Comparison · Verify SDK
Jumio, Veriff, and Onfido are cloud-first: they need connectivity and ship your users' personal data to their servers. Brain Breaking Verify validates signed ID documents entirely on-device, offline — nothing leaves the device.
Where each approach runs, what it sends, and what it costs. Cloud KYC is built around a server; Verify is built around the device.
Comparison reflects the general cloud-KYC model. Vendor capabilities change — verify current specifics for your use case.
When cloud KYC is the wrong tool
Government, defense, healthcare environments where nothing may phone home.
Jurisdictions where ID data can't be shipped to a foreign cloud.
Per-call cloud pricing becomes uneconomic at scale.
Kiosks, agents, and devices on poor or no connectivity.
Where cloud KYC still wins
Cloud vendors do selfie / liveness biometrics — matching a face to a document. Verify isn't that. We prove document authenticity (is this a genuine, untampered, signed ID?) and we do it offline. If you need biometric liveness too, pair them: Verify handles the document, on-device, while keeping PII local.
No signup. The whole check runs client-side: load a sample, then a tampered one, and watch the signature fail on-device.