# SightRadar

> Face recognition API, Rekognition-compatible, pay per photo

- **Canonical**: https://buildrship.xyz/products/sightradar
- **Website**: https://sightradar.com/
- **Category**: Dev Tools
- **Tags**: face-recognition-api, aws-rekognition-alternative, computer-vision
- **Pricing**: Usage-based
- **Upvotes**: 1
- **Launched**: Week 47, 2026
- **Maker**: SightRadar Team (@sightradar)
- **Dofollow**: ✅ Yes (verified)

## About

<p>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.</p><p>What you get:</p><ul><li><p>Face search: find one person across thousands of photos from a single selfie (event photos, media libraries, photo delivery)</p></li><li><p>1:1 verification: compare two faces with a similarity threshold you choose</p></li><li><p>Face detection with confidence scores you can threshold on</p></li><li><p>Rekognition-compatible API: CreateCollection, IndexFaces, SearchFacesByImage, CompareFaces, DetectFaces and more</p></li><li><p>Photos with no faces return valid empty results, not errors</p></li><li><p>Per-photo billing, never per face: batch indexing from $0.00062 per photo, real-time $0.00093 per photo</p></li><li><p>Privacy by design: GDPR-ready with a Data Processing Agreement, face vectors isolated and encrypted per account, never used for model training</p></li><li><p>SDKs on npm and PyPI, plus a Rekognition shim for Python</p></li></ul><p>Free to start with trial credits, no credit card required. Pay-as-you-go prepaid credits, no subscription and no minimums.</p>