Overview
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
- Drop-in AWS Rekognition replacement: same request and response shapes (CreateCollection, IndexFaces, SearchFacesByImage, CompareFaces, DetectFaces), so you migrate by changing the endpoint URL
- Face search: find one person across thousands of photos from a single selfie
- 1:1 verification: compare two faces with a similarity threshold you choose
- Face detection with confidence scores you can threshold on
- Photos with no faces return valid empty results, not errors
- 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
- 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
Getting Started
Try the live demo on the homepage (search, compare, detect) or the playground at https://sightradar.com/playground. Read the docs at https://sightradar.com/docs and the migration guide at https://sightradar.com/migrate.
Pricing & Plans
- Free to start with trial credits, no credit card required
- Batch indexing: $0.00062 per photo; real-time: $0.00093 per photo
- Billed per photo, never per face
- Pay-as-you-go prepaid credits: no subscription, no auto-renewal, no minimums
Full details at https://sightradar.com/pricing.
