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Head to head · Identity verification · October 2026 research run

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Persona

Persona scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)'s 62.1 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do identity verification.

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Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)Onfido Ltd (Entrust) · HTTP API B62.1/100#472 of 1076 PersonaPersona Identities, Inc. · HTTP API B69.5/100#192 of 1076

Which one, for what

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.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

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

Persona B

Best for 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.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 74 against 65
  • Security & auth, 73 against 58
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 75 against 58

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

Production access needs Persona's approval and a 12-month plan from $250 a month, and API-only integration is limited to Enterprise plans

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)PersonaEdge
Reliability16%207070even
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28485Persona +1
Agent ergonomics13%16.26574Persona +9
Security & auth14%17.55873Persona +15
Payments & pricing10%12.52035Persona +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85875Persona +17
Transparency & trust7%8.87068Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +2
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 62.1/100B 69.5/100

Facts side by side

FactEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)Persona
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOnfido Ltd (Entrust)Persona Identities, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.withpersona.com
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyAPI key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Entrust's terms. The OpenAPI spec and the server libraries (onfido-java, onfido-node, onfido-php, onfido-python, onfido-ruby) are MITProprietary service under Persona's terms of service. The persona JavaScript client on npm is MIT
Tools exposednone190
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-08-312026-09-29
Terms last updatedcouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Popularity59k npm/wk, 27k PyPI/wk570k npm/wk

Verdicts

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.

Persona

The REST API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 file, llms.txt, API keys with per-resource permissions, idempotency keys on every POST and a 60-day sandbox trial with no card. Production needs a business review and a 12-month plan from $250 a month. The status page lists 11 incidents since 10 July 2026, including 70 minutes of timeouts across all products.

Before you call either

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

Persona

  1. Ask for a dedicated key limited to the permissions the task needs. A new key has every standard permission until it's limited
  2. Send Persona-Version on every call and an Idempotency-Key on every POST. A replayed key returns the first result, including a 500
  3. Treat redact calls as irreversible. They permanently delete personal data and cascade to downstream objects
  4. Stay under 300 requests a minute in production, read RateLimit-Remaining and Quota-Remaining, and back off on 429 because rejected requests still count
  5. Use fields and include to cut response size. Through MCP these parameters aren't exposed, and only 14 tools take filter

Questions

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

Persona scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)'s 62.1 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

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

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

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

No hosted endpoint is listed for Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido). Persona has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.withpersona.com.

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