Nexiel Screen
Nexiel Screen is a standalone HTTP API for anti-money laundering, sanctions, and politically exposed person screening.
What Nexiel Screen is
Nexiel Screen is a standalone HTTP API for anti-money laundering, sanctions, and politically exposed person screening. Its self-hosted matching engine uses exact, full-text, Levenshtein fuzzy, and Double Metaphone phonetic methods; a fifth AI similarity layer remains in shadow mode. Sanctions lists include OFAC SDN, the UN Security Council Consolidated List, EU FISMA, and HMT UK, with daily refreshes. PEP screening combines OpenSanctions global data with direct connections to EU institutions and national legislative registries in 21 EU countries. Possible matches always go to a human reviewer and are never cleared automatically. Each decision records the engine version, list snapshot, and scoring weights for later re-derivation. With an evidence-pack key registered, Nexiel encrypts the pack to the customer's key and delivers it once without retaining the pack. Nexiel retains a decision row and related hashes; customers are responsible for keeping screening evidence. Official TypeScript and Python SDKs cover Screen and Verify API endpoints. A self-run sandbox uses synthetic data and needs no API key; production credentials require completing the KYB gate.
Good
- Sanctions lists are refreshed daily.
- Possible matches always receive human review.
- Decision records include versions, snapshots, and scoring weights.
- Official TypeScript and Python SDKs cover API endpoints.
Watch out
- The AI similarity layer is still in shadow mode.
- Production credentials require completing the KYB gate.
- Authenticated requests default to 30 per minute.
- Customer rules cannot clear or downgrade a core match.
Who it suits
Nexiel Screen is intended for solicitors, accountants, fintechs, and other firms with AML obligations. It suits teams that need screening through an API and a human review step for possible matches.
Verdict
Nexiel Screen combines sanctions and PEP screening with auditable decision details and mandatory human review of possible matches. Its AI similarity layer is not yet live, and production access requires KYB completion.
Plans and prices
From Nexiel Screen's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise overage | $0.40, paid once | Usage beyond Growth's included volume · No separate contract required · $0.40/check beyond Growth |
| Starter | $79 a month | Sanctions + PEP screening API access · Human-reviewed POSSIBLE_MATCH queue · Standard rate limits · $79/month |
| Growth | $249 a month | Everything in Starter · Higher volume + rate limits · Priority support · $249/month |
The facts
Each one read from Nexiel Screen's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- Nexiel identifies solicitors, accountants, fintechs, and other AML-obliged firms as intended users.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Coverage
- Sanctions data includes OFAC SDN, the UN Security Council Consolidated List, EU FISMA, and HMT UK, refreshed daily.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Customer rules
- Customers can configure dashboard screening rules to tag or escalate decisions, but rules cannot clear or downgrade a core match and live-influencing rules are not yet available.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Data retention
- With a key registered, Nexiel retains a decision row with identifiers, classification, artifact hashes, and a hash of the delivered ciphertext; the customer is responsible for retaining screening evidence.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Decision trail
- Each decision records the engine version, list snapshot, and scoring weights so the result can be re-derived later.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Developer access
- The production API uses OAuth 2.0 client-credentials tokens, and production credentials require completing the KYB gate.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Human review
- Possible matches always go to a human reviewer and are never automatically cleared.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Official TypeScript and Python SDKs cover every Screen API and Verify API endpoint.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Authenticated requests default to a 30-request burst and 30 requests per minute per client.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Matching
- Its self-hosted matching engine uses exact, full-text, Levenshtein fuzzy, and Double Metaphone phonetic matching; a fifth AI similarity layer is still in shadow mode.checked 8 Oct 2026
- PEP data
- PEP screening combines OpenSanctions global data with direct integrations from EU institutions and national legislative registries in 21 EU countries.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- When an evidence-pack key is registered, the pack is encrypted to the customer's key, delivered once, and not persisted by Nexiel.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Product
- Nexiel Screen is a standalone HTTP API for AML, sanctions, and PEP screening.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Sandbox
- A self-run sandbox instance can be tried without an API key and serves synthetic data.checked 8 Oct 2026
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