What is SightRadar
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.
Key features
- Drop-in AWS Rekognition replacement: same API shapes (CreateCollection, IndexFaces, SearchFacesByImage, CompareFaces, DetectFaces), change only the endpoint
- Face search across your own collections from a single selfie
- 1:1 face verification with a similarity threshold you choose
- Face detection with confidence scores you can threshold on
- Photos with no faces return valid empty results, not errors
- Per-photo billing, never per face, with no subscription or minimums
- GDPR-ready with a Data Processing Agreement; face vectors are isolated and encrypted per account and never used for model training
- SDKs for JavaScript (npm) and Python (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 their own archives
- Teams on AWS Rekognition cutting their face-API bill without rewriting code
SightRadar is built for consented use cases: photo delivery, verification and search within your own collections.
