Shufti Pro
Identity verification, KYC/AML and fraud prevention platform built for global compliance
By Shufti Pro · 4.5/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Banks, payments and crypto firms that need global KYC, KYB and AML screening with audit-ready evidence
- Regulated digital platforms onboarding users across 240+ countries and territories
- Teams that want one API covering identity verification, AML screening, fraud detection and ongoing monitoring
- Companies that need on-premise or private-cloud deployment for data residency and governance
Ideal size: 50–10,000 (mid-market to enterprise) people · Regulated scale-up or enterprise with a compliance/AML function and engineering capacity
Not for
- Buyers who only want a lightweight, single document check with no compliance workflow
- Organisations unwilling to run ongoing monitoring, watchlist re-screening and manual review queues
- Teams with no compliance owner to set jurisdiction-specific screening thresholds and risk rules
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Under 24 hours for API; 2–5 days full compliance
~1 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$30,000/yr
Starts at $0 · Per-verification, volume-based tiers; Free Forever up to 10 verifications/month; custom enterprise pricing
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Back-office users: up to 5 on lower plans, up to 100 on the top tier
Add-on costs
- Feature add-ons: IDV Risk Assessment, Customer Blacklisting, Multi-Tenancy, Deepfake Detection, AML Bulk Screening, Brand Personalisation
Company & support
Who is behind Shufti Pro, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
How you get support
- PhoneAll plans
- EmailAll plans
- Live chatAll plans
- Support portal / ticketsAll plans
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- 24/7
- Response time
- 24-hour acknowledgement on lower plans; 1 hour on top tier; resolution 5 business days / 1 day
Homepage describes 24/7/365 enterprise support; pricing page lists email, phone, live chat, Zendesk ticket creation and a help desk.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
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Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
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Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Shufti Pro ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Vendor pages describe AI for document forensics and OCR extraction, deepfake and synthetic-ID detection, an MLRO AI Agent that auto-discards false positives, and in-house adverse-media analysis over 1B+ articles. Audit records per session include AI confidence scores.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- Its own models
- AI pricing
- Not recorded
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Full audit trail
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Shufti Pro is a global identity verification and compliance platform covering KYC, KYB and AML screening through one REST API, mobile SDKs and a no-code journey builder. It processes 240+ regions and 10,000+ document types, pairing document forensics and iBeta Level 3 liveness with watchlist screening and transaction monitoring. Deployment is SaaS, private cloud or on-premise. Vendor pages cite 24-hour go-live, and pricing starts free with pay-per-verification tiers from $1.50.
Frequently asked questions
How long does implementation take?
Shufti states most teams reach production within 24 hours: sandbox access is available on signup, with full API documentation, code samples in six languages and a Postman collection. On its compliance page it quotes 2–5 days for full API integration and 1–3 days for SDK integration, and a dedicated implementation engineer is included for enterprise onboarding.
What does Shufti Pro cost?
There is a free tier of up to 10 verifications per month, then pay-per-verification plans: the Essentials plan starts at $1.50 per verification and supports up to 20,000 verifications per year, with custom pricing above that. Optional feature add-ons (risk assessment, blacklisting, deepfake detection, AML bulk screening, multi-tenancy) sit on top.
Which certifications and regulations does it cover?
Shufti states it holds ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS and GDPR compliance certifications, and that its biometric liveness detection is iBeta PAD Level 3 certified. Its compliance page maps coverage to 6AMLD, FinCEN BSA/CIP, MAS Notice 626, FCA MLR 2017, AUSTRAC and FATF Recommendations 15 and 16.
Can it be deployed on-premise or in a private cloud?
Yes. Shufti offers SaaS, private cloud and on-premise options, with processing through regional infrastructure in the EU, UK, US, APAC and MENA. Retention is configurable per client and jurisdiction, DPAs and Standard Contractual Clauses are available, and on-premise deployment covers liveness, document verification and face matching.
What support and SLAs are available?
Pricing lists email support, phone support, real-time chat, Zendesk ticket creation and a help desk, with a 24-hour acknowledgement and five-business-day resolution on standard plans, tightening to one hour and one business day on the top tier. The site advertises 24/7/365 enterprise support and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
Does it handle both individual KYC and corporate KYB?
Yes. KYC covers document authentication, biometric matching and AML screening, while KYB checks corporate entities, UBOs and directors against registries across 240+ jurisdictions, with a unified audit trail. Both run on one API and one contract, and results are returned by webhook with a decision audit trail.