{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "entrust-identity-verification", "name": "Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)", "vendor": "Onfido Ltd (Entrust)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.entrust.com/products/identity-verification", "kind": "http-api", "category": "identity-verification", "summary": "Entrust Identity Verification, formerly Onfido, checks identity documents, selfies and liveness, runs watchlist and database checks and orchestrates them in Workflow Studio. Agents use the Onfido Public API v3.6 in EU, US and CA regions.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/entrust-identity-verification", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/entrust-identity-verification.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/entrust-identity-verification.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/entrust-identity-verification.json", "repo": "https://github.com/onfido/onfido-openapi-spec", "license": "Proprietary service under Entrust's terms. The OpenAPI spec and the server libraries (onfido-java, onfido-node, onfido-php, onfido-python, onfido-ruby) are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@onfido/api" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "onfido-python" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API tokens per region and environment (`api_live.`, `api_sandbox.`, with `_us` and `_ca` variants) sent as `Authorization: Token token=\u003ctoken\u003e`, generated in the Dashboard under Developers, API authentication. From v3.6, OAuth client credentials issue 60-minute access tokens, with scopes and a per-application IP allowlist set in the Dashboard. Tokens remain valid until revoked. SDK tokens are separate and scoped to one workflow run. Live checks need billing details on the account (checked 2026-10-14).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No price list was readable. Entrust's pricing page answered 403. The UK G-Cloud 14 listing by Onfido Ltd gives £0.43 to £2.12 a transaction and says a free trial with sandbox access is available. Sandbox requests aren't charged (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the API v3.6 reference or the OpenAPI spec (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 59334, "pypiWeekly": 26714, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://documentation.identity.entrust.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://documentation.identity.entrust.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://github.com/onfido/onfido-openapi-spec/blob/master/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "kyc.identity", "kyc.documents", "kyc.screening" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "api-key", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sandbox", "status-page", "python", "typescript", "java", "ruby", "php", "soc2", "iso27001" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-31", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.1, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 472, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 20, "reliability": 70, "schema": 84, "security": 58, "transparency": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0 file for v3.6 (85 operations, MIT) with official libraries in Java, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby", "OAuth client credentials with scopes and a per-application IP allowlist, alongside region-specific API tokens", "Rate limits stated, 400 requests a minute live and 120 in sandbox, with a free sandbox that returns predetermined results", "Written versioning policy with at least 18 months' notice before a version is deprecated", "Webhooks signed with HMAC-SHA256, retried five times over 10 hours and resendable for 30 days" ], "weaknesses": [ "entrust.com answered 403 to every request, so the terms, privacy notice, pricing page and security.txt weren't read", "No idempotency key on POST and no Retry-After header on 429", "The API release notes page has no entry after 27 February 2023", "A faulty deployment rejected valid tokens on the CA Public API for an hour on 7 September 2026", "Pricing is known only as a range of £0.43 to £2.12 a transaction from a 2024 UK G-Cloud listing" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the regional host for the account (api.eu, api.us or api.ca.onfido.com/v3.6). v3.6 has no default region", "Prefer an OAuth client with only the scopes the task needs over a live API token, and refresh the 60-minute access token", "Stay under 400 requests a minute live and 120 in sandbox, and back off on a 429 `rate_limit` error", "Check before retrying a POST. There is no idempotency key, so a retry can create a second applicant or check", "Treat webhook events as duplicates or out of order, and verify `X-SHA2-Signature` over the raw body" ], "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": 62.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 20, "reliability": 70, "schema": 84, "security": 58, "transparency": 52 }, "provenanceScore": 87 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install onfido-python" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/kyc.identity", "tool": "https://letme.dev/entrust-identity-verification" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Onfido Ltd", "domain": "onfido.com", "domainRegistered": "2013-02-22", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.entrust.com/terms-and-conditions", "privacy": "https://www.entrust.com/sites/default/files/documentation/licensingandagreements/product-privacy-notice-identity-verification-services.pdf", "statusPage": "https://status.onfido.com", "changelog": "https://documentation.identity.entrust.com/api/release-notes", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The UK G-Cloud 14 listing names ONFIDO LTD as supplier. The docs say Onfido is now part of Entrust.", "onfido.com/terms-and-conditions and onfido.com/privacy redirect to the entrust.com URLs above, which answered 403, so neither was read.", "onfido.com/.well-known/security.txt redirects to entrust.com, which answered 403.", "The API answers on api.{eu,us,ca}.onfido.com, an onfido.com subdomain. The docs moved to documentation.identity.entrust.com.", "RDAP for onfido.com gives a registration date of 2013-02-22." ], "score": 87 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/entrust-identity-verification.json", "live": { "slug": "entrust-identity-verification", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.onfido.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T09:39:10.845654397Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:39:10.845654397Z" } }, "answer": "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.", "b": { "slug": "persona", "name": "Persona", "vendor": "Persona Identities, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://withpersona.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "identity-verification", "summary": "Persona is an identity verification platform from Persona Identities, Inc. Its REST API and hosted MCP server create inquiries, run government ID, selfie, document and database verifications, screen people and businesses against watchlists, and manage review cases.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/persona", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/persona.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/persona.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/persona.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Persona's terms of service. The `persona` JavaScript client on npm is MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.withpersona.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "persona" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key, sent as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e` to https://api.withpersona.com/api/v1. A browser sign-up with a business email gives a sandbox key (`persona_sandbox_...`) at once. A production key (`persona_production_...`) needs a plan and Persona's approval of the organisation. Each key can be limited to about 50 read and write permissions per resource, given its own rate limit and an IP allowlist, and expired through the dashboard or the API. A new key has every standard permission until someone limits it. The MCP server at https://mcp.withpersona.com takes the same key. Its help article says OAuth is coming and isn't available yet (checked 2026-10-08).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "The Essential plan starts at $250 a month on a 12-month contract with 500 verifications or reports a month included, then $1.50 for each further one, per the help centre. Growth and Enterprise are priced through sales. A 60-day trial with no card gives sandbox access and up to 50 services, so an agent can build and test without a contract, but the sandbox performs no real verifications. A Startup Programme gives eligible small companies 500 free verifications a month for a year. The pricing page itself refused our reader (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$250 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the OpenAPI file, the MCP tool list or the help centre's plan articles (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 190, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 570188, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.withpersona.com/getting-started", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.withpersona.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.withpersona.com/openapi/api-reference.json", "capabilities": [ "kyc.identity", "kyc.business", "kyc.documents", "kyc.screening", "kyc.cases" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "paid", "sandbox", "api-key", "mcp", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "json-api", "status-page", "soc2", "iso27001" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 192, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 35, "reliability": 70, "schema": 85, "security": 73, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 file with 231 operations and 141 webhook definitions, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page", "API keys take about 50 read and write permissions per resource, an IP allowlist, their own rate limit and an expiry endpoint", "`Idempotency-Key` on every POST, cursor pagination, and `fields` and `include` parameters that trim responses", "API logs kept for two weeks and user audit logs for six months, both readable through the API", "Dated API versions selected per key or per request with `Persona-Version`, and a changelog with an RSS feed" ], "weaknesses": [ "Production access needs Persona's approval and a 12-month plan from $250 a month, and API-only integration is limited to Enterprise plans", "Eleven incidents on the status page since 10 July 2026, five marked partial outage, most on document and government ID verifications", "The MCP server lists all 190 tools whatever the key allows, with no annotations, toolsets or read-only subset, and OAuth isn't available yet", "No official server-side SDK was found. The npm, iOS, Android and React Native packages are clients for the end-user flow", "The marketing site, terms, privacy policy and pricing page answered our reader with a bot check, and no SLA was found in the docs or help centre" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask for a dedicated key limited to the permissions the task needs. A new key has every standard permission until it's limited", "Send `Persona-Version` on every call and an `Idempotency-Key` on every POST. A replayed key returns the first result, including a 500", "Treat redact calls as irreversible. They permanently delete personal data and cascade to downstream objects", "Stay under 300 requests a minute in production, read `RateLimit-Remaining` and `Quota-Remaining`, and back off on 429 because rejected requests still count", "Use `fields` and `include` to cut response size. Through MCP these parameters aren't exposed, and only 14 tools take `filter`" ], "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": 69.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 35, "reliability": 70, "schema": 85, "security": 73, "transparency": 46 }, "provenanceScore": 90 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url https://api.withpersona.com/api/v1/inquiries \\\n --header 'Persona-Version: 2023-01-05' \\\n --header 'accept: application/json' \\\n --header 'authorization: Bearer persona_sandbox_YOURAPIKEY' \\\n --header 'content-type: application/json' \\\n --data '{\"data\":{\"attributes\":{\"inquiry-template-id\":\"itmpl_YOURTEMPLATEID\",\"fields\":{\"name-first\":\"Jane\",\"name-last\":\"Doe\",\"birthdate\":\"1994-04-12\"}}}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/kyc.identity", "tool": "https://letme.dev/persona" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Essential plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 250, "note": "12-month contract, 500 verifications or reports a month included, unused ones don't roll over" }, { "item": "Additional verification or report on the Essential plan", "unit": "tx", "usd": 1.5, "note": "Each service beyond the 500 included a month" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Persona Identities, Inc.", "domain": "withpersona.com", "domainRegistered": "2018-09-24", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://withpersona.com/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://withpersona.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.withpersona.com", "changelog": "https://docs.withpersona.com/api-reference/versioning/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The help centre footer reads \"2026 Persona Identities, Inc.\", and the `persona` npm package names Persona Identities, Inc. as author.", "The API answers at api.withpersona.com and the MCP server at mcp.withpersona.com, both withpersona.com subdomains.", "withpersona.com/.well-known/security.txt gives security@withpersona.com, an expiry of 17 February 2027 and a note that disclosure runs through Bugcrowd.", "The terms and privacy URLs are the ones the status page links to. Both pages, and the rest of withpersona.com, answered our reader with a bot check (HTTP 403), so their text wasn't read.", "RDAP for withpersona.com gives a registration date of 2018-09-24 and MarkMonitor Inc. as registrar." ], "score": 90 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/persona.json", "live": { "slug": "persona", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.withpersona.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T09:42:02.19259483Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 147, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 153, "p95ms24h": 346, "samples24h": 248, "samples30d": 1432, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 93, "ok": 93 }, { "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": 100, "ok": 100 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.withpersona.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T08:53:47.270012742Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "persona", "version": "5.9.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:16:52.011910828Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 474420, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://withpersona.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-02-17T08:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:45:31.940916351Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.withpersona.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T14:12:19.15761621Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "withpersona.com", "registered": "2018-09-24", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/withpersona.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:24:11.94008491Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.withpersona.com/api-reference/versioning/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:16:14.966334952Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-10T19:03:02.833780746Z", "fingerprint": "c19b16bf1389" }, { "url": "https://withpersona.com/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 403, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:25:18.253853297Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://withpersona.com/legal/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 403, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:25:20.272067854Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:42:02.19259483Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Onfido Ltd (Entrust)", "b": "Persona Identities, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://mcp.withpersona.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Entrust's terms. The OpenAPI spec and the server libraries (onfido-java, onfido-node, onfido-php, onfido-python, onfido-ruby) are MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under Persona's terms of service. The `persona` JavaScript client on npm is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "190", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-31", "b": "2026-09-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "59k npm/wk, 27k PyPI/wk", "b": "570k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "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.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) or Persona?" }, { "answer": "Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Persona needs an API key.", "question": "Do Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) and Persona need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido). Persona has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.withpersona.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) and Persona without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "entrust-identity-verification", "watchFor": "entrust.com answered 403 to every request, so the terms, privacy notice, pricing page and security.txt weren't read" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 74 against 65", "Security \u0026 auth, 73 against 58", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 58" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "persona", "watchFor": "Production access needs Persona's approval and a 12-month plan from $250 a month, and API-only integration is limited to Enterprise plans" } ], "job": { "capability": "kyc.identity", "name": "Identity verification" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alloy-vs-entrust-identity-verification.json", "title": "Alloy vs Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alloy-vs-entrust-identity-verification" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alloy-vs-persona.json", "title": "Alloy vs Persona", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alloy-vs-persona" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complycube-vs-entrust-identity-verification.json", "title": "ComplyCube vs Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complycube-vs-entrust-identity-verification" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complycube-vs-persona.json", "title": "ComplyCube vs Persona", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complycube-vs-persona" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/didit-vs-entrust-identity-verification.json", "title": "Didit vs Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/didit-vs-entrust-identity-verification" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/didit-vs-persona.json", "title": "Didit vs Persona", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/didit-vs-persona" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-jumio.json", "title": "Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Jumio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-jumio" }, { "json": 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Socure RiskOS", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-socure-riskos" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-stripe-identity.json", "title": "Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Stripe Identity", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-stripe-identity" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-sumsub.json", "title": "Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Sumsub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-sumsub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-trulioo.json", "title": "Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Trulioo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-trulioo" }, { "json": 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"name": "Reliability", "persona": 70, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "persona", "entrust-identity-verification": 84, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "persona": 85, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "persona", "entrust-identity-verification": 65, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "persona": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "persona", "entrust-identity-verification": 58, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "persona": 73, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "persona", "entrust-identity-verification": 20, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "persona": 35, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "persona", "entrust-identity-verification": 58, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "persona": 75, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "entrust-identity-verification", "entrust-identity-verification": 70, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "persona": 68, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "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.", "verdicts": { "entrust-identity-verification": "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-persona", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-persona.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-persona.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-persona.min.md" }, "markdown": "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.\n\n- Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido): grade B, 62.1/100, rank #472 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/entrust-identity-verification.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/entrust-identity-verification.json\n- Persona: grade B, 69.5/100, rank #192 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/persona.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/persona.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### Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nWatch for: entrust.com answered 403 to every request, so the terms, privacy notice, pricing page and security.txt weren't read\n\n### Persona (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 74 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 73 against 58\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 58\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch 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\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) | Persona | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 70 | even |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 85 | Persona +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 74 | Persona +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 73 | Persona +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Persona +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 75 | Persona +17 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 68 | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.1 · B** | **69.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) | Persona |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Onfido Ltd (Entrust) | Persona Identities, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.withpersona.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Entrust's terms. The OpenAPI spec and the server libraries (onfido-java, onfido-node, onfido-php, onfido-python, onfido-ruby) are MIT | Proprietary service under Persona's terms of service. The `persona` JavaScript client on npm is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 190 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-08-31 | 2026-09-29 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 59k npm/wk, 27k PyPI/wk | 570k npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)\n\n1. Use the regional host for the account (api.eu, api.us or api.ca.onfido.com/v3.6). v3.6 has no default region\n2. Prefer an OAuth client with only the scopes the task needs over a live API token, and refresh the 60-minute access token\n3. Stay under 400 requests a minute live and 120 in sandbox, and back off on a 429 `rate_limit` error\n4. Check before retrying a POST. There is no idempotency key, so a retry can create a second applicant or check\n5. Treat webhook events as duplicates or out of order, and verify `X-SHA2-Signature` over the raw body\n\n### Persona\n\n1. Ask for a dedicated key limited to the permissions the task needs. A new key has every standard permission until it's limited\n2. Send `Persona-Version` on every call and an `Idempotency-Key` on every POST. A replayed key returns the first result, including a 500\n3. Treat redact calls as irreversible. They permanently delete personal data and cascade to downstream objects\n4. Stay under 300 requests a minute in production, read `RateLimit-Remaining` and `Quota-Remaining`, and back off on 429 because rejected requests still count\n5. Use `fields` and `include` to cut response size. Through MCP these parameters aren't exposed, and only 14 tools take `filter`\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) or Persona?\n\nPersona 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.\n\n### Do Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) and Persona need an API key?\n\nEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Persona needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) and Persona without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido). Persona has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.withpersona.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-persona.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-persona.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"entrust-identity-verification\", \"b\": \"persona\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare entrust-identity-verification persona`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/entrust-identity-verification.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/persona.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) or Persona\n\n- [Alloy vs Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alloy-vs-entrust-identity-verification.md)\n- [Alloy vs Persona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alloy-vs-persona.md)\n- [ComplyCube vs Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complycube-vs-entrust-identity-verification.md)\n- [ComplyCube vs Persona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complycube-vs-persona.md)\n- [Didit vs Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/didit-vs-entrust-identity-verification.md)\n- [Didit vs Persona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/didit-vs-persona.md)\n- [Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Jumio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-jumio.md)\n- [Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Middesk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-middesk.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- [Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Shufti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-shufti.md)\n- [Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Socure RiskOS](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-socure-riskos.md)\n- [Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Stripe Identity](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-stripe-identity.md)\n- [Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Sumsub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-sumsub.md)\n- [Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Trulioo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-trulioo.md)\n- [Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Veriff](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-veriff.md)\n- [Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Vouched](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-vouched.md)\n- [Jumio vs Persona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jumio-vs-persona.md)\n- [Persona vs Plaid Identity Verification](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/persona-vs-plaid-identity-verification.md)\n- [Persona vs Shufti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/persona-vs-shufti.md)\n- [Persona vs Socure RiskOS](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/persona-vs-socure-riskos.md)\n- [Persona vs Stripe Identity](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/persona-vs-stripe-identity.md)\n- [Persona vs Sumsub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/persona-vs-sumsub.md)\n- [Persona vs Trulioo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/persona-vs-trulioo.md)\n- [Persona vs Veriff](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/persona-vs-veriff.md)\n- [Persona vs Vouched](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/persona-vs-vouched.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-entrust-identity-verification.md)\n- [ComplyAdvantage vs Persona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/complyadvantage-vs-persona.md)\n- [Middesk vs Persona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/middesk-vs-persona.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": "Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Persona", "url": "" } ], "description": "Persona scores 69.5 (B) to Entrust Identity Verification's 62.1 (B) for identity verification. 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