# Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Persona

> Persona scores 69.5 (B) to Entrust Identity Verification's 62.1 (B) for identity verification. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-14

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.

- 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
- 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
- Best identity and business verification APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/identity-verification/index.md
- All 119 verification comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/identity-verification/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) (B)

Good 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.

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

### Persona (B)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) | Persona | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 70 | even |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 85 | Persona +1 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 74 | Persona +9 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 73 | Persona +15 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Persona +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 75 | Persona +17 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 68 | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **62.1 · B** | **69.5 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) | Persona |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Onfido Ltd (Entrust) | Persona Identities, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.withpersona.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | none | 190 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-08-31 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 59k npm/wk, 27k PyPI/wk | 570k 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.


## For agents

- 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
- 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`
- 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

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