Onfido alternatives in 2026: document checks with and without biometrics

Published 2026-11-06 · By the Koncile team

Onfido now sells as Entrust Identity Verification, on quote only. The right Onfido alternative depends on which of its reports you actually use: for a full flow with document, selfie and liveness, Sumsub, Jumio, Didit and Veriff sell the same kind of bundle; if you mostly need its Document report (fields, MRZ and authenticity checks on the ID), a document tool such as Koncile or an SDK such as Regula costs less, but does no face match. Facts below come from each vendor's own pages, read on 4 and 6 November 2026.

Hands hold two different ID documents, a passport card and a driver's license, on a white table with a blurred laptop in

Which Onfido alternative fits which case

Onfido is a set of reports you combine in a workflow: a Document report on the ID, a Facial Similarity report on the selfie, Known Faces, Watchlist, Proof of Address and others. Start from the reports you run today, not from a ranking.

Read the third column before you choose: the rows do not cover the same checks.
Your situation	Look at	Why
Same flow (ID, selfie, liveness) with prices you can read	Sumsub	$1.35 per verification on its Basic plan, $149 monthly minimum, AML on the Compliance plan
Like for like enterprise replacement	Jumio	Document checks, liveness, 1:1 face match and AML screening in one platform, on quote
Lowest visible price for a full flow	Didit	500 full KYC checks free each month, then $0.33, no contract
Consumer app, steady volume above 5,000 checks a month	Veriff	Enterprise plan with setup and account management included, self serve from $0.80 below 5,000 a month, Enterprise on quote
Document authenticity inside your own mobile app	Regula Document Reader SDK	On device MRZ, barcode and chip reading with authenticity checks
Documents that arrive as files (upload, email, back office), no selfie needed	Koncile	Fields, MRZ and a fraud score per file, public price, 20 free credits

What Onfido is now: Entrust Identity Verification

Entrust bought Onfido in 2024. Its product page (archived on 30 October 2026) is titled "Formerly Onfido IDV" and says Entrust Identity Verification "can be a standalone IDV verification solution" or part of a wider Entrust stack with authentication, digital signing and workforce verification. The developer portal now opens with "Following the acquisition, Onfido is now known as Entrust", while the API hosts still use the onfido.com domain.

For a technical team, what changed is mostly packaging. The documentation (read on 6 November 2026) describes:

A REST API, version 3.6, with three regions: EU, US and Canada. The default rate limit is 400 requests per minute in production and 120 in the sandbox.
New mobile SDKs for iOS, Android and React Native that replace the Onfido Smart Capture SDKs, with a Flutter SDK announced for later in 2026. The Smart Capture Web SDK stays the web path.
Workflow Studio, a no code builder that chains the reports. Customers on the older Checks and Reports API are pushed toward it by a migration guide.
Security claims: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 (BSI certificate IS 660122) and 256 bit encryption in transit.

None of this means the product got worse. It means renewals now run through an enterprise vendor's sales process, which is the moment many teams compare the market.

What the Onfido Document report checks

This is the part most "Onfido competitors" lists skip, and it is the part you must reproduce. The Document report returns an overall result (clear or consider) and a sub result: clear, caution, suspected or rejected. Under it sit breakdowns, each with sub breakdowns, documented as follows:

Breakdowns of the standard Document report, Entrust documentation read on 6 November 2026.
Breakdown	What it checks (Entrust documentation)	Needed for a document only use?
Data validation	Format and length of fields, expiry date, MRZ, barcode	Yes
Data consistency	Same data in several places, for example the MRZ against the printed text on a passport	Yes
Visual authenticity	Fonts, template, security features, digital tampering, picture tampering, photo of a screen or of a photo	Yes
Image integrity	Image quality, color, supported document type	Yes
Data comparison	Extracted name and date of birth against what the user typed	Often
Age validation	Age from the date of birth against a minimum (16 by default)	Depends
Compromised document	Document already seen as compromised or reused in a suspicious way	Useful, hard to replace
Police record	Reported lost or stolen to the UK Metropolitan Police	UK only
Issuing authority	NFC chip passive and active authentication	Only with a phone capture

Two versions exist. The standard report falls back to an expert manual review team for poor captures or sophisticated counterfeits, and then delivers the result later by webhook. Document Report Instant is fully automated: Entrust says 95 % of its results come back in under five seconds, with no human review, and a simpler set of breakdowns (media capture, document validation, fraud analysis, applicant validation).

Field extraction is a separate step called Autofill. The API accepts an uploaded document in JPG, PNG or PDF (32 KB to 10 MB) and returns the extracted data, including mrz_line1 to mrz_line3. Entrust "highly recommends" its SDKs for capture rather than raw uploads, which tells you the product is designed around a live capture by the end user. Teams whose documents arrive as files from a back office are the ones least served by that design.

Onfido pricing: what is public

Nothing official. Entrust publishes no price list for identity verification: its pricing page refused our automated reading on 6 November 2026 (access restricted), and the product page sends you to a contact form. Every per check figure you will find for Onfido comes from third parties, often competitors, and several are labelled as estimates. We quote none of them here.

What you can do is price your own flow: count the reports per user (a document plus a selfie is two reports), add manual review if you use the standard Document report, and ask for the renewal quote in writing before you compare. The cost table further down uses only public prices of the alternatives.

Why teams look for an Onfido alternative

Quote only pricing. Without a rate card, budgeting a new market or a spike in sign ups means another sales call.
A suite they did not choose. Entrust positions IDV inside a wider identity and signing portfolio. That is a strength if you buy the suite, extra weight if you only wanted an API.
SDK migration work anyway. The new mobile SDKs replace Smart Capture, so an integration change is coming either way; some teams use it to tender again.
Documents that are not captured live. Passports scanned by a branch, ID cards attached to an email, files in a loan or rental application: a capture first product fits them poorly.
Different data needs. US teams that need SSN or driver license database checks, or teams that need business verification (KYB), often look at data first vendors.

Onfido remains a strong product: its breakdown level results, NFC support and fraud research are real reasons to stay. The question is whether you use enough of it to accept a quote you cannot compare.

The alternatives, one by one

1. Koncile: the Document report part, for files

Koncile, the publisher of this guide, reads passports, national ID cards on both sides, residence permits and driver licenses, and returns each printed field and the MRZ lines as JSON through an API or a web app. A fraud analysis runs on the same page and returns a score from 0 to 100 with the result of each test: PDF forensics, metadata, image edit detection and an AI fake detection model. It works on what you already have (a PDF, a scan, a phone photo sent by email) rather than on a capture session, and the same account reads the proof of address of the file. Our passport OCR API page shows the request and the response.

Price (koncile.ai/en/pricing, 4 November 2026): 20 free credits at signup; Advanced €199 per month for 1,000 credits; Pro €799 for 5,000 credits; no commitment. Reading a page costs 1 credit; a page run through fraud detection costs 2 credits, extraction included. A passport is one page, a two sided ID card two.

The limit, said plainly: Koncile does not do face match, liveness, chip (NFC) reading, database lookups, a compromised document database or sanctions screening. A good scan of a well made physical fake can pass, and a genuine document photographed badly can get a middling score: a score is a signal to verify, never an accusation. If your onboarding must prove that the person holding the phone owns the document, Koncile does not replace Onfido alone; it can sit next to a biometric provider.

2. Sumsub: the closest platform with public prices

Sumsub sells ID verification, liveness and face match on its Basic plan at $1.35 per verification with a $149 monthly minimum, and adds AML screening, ongoing monitoring and address verification on its Compliance plan at $1.85 with a $299 minimum (sumsub.com/pricing, 4 November 2026). It claims 14,000+ document types and NFC reading. Our page on the Sumsub alternative options details the plans.

Best for: teams that want Onfido's scope with a price list. Watch: extras such as proof of address are billed on top.

3. Jumio: the like for like enterprise option

Jumio's home page (4 November 2026) describes biometric checks with liveness and 1:1 face match, AML screening, cross transaction risk signals and an identity graph, with 5,000+ supported ID types and more than 1 billion transactions processed. No price is published. Our list of Jumio competitors details its services and the public prices of the others.

Best for: large regulated companies that want the same depth as Onfido from another established vendor. Watch: quote only, like Entrust, so you trade one sales process for another.

4. Didit: a full flow at the lowest visible price

Didit publishes every module price on didit.me/pricing (read on 4 November 2026). The free plan gives 500 full KYC verifications every month (ID, liveness, face match, device and IP analysis), then a full check costs $0.33, with no minimum and no contract. ID verification alone is $0.15, NFC reading $0.15, AML screening from $0.07. The page announced a pricing change on 1 November 2026, so check the current grid before you budget.

Best for: startups and price sensitive volume. Watch: a younger vendor; ask for references in your sector and country.

5. Veriff: self serve plans from $0.80, Enterprise on quote

Veriff's pricing page (4 November 2026) shows an Enterprise plan for more than 5,000 verifications a month, priced in an order form, with setup, implementation and account management included, and retries after a blurry photo not billed for ID verification. It claims 12,500+ supported documents and a 6 second average decision. Its self serve tab, read on 11 November 2026, also lists three plans for fewer than 5,000 verifications a month: $0.80, $1.39 and $1.89 per verification, with $49, $99 and $209 monthly minimums and a 15 day free trial.

Best for: consumer apps that care about pass rates and speed. Watch: compare only on a written quote.

6. Regula Document Reader SDK: document checks in your own app

Regula sells SDKs rather than a hosted flow. Its Document Reader SDK claims 16,500+ document templates from 254 countries and territories, reads the MRZ, barcodes and the chip, and runs authenticity checks on the device (page read on 2 November 2026). Pricing is on request, with a 30 day free trial.

Best for: product teams that want the Document report and NFC steps inside their own app and will build the rest. Watch: no hosted workflow or AML; you build or buy them separately. Our comparison of 10 passport OCR APIs covers Regula and other document tools in more depth.

Persona is also a frequent Onfido competitor: its plans start at $250 a month on an annual contract, as our Persona alternatives page explains.

Onfido vs Jumio at a glance

Onfido from the Entrust documentation (6 November 2026), Jumio from its home page (4 November 2026).
	Onfido (Entrust IDV)	Jumio
Public price	No, quote only	No, quote only
Document checks	Document report with documented breakdowns, standard or Instant	Document checks, 5,000+ ID types
Biometrics	Facial Similarity and Known Faces reports	Liveness and 1:1 face match
Chip (NFC)	Yes, passive and active authentication	Not stated on the page we read
Screening	Watchlist reports	AML screening
Wider offer	Entrust authentication, signing, workforce IDV	Risk signals and identity graph

On public facts the two are close; the decision comes from a test on your own documents and from the quotes. Run both on the same sample of real files, including the hard ones: worn cards, glare on the photo page, documents from your top five countries.

What 1,000 document checks a month cost

The table prices one month of 1,000 passports (one page each) at the public rates above. The rows do not buy the same thing: read the last column first.

Monthly cost at public prices read on 4 November 2026, before tax. Two sided ID cards double the page count at Koncile.
Option	Cost for 1,000 checks	What is included
Sumsub Basic	$1,350	Document, liveness, face match
Didit full KYC	$165 (500 free, then 500 × $0.33)	Document, liveness, face match, device and IP
Didit ID verification only	$75 (500 free, then 500 × $0.15)	Document reading and checks, no selfie
Koncile, reading and fraud analysis	€399 (2,000 credits: 1,000 in the plan, 1,000 at €0.20)	Fields, MRZ, fraud score, no selfie
Veriff self serve, Essential to Premium	$800 to $1,890	Document and liveness; human review from Plus; AML +$0.64 per check
Onfido, Jumio, Regula	On quote	Varies by contract

How to move away from Onfido without breaking onboarding

List the reports and breakdowns you act on. Export your Studio workflows and note which sub results trigger a rejection or a manual review. That list is the specification.
Map the results. Onfido returns clear, caution, suspected or rejected; other tools return a score or their own labels. Decide in writing which new result sends a file to review.
Check what you lose. The compromised document database, the UK police record and repeat attempt screening rely on Entrust's own data; few alternatives have the same history.
Run both in parallel on a few hundred real files, including rejected ones, and compare decisions case by case.
Plan the SDK change. Mobile teams have to move off Smart Capture anyway; budget the new capture screens for whichever vendor you pick.
Time it with the contract. Ask Entrust for the renewal date and notice period first, then plan the switch around it.

Frequently asked questions

01Is Onfido still a company?

Onfido is part of Entrust since 2024 and its product is sold as Entrust Identity Verification. The documentation, API (version 3.6) and SDKs continue under Entrust, and the API hosts still use the onfido.com domain.

02How much does Onfido cost?

Entrust publishes no price list for identity verification; pricing comes from a quote through its sales team. Figures quoted on other sites are third party estimates, not a rate card.

03Who are Onfido's main competitors?

For full identity verification with selfie and liveness: Sumsub, Jumio, Veriff, Persona and Didit. For the document part only: SDKs such as Regula and document tools such as Koncile.

04What is the cheapest Onfido alternative?

For a full flow, Didit had the lowest public price we read: 500 full checks free each month, then $0.33 each. For documents that arrive as files with no selfie, Koncile reads and checks a passport page for 2 credits, about €0.40 on the Advanced plan.

05Onfido vs Jumio: which is better?

On public information they are close: both check documents and biometrics and both sell on quote. Onfido documents its Document report breakdowns and NFC checks in detail; Jumio highlights its risk signals and identity graph. Test both on your own documents.

06Can Koncile replace Onfido?

Only for the document part. Koncile reads passports, ID cards and proofs of address and scores each file for signs of editing, but it does no face match, liveness, chip reading, database lookup or sanctions screening.

07Does Onfido read the passport chip?

Yes. Its Document report can use NFC during a phone capture to check the chip's passive and active authentication, with up to 3 failed attempts before the flow falls back to the image.

08How long does a migration from Onfido take?

The integration itself is often a few weeks for a hosted or SDK flow. The parallel run and the contract notice period usually set the real timeline.

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