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Switch from Smile ID

The Smile ID alternative,same verification depth,plus the compliance engine.

Smile ID verifies and stops. Myaza Trust matches the authoritative database checks, adds document and chip verification across 190+ countries, then runs behavioural monitoring, investigation cases and goAML filing on the same customer record.

Myaza TrustvsSmile ID

Smile ID sells identity verification. Once a customer is through the door it has nothing further to say about them: no behavioural monitoring, no alert triage, no investigation cases, no regulator-format reporting. Every one of those becomes another vendor, another integration and another audit trail that does not join up with the first one. Myaza Trust runs the whole lifecycle on a single customer record.

Based in
Africa
How they price
Published per-check pricing, volume tiers

Why teams switch

What you gainby moving.

The obligation continues after onboarding

Transactions, logins and sessions scored in real time against each customer's own baseline, with alert rollup so one recurring pattern is one alert rather than a flooded queue.

From alert to filed report, without leaving

Alerts group into investigation cases with SLA deadlines and an immutable note trail, then produce goAML reports as filing-ready XML. No case spreadsheet, no separate tool, no export step.

Coverage that follows your users

Verification in 190+ countries, business verification in 48 and screening across 200+ jurisdictions. Expanding into a new market does not mean onboarding another vendor.

Side by side

Myaza Trust vs Smile ID,line by line.

Theme by theme, with what each platform leaves you to buy or build somewhere else.

Myaza Trust compared with Smile ID, theme by theme
FeatureMyaza TrustSmile ID
Costs and pricing
  • Per-component pricingincluded
  • No minimum commitmentincluded
  • Cheaper at the same volumeincluded
  • Sandbox never chargedincluded
  • Costs rise as you add vendorslimited
  • Published per-check pricingincluded
  • Volume tierslimited
  • Compliance tooling bought elsewherenot offered
Commercial flexibility
  • Pay only for checks that runincluded
  • No platform feeincluded
  • Nothing locked behind a tierincluded
  • Pay-per-checkincluded
  • Verification only, so the stack growslimited
Integration speed
  • Instant self-serve sandboxincluded
  • Test ID for every failure outcomeincluded
  • SDKs, hosted links and direct APIincluded
  • Self-serve sandboxincluded
  • SDKs availableincluded
Workflows and SDK
  • No-code workflow builderincluded
  • Versioned, publish without a releaseincluded
  • One SDK for every componentincluded
  • Hosted link needs no integrationincluded
  • Flow configuration limitedlimited
  • Separate SDKs per capabilitylimited
  • Biometric re-auth not documentedlimited
Verification and biometrics
  • Face match 1:1included
  • Active liveness, re-analysed server-sideincluded
  • Chip authentication verified server-sideincluded
  • Biometric re-authentication built inincluded
  • Assurance level on every resultincluded
  • Face match 1:1included
  • Active livenessincluded
  • Chip authentication not documentedlimited
  • No assurance level returnednot offered
After onboarding
  • Transaction and session monitoringincluded
  • Rules your compliance team writesincluded
  • Investigation cases with SLA trackingincluded
  • Perpetual re-verificationincluded
  • Address presence verification & monitoringincluded
  • No transaction or session monitoringnot offered
  • No investigation casesnot offered
  • No rule authoring for compliance teamsnot offered
Regulatory reporting
  • goAML SAR and STR generationincluded
  • Filing-ready XML exportincluded
  • Four-eyes separation enforcedincluded
  • No goAML generationnot offered
  • No filing workflownot offered
The audit record
  • One customer record end to endincluded
  • Tamper-evident hash chainincluded
  • Versioned decision traceincluded
  • No tamper-evident audit chainnot offered
  • Verification records onlylimited
Coverage
  • 190+ countries, 48 KYB, 200+ screening jurisdictions
  • Regional focus, document coverage beyond

Assessments reflect capabilities each vendor documents publicly, reviewed in July 2026. A partial mark means the capability is an add-on, covers only some markets, or is not documented in enough depth to claim parity. Vendors change their products; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will update it.

Frequently asked

Myaza Trust vs Smile ID,questions.

No. Existing verified customers import in bulk with their verification status intact and immediately begin screening and monitoring. Nobody re-verifies, and your back book is being watched from day one.

Test it on your own traffic,not on our table.

Sandbox credentials are instant, with test data for every failure outcome. Run both platforms in parallel and compare the numbers yourself.