Veriff pricing in 2026: plans, real costs and 7 alternatives

Published 2026-11-11 · By the Koncile team

Veriff publishes three self serve plans for businesses under 5,000 verifications a month: Essential at $0.80 per verification ($49 monthly minimum), Plus at $1.39 ($99) and Premium at $1.89 ($209), with a 15 day free trial. Above 5,000 a month, Veriff Enterprise is priced on quote. AML screening adds $0.64 per check. This guide prices Veriff at three volumes and compares it with seven alternatives, from full platforms such as Sumsub and Didit to document only tools such as Koncile, using each vendor's own pages read in November 2026.

Veriff pricing at a glance

Veriff sells identity verification two ways from one pricing page. Below 5,000 verifications a month, three self serve plans are priced per verification, each with a minimum monthly commitment and a 15 day free trial that includes 50 live verifications. Above 5,000 a month, Veriff Enterprise is priced in an order form after a sales conversation. The figures below come from veriff.com/pricing, read on 11 November 2026, in US dollars and before tax.

Three rules sit behind these numbers. You pay for identity verification decisions, not attempts: if a user resubmits after a blurry photo, the retry is not billed. The minimum is a floor, not a bundle: on Essential, a month with 20 verifications still costs $49. And the self serve plans have usage caps written in the pricing FAQ: at most 15 sessions created per minute and 10,000 per month, beyond which Veriff may slow or block new sessions until you sign an order form.

What the extras add to a Veriff bill

The cost estimator on the same page lists optional extras, priced per verification on top of the plan rate. They change the comparison more than the plan choice does, because the screening that regulated businesses need is not in any self serve plan.

• AML screening (politically exposed persons and sanctions): +$0.64 per verification.
• Ongoing monitoring: +$0.09 per verification.
• Extended data retention (two more years): +$0.30 per verification.
• Additional extracted data fields: shown as included in the estimator, while the Essential plan lists only "key data fields". Ask which fields you get on your plan before you rely on them.

A Plus verification with AML screening therefore costs $2.03, and a Premium one $2.53. Proof of address, age estimation, database checks and business verification (KYB) appear in Veriff's product menu but not in the self serve estimator: expect them on an Enterprise quote.

One line in the data retention FAQ deserves a careful read by your privacy team. Veriff writes that, "to the extent not prohibited by law", it may retain personal data "for its own purposes", such as service development, irrespective of the retention schedule set for the service. That is a common clause among identity verification providers, but it matters if your contracts promise customers that their ID images are deleted after a fixed period.

What Veriff Enterprise includes

Enterprise is "best for businesses with more than 5,000 verifications/month". The pricing model is custom: the order form is built from your volume and the products you use, "rather than a published per verification rate". The page lists what is included at no extra charge: setup, an implementation team for the first weeks, a named strategic account manager, technical support and the Veriff Station customer portal. Retries are not billed for identity verification there either, but "other products follow their own billing rules".

Veriff also states, on the same page, 12,500+ supported documents, 230+ countries and territories, 50 languages and dialects, an average decision in 6 seconds and "~99.6%" accurate decisions. These are Veriff's own figures, with no published method behind the accuracy number; test on your own traffic before you take them into a business case.

What Veriff costs at 300, 1,000 and 5,000 verifications a month

The table prices three monthly volumes at the public rates read on 11 November 2026. The rows do not buy the same thing: Veriff, Sumsub and Didit include a selfie with liveness, Koncile reads and checks the document only. Read the last column before comparing totals.

At 5,000 a month, Veriff points you to Enterprise, so the self serve totals in that column are a ceiling to negotiate from rather than a price you would pay. At 300 a month, minimums do not bite on any of the plans above; they matter for a pilot or a seasonal business with 30 verifications in a quiet month, where Essential costs $49, Plus $99 and Sumsub Basic $149 whatever the usage.

Why teams look for a Veriff alternative

• AML is an extra. Veriff's self serve plans stop at identity verification; screening adds $0.64 a check, where Sumsub's Compliance plan includes it at $1.85.
• The 5,000 line. Above it, the published price no longer applies and you negotiate. A team that grows past that line in one market loses its reference price.
• Human review only from Plus. Essential is fully automated. If you want specialists on the edge cases, the entry price is $1.39, not $0.80.
• You do not need a selfie. A team that only needs the data from passports and ID cards it already receives as files pays for liveness it never uses.
• Data terms. The clause on retaining personal data for Veriff's own purposes is worth comparing line by line with other providers' data processing terms.

Veriff remains a sensible choice for consumer apps with high traffic: published entry prices, a free trial without a sales call, retries not billed, and a hybrid model with human review are real reasons to stay. The question is whether you use the whole flow, and whether the extras you need fit the plan you pay for.

Veriff competitors, one by one

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

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 machine readable zone (MRZ) 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 files you already have, such as an upload, an email attachment or a back office scan, rather than on a live capture session. Our passport OCR API page shows the request and the response.

Price (koncile.ai/en/pricing, read on 11 November 2026): 20 free credits at signup; Advanced $229 per month for 1,000 credits; Pro $924 for 5,000 credits; no commitment. Reading a page costs 1 credit, a page run through fraud detection 2 credits, extraction included.

The limit, said plainly: Koncile does not do face match, liveness, chip (NFC) reading, database lookups or sanctions screening, and no human reviews the score. 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 Veriff; it can sit next to a biometric provider or handle the files that never go through a capture flow.

2. Sumsub: the closest plan structure, with AML included

Sumsub's Basic plan costs $1.35 per verification with a $149 monthly minimum and covers ID verification, liveness and face match; its Compliance plan costs $1.85 with a $299 minimum and adds AML screening, ongoing AML monitoring and address verification (sumsub.com/pricing, read on 11 November 2026). Above the minimum, extra checks are charged pro rata. Our guide to Sumsub alternatives details both plans.

Best for: regulated teams that want screening in the base price. Watch: the higher minimums, and Veriff's own comparison page, which claims Sumsub is slower and fully automated; those are a competitor's claims, so test both on the same traffic.

3. Didit: the lowest public price for a full flow

Didit's pricing page (read on 11 November 2026) lists a full KYC check (ID verification, passive liveness, face match, device and IP analysis) at $0.33, ID verification alone at $0.15, with $10 of free credit every month, no minimum and no commitment, and discounts of 4 % and 10 % on its Growth and Scale plans. In early November the free allowance was 500 full checks a month; it is now a $10 credit, so check the grid on the day you budget.

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

4. Ondato: a European suite with a human fallback

Ondato lists identity verification at €1.40 to €0.50 per verification depending on volume (ondato.com, read on 4 November 2026), with document data extraction, liveness, an AI fraud engine, deepfake detection and a KYC specialist fallback on every account. AML screening is an extra at €0.45 to €0.04 per check.

Best for: buyers who like Veriff's hybrid model and want a published volume grid. Watch: confirm which volume tier you will actually reach.

5. Onfido, now Entrust Identity Verification

Onfido belongs to Entrust since 2024. Its documentation (read on 6 November 2026) details a Document report with published breakdowns (data validation, MRZ against printed text, visual authenticity, image integrity), NFC chip checks and biometric reports. No price is published. Our Onfido alternatives guide describes each report.

Best for: enterprises that want documented, fully automated checks. Watch: quote only, so you trade Veriff's public entry price for a negotiation.

6. iDenfy: AI plus human review, price not readable

iDenfy combines automated checks with human reviewers, offers NFC reading and stores data in the EU by default, according to its developer documentation read on 10 November 2026. Its pricing page returned a bot check that day, and its documentation describes a charge per completed verification without amounts. Our page on iDenfy alternatives covers its statuses and services.

Best for: European onboarding where a human reviewer on hard cases matters. Watch: ask for the completed verification rate in writing.

7. Regula Document Reader SDK: document checks inside your own app

Regula sells SDKs rather than a hosted flow. Its Document Reader SDK claims 17,000+ document templates (page read on 9 November 2026), reads the MRZ, barcodes and the chip, and runs authenticity checks on the device. Pricing is on request, with a 30 day free trial.

Best for: product teams that want the document and NFC step in their own app and will build the rest. Watch: no hosted workflow, human review or AML. Our comparison of 10 passport OCR APIs covers Regula and other document tools in more depth.

Veriff vs Sumsub on public facts

On price alone, Veriff is cheaper when you do not need AML and do not need human review; Sumsub Compliance is cheaper as soon as screening is required ($1.85 against $2.03 on Veriff Plus with AML). The decision should come from a test on your own users: run both on the same few hundred real sessions and compare pass rates, time to decision and the cases each one sends to review.

Do you need the full flow or only the document data?

Most teams that compare Veriff's prices fall into one of two groups, and the shortlist differs.

• You must prove the user is present. Regulated onboarding (bank account, crypto exchange, gambling) usually requires a selfie with liveness matched to the ID. Compare Veriff with Sumsub, Didit, Ondato and Onfido. Your compliance team, not the vendor, decides whether a selfie is required.
• You need the data and a check on the file. Pre filling a form, processing passports in a rental, travel or insurance file, reviewing an ID received by email: what matters is accurate fields, the MRZ and a signal that the image was edited. A document tool or an SDK is enough, and usually cheaper: $459 against $800 to $1,390 at 1,000 a month in the table above. Our MRZ OCR page explains what the machine readable zone lets you cross check.

How to compare a Veriff quote with an alternative

1. Count decisions, not sessions. Take one month of real traffic and count users who reached a decision; Veriff bills decisions, other vendors may bill started sessions.
2. List the extras you actually use. AML, monitoring, extended retention, proof of address, KYB: price each one per verification at every vendor.
3. Apply the minimums to your quietest month. A $209 floor is irrelevant at 2,000 checks and decisive at 50.
4. Check the ceilings. Veriff's self serve plans stop at 10,000 sessions a month; know which plan or contract you move to before you hit it.
5. Read the data terms. Retention periods, deletion by API, and any right to keep data for the vendor's own purposes.
6. Run a parallel test. Send the same few hundred sessions or files, including the ones you rejected, to two vendors and compare outcomes before you sign.

Sources

• Veriff plans and pricing, Self-Serve and Enterprise tabs, read on 11 November 2026
• Veriff vs Sumsub, Veriff's comparison page, read on 11 November 2026
• Sumsub pricing, read on 11 November 2026
• Didit pricing, read on 11 November 2026
• Ondato identity verification pricing, read on 4 November 2026
• Entrust documentation, Document report, read on 6 November 2026
• iDenfy documentation, read on 10 November 2026
• Regula Document Reader SDK, read on 9 November 2026
• Koncile pricing, read on 11 November 2026