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Alternatives to k-ID

k-ID sells a youth-audience compliance platform: a free jurisdiction thresholds API, an AgeKit+ orchestrator that combines its own facial age estimation with Veratad ID scans, Stripe card checks and regional methods, and parental consent tooling, with verification priced by demo. If you need the age check itself rather than the rules engine, or a published price, here are five services in the same space, each described from its own public materials.

Information last reviewed September 7, 2026. Covered: k-ID as publicly described on k-id.com and docs.k-id.com, alongside four other age verification services, in USD and GBP where prices are stated.

Four questions to ask any k-ID alternative

Has an outside lab measured the model?

NIST’s FATE Age Estimation and Verification track tests facial age estimation on government datasets the vendor never sees and publishes error rates per submission. Some providers on this page are in those results, some publish their own internal figures, and some publish no accuracy figure at all. Where a provider is not listed, we say that rather than assuming.

Estimation, or lookup, and how many ways?

Facial and email estimation work for users who exist in no database. Credit card, mobile and bureau checks are invisible when the user is on file and fail when they are not. Count the methods, then ask which ones your actual audience can pass.

Can you see the price before the sales call?

Some providers publish per-check pricing and a free allowance. Others publish set-up fees but not transaction charges, or plugin prices but not API prices, or nothing at all. A published price is not the same as a lower one, but it tells you what a pilot will cost before you commit engineering time.

Which law are you satisfying, and where does the face go?

The UK Online Safety Act, US state laws and the EU Digital Services Act accept different methods and different certificates. Check whether a provider names your regulator, and read its retention statement: on-device, deleted on result, or held for a period. None of this is legal advice; confirm it with counsel.

5 k-ID alternatives, each in its own words

Listed in a fixed order. Every fact comes from the provider’s own public materials or from NIST, with sources at the bottom of the page.

  1. Agemin

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    A pay-as-you-go age verification API and SDK combining NIST-evaluated facial age estimation, email age estimation and an ID fallback, with a free plan that includes 100 verifications a month.

    Methods offered
    Facial age estimation with liveness and anti-spoofing, email age estimation, a Challenge-25 option, and an ID verification fallback
    Public pricing
    Free Trial plan with 100 age verifications a month; Core from a $99 monthly minimum at $0.084 per verification; Forensic from a $599 monthly minimum at $0.024 per verification. Liveness detection is $0.16 per check on every plan.
    NIST FATE age estimation evaluation
    Evaluated in the NIST FATE Age Estimation and Verification track (submission bynn-000, report card updated 3 July 2026): highest True Positive Rate of any evaluated submission in the Child Online Safety 13 to 16 category at 72.53%, with a Mean Absolute Error of 2.094 years
    See Agemin pricing

  2. Yoti

    A UK digital identity company whose Age Verification service offers facial age estimation alongside a Digital ID wallet, identity documents, credit card, mobile, electronic ID, database and email age estimation methods, for platforms in 200+ countries and territories.

    Methods offered
    Ten or more per yoti.com: facial age estimation, Digital ID wallet, identity document, Yoti Keys, credit card, mobile, electronic ID, Social Security Number, database, email age estimation
    Public pricing
    No per-check price published; product pages route to sales. Organisation terms publish a £250 set-up fee and £150 per month per brand for theme support (September 2026)
    NIST FATE age estimation evaluation
    Four Yoti submissions in the NIST FATE AEV results; NIST’s main table lists yoti-004 at an MAE of 2.497 years on the Visa dataset, rank 1 (results updated 29 July 2026)
    Agemin vs Yoti, side by side

  3. Privately

    A Swiss safety technology company offering on-device facial and voice age estimation for online platforms and retail, with the stated position that no pictures or biometric data are sent to a server.

    Methods offered
    Per privately.eu: on-device facial age estimation (FaceAssure), on-device voice age estimation (VoiceAssure), and selfie plus NFC identity document verification (Android only at review); no email method stated
    Public pricing
    Published on developer.privately.eu: free sandbox with 100 checks over a 4-week trial; on-browser tiers from £200 a month for 1,000 checks to £2,000 a month for 10,000; mobile SDKs by sales contact (September 2026)
    NIST FATE age estimation evaluation
    One submission, privately-000 (14 January 2026). NIST main table: MAE 3.389 years on the Visa dataset, rank 21; Child Online Safety 13 to 16 table: TPR 0.4822, rank 14
    Agemin vs Privately, side by side

  4. VerifyMy

    A UK safety technology provider offering age verification and content moderation, with email-based age checks and facial age estimation alongside document, card and phone methods.

    Methods offered
    Seven methods per verifymy.io: email-based age checks, facial age estimation, government ID, ID with face match, credit card, name and address, mobile number
    Public pricing
    No published price list; pricing by contacting sales (September 2026)
    NIST FATE age estimation evaluation
    No VerifyMy submission listed in the NIST FATE AEV results as of 31 July 2026; accuracy claims are from internal testing and ACCS audits
    Agemin vs VerifyMy, side by side

  5. AgeChecked

    A UK age and identity verification provider offering database, credit card, mobile number and document scan checks through a client API, a consumer pop-up gateway, batch upload and e-commerce plugins, describing itself as UK government-approved.

    Methods offered
    Per agechecked.com: database check, credit card, mobile phone number and document scan, delivered via Client API, Consumer Gateway, batch upload, Secondary Check and ID Scan; facial analysis mentioned in a 2025 blog post
    Public pricing
    No general price list. WooCommerce plugin “Starting at £40.00 per month for 100 checks”; Shopify app credits from $0.45 down to $0.30 per credit, Plus plan $99.99 a month (September 2026)
    NIST FATE age estimation evaluation
    No AgeChecked submission listed in the NIST FATE AEV results as of September 2026; no facial accuracy figure published on its site
    Agemin vs AgeChecked, side by side

Third-party details on this page reflect what each provider publicly stated on the review date shown above and may have changed since. Absence of a feature from a provider’s public materials does not prove it is unavailable.

Common questions

For the verification itself: Agemin (NIST-evaluated facial and email estimation with published pricing), Yoti (facial estimation plus ten or more other methods), Privately (on-device facial and voice estimation with published GBP tiers), VerifyMy (email and facial estimation plus card, phone and document checks) and AgeChecked (UK database, card, mobile and document checks). None of them sells a jurisdiction rules engine or parental consent product of k-ID’s kind; if you need those, k-ID is the wider platform and the others are verification components.

How this page was put together

Every service on this page is described from its own publicly available materials (official website, documentation, terms or published white papers) and from the public NIST FATE Age Estimation and Verification results, as reviewed on September 7, 2026. Agemin is described from its own published pricing and features. Sources for each are listed below. Features, pricing and availability change often. Please verify current details directly with each provider before purchasing.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. Which age assurance method satisfies a given law depends on the jurisdiction, the content and the regulator’s guidance. Confirm your obligations with qualified counsel before choosing a method.

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Agemin is an independent service operated by Bynn Intelligence Inc. and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any provider named on this page. All third-party names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used only to identify the products being described.

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100 free age verifications a month on the Trial plan, with the same SDK and API the paid plans use. No commitment until you choose one.

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