# Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Sumsub

> Sumsub scores 68.5 (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

Sumsub scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)'s 62.1 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics. 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
- Sumsub: grade B, 68.5/100, rank #220 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sumsub.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sumsub.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:
- Schema & documentation, 84 against 78
- Agent ergonomics, 65 against 60

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

### Sumsub (B)

Good for: An agent that starts verifications, sends links, reads results and AML cases, and works case queues for a regulated business, with one token limited to those permissions.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 80 against 70
- Security & auth, 80 against 58
- Payments & pricing, 25 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 74 against 58

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: No idempotency keys and no Retry-After or backoff guidance found in the reviewed documentation


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) | Sumsub | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 80 | Sumsub +10 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 78 | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 60 | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +5 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 80 | Sumsub +22 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 25 | Sumsub +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 74 | Sumsub +16 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 74 | Sumsub +4 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **62.1 · B** | **68.5 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) | Sumsub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Onfido Ltd (Entrust) | Sum and Substance Ltd |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.sumsub.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |
| 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 Sumsub's terms and conditions. The agent skills repository and the @sumsub/websdk npm package are MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-08-31 | 2026-10-03 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-05-21 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-03-19 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |
| Popularity | 59k npm/wk, 27k PyPI/wk | 172k 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.

**Sumsub.** Per-token permissions, an IP allowlist, HMAC-signed requests and a public OpenAPI spec with Markdown docs suit an agent working on verification cases. No idempotency keys or Retry-After guidance were found, there is no server SDK, and production access needs a browser signup, a bank card and Sumsub's review of the integration.

## 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

### Sumsub

1. Sign every request. X-App-Access-Sig is the lowercase hex HMAC-SHA256 of timestamp, uppercase method, path with query and raw body, and the timestamp must be within one minute of server time
2. Use a sandbox token (prefix sbx) for agent work. Sandbox and production tokens are separate, and Sumsub's own skills refuse any other prefix
3. Stay under 300 GET and 50 POST requests per 5 seconds, and under 500 new applicants per 24 hours in Sandbox
4. Token permissions can't be edited after creation. Generate a new token with the narrower set and delete the old one
5. Subscribe to the applicantReviewed webhook for results and verify x-payload-digest against the raw body before trusting it

## Questions

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

Sumsub scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)'s 62.1 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics.

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

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

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

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


## For agents

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

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