ScreeningHub vs Sumsub

The fundamental difference: scope

Sumsub is a full compliance platform. The bundle includes:

• ID document capture & verification
• Liveness / face match
• Address & phone-number checks
• KYB (entity verification with registry lookups)
• PEP & sanctions screening (powered by ComplyAdvantage data)
• Transaction monitoring (separate add-on)
• A web case-management UI

ScreeningHub is just the screening layer. We do not capture documents, run liveness checks, or verify addresses. We do PEP, sanctions and adverse-media checks, with ongoing monitoring and a deep audit trail. That's it.

Why pure-play matters when you already have IDV

If you've already chosen Onfido, Veriff, Persona or Stripe Identity for KYC, paying Sumsub's per-check rate (which bundles features you don't use) is wasteful. A pure-play screening API gives you:

• Lower price per screen. ScreeningHub's effective rate on the Growth plan is ≈ €0.013 per screen. Bundled IDV vendors typically price between €0.80–€1.89 per check.
• Cleaner separation of concerns. Your IDV vendor owns identity confidence; we own list-match confidence. They are independently auditable.
• Independence from a single vendor. Bundles create lock-in — switching one component means re-papering the whole contract.

Side-by-side

Choose Sumsub if…

• You are early-stage and want one vendor + one contract for the entire compliance stack.
• You don't yet have an IDV provider and don't want to evaluate one separately.
• Your team prefers a configurable hosted UI over building flows in-house.

Choose ScreeningHub if…

• You already use Onfido, Veriff, Persona, Stripe Identity or another dedicated IDV vendor.
• You want a single, cheap API for the screening leg, with monitoring built in.
• You want to expose AI agents to screening via our MCP server.

For background, see sanctions screening explained and what is PEP screening. Pricing is on the home page.