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: it uses the same request and response shapes, so you point the AWS SDK (boto3 and others) at SightRadar's endpoint and your existing code keeps working.
Key Features
- Drop-in AWS Rekognition replacement: CreateCollection, IndexFaces, SearchFacesByImage, CompareFaces, DetectFaces and more, with the same API shapes. Change only the endpoint.
- Face search: find one person across thousands of photos in your own collections 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.
- Predictable results: photos with no faces return valid empty results, not errors.
- Per-photo billing, never per face: no subscription and no minimums.
- Privacy by design: GDPR-ready with a Data Processing Agreement. Face vectors are isolated and encrypted per account, and 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 archives
- Teams on AWS Rekognition cutting their face-API bill without rewriting code
Getting Started
- Sign up at sightradar.com and start with free trial credits (no credit card required).
- Try search, compare and detect in the playground.
- Read the docs, or follow the migration guide to move an existing Rekognition integration by changing the endpoint URL.
Pricing & Plans
- Free to start: trial credits, no card required
- Batch indexing: $0.00062 per photo
- Real-time: $0.00093 per photo
- Search by face ID: $0.00062; face storage $6 per million faces per month
- Pay-as-you-go prepaid credits: no subscription, no auto-renewal, no minimums
Full details on the pricing page.
