SightRadar

SightRadar is a face recognition API for teams that need face search, verification and detection at scale, without AWS Rekognition's pricing. It is Rekognition-compatible: point the AWS SDK (boto3 and others) at SightRadar's endpoint and your existing code keeps working.

What you get

• Face search: find one person across thousands of photos from a single selfie (event photos, media libraries, photo delivery)
• 1:1 verification: compare two faces with a similarity threshold you choose
• Face detection with confidence scores you can threshold on
• Rekognition-compatible API: CreateCollection, IndexFaces, SearchFacesByImage, CompareFaces, DetectFaces and more
• Photos with no faces return valid empty results, not errors
• Per-photo billing, never per face: batch indexing from $0.00062 per photo, real-time $0.00093 per photo
• Privacy by design: GDPR-ready with a Data Processing Agreement; face vectors are isolated and encrypted per account and never used for model training
• SDKs on npm and PyPI, plus a Rekognition shim for Python

Use cases

• Event and wedding photographers delivering each guest's photos from one selfie
• Apps adding selfie-based identity verification (KYC, onboarding)
• Media libraries and DAMs tagging and searching people across archives
• Teams on AWS Rekognition cutting their face-API bill without rewriting code

Pricing

• Free to start with trial credits, no credit card required
• Batch indexing: $0.00062 per photo
• Real-time: $0.00093 per photo
• Search by face ID: $0.00062; face storage $6 per million faces per month
• Pay-as-you-go prepaid credits: no subscription, no auto-renewal, no minimums

Live demo (search, compare, detect) on the homepage: https://sightradar.com/ API docs: https://sightradar.com/docs Migrating from AWS Rekognition: https://sightradar.com/migrate