Announcement
Published October 24, 2022
Last updated February 26, 2025

Introducing free identity verification with Persona

Persona’s free plan offers 500 free government ID verifications with optional live selfie checks per month. Learn more.
Rick Song
Rick Song
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Identity verification has always been complex, time-consuming, and expensive for businesses — especially smaller startups that don’t have the budget for verification services or the engineering resources they need to build their own solution.

At Persona, we believe in supporting companies at every stage of growth as well as protecting the individuals who are being verified by them. We want to contribute to a safer online environment where every company has access to affordable identity verification solutions that maintain the safety and transparency of sensitive customer data, and individuals don’t have to worry about the protection of the PII they’ve shared with companies.

This is why we are announcing our free Starter plan, with the goal of bringing transparency and affordability to the identity verification process. This is the first free solution in the industry, allowing companies to easily experience how our solutions work first-hand without upfront commitment or a costly contract. It will enable more organizations to verify users in seconds while protecting users’ PII against fraud and identity theft as well as complying with data privacy regulations like CCPA and GDPR.

What does the free Starter plan include?

Persona’s free plan offers 500 free government ID verifications with optional live selfie checks per month. The solution comes with a full integration suite, including a no-code hosted flow, a drop-in widget that can be integrated with less than 10 lines of code, and mobile SDK. Businesses can configure the user flow to match their brand, reducing friction and visual disruption to maximize customer conversion. 

Also, for a limited time, we’re inviting a small select group of Starter plan users to join our first-of-its-kind community academy, where we’ll share self-paced courses and best practices, host group and 1:1 sessions with folks from Persona to offer support and gather feedback, and connect members to industry experts. Sound interesting? Request an invitation to join the Persona community today.

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Identity verification with Persona

Digital identity verification benefits both businesses and their users. With Persona, companies can verify users in a matter of seconds, while individuals benefit from a streamlined interface and intuitive verification process that lets them easily submit identity documents on the platform of their choice — including desktops, iOS, and Android — and complete the entire ID verification process online.

Persona has coverage in 200+ countries and territories in 20+ languages to help support businesses that have a global user base or are gearing up for international expansion. With Persona’s easy-to-use platform, integration and setting up an identity verification solution can happen in less than one day. We already have customers in beta using it for a variety of use cases, from trust and safety to fraud prevention to complying with KYC regulations.

How do I sign up?

To get started, sign up for your free account or reach out to learn more. You can also join our community to talk directly to our product team. We’d love to chat!

The information provided is not intended to constitute legal advice; all information provided is for general informational purposes only and may not constitute the most up-to-date information. Any links to other third-party websites are only for the convenience of the reader.
Rick Song
Rick Song
Rick Song is a co-founder and CEO at Persona. He is passionate about the future of digital identity and building a better online identity infrastructure.