Sift vs Veriff

About Veriff

Veriff sells an identity verification platform that covers identity, biometric, and business verification. Veriff builds the platform for high-growth brands that need high performance, not just compliance. Veriff says the platform provides automated KYC, KYB, and AML checks to help customers meet their regulatory compliance obligation without adding manual overhead. Veriff says the platform spots synthetic IDs and deepfakes early, cutting false positives that slow reviews down. Veriff says its proprietary document forensics database spans 230+ countries and territories.^[1]

Veriff's Identity Verification product verifies the identity of individuals using document checks, face matching, and liveness detection. A user photographs a government-issued identity document and takes a selfie. Veriff supports iOS, Android, mobile web, and web SDK or API. Veriff says its AI-powered technology returns a decision in a matter of seconds, based on the identity checks the customer's business requires. Veriff guides the user through the process with real-time feedback and automatically identifies the document type, so the user does not have to manually enter data. Assisted Image Capture flags issues like poor lighting, glare, or a cropped ID in real time. Passive liveness detection confirms a real person is present with no extra steps. Veriff supports more than 12.5K government-issued IDs covering 230+ countries and territories. Veriff supports 50 unique languages and dialects. Veriff offers optional anti-money laundering checks such as Politically Exposed Person (PEP) and sanctions, adverse media screening, and ongoing monitoring.^[5][8]

Veriff verifies businesses against global commercial registers and business databases spanning 300+ jurisdictions. Veriff verifies companies and their beneficial owners before the customer takes them on as customers. Veriff verifies the identity of individual directors, shareholders, and beneficial owners. Veriff recognizes a returning user securely, without asking the user to prove themselves again. Veriff’s Age Validation solution confirms whether users are above a minimum age threshold. Veriff extracts the date of birth from a submitted ID, checks it against the customer's age threshold, and returns a pass or fail verdict automatically. Customers can set their own age thresholds, and the most common are 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, or 25. Veriff can automatically decline users below a predefined age threshold.^[1][9]

Veriff Fraud Protect uses machine learning powered checks, fraud network mitigation strategies, and in-house experts to help protect an organization against fraud. Fraud Protect is the core package of fraud mitigation features, designed to protect an organization during the IDV process. Fraud Protect addresses the threat of impersonation, synthetic identities, identity document fraud, and velocity abuse. Fraud Protect adds the facial biometrics of individuals suspected of fraud to a blocklist, preventing repeated attempts to access the business. Fraud Protect can add faces from external sources such as known fraudsters or self-exclusion lists, even in bulk. Fraud Protect uses Veriff’s network of global customers to uncover fraud patterns and block repeated offenders across different organizations. Insights and fraud risk signals from Fraud Protect features are available in Veriff Station. Veriff says trained specialists resolve the cases automation cannot decide on its own.^[5][10]

Veriff’s Liveness solution uses AI and biometric facial analysis to verify users with a quick selfie. Veriff says passive liveness eliminates the need to perform actions such as blinking, smiling, or nodding. Veriff states that its liveness solution conforms to ISO/IEC 30107-3 Level 1 and 2 Presentation Attack Detection through independent testing by the NIST/NVLAP-accredited iBeta lab. Veriff offers optional background video recording for advanced fraud prevention checks with minimal input from users. Veriff has achieved the FIDO Alliance Document Authenticity (DocAuth) Certification following independent evaluation by Ingenium Biometrics Laboratories, a FIDO-accredited testing facility.^[11][12]

Veriff builds and trains its core models on its own data. For adjacent checks such as AML and database verification, Veriff partners with named specialists. Veriff offers drop-in capture flows for iOS, Android, and web, so customers do not have to build their own UI. Veriff provides APIs and webhook, pre-built SDKs, and documentation to take customers from sandbox to production without building from scratch. Veriff lets customers chain multiple checks into a single automated flow, without custom engineering per case.

Veriff Enterprise is custom-priced identity verification built around the customer's use case. Veriff positions Enterprise for businesses with more than 5,000 verifications a month. Veriff Self-Serve lets customers set up and manage identity verification on their own, with per-verification pricing. Veriff positions Self-Serve for SMBs with fewer than 5,000 verifications a month. Veriff Self-Serve has three plans, priced per verification, starting at $0.80. Plus and Premium plans add review by trained verification specialists when automation cannot decide. Veriff's case studies cover fintech, crypto, and marketplace teams that use Veriff for identity verification, biometric authentication and KYB. Rebellion, a Spanish fintech, partnered with Veriff in 2019 to assist with identity verification.^[13][14][15]

Veriff holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, extended to controls defined in ISO/IEC 27017:2015 and ISO/IEC 27018:2025. Veriff is compliant with SOC 2 Type II and GDPR and has obtained Cyber Essentials certification. Veriff offers products certified under the UK DIATF (UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework) Gamma 0.4. Veriff implements AES-256 encryption to encrypt data at rest and TLSv1.2+ to encrypt data during transmission.^{[5][6][9][16]}