Veriff
Veriff verifies identities for banks, fintechs, lenders, trading platforms and crypto businesses by reading government documents across more than 12,500 types and 230 countries, matching faces, checking liveness and analyzing over a thousand signals per session including device and network behavior. It runs an automated decision engine with optional review by human specialists, publishes its own accuracy and first attempt success figures, and names customers including Monzo, Bolt, Deel, Blockchain, Webull, Starship and Trustpilot. Its self serve plans are priced per verification with monthly minimums, and enterprise pricing is volume based.
Veriff holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017 and 27018, a SOC 2 Type II attestation and Cyber Essentials, its products are certified under the UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework, and it runs a trust center. In February 2026 it acquired Vespia, a fellow Estonian company founded in 2021 by Julia Ront and Anton Vedesin, whose team joined Veriff and whose technology is being integrated into the Veriff platform rather than kept as a separate brand, adding business verification: commercial register data from more than 300 jurisdictions, shareholder and beneficial ownership resolution, continuous monitoring of ownership changes, and screening of every entity in a structure against politically exposed person, sanctions and adverse media lists, with commercial availability planned from mid 2026.
Capability Axes
Capability grades
15 of 15 axes rated · 11 graded A or B
More than a thousand signals per session across document authenticity, facial matching and liveness feed a verdict in around six seconds. Without the models, a capture form and database lookups are all that remain.
Automated AI decisions come back on the Essential plan, Plus and Premium add review by human specialists, and Enterprise offers configurable flows. No threshold says which sessions reach a specialist, and no reconsideration route is described for a genuine user who fails.
Accuracy near 99.6 percent is a falsifiable figure a buyer can test against its own funnel, and customers get insight into how the decision engine reaches a verdict. Methodology behind the accuracy figure, independent validation and drift monitoring are all unpublished.
Monzo, Bolt and Webull are among named customers, but none is tied to a figure, and the BB Finance case study describes stronger fraud protection without one.
End user data is used to develop and improve the service, including machine learning, under legitimate interest or contract, with an individual right to object. Cross session intelligence matches signals across encounters, and no published boundary keeps one customer's users out of models serving others.
The April 16, 2026 privacy notice covers verified end users with Veriff as processor, transfers under standard contractual clauses and rights including a request for human intervention in an automated decision. Retention is only as long as necessary under the customer agreement, with extended retention sold as a paid add on.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022, 27017 and 27018, a SOC 2 Type II attestation and Cyber Essentials are named on the May 2026 security page, with AES 256 encryption at rest and a trust center. Report access in the trust center is not stated, and no accredited presentation attack detection result is named.
Its identity verification products are certified under the UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework, a government scheme with a public register. Membership of a global card network's vetted fintech program adds a second admission, though neither covers the AI models themselves.
If 95 percent of genuine users pass on a first attempt, the remaining 5 percent across 12,500 document formats is unlikely to be spread evenly by skin tone, age or capture conditions. A March 31, 2022 blog post describes an in house face model, session quality review and a specimen database, but no breakdown by population or independent demographic evaluation is published.
A genuine user who fails is not told which signal produced the rejection, and no accuracy guarantee or remediation term is published. Published accuracy figures give a buyer something to measure against, but nothing published stands behind them in contract.
Proprietary, integrated technology is claimed, with device and network analytics as first party signal sources and a public subprocessor list linked from the privacy notice. Model providers, database verification sources and watchlist suppliers go unidentified in the material.
Delivery runs through an API and SDKs with public developer documentation and a hosted verification page, and a card network partner program puts it in front of issuers. Decisioning and case management platforms are not named as integration partners.
Daily encrypted backups run on Amazon Web Services with 90 day default retention, but no hosting region, residency option or tenancy model is published. Identity documents and biometrics move internationally, which makes where sessions are processed a material question.
Essential costs 80 cents per verification with a $49 monthly minimum, Plus $1.39 and Premium $1.89, with screening at 64 cents per session and a 15 day free trial. Enterprise pricing above 5,000 verifications a month is quoted.
Banking, fintech and lending, along with trading and crypto, each get their own regulatory framing and material, across more than 230 countries in 48 languages and dialects. Business verification arrives through the Vespia integration.
Product updates
Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at Veriff, each verified against a live source and tagged to the capability axis it bears on. Funding rounds and awards are not product changes and are not logged.
Veriff published Presence Verification, which uses a passive selfie video and device signals from its native SDKs to confirm a real, live, single person is completing the session, without asking for an identity document. A higher tier, Presence Verification with Coercion Detection, also analyzes session audio and video for signs that a third party is guiding the user.
Compared With
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Pricing
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80 cents per verification (Essential), with a $49 monthly minimum.
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Self serve plans priced per verification with monthly minimums. Essential is 80 cents per verification with a $49 minimum and automated AI decisions; Plus is $1.39 with a $99 minimum and adds review by human specialists, video recording and risk insights; Premium is $1.89 with a $209 minimum and adds custom branding, session deletion by API and analytics. Add ons are priced per session: politically exposed person and sanctions screening 64 cents, extended retention 30 cents, ongoing monitoring 9 cents and additional data fields 30 cents. Enterprise pricing for more than 5,000 verifications a month is volume based and quoted. | Not tiered on the pricing page. Extended data retention is sold as a per session add on. | No setup or implementation fee is published. A 15 day free trial of up to 50 sessions is offered on each self serve plan, and resubmission attempts are not charged separately. | Vendor Published |
Plans and unit prices taken from the vendor's own pricing page as of 2 October 2026. Prices are in dollars as published.