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.
What you get
- Face search: find one person across thousands of photos from a single selfie (event photos, media libraries, photo delivery)
- 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
- Per-photo billing, never per face: batch indexing from $0.00062 per photo, real-time $0.00093 per photo
- 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
Free to start with trial credits, no credit card required. Pay-as-you-go prepaid credits, no subscription and no minimums. Docs: https://sightradar.com/docs
