# Middesk vs Sumsub (slim)

> Sumsub scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against Middesk's 59 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do kyc business. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

Sumsub scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against Middesk's 59 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do kyc business.

- Middesk: C 59, rank #389 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/middesk.min.md
- Sumsub: B 68.5, rank #167 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sumsub.min.md
- Middesk, good for An agent onboarding or re-checking US businesses for a bank, lender or marketplace that already holds a Middesk contract, with registry, TIN, sanctions and lien data in one object.
- Sumsub, 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 73; Security & auth, 80 against 56; Payments & pricing, 25 against 10; Maintenance & community, 74 against 64; Transparency & trust, 74 against 61.

| Category | Middesk | Sumsub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 73 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 60 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 80 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 64 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Middesk | Sumsub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Middesk, Inc. | Sum and Substance Ltd |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.middesk.com/v1` | `https://api.sumsub.com` |
| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Middesk's Business Verification Terms and Conditions. The Claude Code and Codex plugins on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under Sumsub's terms and conditions. The agent skills repository and the @sumsub/websdk npm package are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 11 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-03 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-05-21 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-03-19 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 2 stars | 172k npm/wk |