AML screening comparison

dilisense gives you the screening-data layer on its own. You get sanctions, PEP, criminal, adverse-media and risk-intelligence data through one transparent API, with per-call pricing, a free tier and an on-premise option. ComplyAdvantage is the broader platform. It adds transaction monitoring, payment screening, case management and agentic workflows on top. Choose ComplyAdvantage if you want one system for everything. Choose dilisense if you want the screening data to build on, without the overhead of a full platform.

• Data coverage across sanctions, PEP, criminal, risk intelligence and adverse media
• How transparent and traceable the underlying sources are
• Update frequency for each data type
• Ongoing monitoring and re-screening
• Hosting, data residency and on-premise options
• Ease of technical integration, contractual setup and pricing transparency

ComplyAdvantage is a full compliance platform. Alongside sanctions, PEP and adverse-media data it offers transaction monitoring, payment screening, case management and agentic AI that can autonomously resolve up to 85% of routine alerts. It has a self-serve Starter plan from $99/month (priced by monitored entity, scaling from 100 to 2,000), a free ComplyLaunch tier for early-stage startups and an enterprise tier. dilisense is narrower by design. It is the screening-data layer delivered as an API, priced per call (100 free a month, then €0.10 down to about €0.01 at volume), with a downloadable on-premise database. The choice is platform or data layer. Do you want an all-in-one system or the screening data to build into your own?

ComplyAdvantage is best for teams that want one AI-native platform across the compliance workflow. It covers sanctions and watchlists (OFAC, UN, HMT, EU, DFAT and 60+ jurisdictions, updated in minutes), PEPs and RCAs (four FATF-aligned classes, updated daily) and adverse media, plus transaction monitoring, payment screening and agentic workflows, with a self-serve Starter tier and an enterprise platform. Starter pricing is published per monitored entity and enterprise is quoted.

dilisense is best for teams that just need the screening-data layer and want to own the workflow. It delivers the same core data (sanctions, PEP, criminal, adverse media and risk intelligence) across 190+ jurisdictions from 8,000+ official sources as a developer-first API priced per screening, with a free tier and a downloadable on-premise database. Sanctions refresh hourly, PEP and criminal data daily and adverse media in near real-time and every source is linked and traceable to its origin. You can embed checks in your own systems, keep customer data in-house (EU-hosted, GDPR-compliant, no query-content logging) and pay for what you actually screen rather than per monitored entity. It is not a full platform. There is no built-in transaction monitoring or case-management UI, the deliberate trade-off for a lighter, lower-cost data layer.

Choose ComplyAdvantage for an all-in-one, AI-native platform that combines screening, transaction monitoring, payment screening and case management, with self-serve onboarding.

Choose dilisense for the screening-data layer as a focused API. You get per-call pricing with a free tier, an on-premise option and the freedom to build it into your own stack.