SightRadar

SightRadar: a Rekognition-compatible face recognition API

SightRadar is a face recognition API for teams that need face search, verification and detection at scale, without AWS Rekognition's pricing. It is a drop-in replacement for AWS Rekognition: point the AWS SDK (boto3 and others) at SightRadar's endpoint and your existing code keeps working.

How migration works

SightRadar uses the same request and response shapes as Rekognition (CreateCollection, IndexFaces, SearchFacesByImage, CompareFaces, DetectFaces and more), so you migrate by changing the endpoint URL. 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. The API reference lives at sightradar.com/docs and the migration guide at sightradar.com/migrate.

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
• Rekognition-compatible API: CreateCollection, IndexFaces, SearchFacesByImage, CompareFaces, DetectFaces and more
• 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 (sightradar), plus a Rekognition shim for Python (sightradar-rekognition-shim)

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

Pricing

• 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
• Billing: pay-as-you-go prepaid credits, no subscription, no auto-renewal, no minimums

Built for consented use

SightRadar is designed for consented use cases: photo delivery, identity verification and search within your own collections. Face vectors are isolated and encrypted per account and are never used for model training, and a Data Processing Agreement is available for GDPR.

Free to start with trial credits, no credit card required. Pay-as-you-go prepaid credits, no subscription and no minimums.