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What is ComplyAdvantage?
ComplyAdvantage provides cloud software and risk data for financial-crime compliance. Its platform supports customer screening, monitoring, transaction monitoring, payment screening, and fraud detection.
ComplyAdvantage is a cloud-based financial-crime compliance platform that screens people, businesses, payments, and transactions against sanctions, watchlists, PEP and RCA records, adverse media, and proprietary risk intelligence. Teams can use its browser platform or API, with real-time, batch, and SFTP integration options. Ongoing monitoring keeps customers and companies under review, while case-management and alert workflows help investigators record decisions and manage follow-up work.
The product covers customer and company screening, sanctions and watchlists, PEPs and relatives or close associates, adverse media, transaction monitoring, payments screening, fraud detection, and agentic workflows. Screening requires human review of matches and false positives. Enterprise capabilities, transaction and payments monitoring, premium support, and larger volumes are separated from the self-service Starter offering, so buyers should confirm scope and implementation requirements.
ComplyAdvantage sells to banks, fintechs, payments companies, crypto businesses, marketplaces, and other regulated organizations managing AML, KYC, sanctions, and fraud risk. The Starter Essentials plan begins at $99 per month with annual billing for up to 100 monitored entities; monthly billing begins at $119. Agentic Starter and Enterprise plans cost more or are quote-based. AWS Marketplace listings provide volume benchmarks, including $65,000 annually for 50,000 screening units.
Key features
Customer screening
Screens individuals and businesses against sanctions, watchlists, PEPs, RCAs, and adverse media.
Ongoing monitoring
Continuously monitors screened customers and companies for newly identified financial-crime risk.
Transaction monitoring
Analyzes transactions with configurable rules, alerts, and investigation workflows.
Payments screening
Screens payment parties, institutions, BIC codes, and reference text against sanctions and PEP data.
Adverse media
Uses adverse-media intelligence to identify negative news relevant to customer and entity risk.
Fraud detection
Provides machine-learning models and an out-of-the-box rules library covering more than 50 payment-fraud scenarios.
API and data delivery
Supports real-time APIs, batch processing, SFTP, and browser access for integration into existing workflows.
ComplyAdvantage pricing
Starter Essentials starts at $99 per month with annual billing for up to 100 monitored entities, while monthly billing for that allowance is $119. Agentic Starter begins at $149 per month with annual billing, and Enterprise is quote-based. AWS Marketplace benchmarks include $30,000 per year for 30,000 payment-screening transactions and $65,000 per year for 50,000 sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media screening units; Vendr reports a $52,900 median annual buyer contract.
| Plan | Price | What's included |
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| Starter Essentials | From $99/mo annuallySelf-service plan for up to 2,000 monitored entities | Customer and company screening, sanctions and watchlists, PEPs and RCAs, adverse media, ongoing monitoring, API access |
| Starter Agentic | From $149/mo annuallyAdds agentic alert-resolution capabilities | Everything in Essentials plus agentic workflows that autonomously resolve approximately 85% of routine alerts |
| Enterprise | CustomQuote-based | Full compliance platform, premium support, unlimited usage, agentic workflows, transaction monitoring, and payments screening |
Free trial: No public free trial is listed; ComplyAdvantage offers a free ComplyLaunch program for eligible early-stage startups.
Pros & cons
Pros
- Combines sanctions, PEP, adverse-media, customer, company, payment, and transaction screening in one platform.
- Offers self-service Starter pricing alongside enterprise-scale APIs, monitoring, and workflow capabilities.
- Supports real-time API, batch, SFTP, and browser-based deployment patterns.
- Its data platform includes fraud scenarios, machine-learning models, and continuously refreshed sanctions intelligence.
Cons
- Enterprise pricing, implementation scope, and higher-volume terms require a sales conversation.
- Match review and false-positive handling still require investigators rather than fully automated decisions.
- The broad feature set separates important transaction, payments, and agentic capabilities into higher tiers.
- AWS Marketplace benchmarks show that larger screening commitments can reach tens of thousands of dollars annually.
Who is ComplyAdvantage best for?
- Banks and fintechs screening customers and companies against global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media data.
- Payments businesses needing transaction or payment screening with volume-based deployment options.
- Crypto and digital-asset companies building AML and ongoing-monitoring workflows through APIs.
- Regulated operations teams that want self-service screening first and enterprise monitoring as volumes grow.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does ComplyAdvantage cost?
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Starter Essentials begins at $99 per month with annual billing for up to 100 monitored entities, or $119 with monthly billing. Agentic Starter begins at $149 per month annually, while Enterprise is quote-based; AWS listings show larger annual commitments such as $65,000 for 50,000 screening units.
How does ComplyAdvantage work and how long does implementation take?
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Teams screen or monitor people and companies through the web platform, API, batch processing, or SFTP, then investigate alerts in workflow tools. The Starter plan says access is granted within 24 hours on business days after payment; enterprise implementation timing is not published.
What does ComplyAdvantage focus on?
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ComplyAdvantage centers on financial-crime risk intelligence, sanctions, PEPs, adverse media, and transaction or payments screening. Its platform supports screening, monitoring, alert workflows, and risk-data delivery for regulated organizations.
What integrations does ComplyAdvantage support?
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The platform supports REST APIs, real-time and batch processing, SFTP, and browser access. It is also available through AWS Marketplace, and buyers should confirm any additional workflow or identity-provider connectors during procurement.
Who is ComplyAdvantage for?
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It is designed for banks, fintechs, payments firms, crypto companies, marketplaces, and other regulated organizations. Typical users include AML operations, KYC, sanctions, fraud, onboarding, and financial-crime investigation teams.
Is ComplyAdvantage secure and accurate enough for compliance work?
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ComplyAdvantage states that its platform is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, with encryption in transit and at rest and configurable role-based permissions. Screening data refreshes frequently, but matches and alerts still need human investigation because false positives and data-quality issues can occur.
Sources
Facts and pricing verified on October 19, 2026. Vendors change pricing often, so confirm with ComplyAdvantage before buying. How we research
- ComplyAdvantage pricing
- ComplyAdvantage Starter Plan pricing
- ComplyAdvantage Mesh security and platform
- ComplyAdvantage security and privacy
- ComplyAdvantage acquisition of Golden
- G2 ComplyAdvantage reviews
- AWS Marketplace customer screening
- AWS Marketplace payment screening
- Vendr ComplyAdvantage pricing benchmark
