How deepidv compares
Every platform has its strengths. Here's an honest snapshot of each — including us.
Feature Comparison
Side-by-side across core verification, African coverage, agentic compliance, and platform experience.
| Feature |  |  Smile ID |
|---|---|---|
| Government ID Verification | ||
| Facial Biometrics | ||
| Liveness Detection | ||
| Document Verification | 1 | |
| African Government-Database Checks | 2 | |
| Global ID Coverage (211+ countries) | 3 | |
| AML / Sanctions Screening | 4 | |
| Know Your Business (KYB) | 5 | |
| Fraud Detection & Identity Deduplication | 6 |
- 1Smile ID verifies 8,500+ document types from 226 countries with 96% OCR accuracy per usesmileid.com.
- 2deepidv verifies against global identity data sources; direct government-database-backed biometric KYC across 15+ African countries is Smile ID's core specialty.
- 3Smile ID document verification spans 226 countries, but biometric KYC and government-database checks are concentrated across 50+ African countries.
- 4Smile ID offers AML watchlist and sanctions screening alongside its KYC products.
- 5Business Verification, Bank Account Verification, and Phone Number Verification, with publicly documented KYB coverage concentrated in Africa.
- 6Anti-fraud and identity deduplication tuned to African data sources, strengthened by the 2023 Appruve acquisition.
- 7Smile ID per-check rates are not publicly disclosed; pay-as-you-go and monthly-commitment plans are sales-quoted.
Pricing at a glance
Transparent published pricing vs. a sales-quoted, region-specialized model.
deepidv Starter
30,000 credits included
- All four agents: Luna, Arc, Arbiter, deepeye
- Real-time deepfake and synthetic-media detection
- Agentic compliance monitoring across 211+ countries
- Sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening
- AI-powered document forensics
- Examination-ready audit trail (FFIEC, OCC SR 11-7, EU AI Act)
Overage billed at $0.012 / credit. Published rates at /pricing.
Pay-as-you-go / Monthly commitment
Per-check rates not publicly disclosed
- Biometric KYC, Document & Enhanced Document Verification
- Government-database-backed checks in 15+ African countries
- 8,500+ document types across 226 countries
- AML watchlist screening, KYB, and identity deduplication
- Native Android, iOS, and Web SDKs
- No agentic compliance layer or real-time deepfake detection
Pay-as-you-go (start-ups) and monthly commitment (5,000+ users / month) plans published at usesmileid.com/pricing; per-check amounts require a sales conversation.
What you actually pay at scale
| Monthly volume | deepidv | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 verifications | $299 (Starter) | Inside the Starter credit pool; agentic monitoring runs at no extra cost |
| 5,000 verifications | $299 (Starter) | Smile ID recommends its monthly-commitment plan above this volume (sales-quoted) |
| 20,000 verifications | $1,499 (Growth) | Luna compliance officer, Arc gateway, and Arbiter included |
| 100,000 verifications | $5,999 (Scale) | Examination-ready audit trail by default |
deepidv pricing at /pricing. Smile ID per-check rates are not publicly disclosed; see usesmileid.com/pricing. Smile ID scale costs depend on negotiated pay-as-you-go and monthly-commitment rates. Updated June 2026.
All your verification and compliance, in one place
Replace multiple vendors
Stop juggling multiple identity providers with different dashboards, APIs, contracts, and data silos. deepidv unifies ID verification, liveness, face match, AML, fraud prevention, and authentication into a single platform. One dashboard. One source of truth for identity.
Agentic AI that never sleeps
Traditional fraud checks happen once — at onboarding — and hope for the best. deepidv's agentic AI monitors continuously. It watches for behavioral anomalies, identity drift, and emerging fraud patterns in real time. Intelligent, adaptive agents that learn your risk landscape and act on it. Catch what static systems miss.
Build without limits
Customize every part of your verification stack — the checks you run, the order they happen, and the compliance rules you enforce. Build a face-scan-only flow for low-risk users or full KYC with AML screening for high-risk segments. Combine any checks into one seamless experience. Your rules, your logic, zero lock-in.
Checks that cover all the bases
Title searches, background checks, credit pulls, education verification, and driver's license validation — all under one roof. deepidv delivers a true all-in-one screening suite so you get the full picture on every applicant, every time, from a single integration.
The PlatformAll your verification and compliance, in one place
Replace multiple vendors
Stop juggling multiple identity providers with different dashboards, APIs, contracts, and data silos. deepidv unifies ID verification, liveness, face match, AML, fraud prevention, and authentication into a single platform. One dashboard. One source of truth for identity.
Agentic AI that never sleeps
Traditional fraud checks happen once — at onboarding — and hope for the best. deepidv's agentic AI monitors continuously. It watches for behavioral anomalies, identity drift, and emerging fraud patterns in real time. Intelligent, adaptive agents that learn your risk landscape and act on it. Catch what static systems miss.
Build without limits
Customize every part of your verification stack — the checks you run, the order they happen, and the compliance rules you enforce. Build a face-scan-only flow for low-risk users or full KYC with AML screening for high-risk segments. Combine any checks into one seamless experience. Your rules, your logic, zero lock-in.
Checks that cover all the bases
Title searches, background checks, credit pulls, education verification, and driver's license validation — all under one roof. deepidv delivers a true all-in-one screening suite so you get the full picture on every applicant, every time, from a single integration.
See how it works
Experience our seamless online verification process from ID capture to facial matching — all in one secure flow.
When to choose each
Honest about where each one wins. Here's how to read the tradeoff.
Choose Smile ID if
Choose deepidv if
Africa is your core market
Smile ID's government-database-backed biometric KYC spans 50+ African countries with 8,500+ document types and 99.8% face-match accuracy across skin tones — the deepest local coverage on the continent.
You need global coverage beyond Africa
deepidv supports 211+ countries with localized methods and agentic monitoring across 211+ countries — not a single-region specialty.
You need deep local ID coverage and deduplication
National ID, voter's card, bank verification (BVN), and tax ID checks, plus identity deduplication tuned to African data sources and strengthened by the Appruve acquisition.
Deepfake and synthetic-media defense matters
Real-time deepfake video, voice-clone, and AI-document forensics are core to deepidv. Smile ID treats fraud as document and biometric anomaly detection.
You want a proven Africa-focused specialist
200M+ KYC checks since 2017 with native Android, iOS, and Web SDKs built for African onboarding flows and connectivity conditions.
You want an agentic compliance layer and published pricing
Luna, Arc, Arbiter, and deepeye run on one credit pool with transparent published pricing. Smile ID's per-check rates are sales-quoted.
The bottom line
Smile ID is the right choice when Africa is your core market and you need the deepest local, government-database-backed identity coverage on the continent. deepidv is the right choice when you need global coverage, an agentic compliance layer, real-time deepfake detection, and published pricing in one platform.
Core AdvantagesWhy Choose deepidv
Get Started NowGlobal Coverage Beyond One Region
- 211+ countries with localized verification methods, not a single-continent specialty
- Agentic compliance monitoring across 211+ countries on one credit pool
Real-Time Deepfake & Synthetic-Media Defense
- Video deepfake, voice-clone, and AI-document forensics at the moment of decision
- Smile ID treats fraud as document and biometric anomaly detection, not synthetic-media defense
Agentic Compliance, Published Pricing
- Luna, Arc, Arbiter, and deepeye ship on every plan with examination-ready audit trails
- Transparent published pricing — no sales call required to see the numbers
Keep digging in
Read the playbooks, deep dives, and frameworks that back the comparison above.
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