ZOREAL Identify

Alternatives to Socure

Socure’s Predictive DocV verifies a document image with fraud models and binds a selfie with liveness, and its RiskOS platform combines that with data-source KYC, watchlist, phone, device and fraud scores to return a decision to the customer, self-serve per evaluation or under an enterprise contract. ZOREAL Identify is a "Continue with ZOREAL" sign-in on standard OpenID Connect, backed by a credential the person holds in the ZOREAL ID app after a document chip read, a face match and a liveness capture. This page sets the two side by side on mechanism, who holds the result afterwards, what each costs and how data is handled.

Information last reviewed 10 September 2026. Compared: Socure Predictive DocV, with Socure Verify and the phone checks as adjacent inputs, against ZOREAL Identify. Socure’s Sigma fraud models, Global Watchlist Screening, Account Intelligence, Digital Intelligence and the Fravity agentic operations platform are out of scope.

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Where ZOREAL Identify and Socure 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.
What is read from the document
Socure’s Predictive DocV page describes "patented fake ID detection and fraud models", detection of "selfie-to-headshot mismatches, screen captures, and age discrepancies" and of "presentation and API-layer injection attacks"; barcode, MRZ and NFC chip reading are not stated in the public materials we reviewed. ZOREAL ID enrolment reads the document’s chip over NFC, re-runs passive authentication on the server against a trust store built from the ICAO Public Key Directory so the issuing country’s signature over the data is checked, has the chip prove possession of its private key, and face-matches a liveness capture against the chip portrait.
What a verification costs
Socure Launch lists "Document Verification (DocV)" at "$0.80 per evaluation", bundles at $0.90, $1.00 and $1.30, and "$1,000 in free monthly credits", with "$" displayed and currency, geography and the meaning of "evaluation" not stated; Enterprise is usage-based with volume discounts. ZOREAL: Free to enrol; Tier A logins free and unlimited on every plan and never charged; only a Tier B login, where identity disclosure is requested, is charged on Premium. Current prices are on the ZOREAL price list at zoreal.com/pricing.
Authorisations and certifications on file
Socure’s trust center lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO/IEC 27018:2025, ISO/IEC 27701:2025, SOC 2 Type 2, FedRAMP Moderate, GovRAMP and TX-RAMP Level 2, and its DocV page describes liveness as "NIST PAD Level 2" without naming the testing lab. Organization-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.

Side by side

Comparison of ZOREAL Identify and Socure Predictive DocV, based on public materials reviewed on 10 September 2026.

Attribute	ZOREAL Identify	Socure
How the identity is bound	Enrolment, 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.	Predictive DocV: "Block sophisticated attacks with patented fake ID detection and fraud models"; "Detect selfie-to-headshot mismatches, screen captures, and age discrepancies"; "NIST PAD Level 2 liveness detection defeats 3D masks, dolls, and deepfakes" (vendor wording; the testing lab is not named on the page); "Detect and prevent presentation and API-layer injection attacks". Socure Verify and the RiskScores match and score against data sources, devices and phone signals (Predictive DocV page; products overview, September 2026). Barcode, MRZ and NFC chip reading are not stated in the public materials we reviewed (pages read: Predictive DocV page, products overview).
What the relying party receives	Two 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 decision returned to the customer through RiskOS, "Socure's orchestration and decisioning platform", combining DocV with KYC, watchlist, phone, device and fraud scores. A reusable identity or login product is not stated in the public materials we reviewed (pages read: products overview, company page).
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.	Socure states a "0.92 Second response time for 95% of transactions" and a "98.22% true accept rate" for Predictive DocV, with period and population not stated, and describes its liveness as "NIST PAD Level 2" without naming the lab; iBeta and ISO/IEC 30107-3 are not named on the pages we read (Predictive DocV page; trust center).
Who issues the credential	ZOREAL 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.	No credential is issued to the person: the decision belongs to the customer, and for identities verified on behalf of customers Socure acts "as a Processor" while processing derived insights and network risk intelligence as a controller. A reusable identity or login product is not stated (Global Privacy Policy; products overview).
Cost to enrol	Enrolment 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.	Per evaluation, paid by the customer: Socure Launch lists "Document Verification (DocV)" at "$0.80 per evaluation", "Document Verification (DocV) + Watchlist" at "$0.90 per evaluation", "KYC + Fraud + Watchlist, DocV Step up" at "$1.00 per evaluation" and "Prefill, KYC + Fraud + Watchlist, DocV Step up" at "$1.30 per evaluation" ("$" as displayed; currency and geography not stated; socure.com/pricing, September 2026), with "$1,000 in free monthly credits" and additional evaluations billed at the solution-level rate; "evaluation" is not defined on the page and no minimum, term or trial period is stated. Enterprise: "Usage-based pricing with volume discounts".
Cost per sign-in	Enrolment 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.	Every further check is an evaluation at the listed rate once the monthly credits are used; whether the credits are a permanent free tier or an introductory allowance is not stated (socure.com/pricing).
Integration	Standard 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.	API and the Launch dashboard, which sells per evaluation. SDK platforms (web, iOS, Android) and a hosted flow could not be read: developer.socure.com redirects to a dashboard login (attempted 10 September 2026).
Data handling	The 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.	Global Privacy Policy (effective 19 June 2026): processor for identities verified on behalf of customers, controller for derived insights and network or graph-based risk intelligence; biometric information ("facial landmarks" and "facial embeddings" derived from the document photo and selfie) retained "No more than 3 years from your last interaction with Socure"; several identity verification data categories "No more than 7 years from collection".
Certifications and evaluations	Organization-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.	Trust center: "ISO/IEC 27001:2022", "ISO/IEC 27017:2015", "ISO/IEC 27018:2025", "ISO/IEC 27701:2025", "SOC 2 Type 2", "FedRAMP Moderate", "GovRAMP", "TX-RAMP Level 2". Liveness: "NIST PAD Level 2" on the DocV page; iBeta and ISO/IEC 30107-3 are not named on the pages 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 Socure 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 Socure agree

Both start from the same evidence: a government identity document and a live face. Socure’s Predictive DocV runs fake ID detection and fraud models on the document image, checks the selfie against the document headshot, and tests liveness with injection-attack detection. ZOREAL ID enrolment photographs the document, reads its machine-readable zone, reads the chip over NFC, checks the issuing country’s signature over the chip data on ZOREAL’s side, and face-matches a liveness capture against the chip portrait. The bar is the same one: a real document and a real person, bound together.

Both publish their pricing and a ceiling on biometric retention. Socure lists its Launch prices per evaluation with the monthly credits beside them, and its privacy policy caps biometric information at three years from the last interaction. ZOREAL lists enrolment as free, every Tier A login as free without limit, and a charge only on a Tier B login where identity disclosure is requested, and its ID token carries no personal data at all. A buyer can price either without a call.

Where they differ is what happens after the check. Socure’s decision goes to the customer through RiskOS, alongside KYC, watchlist and fraud scores the customer also pays per evaluation. ZOREAL issues the credential to the person, who reuses it as a sign-in at every relying party with a different pairwise identifier at each sector; the person pays nothing and the relying party pays nothing for a Tier A login. A U.S. relying party that needs bureau-style KYC and fraud scoring can run Socure at onboarding and ZOREAL Identify at sign-in.

ZOREAL Identify may fit you if

You want a sign-in rather than a check: a "Continue with ZOREAL" button on standard OpenID Connect that returns a pairwise pseudonymous identifier for a human verified against a government document chip
You want the document’s chip read and its authenticity verified at enrolment, not only the printed image checked
You want returning sign-ins at no per-event charge: every Tier A login is free without limit, and a charge applies only to a Tier B login where you request identity disclosure
You want the person, not your database, to hold the credential, and to reuse it at every service without being linkable across them

Socure may fit you if

You need U.S. KYC, watchlist and fraud scoring alongside document verification in one decision; ZOREAL Identify is not KYC
You need a vendor with FedRAMP Moderate, GovRAMP or TX-RAMP Level 2 authorisation on file
You want a self-serve per-evaluation price with $1,000 in monthly credits and no stated minimum
You must verify people who will not install an app: document and selfie capture inside your own flow

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Common questions

For letting people sign in as a verified human, yes; for KYC, watchlist and fraud decisions, no. Socure’s Predictive DocV verifies a document and selfie with liveness, and RiskOS combines it with data-source KYC, phone, device and fraud scores into a decision for the customer. ZOREAL Identify is a sign-in on standard OpenID Connect backed by a credential the person holds after a document chip read, a face match and a liveness capture. A business that needs both can run Socure at onboarding and ZOREAL Identify at sign-in.

Socure Launch lists Document Verification (DocV) at $0.80 per evaluation, bundles with watchlist, KYC and fraud at $0.90, $1.00 and $1.30 per evaluation, and $1,000 in free monthly credits, with currency and the meaning of an evaluation not stated on the page; Enterprise is usage-based (September 2026). ZOREAL Identify: Free to enrol; Tier A logins free and unlimited on every plan and never charged; only a Tier B login, where identity disclosure is requested, is charged on Premium. Current prices are on the ZOREAL price list at zoreal.com/pricing.

Socure proves that a document image passed its fake ID detection and fraud models, that the selfie matched the headshot and was live, with liveness the vendor describes as NIST PAD Level 2, and, in a bundle, that the applicant’s data matched its sources and scored below its fraud thresholds. ZOREAL Identify proves that one human, not one account or one device, is signing in, that a government document chip was read and its authenticity verified at the month given, and how this session was authenticated. 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.

No. ZOREAL’s product facts state: "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." ZOREAL’s positioning statement reads: 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. Both sentences appear on this page as ZOREAL publishes them. Socure sells KYC against data sources, watchlist screening and fraud scoring as its core products; a business with a KYC obligation should confirm what satisfies it with counsel.

NFC chip reading, barcode reading and MRZ reading are not stated in the Socure materials we reviewed; the Predictive DocV page describes fake ID detection and fraud models on the document, selfie-to-headshot matching, liveness and injection-attack detection. ZOREAL ID enrolment reads the chip over NFC and verifies the issuing country’s signature over its data on ZOREAL’s side, and the ID token states that a chip was read and verified at the month given.

How we compared

This comparison is based on publicly available information from Socure’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.

Sources

Socure pricing (Socure Launch per-evaluation prices, credits, Enterprise) Read 2026-09-10
Socure Predictive DocV product page (mechanism, liveness wording, figures) Read 2026-09-10
Socure products overview (RiskOS, product list) Read 2026-09-10
Socure company page (customers, mission) Read 2026-09-10
Socure Trust Center (certifications and authorisations) Read 2026-09-10
Socure Global Privacy Policy, effective 19 June 2026 (roles, retention) Read 2026-09-10
Socure growth investment and Fravity release (27 August 2026) Read 2026-09-10
Socure developer portal (redirects to a dashboard login) Read 2026-09-10
ZOREAL pricing (our own published claims) Read 2026-09-11
ZOREAL Identify product page Read 2026-09-11

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