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. 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. Billing is per photo, never per face, with no subscription or minimums.

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: point the AWS SDK (boto3 and others) at SightRadar's endpoint and your existing code keeps working

• 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

Pricing

Free to start with trial credits, no credit card required. Batch indexing from $0.00062 per photo, real-time $0.00093 per photo. Pay-as-you-go prepaid credits, no subscription and no minimums.

API docs: https://sightradar.com/docs