SightRadar

What is SightRadar?

SightRadar is a high-accuracy face recognition API built as a drop-in replacement for AWS Rekognition. It uses the same request and response shapes (CreateCollection, IndexFaces, SearchFacesByImage, CompareFaces, DetectFaces), so you migrate by changing the endpoint URL. Point the AWS SDK (boto3 and others) at SightRadar's endpoint and your existing code keeps working.

Find a person across thousands of photos from one selfie, run 1:1 verification with your own similarity threshold, or detect faces with confidence scores. Billing is per photo, never per face, with no subscription or minimums.

Key features

• Drop-in AWS Rekognition replacement: same API shapes, change only the endpoint
• Face search across your collections from a single selfie
• 1:1 face verification with configurable similarity thresholds
• Face detection with confidence scores you can threshold on
• Photos with no faces return valid empty results, not errors
• Per-photo billing (never per face), no subscription or minimums
• GDPR-ready with a Data Processing Agreement; face vectors isolated and encrypted per account, never used for model training
• SDKs for JavaScript (npm) and Python (PyPI), plus a Rekognition shim for Python

Use cases

• 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 their own 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 per search; face storage $6 per million faces per month
• Pay-as-you-go prepaid credits: no subscription, no auto-renewal, no minimums

Responsible use

SightRadar is built for consented use cases: photo delivery, identity verification and search within your own collections.

Links

Website: https://sightradar.com/

API docs: https://sightradar.com/docs

Pricing: https://sightradar.com/pricing

Migration guide: https://sightradar.com/migrate