SightRadar
sightradar.com
Rekognition-compatible face recognition API: index, search, compare and detect faces, pay per photo.
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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.
Drop-in replacement for AWS Rekognition
SightRadar uses the same request and response shapes as AWS Rekognition (CreateCollection, IndexFaces, SearchFacesByImage, CompareFaces, DetectFaces), so you migrate by changing the endpoint URL. The migration guide and API docs are linked below.
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
- Privacy by design: GDPR-ready with a Data Processing Agreement, face vectors isolated and encrypted per account, never used for model training
- SDKs for JavaScript (npm package
sightradar) and Python (PyPI packagesightradar), plussightradar-rekognition-shimfor existing Python Rekognition code
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 own archives
- Teams on AWS Rekognition cutting their face-API bill without rewriting code
SightRadar is built for consented use: photo delivery, verification and search within your own collections.
Pricing
- Free to start: trial credits, no credit 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
Links
- Website: https://sightradar.com/
- API docs: https://sightradar.com/docs
- Pricing: https://sightradar.com/pricing
- Migration guide: https://sightradar.com/migrate
- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/sightradar
- PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/sightradar/
- Rekognition shim (PyPI): https://pypi.org/project/sightradar-rekognition-shim/
