Sumsub
Sumsub is a verification and compliance platform for checking users, businesses, and transactions, detecting fraud, and handling cases from a dashboard.
What Sumsub is
Sumsub is a verification and compliance platform for checking users, businesses, and transactions, detecting fraud, and handling cases from a dashboard. Its ID Verification supports more than 14,000 document types across 220+ countries and territories, with checks described as completing within 20 seconds. Teams can create verification levels that combine document or selfie checks, liveness and face matching, questionnaires, payment methods, and other checks. Integration options include a REST API, browser-based WebSDK, and MobileSDK for native iOS and Android apps. Production API access follows a review of whether the integration works as expected; sandbox and production environments are available. The platform also lists integrations with Okta, Chainalysis, and ComplyAdvantage. A 14-day free trial includes 50 checks, and customers are charged for successful verifications only. Basic and Compliance verification is charged at full cost even when included features go unused. Listed starting rates are $1.35 and $1.85, respectively, with minimum monthly commitments of $149 and $299.
Good
- Supports over 14,000 document types across 220+ territories.
- Custom workflows can combine documents, liveness, and questionnaires.
- Offers REST API, WebSDK, and MobileSDK.
- Trial includes 50 free checks.
Watch out
- No free plan is listed.
- Production API access requires integration verification.
- Basic and Compliance plans have minimum monthly commitments.
- Unused included features are still charged at full cost.
Who it suits
Sumsub suits organizations that need to verify users, businesses, or transactions and manage fraud or compliance cases. It may fit teams integrating verification into web or native mobile products through its API and SDK options.
Verdict
Sumsub combines identity checks, configurable workflows, fraud detection, and compliance capabilities with API and SDK integration paths. Review the minimum commitments and production API access condition before deciding whether its billing and setup suit your needs.
Plans and prices
From Sumsub's own pricing page, checked 3 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $1.35 a month | ID Verification · Liveness & Face Match · Email/Phone verification · Sumsub ID · Reusable KYC · $149 min. monthly commitment |
| Compliance | $1.85 a month | AML Screening · Ongoing AML Monitoring · Proof of Address check · Everything in Basic · $299 min. monthly commitment |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Everything in Compliance · Identity Verification · Non-Doc Verification · Database Validation · Business Verification · Fraud Detection & Prevention Solution · Ongoing monitoring · Travel Rule · Custom rate offered |
The facts
Each one read from Sumsub's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API access limit
- Production API access is granted after Sumsub verifies that the integration works as expected; production and sandbox environments are available.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Customer support scope
- Customer Support may help with product questions and technical troubleshooting, but does not perform manual verification reviews, override decisions, or build customer integrations.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Custom workflows
- Verification levels can combine document or selfie checks, liveness and face match, questionnaires, payment methods, and other checks.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Identity verification
- ID Verification supports more than 14,000 document types across 220+ countries and territories, with checks described as completing within 20 seconds.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Integration options
- Sumsub offers a REST API, browser-based WebSDK, and MobileSDK for native iOS and Android integrations.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Marketplace integrations
- The integrations marketplace lists Okta for single sign-on and access management, Chainalysis for blockchain intelligence, and ComplyAdvantage for AML and fraud risk data.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Pricing limit
- Basic and Compliance user verification is charged at full cost even if the customer elects not to use all the included features.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Security and compliance
- Sumsub’s Trust Center lists SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, and regular penetration testing.checked 3 Oct 2026
- What it does
- Sumsub is a verification and compliance platform for verifying users, businesses, and transactions, detecting fraud, and resolving cases from one dashboard.checked 3 Oct 2026
The company
- Company history
- Sumsub says it was founded in 2015 and began as a tool for spotting manipulated graphics.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2015checked 23 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- London, Englandchecked 23 Sep 2026
Money
- Trial and billing
- The pricing page offers a 14-day free trial with 50 free checks and says customers are charged for successful verifications only.checked 3 Oct 2026
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