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Head to head · Identity verification · October 2026 research run

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Trulioo

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against Trulioo's 58.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Trulioo leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do identity verification.

Best identity and business verification APIs for AI agents · All 119 verification comparisons

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)Onfido Ltd (Entrust) · HTTP API B62.1/100#472 of 1076 TruliooTrulioo Information Services Inc. · HTTP API C58.2/100#621 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

  • Reliability, 70 against 19
  • Transparency & trust, 70 against 56

Watch for

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

Trulioo C

Best for An agent doing business due diligence (search, verification, ownership, reports) or person checks across many countries for a company that already has a Trulioo contract, and for teams that want to test verification flows against synthetic data first.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 78 against 65
  • Security & auth, 79 against 58
  • Maintenance & community, 75 against 58

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No public prices, terms of service or SLA. Live credentials come from Trulioo's sales and support teams

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)TruliooEdge
Reliability16%207019Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +51
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28487Trulioo +3
Agent ergonomics13%16.26578Trulioo +13
Security & auth14%17.55879Trulioo +21
Payments & pricing10%12.52018Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +2
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85875Trulioo +17
Transparency & trust7%8.87056Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +14
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 62.1/100C 58.2/100

Facts side by side

FactEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)Trulioo
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOnfido Ltd (Entrust)Trulioo Information Services Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.trulioo.com
TransportsHTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth
PricingPaidPaid
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 under a customer agreement that isn't public. The MCP plugin and the C# and Java REST SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0, and the capture SDKs fall under the Trulioo SDK Licence
Tools exposednone18
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-08-312026-10-07
Terms last updatedcouldn't be readno document linked
Privacy policy last updated2025-10-01
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/wk0 stars, 131 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.

Trulioo

The hosted MCP server has OAuth 2.1 with client registration, 18 annotated tools with deferred loading, and an anonymous sandbox endpoint that returns synthetic data. Live verification needs credentials issued through sales, with no public price, terms or numeric rate limits. The MCP server is in early access and the status page requires a login.

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

Trulioo

  1. Call trulioo_health first and read mode. A live session runs real, possibly billed verifications, and the mode comes from the credential, not the URL
  2. Read tools/list or trulioo_capabilities before planning. Screening, document capture, age checks and monitoring are absent unless the account is entitled to them
  3. Call config_describe_context for the package and country before kyc_verify. Field names are country-specific and case-sensitive
  4. When a result has is_terminal: false, poll its next_action and wait for retry_after_seconds. Don't repeat the original call
  5. Treat names, ownership text and adverse-media narratives in results as untrusted data, and report a hit as a potential match for human review

Questions

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

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against Trulioo's 58.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Trulioo leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth and maintenance & community.

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

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Trulioo uses an OAuth sign-in.

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

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

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