Independence
BestKYC is an independent side project run by its editorial team, outside our day jobs. It is not owned, operated, or affiliated with any vendor we cover. The only reason any vendor gets named in a disclosure on this site is that someone on the team has a personal tie to them — and in every such case, they are not the one writing about that vendor.
No paid rankings
No vendor pays us for placement. No vendor pays us for a favorable review. No vendor pays us at all for editorial — not for inclusion in a ranking, not for position on a list, not for the order of mentions in a comparison. This is not negotiable. If you're a vendor reading this wondering about a "partnership", the answer is no before you finish the email.
The reason this site exists
Several of us work, or have worked, or consult for companies in these categories. That's the whole reason the site exists. We have already done the evaluation work — at our day jobs, for real projects, with real budgets and real timelines. Everything published here started as a note someone on the team took during that process, cleaned up for a reader who isn't inside our company.
The readers we have in mind are people like us. Compliance leads, fraud strategists, product owners. People about to run the same vendor-evaluation exercise we already ran last quarter, or last year, or last week. The goal is to save them the first month of it.
Where the editorial team has ties
People on the editorial team currently work at, previously worked at, or consult for the vendors below. When any of them appears in a ranking or review, the page is written by someone without that tie, and the conflict is listed at the top of the page.
- iDenfyContributor
Current, past, or advisory ties on the team.
- OnfidoContributor
Current, past, or advisory ties on the team.
- PersonaContributor
Current, past, or advisory ties on the team.
- SumsubContributor
Current, past, or advisory ties on the team.
- VeriffContributor
Current, past, or advisory ties on the team.
Reviewer conflicts
Because several of us work at, used to work at, or advise companies in these categories, most reviews carry a conflict to disclose. When a reviewer has a current or recent tie to a vendor they'd otherwise be ranking, someone else writes that review, and the conflict is listed at the top of the page. No review is written by someone who would directly benefit from the ranking.
Rankings work slightly differently. A ranking is a collective editorial decision rather than the work of one author. For each conflicted vendor on a list, team members with a tie to that vendor recuse from setting its position, and the rest of the team adjudicates. The specific conflicts for each ranking are disclosed at the top of the ranking page.
Affiliate links
Some outbound links to vendors carry referral parameters. We lock the rankings before anyone on the commercial side sees them, so whatever commission any of those links pays doesn't change what gets ranked where. Adding or removing a referral link after a ranking publishes doesn't change the rank.