Agemin vs Yoti
Yoti is the most widely deployed facial age estimation provider in the UK, with ten or more age assurance methods, a long certification list and four submissions in the NIST FATE age estimation results. Agemin is a narrower product: NIST-evaluated facial age estimation, email age estimation and an ID fallback through one SDK and API, with published per-verification pricing and 100 free checks a month. Both models are independently measured; the difference is what you can see and try before a sales call.
Information last reviewed September 7, 2026. Compared: Agemin’s published plans against Yoti’s facial age estimation and Age Verification service as publicly described on yoti.com and developers.yoti.com, in USD and GBP where prices are stated.
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Where Agemin and Yoti differ
A price list instead of an order form
Agemin publishes its plans: 100 free age verifications a month on the Trial plan, then Core at $0.084 per verification from a $99 monthly minimum. Yoti publishes no per-check price for facial age estimation; its organisation terms state transaction charges are set in the Order Form, alongside a £250 set-up fee and £150 per month per brand for ongoing theme support (as of September 2026).
Both models are in the NIST results, measured on different things
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. Yoti has four submissions in the same NIST track; NIST’s main table lists yoti-004 at a Mean Absolute Error of 2.497 years on the Visa dataset, rank 1, and rank 1 in every interocular-distance band. NIST publishes MAE, accuracy and error rates per submission rather than a single leaderboard, so read both report cards against the age band your product cares about.
Email age estimation, on both sides
Yoti lists email age estimation among its Age Verification methods and exposes it in its API as a headless check. Agemin also offers email age estimation with no selfie, no ID and no card. On this method both services hold the same bar.
Yoti has the wider menu and the longer audit trail
Yoti states ten or more methods including a Digital ID wallet, credit card, mobile, electronic ID and database checks, coverage across 200+ countries and territories, and a certification list that includes SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO 27701, PAS 1296:2018, an Age Check Certification Scheme evaluation and iBeta Level 3 liveness. It also states its selfie deletion was audited by the ICO and KPMG. Agemin covers facial, email and an ID fallback and states ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II. If you need many methods behind one contract, Yoti has them.
Agemin and Yoti, side by side
| Attribute | Agemin | Yoti |
|---|---|---|
| Methods offered | Facial age estimation with liveness and anti-spoofing, email age estimation, a Challenge-25 option, and an ID verification fallback | Facial age estimation, Digital ID wallet, identity document, Yoti Keys, credit card, mobile, electronic ID, Social Security Number, database and email age estimation, per yoti.com; the API adds LA Wallet, Singpass, CPF, Swedish BankID, FTN and MitID |
| 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. | No per-check price published (yoti.com/pricing returns not found). Organisation terms: £250 set-up fee, integration support at £750 per half day, £150 per month per brand for theme support, transaction charges “in accordance with the prices and currency we have agreed with you in the Order Form” |
| Free tier | 100 free age verifications a month on the Trial plan | Yoti states Digital ID age checks are free for businesses “when used alongside our other age verification products”; a free tier for facial age estimation is not stated in the public materials we reviewed |
| 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 | Four submissions (yoti-001 to yoti-004, latest 7 January 2026). NIST main table, MAE over ages 18 to 30, yoti-004: 2.497 years Visa (rank 1), 2.845 Application, 2.615 Mugshots, 3.734 Border; rank 1 in every interocular-distance band. Yoti’s July 2025 white paper states its own MAE of 1.1 years for ages 13 to 17 |
| Integration | JavaScript SDK (modal or redirect flows), REST API and webhooks, with a sandbox on the free Trial plan | No-code hosted portal, REST API, backend SDKs for Node.js, Java, PHP, Python, .NET and Go, a React and JavaScript face capture module, iframe and redirect flows with webhooks, a Shopify app, and mobile SDKs for iOS, Android and React Native per its developer portal |
| Face image handling | States it does not store the user’s facial image and processes only the minimum data needed to estimate age | States the selfie is deleted “as soon as an age estimate is given”, no facial images are shared with the client, and deletion was audited by the ICO and KPMG; check results (not images) stored for 6 months unless deleted sooner by the client |
| Certifications stated | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR-compliant data handling | Annual SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO 9001, ISO 27701, PAS 1296:2018, Age Check Certification Scheme evaluation, iBeta Level 3 liveness (ISO/IEC 30107-3), German FSM approval, B Corp, and “recognised by Ofcom as highly effective” |
| Stated speed | Results in seconds for facial and email checks | Results returned “in under a second” per the product page; “around 1 second” per the developer docs and white paper |
Third-party details on this page reflect what each provider publicly stated on the review date shown above and may have changed since. Statements about what Yoti offers reflect its public materials on the review date; absence of a feature from those materials does not prove it is unavailable.
Where we agree with Yoti: let an outside lab do the measuring
Yoti has submitted its facial age estimation model to NIST four times since 2023, publishes an annual white paper with per-age-band error rates, and had its deletion process audited by the ICO and KPMG. That is the standard the whole category should be held to, and Agemin holds itself to the same one: its model is in the same NIST track and the report card is linked from its site rather than paraphrased.
What the two report cards say is not the same thing, and the page does not pretend it is. NIST’s main table ranks yoti-004 first on Mean Absolute Error for the Visa dataset and first in every interocular-distance band. Agemin’s submission recorded the highest True Positive Rate of any evaluated submission in NIST’s Child Online Safety category for 13 to 16 year olds, at 72.53%, with an MAE of 2.094 years. If your risk is adults being misread, look at MAE. If your risk is teenagers being waved through as adults, look at that TPR row. Both numbers are NIST’s, not ours.
The remaining difference is commercial and product scope. Yoti sells a broad identity and age assurance platform with ten or more methods, priced through an order form. Agemin sells three methods with a published price and a free plan, so the first hundred checks a month run on real traffic before anyone signs anything.
Agemin fits you if
- You want to see per-verification pricing before you talk to sales
- You want 100 free checks a month to test on real traffic first
- The NIST Child Online Safety 13 to 16 True Positive Rate is the result that matches your risk
- You need facial, email and an ID fallback through one JavaScript SDK and REST API, and nothing else
Yoti may fit you if
- You need a Digital ID wallet, credit card, mobile, electronic ID or database checks under one contract
- The NIST MAE tables for adults, or an Ofcom “highly effective” recognition, are what your regulator asks for
- You want backend SDKs in six languages and native iOS, Android and React Native SDKs
- You need an ICO- and KPMG-audited deletion process in your compliance file
Common questions
For facial and email age estimation with published pricing, yes. Agemin’s facial model is in the same NIST FATE track as Yoti’s, recorded the highest True Positive Rate in NIST’s Child Online Safety 13 to 16 category, and the service gives every account 100 free age verifications a month on the trial plan. Yoti offers ten or more methods, a longer certification list, and prices through an order form.
How we compared
This comparison is based on publicly available information from Yoti’s official website, documentation and published materials, on the public NIST FATE Age Estimation and Verification results, and on Agemin’s own published pricing and features, as reviewed on September 7, 2026. Features, pricing and availability may change at any time. 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.
Sources
- Yoti facial age estimation product page (accuracy, deletion, speed) (verified September 7, 2026)
- Yoti Age Verification product page (methods, coverage, Ofcom recognition) (verified September 7, 2026)
- Yoti Age Verification organisation terms (set-up and support fees) (verified September 7, 2026)
- Yoti free Digital ID age checks announcement (verified September 7, 2026)
- Yoti developer portal (SDKs and integration) (verified September 7, 2026)
- Yoti Age Verification API reference (method list) (verified September 7, 2026)
- Yoti age verification privacy policy (selfie deletion, result retention) (verified September 7, 2026)
- Yoti security page (certifications) (verified September 7, 2026)
- Yoti facial age estimation white paper (July 2025) (verified September 7, 2026)
- NIST FATE Age Estimation and Verification results (main table) (verified September 7, 2026)
- NIST FATE AEV report card for yoti_004 (verified September 7, 2026)
- NIST FATE AEV report card for Agemin’s model (bynn-000) (verified September 7, 2026)
- Agemin pricing (our own published claims) (verified September 7, 2026)
Agemin is an independent service operated by Bynn Intelligence Inc. and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Yoti. All third-party names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used only to identify the products being compared.
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