Best age verification services: pricing and features compared

Start with the thing that makes this market hard to shop in: most age verification vendors do not publish a price. Yoti routes to sales. So do k-ID, Veratad, AgeChecked, Jumio and Incode — none of them had a public pricing page when this was checked on 5 August 2026.

Among the vendors that do publish, the rate for verifying that one customer is over 18 runs from $0.30 to $1.89, with monthly commitments from $15 to $299. A six-fold spread on what looks like the same purchase.

It is not the same purchase, and understanding why is most of the work of choosing.

What you are actually paying for

Two different products are sold under the same words.

Identity verification answers "who is this person". It is the KYC stack: document authentication, face match, sanctions and PEP screening, ongoing AML monitoring, proof of address, business verification. It exists because banks and crypto exchanges are legally required to know their customers.

Age assurance answers "is this person old enough". That is a smaller question, and regulators treat it as one. Ofcom's guidance on highly effective age assurance asks that a method be technically accurate, robust, reliable and fair — it does not ask you to identify anyone, and identifying them carries data-protection consequences the age question does not require.

Most of the price spread is teams buying the first product to solve the second. Sumsub's pricing page is unusually candid about what that costs: its rates bundle features, and the fine print states that if a customer "elects not to use all of these features, the user verification will still be charged at full cost."

Published rates, checked 5 August 2026

Two honest caveats before anyone quotes this table at a vendor.

Published rates are self-serve rates. Veriff and Sumsub both offer quoted enterprise pricing above roughly 5,000 verifications a month, and at that volume a rate card is a starting position rather than a price. And the products are not equivalent: Veriff and Sumsub are identity platforms whose rates include capabilities an age gate will never call. Comparing their per-check price to an age-only price is fair as a cost of solving the age problem, and unfair as a judgement of the platforms.

Six things that move the bill more than the headline rate

1. The billing unit. Per verification or per verified buyer? AgeChecker.net bills "50 cents per accepted verification" — a returning customer placing a twelfth order is a twelfth charge. ProofAge bills per verified buyer, so a verified customer's later orders are not re-billed. At any real repeat rate this matters more than the cents.

2. Minimum commitment versus base fee. A monthly minimum is spend you forfeit if you do not reach it. A base fee is spend you add to usage. Veriff's Essential plan carries a $49 monthly minimum, Sumsub's Basic $149 — below those volumes you are paying for verifications you did not run.

3. Failed and abandoned sessions. Ask explicitly. AgeChecker.net states declined and abandoned verifications are not billed; Veriff states retries are not charged. Where a vendor is silent, assume you are paying for the drop-offs.

4. Add-ons. Veriff publishes them: extended data retention +$0.30, extra document data fields +$0.30, PEP and sanctions +$0.64, ongoing monitoring +$0.09 per verification, charged on top of the monthly minimum. An advertised $0.80 can land nearer $1.40 depending on what gets switched on.

5. Re-verification policy. Related to the billing unit but distinct: does a verified customer have to repeat the check, and if so how often? This is a conversion question as much as a cost one.

6. White label. Whether the buyer sees your brand or the vendor's during the most sensitive moment in the checkout. AgeChecker.net's pricing page offers age gate customisation and location rules, but no branding removal at any tier. VerifyMy's page describes checkout embedding without addressing branding.

Where ProofAge sits, stated plainly

At $0.30 per accepted verification plus a $15 monthly base, ProofAge is the lowest published rate and the lowest monthly commitment of any vendor in the table — three-fifths of AgeChecker.net's per-check rate and under two-fifths of Veriff's entry tier. The flow is white-label: the buyer stays in your checkout and sees your brand, not ours. Billing is per verified buyer, so the cost of a customer falls as they order again. There is no merchant-volume gate; a single store and a large catalogue pay the same published rate. API pricing for headless and custom checkouts is volume-based.

What ProofAge is not: an AML platform. There is no sanctions screening, no ongoing monitoring, no business verification. If you are onboarding customers to a regulated financial product, you need one of the identity platforms and should buy it on its own terms. If you need to establish that a buyer is old enough and to hold a record you can show a regulator, the KYC stack is a heavier and more expensive answer to a lighter question — and its data-protection footprint is larger for no compliance benefit.

How to run the comparison

• Price your actual year, not one check. Multiply by expected verifications, apply your repeat-customer rate against the billing unit, add minimums you will not reach and add-ons you will switch on.
• Ask every vendor the same four questions: what is the billing unit, what happens on failure, what happens on the customer's second order, and whose brand does the customer see.
• Ask for the rate card in writing before the demo. Half this market will not give you one, and knowing that early saves a procurement cycle.
• Match the product to the question. Buying identity verification to answer an age question is the single most common way to overpay here.
• Test the record, not just the flow. What you will need under scrutiny is the artefact the check leaves behind, per order.

Prices move. Everything above was taken from each vendor's own public pages on 5 August 2026, and where a vendor publishes nothing that is recorded as it stands rather than estimated.