Veriff is an Estonian document and face verification service that publishes self-serve rates, which is why many teams start there. Buyers look elsewhere when the monthly minimum and the per-check price stop fitting, when they need national eID schemes or video identification that a document-first product does not offer, or when a regulator expects screening and case management from the same vendor. The alternatives below split along those lines: eID brokers, regulated-finance specialists, liveness and age-estimation vendors, and builders of custom flows.
Short answer: Smaller vendors fill the top three places where the category offers them, and the household names start at place 4. For Veriff users, the top three picks from our identity verification ranking are Idura (formerly Criipto), Ondato and Fourthline. Pick Idura (formerly Criipto) if your users in the Nordics or the Netherlands already hold a national eID. The 11 entries that follow are all ranked in Best Identity Verification Software in 2026; each one explains what sets it apart from Veriff.
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Built for: Companies verifying consumers across borders with published costs
Not for: German or Nordic services where eID carries the volume
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Why buyers look past Veriff
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Three plans, each with a monthly floor
Veriff's self-serve page lists Essential at $0.80 per verification with a $49 monthly minimum, Plus at $1.39 with $99, and Premium at $1.89 with $209. Human review and fraud tooling start on Plus, and branding and session deletion through the API start on Premium. A team that needs a single extra capability therefore buys the whole tier above.
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Add-ons and caps change the real cost
Sanctions and PEP screening cost $0.64 extra per verification, ongoing monitoring $0.09, and two-year retention $0.30. Standard retention is three months on Essential and six on Plus and Premium. Self-serve is capped at 15 sessions a minute and 10,000 a month, and above 5,000 verifications a month Veriff steers buyers to a custom order form with no published rate.
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The product starts from the document
Veriff describes document forensics across 230+ countries and 12,500+ documents, with liveness checked to iBeta standards. Its pages we read do not mention national eID schemes or NFC chip reading. Customers in Germany, the Nordics or the Netherlands, where banks expect scheme logins or agent-led video identification, usually add a second provider next to it.
a database or business-registry match fits your market better than a document scan
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What each one does differently
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Idura (formerly Criipto)
Denmark · Published
Idura, the former Criipto, is a Danish broker that connects one integration to MitID, the Swedish and Norwegian BankID, iDIN, the Finnish bank IDs and the German ID card. Pricing is published as monthly login packages plus scheme fees. It never inspects a passport or a selfie, so it answers a different question from Veriff and often replaces it for Nordic logins.
Switch from Veriff if your users in the Nordics or the Netherlands already hold a national eID.
Ondato publishes per-verification prices by volume and prices add-ons per check, which makes it the closest match to Veriff's open rate card. It is headquartered in London with development in Vilnius, hosts in the EU, and bundles screening and a compliance dashboard. Fraud detection and document coverage sit behind the largest vendors, and support is thinner outside working hours.
Switch from Veriff if you want published rates and screening from a small Baltic-rooted vendor.
Fourthline is a Dutch KYC provider that pairs automated checks with expert review and operates its own qualified trust service provider, supervised in Sweden. A bank gets the identity check and the qualified signature from one regulated source, and the audit file is written for a supervisor. Prices are quoted against a volume commitment and run higher than most rivals, so it overshoots a marketplace.
Switch from Veriff if a supervisor will read your onboarding files and you need qualified signatures.
Signicat ReadID, sold under the Inverid name until Signicat acquired it in July 2025, reads the cryptographic chip in a passport or ID card through the phone's NFC reader. A forged document cannot reproduce that chip, which photographs cannot prove. It is an SDK and API without case management or screening, and chipless documents fall back to optical checks.
Switch from Veriff if photographed documents are no longer enough assurance for your risk team.
IDnow is German and runs agent-led video identification, the method German anti-money-laundering rules still require for some account openings. It adds automated checks, national eIDs including the German ID card, France Identite and SPID, and qualified signatures. Video sessions cost more and lose users who wait for an agent, and prices differ by method, which makes the blended cost hard to forecast.
Switch from Veriff if a German regulated product requires video identification or a qualified signature.
Yoti estimates age from a face without any identity document, which suits platforms that must gate content under UK online safety rules, and it also offers a reusable digital ID app. The estimate is a range, so the buffer you choose sets your false rejection rate. Checks are quoted, though sign-up is self-serve through Yoti Hub, and the app has far fewer users outside the UK.
Switch from Veriff if the real requirement is proving age rather than proving identity.
iProov specialises in face liveness and reflects a controlled colour sequence off the face to catch injected video and deepfakes that passive liveness misses. Government identity programmes use it for that reason. It has since added remote onboarding with document OCR and NFC chip reading. Screening and case management are absent, and pricing is an annual subscription by volume, quoted.
Switch from Veriff if deepfakes and injected video are the fraud pattern you actually see.
Sumsub puts verification, sanctions and PEP screening and ongoing monitoring under one subscription, with flows configured without a developer. That removes an integration compliance teams usually build themselves around Veriff. It was incorporated in London, but early staff and customers were largely in Russia and the CIS until 2022, which some European banks still raise in due diligence.
Switch from Veriff if your compliance team wants screening and monitoring from the same vendor.
Stripe Identity is switched on from the Stripe dashboard, with a per-verification price on the website and billing through the account you already have. Document and selfie checks work, but there is no eID coverage, no sanctions screening, little flow configuration and no case management. A US company supplies it, and it assumes you take payments through Stripe.
Switch from Veriff if you already collect payments on Stripe and only need a quick document and selfie check.
Persona gives you components and a builder instead of one fixed flow, so a risk team can send a low-value user to a database check and a high-value one to documents plus a face. It has a free tier and then published per-verification pricing. Someone has to design and maintain that routing, European eID coverage is minimal, and the data sits with a US company.
Switch from Veriff if you want to route users to different checks by risk level and have the team to maintain it.
Trulioo is Canadian and starts from database matches: name, address and date of birth checked against credit, government and telecom sources, plus business registry checks. Document, face and eID verification sit beside that. Match rates vary widely by country, sources in parts of Europe are thinner than in North America, and pricing is quoted per check with an annual commitment.
Switch from Veriff if a database or business-registry match fits your market better than a document scan.
You log in customers who hold a Nordic or Dutch eID
Idura (formerly Criipto): It brokers MitID, BankID, iDIN and the Finnish bank IDs through one integration, with login packages published.
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You need published rates and screening on a smaller budget
Ondato: Rates by volume and per-check add-ons are on its site, with EU hosting and a compliance dashboard.
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You must satisfy German video identification rules
IDnow: It runs agent-led video identification and accepts the German ID card and qualified signatures.
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You are worried about deepfakes and injected video
iProov: A colour sequence reflected off the face is used to detect injected video, and onboarding adds NFC chip reading.
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You want sanctions screening from the same vendor
Sumsub: Verification, screening and ongoing monitoring sit in one subscription, with flows set up without a developer.
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When Veriff is still the right choice
Veriff remains a sound choice when you want to read the price before talking to sales and expect mostly document and selfie checks. The 15-day trial gives up to 50 live verifications on Premium without a card, retries are not billed, and the certifications listed on its site include ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II. For a low volume of ordinary consumer onboarding, comparing the Essential and Plus rates against a quote often shows little reason to move.
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What moving off Veriff involves
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Re-verification versus carrying over results
Verification decisions and extracted data live in Veriff's retention window, three or six months by default and two years with the add-on. Export what you need through the Premium bulk export or the API before it expires, and decide with your compliance lead whether past approvals count or users must be checked again.
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Rebuilding the integration and thresholds
Veriff uses a hosted verification page, so a change of vendor means a new SDK or redirect and new webhook handling. Run both vendors in parallel on a slice of traffic, compare approval and abandonment rates, and retune fraud thresholds before the cutover rather than copying settings across.
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Questions about replacing Veriff
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What does Veriff cost per verification?
Veriff lists $0.80 on Essential, $1.39 on Plus and $1.89 on Premium, each with a monthly minimum of $49, $99 and $209. Screening, ongoing monitoring and longer retention are priced per verification on top, and enterprise pricing above 5,000 a month is not published.
Is there a Veriff free trial?
Yes, the page describes 15 days of Premium access with up to 50 live verifications and unlimited sandbox tests, with no card needed.
It ends at 15 days or 50 sessions, and identity verification of your own business must be completed within the first 15 days.
Which alternatives publish their prices?
Idura lists login packages plus scheme fees, Ondato lists per-verification rates by volume, Persona lists a free tier and per-verification prices, and Stripe Identity lists a per-check price. Most of the others are quoted, usually with a volume or annual commitment.
Which alternative covers national eID schemes?
Idura brokers MitID, BankID, iDIN and the Finnish bank IDs, and IDnow accepts the German ID card, France Identite and SPID. Incode now accepts BankID, MitID and the EU wallet, though it is a US company with quoted enterprise pricing.
Who handles sanctions and PEP screening?
Sumsub sells screening and ongoing monitoring inside its subscription, and Ondato bundles screening with a compliance dashboard. Veriff offers screening as a $0.64 add-on. Stripe Identity and iProov do not include screening or case management.
Which option checks the passport chip?
Signicat ReadID reads the NFC chip as its main method, and iProov's onboarding flow includes NFC chip reading. Veriff's pages that we read describe document forensics and liveness, and did not mention chip reading.
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Checked and edited by Sebastiaan Smits, last on 7 November 2026. The editorial process explains the method.
