1 (C) on agent readiness against ComplyAdvantage's 52.6 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ComplyAdvantage leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do kyc screening.
Which one, for what
Good 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
- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 43
- Security & auth, 68 against 63
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
Veriff C
Good for 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.
Ahead on
- Reliability, 62 against 42
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 10
- Maintenance & community, 74 against 28
- Transparency & trust, 67 against 50
Watch for
No server-side SDK and no MCP server. Official packages cover only browser and mobile capture
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | ComplyAdvantage | Veriff | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 42 | 62 | Veriff +20 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 82 | 82 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 67 | 43 | ComplyAdvantage +24 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 68 | 63 | ComplyAdvantage +5 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 10 | 40 | Veriff +30 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 28 | 74 | Veriff +46 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 50 | 67 | Veriff +17 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 52.6 · D | 61.1 · C |
Facts side by side
| Fact | ComplyAdvantage | Veriff |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | IVXS UK Limited (trading as ComplyAdvantage) | Veriff OÜ |
| Hosted endpoint | https://api.mesh.complyadvantage.com | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |
| Price for kyc screening | not published | $0.64 per transaction |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service. No service agreement is published, and the terms page on complyadvantage.com covers the website only | Proprietary service. The npm capture SDKs are ISC (@veriff/js-sdk, @veriff/incontext-sdk) and MIT (@veriff/react-native-sdk) |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-12 | 2026-04-16 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | |
| Popularity | none | 32 stars, 110k npm/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.
Veriff
Per-verification prices are public from $0.80, with a 15-day trial of 50 sessions and no card. Each endpoint page is Markdown with an OpenAPI 3.0 fragment. There is no server SDK, MCP server or idempotency key, most calls need an HMAC signature, and the status page shows nine incidents between 20 July and 7 October 2026.
Before you call either
ComplyAdvantage
- Exchange the access key and secret at
POST /v3/tokenfor 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-RemainingandRatelimit-Reseton every response. A 429 body is onlyAPI rate limit exceeded
Veriff
- Take the base URL from the integration's API keys page. Send X-AUTH-CLIENT on every call and store verification.id from POST /v1/sessions
- Sign POST and PATCH bodies, and the session ID on GET and DELETE, with HMAC-SHA256 in X-HMAC-SIGNATURE. POST /v1/sessions needs no signature
- Stay under 30 session creations a minute on Self-Serve, 600 on Enterprise. A 429 carries code 1004
- Don't blindly retry POST /v1/sessions. Each call makes a new session, which is billed on a live integration
- Poll GET /v1/sessions/{id}/decision until
verificationis not null, or accept webhooks within 5 seconds and treat duplicates as normal
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, ComplyAdvantage or Veriff?
Veriff scores 61.1 (C) on agent readiness against ComplyAdvantage's 52.6 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ComplyAdvantage leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth.
Do ComplyAdvantage and Veriff need an API key?
ComplyAdvantage uses an OAuth sign-in. Veriff needs an API key.
Can an agent call ComplyAdvantage and Veriff without installing anything?
ComplyAdvantage has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mesh.complyadvantage.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Veriff.
Other comparisons with ComplyAdvantage or Veriff
Machine-readable
- This page as Markdown
/compare/complyadvantage-vs-veriff.md· slim.min.md· JSON.json(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - Each listing in full
/api/v1/tools/complyadvantage.json·/api/v1/tools/veriff.json - From a terminal
anchor compare complyadvantage veriff(the CLI) - Over MCP
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