# Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Shufti

> Entrust Identity Verification scores 62.1 (B) to Shufti's 57.8 (C) for identity verification. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against Shufti's 57.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Shufti leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. 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
- Shufti: grade C, 57.8/100, rank #631 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shufti.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shufti.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.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 70 against 65
- Schema & documentation, 84 against 58
- Agent ergonomics, 65 against 47

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

### Shufti (C)

Good for: A team that wants document, face, address, AML and KYB checks behind one endpoint, a free plan for low volume, and an MCP server that hands the person a hosted verification link.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 72 against 58

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: No OpenAPI file or other machine-readable contract was found. The reference is prose tables plus Postman collections


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) | Shufti | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 65 | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +5 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 58 | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +26 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 47 | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +18 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 62 | Shufti +4 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Shufti +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 72 | Shufti +14 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 71 | Shufti +1 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **62.1 · B** | **57.8 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) | Shufti |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Onfido Ltd (Entrust) | Shufti Pro Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.shuftipro.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| 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 Shufti's Terms and Conditions. The licences of the mobile capture SDKs were not checked |
| Tools exposed | none | 25 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-08-31 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read |  |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-09-01 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | yes, with an opt-out |
| 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 | 59k npm/wk, 27k PyPI/wk | 673 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.

**Shufti.** One endpoint covers document, face, address, AML and KYB checks, with a free plan of 10 verifications a month, and a hosted MCP server adds OAuth with three scopes. No OpenAPI file, server SDK or idempotency key was found, and the status page history could not be read.

## 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

### Shufti

1. POST every verification to `https://api.shuftipro.com/` with a unique `reference` of 6 to 250 characters and one object per service. Read results from `/status` with that reference
2. Register the callback domain in the back office first. An unregistered `callback_url` is rejected
3. Stay under 60 requests a minute per IP on a production account and 20 on a trial account
4. Check the `Signature` response header. Accounts created after 15 March 2023 hash the Secret Key with SHA-256 before appending it to the raw response
5. Through MCP, identity checks return a `verification_url` for the person to open. No tool accepts an image, so use the REST API for offsite proofs

## Questions

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

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against Shufti's 57.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Shufti leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

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

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

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

No hosted endpoint is listed for Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido). Shufti has a hosted endpoint at https://api.shuftipro.com.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-shufti.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/entrust-identity-verification-vs-shufti.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "entrust-identity-verification", "b": "shufti"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare entrust-identity-verification shufti`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/entrust-identity-verification.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shufti.json

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