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Head to head · Identity verification · October 2026 research run

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Socure RiskOS

Socure RiskOS scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)'s 62.1 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) leads on agent ergonomics. Both do identity verification.

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Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)Onfido Ltd (Entrust) · HTTP API B62.1/100#472 of 1076 Socure RiskOSSocure Inc. · HTTP API B63.5/100#417 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.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 65 against 46

Watch for

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

Socure RiskOS B

Best for A company in the United States that wants one decision from combined KYC, document, fraud and watchlist checks through a single evaluation call.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 75 against 70
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 75 against 58

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No service agreement or API terms are published. The only terms pages are website terms of use and end-user terms for document capture

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)Socure RiskOSEdge
Reliability16%207075Socure RiskOS +5
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28484even
Agent ergonomics13%16.26546Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +19
Security & auth14%17.55860Socure RiskOS +2
Payments & pricing10%12.52035Socure RiskOS +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85875Socure RiskOS +17
Transparency & trust7%8.87068Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +2
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 62.1/100B 63.5/100

Facts side by side

FactEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)Socure RiskOS
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOnfido Ltd (Entrust)Socure Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.riskos.socure.com/sandbox
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyAPI key
PricingPaidPay per use
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. No service agreement is published, and the OpenAPI file states its licence as Proprietary
Tools exposednone9
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-08-312026-10-06
Terms last updatedcouldn't be readno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno date given
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be read
Popularity59k npm/wk, 27k PyPI/wk35k 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.

Socure RiskOS

A public OpenAPI file, llms.txt, 15 documented error codes and dated release notes cover a ten-operation REST API, and Socure Launch publishes prices from $0.80 an evaluation with a free sandbox. API keys carry no scopes, no idempotency header is defined, no service terms are published, and production stays at zero requests until Socure activates it.

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

Socure RiskOS

  1. Send Authorization: Bearer <key> to https://riskos.sandbox.socure.com/api/evaluation for tests and https://riskos.socure.com/api/evaluation for live checks. The two environments use separate keys.
  2. Use dummy data only in the sandbox. It returns predefined results, connects to no live data source and expects the documented test values.
  3. Store the eval_id from every POST /api/evaluation response. No list or search endpoint exists to find it later.
  4. On 429 wait the seconds given in X-Retry-After. Do not blindly resend a failed POST /api/evaluation, because no idempotency header is documented and Launch bills each initiated evaluation.
  5. The MCP server at https://mcp.riskos.socure.com/sandbox reads docs, workflows and webhooks with its own MCP Server Key. It cannot run evaluations or read results.

Questions

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

Socure RiskOS scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)'s 62.1 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) leads on agent ergonomics.

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

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

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

No hosted endpoint is listed for Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido). Socure RiskOS has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.riskos.socure.com/sandbox.

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