# Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Persona (slim)

> 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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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): B 62.1, rank #472 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/entrust-identity-verification.min.md
- Persona: B 69.5, rank #192 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/persona.min.md
- Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido), 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.
- Persona, 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 A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) | Persona |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 73 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) | Persona |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Onfido Ltd (Entrust) | Persona Identities, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.withpersona.com` |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| 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 |
| Last release | 2026-08-31 | 2026-09-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 59k npm/wk, 27k PyPI/wk | 570k npm/wk |