ComplyAdvantage
ComplyAdvantage supplies the risk intelligence and screening layer that banks, fintechs, insurers and crypto businesses run their financial crime programs on, built entirely on proprietary sanctions, politically exposed person, watchlist and adverse media data rather than licensed feeds. Its Mesh platform unifies customer screening, ongoing monitoring, transaction monitoring, payment screening and risk scoring in one system, lets teams screen against 49 distinct risk sub categories, and uses agentic automation to resolve routine alerts without an analyst. It monitors over 500 million customers annually and reaches institutions through other platforms, including AiPrise, DigiFi and SDK.finance, as their screening source.
Capability Axes
Capability grades
15 of 15 axes rated · 10 graded A or B
Language models enrich raw data so firms can screen against 49 risk sub categories, and machine learning reads transactional behavior and graph patterns alongside rules. Remove them and a static list remains, the approach the product was built to replace.
Escalation confidence thresholds and quality checks over the alerts agents close are not published. Agentic workflows resolve about 85 percent of routine alerts within thresholds and risk types the institution sets, escalate high risk cases with written rationale, and log every agent action, decision and rationale in an immutable audit trail shared with the human team.
Institutions write detection logic in natural language through a scenario manager, tune thresholds per customer segment and record alert decisions in an audit trail. Recall and false negative rates are unpublished, as is model documentation, while false positive reduction is reported.
AJ Bell cut alert volumes by 82 percent and PayNearMe halved transaction monitoring remediation times, both in published customer stories.
Model training goes unmentioned in the privacy notice, and no statement covers whether alert outcomes at one institution inform the models and agents serving another.
Anyone whose information is collected in providing the services counts as a subject of the privacy notice updated June 12, 2026, which has its own section on money laundering, sanctions and adverse media data. Retention runs as long as necessary, with backups removed after 30 days.
Security is described only as generally accepted administrative, physical and technical safeguards. Homepage, pricing page and privacy notice name no certification, attestation scope or audit period.
Holding no license suits a technology supplier, and no formal admission is evidenced. Named instruments anchor the product, from the Bank Secrecy Act and the Anti Money Laundering Act of 2020 to the Financial Action Task Force Recommendations, with in house experts tracking legislative change.
Screening against sanctions, politically exposed person and adverse media sources errs by naming convention, transliteration and language, and adverse media corpora lean toward English sources. A false match can end a banking relationship for someone who was never the intended subject, and no per region accuracy analysis is published.
ComplyAdvantage publishes no recall figure or remediation commitment for a person wrongly matched to a sanctioned name, and the access and rectification rights profile subjects hold correct data rather than an outcome. Those rights are limited because much of the database reproduces public and third party sources, though every agent decision and rationale is logged in an audit trail an institution can examine.
Sanctions, watchlist and adverse media intelligence behind Mesh is collected and curated in house rather than licensed, with a risk catalog service governing new sources. Hosting, analytics and relationship management providers are mentioned without names, and the model layer under the language and agentic components is undisclosed.
ComplyAdvantage names no integrations individually, but other platforms document them: DigiFi's loan origination docs carry a ComplyAdvantage page, SDK.finance lists it for onboarding on its core banking platform, and AiPrise names it a data partner. Its whole database is reachable through a single application programming interface (API) built for integration into an existing stack.
Transfers run under the UK international data transfer agreement and European Union standard contractual clauses, yet the hosting and cloud providers mentioned are never named. Screening data crosses jurisdictions routinely, and regions and residency options are unpublished.
A self service Starter plan lists a price for every step from 100 to 2,000 monitored entities, from $99 a month on annual billing or $119 billed monthly up to $383 a month, and an Agentic Starter plan adds AI alert resolution from $179 billed monthly. Enterprise is quoted by sales, and early stage startups can apply for free access through ComplyLaunch.
Banks such as Santander, insurers such as Allianz and payments firms such as Mollie are named, alongside wealth platforms and crypto businesses, with customer stories behind many of them. Modular delivery lets a firm take screening alone or the full lifecycle.
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Pricing
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From $99 a month (Starter, billed annually) for up to 100 monitored entities, or $119 billed monthly. Enterprise is quoted. Early stage startups can apply for free access through ComplyLaunch.
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Monthly subscription billed by monitored entities, meaning the individuals and businesses screened and monitored. The self service Starter plan covers customer and company screening, ongoing monitoring, sanctions and watchlists, politically exposed persons and their relatives and close associates, and adverse media, and is priced at every step: billed monthly, $119 for up to 100 entities, $197 for 250, $239 for 500, $281 for 750, $323 for 1,000, $353 for 1,500 and $383 for 2,000; billed annually, from $99 to $319 a month. The Agentic Starter plan adds AI resolution of routine alerts, from $179 to $575 billed monthly. Enterprise is custom priced and adds unlimited usage, payment screening, transaction monitoring, agentic workflows and premium support. | Not tiered on the pricing page. | No implementation fee is published. The pricing page says Starter is set up within one business day of signup, and no free trial is offered. | Vendor Published |
Prices as listed on 13 October 2026. ComplyLaunch eligibility and duration are not stated, and transaction monitoring and payment screening sit in the quoted Enterprise tier.