deepidv Review (2026): Pricing, Features & Honest Verdict

deepidv is an identity verification and fraud API that publishes a full per-check rate card instead of hiding it behind a sales call. Our verdict: the most transparent pricing in KYC, wrapped around a credit unit it never defines. Best for: fintech and marketplace teams. Price: From $19/mo (free plan: yes). Rating: 7.5/10

What is deepidv?

deepidv is a verification platform that runs identity checks, business checks, fraud signals and compliance screening through a single API. It is operated by Deep Identity Inc. The company launched its deepeye fraud and deepfake detection SDK on Product Hunt this week, which is how we found it, and deepeye turns out to be one component of a much larger platform sitting behind it.

The pitch is consolidation. Most teams doing know-your-customer work end up stitching together an ID vendor, a sanctions vendor, a phone-intelligence vendor and a background-check provider, each with its own contract and minimum. deepidv sells all of it from one dashboard, and it prices every single check on a public page. That second part is rarer than it sounds. We have screened dozens of compliance vendors for this site and almost all of them answer the pricing question with a demo booking.

What are deepidv’s key features?

A published rate card covering more than 40 checks

The pricing page lists individual rates for every service the platform sells. Identity verification with face liveness is $0.50 per verification. Document verification is $0.25. Deepfake detection is $0.60. AML status is $0.25, PEP and global sanctions screening is $0.40, and adverse media is $0.40. Business checks run higher: a KYB check is $0.70, and KYB Global Enhanced, which adds ownership graphs and live registry validation across a claimed 211 jurisdictions, is $3.25. Title searches are $6.25 and North American credit checks start at $5.00. There are no setup fees and no minimum spend.

Phone and network signals sold as individual line items

The part of the catalogue we did not expect is the telecom layer. SIM swap detection is $0.08 per check, call divert detection is $0.05, line-type gating is $0.04, porting risk is $0.09 and carrier KYC matching is $0.40 per match. There is a Pre-OTP Guard that costs an extra $0.08 per protected one-time password and blocks delivery to swapped or diverted numbers before a code goes out. Continuous phone integrity monitoring is $0.04 per number per month. Vendors normally bundle these into an opaque “fraud score” and charge for the bundle.

An agent layer that runs the decision, not just the check

Above the raw checks sits what deepidv calls the Agent Suite: four named agents, Luna, Arc, Arbiter and the deepeye SDK. Arbiter does risk scoring, deepeye handles fraud and deepfake detection, and the platform markets a “Know Your Agent” capability for verifying AI agents rather than people. Every paid tier includes the full agent suite, so the tiers differ only on credit volume, seats, support depth and governance features.

Six SDK targets, a REST API and a native MCP server

Integration comes three ways: a REST API, native SDKs across six targets, or a no-code flow for teams that do not want to write anything. The MCP server is the interesting one, because it lets a coding agent call verification directly. The homepage demo shows a prompt reading “Verify this customer before I release the payout” running through Claude. For anyone building agentic back-office tooling, that removes a whole integration layer.

Tokenized age verification and content provenance

Two line items point at where regulation is heading. Tokenized age verification costs $0.01 per verification and issues a cryptographic age token rather than passing along the underlying document or date of birth. Carrier age checks at $0.18 confirm an age threshold from attributes the mobile operator already holds, with no upload at all. The deepfake product also does C2PA content provenance verification. At a penny a check, the tokenized option is cheap enough that an age-gated site has no excuse for collecting passport scans.

How much does deepidv cost?

Pay-per-use starts at $0 for the first month and then $19 a month as an account maintenance fee, on top of whatever checks you actually run. That is the entry price, and it buys access to every service on the rate card with no commitment.

Above that sits the Agent Suite ladder. Starter is $299 a month for 30,000 credits with $0.012 overage, 5 seats and a 99.5% SLA on community support. Growth is $1,499 for 200,000 credits at $0.009 overage, 15 seats and 99.9%. Scale is $5,999 for 1,000,000 credits at $0.0055 overage, 50 seats, 99.95%, plus SSO and SOC 2 artifacts. Enterprise is custom, with overage quoted at $0.003 to $0.0045 and a note offering up to 40% off credit rates on annual commitments above $100,000.

Compare that with the incumbents and the gap is large. Veriff’s cheapest self-serve plan is $0.80 per verification with a $49 monthly minimum, and Sumsub’s entry plan is $1.35 per verification against a $149 monthly commitment. deepidv does the same core check for $0.50 with a $19 floor.

What does a deepidv credit actually buy?

Here is the gap in an otherwise excellent pricing page. The rate card is denominated in dollars per check. The Agent Suite is denominated in credits. Nowhere does the site publish the conversion between them.

You can infer one. Starter divides to $299 over 30,000 credits, or $0.009967 per credit, which is close enough to a cent that a credit is probably worth exactly that. If so, a $0.50 identity check consumes 50 credits and Starter’s 30,000 credits buy 600 of them. But the site never says this, so a buyer sizing a plan is doing arithmetic the vendor should have published. Meter on pay-per-use before committing to Starter.

The credit ladder itself is clean, which is not something we get to write often. The included rate descends properly at $0.00997, then $0.007495, then $0.005999 per credit, a real 40% improvement from bottom to top with no inversion at any rung. The overage rates are more interesting. Starter and Growth both charge roughly 20% above their own included rate, which is the normal shape. Scale charges $0.0055 against an included rate of $0.005999, so on the top self-serve tier overage credits are 8% cheaper than the ones you already paid for.

Solve the crossovers and the upgrade points are exact. Starter plus 100,000 overage credits costs $1,499, the same as Growth, and gets you 130,000 credits against Growth’s 200,000. So Growth wins above 130,000 credits a month. Growth plus 500,000 overage credits costs $5,999, the same as Scale, for 700,000 credits against Scale’s million. Scale wins above 700,000. Those two numbers are the whole upgrade decision and neither appears on the page.

Where does the compliance story stop matching the price list?

The homepage runs a badge row reading GDPR, SOC 2 and ISO 27001, alongside AVPA and DIACC membership and a claim of coverage in 211 or more countries. Then the Agent Suite comparison table lists “SOC 2 artifacts” as a dash on Starter and a dash on Growth, and marks it Included only from Scale at $5,999 a month. SSO follows the same pattern.

The certification and the evidence of it are two different products here. A $299 customer gets a platform that is SOC 2 audited and no way to hand their own auditor a report. For a regulated buyer that is the difference between passing a vendor review and not, and it makes the real entry price for anyone with a compliance function twenty times the advertised one.

Two smaller things bothered us. The savings calculator, set to one service at 100 checks a month, shows deepidv at $50.00 against a “standard all-in-one provider” at $75.00 and a “standard provider” at $100.00, then claims you save $50 a month. The $50 figure checks out exactly as 100 identity checks at $0.50. The saving does not, because it omits deepidv’s own $19 monthly fee, which makes the real bill $69 and the real saving $31. And neither comparator is named anywhere on the site, so no row in that chart can be audited. Second, the homepage renders three plan cards including a Free one with sandbox API access and trial credits, while the pricing page renders only two and no free card at all. The free tier exists; the page a buyer lands on to check does not show it.

Who is deepidv best for?

Use deepidv if you are a fintech, marketplace, gaming or crypto operator who needs six or seven different check types and is tired of six or seven contracts. The breadth is real and the per-check price is well below Veriff and Sumsub on the checks we could compare directly. Use it if you are pre-revenue and cannot sign a $149 monthly minimum, because $19 plus usage is a much softer landing. Use it if you are building agent workflows and want verification callable over MCP.

Skip deepidv if you need SOC 2 evidence for your own audit and cannot justify $5,999 a month, because that gate is hard. Skip it if you only need one check type at low volume, where Veriff’s $0.80 with a $49 floor may be simpler than learning a 40-line rate card. And skip it if your procurement process needs a named reference customer, because the site publishes badges and country counts rather than logos.

Best deepidv alternatives

Veriff publishes self-serve plans at $0.80 per verification with a $49 monthly minimum, $1.39 with a $99 minimum and $1.89 with a $209 minimum, plus add-ons priced separately: PEP and sanctions screening at $0.64, ongoing monitoring at $0.09 and two-year data retention at $0.30. It is the closest thing to a like-for-like comparison, and deepidv undercuts it on both the check and the floor, including on sanctions, where deepidv charges $0.40 as a standalone service against Veriff’s $0.64 uplift.

Sumsub runs three plans from $1.35 per verification with a $149 monthly commitment, rising to $1.85 with $299, and offers a 14-day free trial. It is the enterprise-grade choice with the deepest regional coverage and the highest entry cost of the three.

Persona is the flexible-workflow option favoured by larger US platforms, and its pricing page sits behind a Cloudflare challenge that no tool we have could read, so we cannot quote a figure for it. Treat that as the relevant difference: two of these vendors will tell you the price before you talk to anyone, and one will not.

Final verdict: is deepidv worth it?

deepidv publishes more about what it charges than any compliance vendor we have reviewed. Forty-plus line items with exact rates, four named tiers, overage on every one, a stated volume discount threshold and no minimum on the entry plan. Against Veriff and Sumsub it is cheaper on the checks we could verify first-hand, by 1.6x and 2.7x respectively, with a monthly floor of $19 against $49 and $149. For a founder who needs to ship verification this quarter without a procurement cycle, that combination is hard to beat.

What holds it to 7.5 rather than higher is a set of gaps that are all cheap to fix and none of which are lies. The credit is undefined, so the ladder cannot be priced against the rate card without doing the division yourself. The savings calculator omits the vendor’s own monthly fee and compares against two anonymous providers. The free tier is on the homepage and missing from the pricing page. And the SOC 2 badge sits on the front page while the report a regulated buyer actually needs is gated at $5,999 a month. Start on pay-per-use, meter your real volumes for a month, then decide whether Starter earns its $299. That is what the pricing page should have told you.