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Alternatives to Intellicheck

Intellicheck validates North American government identification by reading the encoded data on the document: its Form 10-K describes technology that reads and verifies "the encoded format on the bar code on the driver’s license" for US and Canadian driver’s licences, non-driver ID cards, military IDs and passports across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, US territories, the US military and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories. ZOREAL Identify is a "Continue with ZOREAL" sign-in on standard OpenID Connect, backed by a credential ZOREAL issues after reading a government document chip in the ZOREAL ID app. This page sets a document-validation service for chipless North American cards, whose decision the business keeps, beside a reusable login credential built on chip-bearing documents.

Information last reviewed 10 September 2026. Compared: Intellicheck’s identity validation at onboarding, in person or online, against ZOREAL Identify as a sign-in; Intellicheck’s retail scanner and law-enforcement deployments are out of scope.

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Where ZOREAL Identify and Intellicheck differ

  • The guarantee

    ZOREAL guarantees that the person is real, is not an AI, exists, and is linked to a government-issued ID. One hundred percent, not ninety-nine point nine. ZOREAL is the only solution in the world today that can give that guarantee.

  • A bar code or a chip

    Intellicheck reads the PDF417 bar code and magnetic stripe of a North American driver’s licence or ID card and analyses the encoded format against the issuing jurisdiction’s known format; these cards carry no chip. ZOREAL reads the chip of an electronic passport or national ID card over NFC and re-runs Passive Authentication against the issuing country’s certificates in the ICAO master list. The two cover different documents.

  • Document alone, or document plus person

    Intellicheck’s stated claim is about the document: its encoded data is authentic for the issuer, and the decoded fields can pre-fill forms where permitted by law. Face match and liveness are not stated on the pages we read. ZOREAL’s claim covers the person as well as the document: a liveness capture face-matched to the chip portrait, a hardware-bound key on the enrolled phone, and presence stated in each login’s token.

  • Subscription by contract, or a published list

    Intellicheck publishes no price list; its Form 10-K describes SaaS revenue as "software licensed on a subscription basis", and its pages route to demo and contact forms. ZOREAL publishes its Identify prices: free to enrol, free tier a logins; only tier b logins charged.

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Comparison of ZOREAL Identify and Intellicheck (Intellicheck Identity Verification), from public materials reviewed on 10 and 11 September 2026.

AttributeZOREAL IdentifyIntellicheck
How the claim is madeEnrolment, in the ZOREAL ID app: the document is photographed, its machine-readable zone read and its chip read over NFC. The server re-runs Passive Authentication against its own trust store built from the ICAO Public Key Directory, so the issuing country’s signature over the data is checked on ZOREAL’s side, and the chip proves possession of its private key. A liveness capture with presentation-attack detection is face-matched 1:1 against the chip portrait. The device key is generated in the phone’s hardware, its attestation is verified at registration, and every evidence call carries an app-integrity assertion. Each verified document yields two holder certificates over that key under ZOREAL’s two roots (ECDSA P-384 and ML-DSA-87), one pseudonymous and one carrying the legal name, valid until the document expires. Login: ZOREAL is the OpenID Provider. The holder approves on their phone, a stock OIDC library validates the ID token against ZOREAL’s JWKS, the relying party sets the assurance per request with acr_values, max_age and prompt, and a request that cannot meet its floor is denied, never downgraded. The subject is pairwise per sector, so one ZOREAL ID is reused at every service without being linkable across them; consent is remembered per sector and re-prompted on any new scope.The bar code (PDF417) and magnetic stripe of a US or Canadian driver’s licence or ID card are read and the encoded format is analysed against the issuing jurisdiction’s known format to decide whether the document is authentic; the decoded data can pre-fill forms "where permitted by law". The encoding standards referenced are AAMVA, ANSI and ISO. The output is a validation decision to the business. Face match and liveness are not stated on the pages we read.
GuaranteeZOREAL guarantees that the person is real, is not an AI, exists, and is linked to a government-issued ID. One hundred percent, not ninety-nine point nine.Authenticity of the document’s encoded data against the issuer’s known format. A face match, a liveness check or a statement of assurance about the person holding the card is not stated in the public materials we reviewed (the homepage, the solutions page, the investor centre, the newsroom and the Form 10-K).
Who issues the credentialZOREAL is the issuer of the ID card: a reusable identity credential that logs in to other websites, with the person controlling the scopes each login discloses.Intellicheck issues no credential to the person; each validation returns a decision to the business. A reusable identity or a "sign in with" flow is not stated in the public materials we reviewed.
What the relying party receivesTwo halves. Proof that a real human is there: the ID token asserts this is one human (not one account, not one device), with the strength of that claim in a uniqueness field; that a government document chip was read and its authenticity verified, at the month given; and how this session was authenticated, in acr and amr, whether a live human was captured for this login, a registered device key was used, or a session was reused. And, when the relying party requests it and the person consents on the phone, the verified identity: name, birthdate and document details read from the chip, served from userinfo to a confidential client with a verified domain. The person sees every requested claim before approving, and the relying party receives only the scopes it was granted. It is not KYC, not a legal signature, not proof that the person consented freely, and not proof that the person is the one operating the browser.A validation decision and the decoded fields, which can pre-fill forms where permitted by law, in store through existing scanners or online.
Cost to enrolEnrolment in the ZOREAL ID app is always free for the person holding the identity: document scan, chip read and liveness enrollment, re-enrollment, recovery and revocation. Every Tier A login is free without limit on every plan: the pairwise identifier, the assurance block, age-threshold answers and nationality, with 1 client configuration on Free. Answering an identity request is always free for the person.No published price list as of September 2026 (a pricing URL returned not found); the Form 10-K describes SaaS revenue as "software licensed on a subscription basis", and the use-case pages route to demo and contact forms.
Cost per sign-inEnrolment is free: "The ZOREAL ID app is always free for the person holding the identity, from enrollment to recovery", and "Document scan, chip read and liveness enrollment" is "Always free" on Free and Premium. Every Tier A login is free, without limit, on every plan: the pairwise identifier, the assurance block, age-threshold answers and nationality (openid, zoreal.age and zoreal.nationality, available to every registered client). Tier A logins are never charged. A charge applies only to a qualified Tier B login, where the relying party requests identity disclosure (the profile scopes, name, birthdate and document details, and email, which require a verified domain, a confidential client and client authentication), on Premium: "Identify · Identity disclosure", "Name, birth date and document details", "One charge for name, birth date or document details, even when several are returned"; "Identify · Fresh-liveness login", "Coming soon"; "Content and contract signing authorization", "Coming soon". Client configurations per website or app: 1 on Free, 10 on Premium; private-key JWT and mTLS client authentication on Premium. Premium is priced per user, monthly or yearly, with two months free on yearly billing; every organization member is a paid Premium seat; metered usage is charged separately. Enterprise: contact us. Answering an identity request is always free for the person. Current prices are on the ZOREAL price list at zoreal.com/pricing. ZOREAL Identify is the cheapest way to do KYC in the market: free to enrol, free to check, paid only for the higher disclosure tiers.A "sign in with" flow is not stated in the public materials we reviewed, so there is no per-sign-in price to quote.
IntegrationStandard OpenID Connect from the provider at id.zoreal.com (discovery, JWKS, token and userinfo endpoints); any stock OIDC library validates the token. One client library per platform: @zoreal/oauth2-react, @zoreal/oauth2-js and @zoreal/oauth2-react-native on npm for the front end, and backends for Node (@zoreal/oauth2-node), Ruby (zoreal-oauth2), Python (zoreal-oauth2), PHP (zoreal/oauth2), Go, Java (com.zoreal:oauth2) and .NET (Zoreal.OAuth2). The React package renders the button and drives the flow itself, with no hosted script and nothing to allowlist in a Content Security Policy. Registration is self-serve in the dashboard (Identify, Assets): redirect addresses, origins and permitted scopes, with domain verification; personal-data scopes require a verified domain and a confidential client.Scanner-based in store or branch "with or without integration", "using scanners you already own"; digital validation online; the Intellicheck Platform per the Form 10-K.
Data handling and retentionThe ID token carries no personal data, ever: a pairwise pseudonym per sector plus the assurance block. Name, birthdate, document fields and email are served only from userinfo, against a ten-minute single-audience access token with no refresh token, and only to a confidential client with a verified domain; a relying party that needs the data again asks the person again. Age is returned as registered yes-or-no thresholds, never an age or a birth year. The document portrait is a separately gated tier and is biometric data under GDPR Article 9 for the relying party that requests it. Consent is remembered per sector and re-prompted on any new scope or claim, and the consent screen shows only what ZOREAL verified about the relying party. ZOREAL, as the OpenID Provider, sees every login: which holder, which relying party, when.Not stated on the pages we read (the homepage, the solutions page, the investor centre, the newsroom and the Form 10-K).
Certifications statedOrganization-level, as zoreal.com lists them for Bynn Intelligence, Inc.: SOC 2 (attestation), PCI DSS (SAQ A), GDPR (data protection), ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (information security certification) and CSA STAR Level One (cloud security self-assessment). No Identify-specific certification or scheme recognition is stated on zoreal.com as of September 2026.Not stated on the pages we read (homepage, solutions page and the Form 10-K sections read).

Third-party details on this page reflect what each provider publicly stated on the review date shown above and may have changed since. Where a provider does not state something publicly, this page says so rather than assuming. Statements about what Intellicheck offers reflect its public materials on the review date; absence of a feature from those materials does not mean it is unavailable. ZOREAL's current prices are on the ZOREAL price list.

Where ZOREAL Identify and Intellicheck agree

Both verify a government document against what its issuer encoded rather than against how it looks. Intellicheck analyses the bar code’s encoded format against the issuing jurisdiction’s known format; ZOREAL verifies the chip’s Security Object against the issuing country’s certificates from the ICAO master list. Neither relies on an optical impression of the card alone.

Both publish a public entity and a physical address, and both are plain about what they do not state. Intellicheck’s Form 10-K names the corporation, its Melville address and its 38 full-time employees; ZOREAL names Bynn Intelligence, Inc. and lists its organisation-level standards. Neither publishes a price on its pages beyond a plan structure, in Intellicheck’s case a subscription model in the 10-K, in ZOREAL’s case the amounts on its pricing page.

And the documents they cover are different, which is why a North American business might use both. A US or Canadian driver’s licence has no chip, so Intellicheck validates it and ZOREAL does not cover it in the materials reviewed; a chip passport or national ID card is what ZOREAL enrols. A business that validates licences at the counter with Intellicheck can put "Continue with ZOREAL" on its website for account logins by anyone who holds a chip document.

ZOREAL Identify may fit you if

  • You want the person verified, not just the card: a live face matched to the chip portrait, a hardware-bound key and presence stated in each login’s token
  • You want one enrolment reused at every relying party, with a pairwise identifier per sector and no personal data in the ID token by default
  • You want the pricing structure published before the sales call: free to enrol, free tier a logins; only tier b logins charged
  • Your users hold chip passports or national ID cards and you want a standard OpenID Connect sign-in your existing library validates

Intellicheck may fit you if

  • Your customers present US or Canadian driver’s licences or ID cards, including chipless cards, in person or online
  • You want to validate IDs with scanners you already own in branches or stores
  • You want a Nasdaq-listed supplier with audited financials and a stated 38-person team
  • You need coverage the company states as all 50 states, DC, US territories, the US military and 13 Canadian provinces and territories

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This comparison is based on publicly available information from Intellicheck’s official website, documentation, pricing and published materials, and on ZOREAL’s own published product pages and pricing, as reviewed on 10 September 2026. Features, pricing and availability may change at any time. Verify current details directly with each provider before deciding.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. Which electronic signature method satisfies which law, what level of identity assurance a regulation requires, and whether a content signature or provenance mark meets a given standard all depend on the jurisdiction and the regulator’s guidance. ZOREAL Sign asserts no legal effect for the signatures it records. Confirm your obligations with qualified counsel before choosing a method.

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ZOREAL is operated by Bynn Intelligence, Inc. and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Intellicheck. Third-party names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used only to identify the products being compared.

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