Sumsub alternatives in 2026: 7 options compared on checks and price

Published 2026-11-04 · By the Koncile team

The right Sumsub alternative depends on which part of Sumsub you actually use. If you need the full remote onboarding (document, selfie, liveness, AML), look at Didit, Ondato, Veriff or Jumio. If you only need to read identity documents and check them for editing, a document tool such as Koncile costs a fraction of a per verification bundle, but it does not replace face match or liveness. Prices below were read on each vendor's own site on 4 November 2026.

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Which Sumsub alternative fits which case

Start from the job you need done, not from the vendor list. Sumsub sells a bundle: document check, selfie with liveness, face match and, on the higher plan, anti money laundering (AML) screening. Most teams that look for a replacement either want the same bundle cheaper, or have realised they only use one piece of it.

Sumsub alternatives by use case. Facts read on vendor sites on 4 November 2026 (Regula and Mindee on 2 November 2026).
Your situation	Look at	Why
Same remote onboarding, lower price per check	Didit	Public price list, 500 full KYC checks free each month, then $0.33 per check
Same bundle, European vendor, per check pricing	Ondato	€1.40 to €0.50 per verification with liveness and fraud engine included
High volume, custom contract, account team	Veriff or Jumio	Enterprise on quote, Veriff self serve from $0.80, large document coverage, biometrics
Document authenticity in your own mobile app	Regula Document Reader SDK	16,500+ templates, chip reading, 30 day trial
Only the data of the passport or ID card	Mindee	Passport OCR API from $53 per month, no authenticity check described
Data plus a check that the file was not edited, no selfie step	Koncile	Fields, machine readable zone (MRZ) and a fraud score from 0 to 100, €0.20 to €0.40 per page

What Sumsub does and what it costs

Sumsub is an identity verification and compliance platform. Its ID verification page claims 14,000+ supported document types, an average verification time of 20 seconds and 12 million+ people verified per month; its migration page adds 220+ countries and territories, NFC chip reading and eID support. These are the vendor's own figures, without a published method.

The public price list on sumsub.com/pricing, read on 4 November 2026, has three plans:

Sumsub public plans, sumsub.com/pricing, 4 November 2026.
Plan	Price	Monthly minimum	What the price covers
Basic	$1.35 per verification	$149	ID verification, liveness and face match, reusable KYC (Sumsub ID)
Compliance	$1.85 per verification	$299	Adds AML screening, ongoing AML monitoring and address verification
Custom	On quote	Negotiated	Business verification, transaction monitoring, fraud prevention, database checks

A few lines of the same page matter when you compare. A user verification is a bundle of features applied to one applicant, and if you choose not to use all of them, it is still charged at full cost. Extras are billed on top: a proof of address check adds $1.35, extra extracted fields $0.06 each, ongoing ID monitoring $0.05 per document, a questionnaire $250 per month. On the positive side, only successful verifications are charged, plans can change at any time, and the trial gives 14 days with 50 free checks.

Why teams look for a Sumsub alternative

The bundle does not match the need. A lending broker that receives passports by email, or an insurer reading the ID card attached to a claim, has no live user to take a selfie. Paying for liveness on every file buys nothing.
The monthly minimum. $149 or $299 a month is small for a fintech, but it is a fixed cost for a team that checks 30 files a month.
Documents arrive as files, not through an SDK. Sumsub is designed around a capture flow in your app or a hosted link. Back office teams often need to process PDFs and scans that are already in a mailbox or a CRM.
The rest of the file. A KYC or onboarding file also holds a proof of address, a bank statement, sometimes a payslip. Reading those is a separate product or an extra at most identity vendors.
Price at volume. At 1,000 checks a month, the Basic plan already costs $1,350. Vendors with public per module pricing can be several times cheaper for the same flow.

None of this makes Sumsub a bad product: its coverage and its analyst rankings are real reasons to stay. The question is whether you pay for steps you do not run.

The alternatives, one by one

1. Koncile: document reading and fraud checks without the selfie step

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 can run on the same page and returns a score from 0 to 100, test by test, from PDF forensics, metadata, image edit detection (the K-Detect model) and an AI fake detection model. The same account reads the proof of address and the bank statement of the file, which our KYC OCR page describes in detail.

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 fraud analysis 2 credits (reading plus checks). A passport is one page, a two sided ID card two.

The limit, said plainly: Koncile does not do face match, liveness or chip (NFC) reading, and it does not screen names against sanctions or PEP lists. 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 is the holder of the document, Koncile does not replace Sumsub alone; it can sit next to a biometric provider.

2. Didit: the same bundle with a public, low 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); after that a full KYC check costs $0.33, with no minimum and no contract. The ID verification module alone is $0.15 per check and, according to the page, reads 14,000+ document types from 220+ countries, including barcodes and the MRZ. NFC reading is $0.15, AML screening starts at $0.07. The page also says its pricing changed on 1 November 2026, so check the current grid before you budget.

Best for: teams that want the Sumsub flow at a lower and fully visible price. Watch: a younger vendor; ask for references in your sector and your regulator's country.

3. Ondato: a European KYC suite priced per verification

Ondato lists identity verification at €1.40 to €0.50 per verification depending on volume (ondato.com, 4 November 2026). Every account includes document data extraction, liveness with biometric analysis, an AI fraud detection engine, deepfake detection, a KYC specialist fallback for unclear cases and unlimited data retention. AML screening is an extra at €0.45 to €0.04 per check, a proof of address check €0.60 to €0.30, a lost and stolen document check €0.32 to €0.22.

Best for: European regulated businesses that want the full bundle with a human fallback included. Watch: the exact rate for your volume is given by sales, not by the page.

4. 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, about 99.6 % accurate decisions 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. Our page on Veriff pricing details each plan.

Best for: large consumer platforms with steady volume. Watch: no public rate for the enterprise plan, so compare only on a written quote.

5. Jumio: identity intelligence for large enterprises

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; the Jumio alternative options are compared on a separate page.

Best for: banks and large platforms that want one vendor for identity, risk signals and AML. Watch: a long sales and integration cycle for a small team.

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

Regula sells SDKs rather than a hosted KYC flow. Its Document Reader SDK claims 16,500+ document templates from 254 countries and territories and 138+ languages, reads the MRZ, barcodes and the chip, and runs document authenticity checks in the SDK (page read on 2 November 2026). Pricing is on request; a 30 day free trial gives full access.

Best for: teams that build their own onboarding and want strong document authenticity on the device. Watch: you build the flow, the case management and the AML step yourself.

7. Mindee: passport data only

Mindee's Passport OCR API returns the printed fields and both MRZ lines. Plans start at $53 per month (Starter, 6,000 credits) with a 14 day trial (page read on 2 November 2026). The product page does not describe any authenticity or fraud check.

Best for: developers who only need the data and run their own checks. Watch: no document fraud signal, no biometrics. Our comparison of 10 passport OCR APIs covers Mindee and the other OCR tools in more depth.

Persona, iDenfy and Onfido (now part of Entrust) are often cited as Sumsub competitors too; our page on iDenfy alternatives relies on iDenfy's developer documentation. Persona publishes its plans in its help center, and our guide to Persona competitors compares them with Sumsub. Onfido now sells as Entrust Identity Verification on quote only; our page on Onfido competitors compares them with what its Document report checks. The pricing and product pages of iDenfy and Onfido blocked our automated reading on 4 November 2026, so we do not quote figures for them here rather than repeat second hand numbers.

What 1,000 identity 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 third column before the second.

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
Sumsub Compliance	$1,850	Basic plus AML screening and monitoring, address verification
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
Ondato	€500 to €1,400 depending on the volume tier	Document, liveness, fraud engine, human fallback
Koncile, reading only	€199 (Advanced plan, 1,000 credits)	Fields and MRZ, no fraud analysis
Koncile, reading and fraud analysis	€399 (2,000 credits: 1,000 in the plan, 1,000 billed as used at €0.20)	Fields, MRZ, fraud score from 0 to 100, no selfie
Veriff self serve, Essential to Premium	$800 to $1,890	Document and liveness; human review from Plus; AML +$0.64 per check
Jumio, Regula	On quote	Varies by contract

Koncile's pricing page says extra credits are billed as used without blocking; it does not state a different rate for them, which is why the table uses the plan rate.

How to switch from Sumsub without breaking onboarding

List the steps you really run. Export a month of Sumsub verifications and count how many used liveness, AML or proof of address. That list decides the category of tool, not the brochure.
Ask your compliance officer what must stay. Remote onboarding rules differ by country and licence; whether a selfie and liveness check is required is a legal question for your programme, not a vendor choice.
Run both tools in parallel for two to four weeks on the same files and compare pass rates, manual reviews and the fields you get back. Sumsub itself offers this kind of side by side test to teams coming the other way.
Map the fields. Write down which JSON keys your CRM or case management reads today and check that the new tool returns them, including the MRZ and the document number.
Keep the audit trail. Export the verification records you must retain before the contract ends, and check what happens to the data held by the old vendor.
Switch in steps: one country, one product line or one channel first, then the rest.

Frequently asked questions

01What does Sumsub do?

Sumsub verifies the identity of users online: it checks an identity document, runs a selfie with liveness and face match, and on its Compliance plan screens people against AML lists and monitors them over time. It also sells business verification, transaction monitoring and fraud prevention.

02How much does Sumsub cost?

On 4 November 2026 its public plans were Basic at $1.35 per verification with a $149 monthly minimum, and Compliance at $1.85 per verification with a $299 monthly minimum. Larger volumes and extra products are priced on a custom plan. Extras such as proof of address ($1.35) are billed on top.

03What is the cheapest Sumsub alternative?

For the same bundle with liveness, Didit had the lowest public price we read: 500 full checks free every month, then $0.33 each. If you do not need a selfie step, a document tool is cheaper again: Koncile reads a passport page for 1 credit (€0.20 on the Advanced plan) or reads and checks it for 2 credits.

04Is Koncile a full replacement for Sumsub?

No, not for remote onboarding that needs proof that the person is the holder of the document. Koncile reads the document and checks the file for signs of editing, but it does no face match, liveness, chip reading or sanctions screening. It replaces Sumsub when you only use the document part, or works next to a biometric provider.

05Does Sumsub charge for failed verifications?

No: its pricing FAQ says only successful verifications are charged. Rules differ elsewhere: Didit's pricing page warns that a declined session can still contain billable checks, and Veriff says retries after a blurry photo are not billed for ID verification. Ask each vendor what counts as a billable event before you compare unit prices.

06Can I keep Sumsub for some users and use another tool for others?

Yes. Many teams keep a biometric flow for remote consumer signups and send documents that arrive by email or upload, such as broker files or claims, to a document tool. Each tool keeps its own records, so plan how both feed your case management.

07Does any alternative read the passport chip?

Sumsub, Didit (NFC module at $0.15) and Regula say they read the chip of biometric passports and electronic ID cards. Koncile and Mindee work from images and PDFs and do not read chips.

08How long does a switch take?

It depends on how deeply the old flow is embedded. A document API can be tested in a day; a full onboarding flow with liveness, AML and case management usually needs a parallel run of a few weeks before you move all traffic.

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