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.

Key features

• 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 isolated and encrypted per account, never used for model training
• SDKs on npm and PyPI, plus a Rekognition shim for Python

Use cases

Built for consented use cases: photo delivery, verification and search within your own collections.

• 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: 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

Links

• Website: https://sightradar.com/
• API docs: https://sightradar.com/docs
• Pricing: https://sightradar.com/pricing
• Migration guide: https://sightradar.com/migrate
• npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/sightradar
• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/sightradar/