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Head to head · Identity verification · October 2026 research run

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Vouched

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against Vouched's 56.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Vouched leads on payments & pricing. 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 VouchedVouched Identity, Inc. · HTTP API C56.4/100#673 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 50
  • Security & auth, 58 against 40

Watch for

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

Vouched C

Best for US businesses in healthcare, finance, automotive and gig work that want document and selfie checks with published prices.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20

Watch for

Rate limits are stated without a number

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)VouchedEdge
Reliability16%207050Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28481Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +3
Agent ergonomics13%16.26566Vouched +1
Security & auth14%17.55840Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +18
Payments & pricing10%12.52030Vouched +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85860Vouched +2
Transparency & trust7%8.87074Vouched +4
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 62.1/100C 56.4/100

Facts side by side

FactEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)Vouched
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOnfido Ltd (Entrust)Vouched Identity, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
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 under Vouched's Customer Terms of Service. The React Native capture package is Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-08-312026-08-28
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read2026-02-12
Privacy policy last updated2022-12-05
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readyes
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readyes
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readnot found in the text
Popularity59k npm/wk, 27k PyPI/wk69 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.

Vouched

Vouched publishes per-transaction prices from $0.75 with a $300 monthly minimum and a 14-day trial, and its docs carry llms.txt, OpenAPI fragments and filterable job search. Rate limits have no number, there is no idempotency key, server SDK or security.txt, and the API status page shows a 70-minute rise in rejections on 1 October 2026.

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

Vouched

  1. Use the private key in X-API-Key against verify.vouched.id or verify.eu.vouched.id, matching the account's region
  2. Check Find Jobs before resubmitting. There is no idempotency key and each job is billed
  3. Pass withPhotos=false and select fields on Find Jobs to keep responses small
  4. In a test account, use the name test pass for a clean result and any other name for a failure
  5. Back off on 429. All endpoints share one limit and no figure is published

Questions

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

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against Vouched's 56.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Vouched leads on payments & pricing.

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

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

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

No hosted endpoint is listed for Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido). No hosted endpoint is listed for Vouched.

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