# Trulioo vs Vouched

> Trulioo scores 58.2 (C) to Vouched's 56.4 (C) for identity verification. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-14

Trulioo scores 58.2 (C) on agent readiness against Vouched's 56.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Vouched leads on reliability, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do identity verification.

- Trulioo: grade C, 58.2/100, rank #621 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trulioo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/trulioo.json
- Vouched: grade C, 56.4/100, rank #673 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vouched.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vouched.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

### Trulioo (C)

Good 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:
- Schema & documentation, 87 against 81
- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 66
- Security & auth, 79 against 40
- Maintenance & community, 75 against 60

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

### Vouched (C)

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

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 50 against 19
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 18
- Transparency & trust, 74 against 56

Watch for: Rate limits are stated without a number


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Trulioo | Vouched | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 19 | 50 | Vouched +31 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 81 | Trulioo +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 66 | Trulioo +12 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 79 | 40 | Trulioo +39 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 18 | 30 | Vouched +12 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 60 | Trulioo +15 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 74 | Vouched +18 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **58.2 · C** | **56.4 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Trulioo | Vouched |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Trulioo Information Services Inc. | Vouched Identity, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.trulioo.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary 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 | Proprietary service under Vouched's Customer Terms of Service. The React Native capture package is Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 18 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-08-28 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-02-12 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-01 | 2022-12-05 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 0 stars, 131 npm/wk | 69 npm/wk |

## Verdicts

**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.

**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

### 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

### 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, Trulioo or Vouched?

Trulioo scores 58.2 (C) on agent readiness against Vouched's 56.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Vouched leads on reliability, payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

### Do Trulioo and Vouched need an API key?

Trulioo uses an OAuth sign-in. Vouched needs an API key.

### Can an agent call Trulioo and Vouched without installing anything?

Trulioo has a hosted endpoint at https://api.trulioo.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Vouched.


## For agents

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

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