Entrust Review
6.4/10The identity-verification product formerly sold as Onfido, now folded into Entrust after the April 2024 acquisition: a UK DIATF certification at high-confidence profile H1A (NQA-issued, Right to Work and DBS), the Atlas AI document engine, Quandt-family ownership, and an April 2025 gaming operator's guide.
Our read
- UK certification: DIATF at high-confidence profile H1A.
- Private ownership: Entrust is held by the Quandt family office with a long acquisition record, and IDV became a sharpened focus after the 2025 sale of the public TLS-certificate business to Sectigo.
- A mature IDV engine carried over from Onfido: Atlas AI document classification (2,500+ types and 195 countries in milliseconds), no-code Workflow Studio orchestration, and a January 2026 SDK refresh.
- Gaming material and analyst coverage: a gaming operator's guide to identity verification published in April 2025, plus a Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity Verification placement in 2025 as Entrust.
- No gambling operator carried over from the Onfido era, and the clients that remain (Job&Talent, Access Group, Amiqus, Salesforce Financial Services Cloud) are all non-gaming.
- A brand and SDK transition still in motion through 2026: the Onfido-to-Entrust rename, the Smart Capture SDK deprecation path, a Flutter SDK still pending, and documentation split across two domains.
- No US state gaming registration.
- Pricing is on request.
Enterprise and multi-jurisdiction operators that want a UK DIATF high-confidence certification, a mature document and biometric engine with deepfake detection, and no-code orchestration.
Buyers who want operator references or published pricing, and teams that cannot absorb integration churn during the 2026 brand and SDK transition.
Markets & licensing
Entrust's certifications are strong on the UK side and thin everywhere else. At the center is a DIATF certification at high-confidence profile H1A, covering Right to Work and DBS Enhanced. On top of that sits an ETSI TS 119 461 identity-proofing certification and an Entrust Remote IDV Practice Statement and Security Policy. On the US side there is no state gaming registration, and SOC 2 and ISO 27001 sit at the corporate level.
Entrust sells IDV into the US from a Minnesota corporate base. There is no US state gaming vendor registration.
The UK is the strong leg by a wide margin. The DIATF certification covers Right to Work and DBS Enhanced, and ETSI TS 119 461 identity proofing sits alongside it.
- UK DIATF certification (high-confidence H1A)United Kingdom
- Certified against the DIATF Beta framework at high-confidence profile H1A, with M1A also in scope, for Right to Work and DBS Enhanced, issued by NQA, a UKAS-accredited certification body · Originally certified Oct 2022
- ETSI TS 119 461 identity proofingEU standard
- Added Jun 2023
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001Infosec attestation
- Corporate-level security certifications
The one market entry is the UK DIATF certification, with coverage elsewhere a 195-country footprint.
Platform & capabilities
Everything the product does out of the box. If a feature isn't listed, the vendor either doesn't offer it or doesn't say.
Integrations & engineering
One contract and one API instead of a separate deal per studio, feed, or PSP. Here's what connects, how fast, and on what stack.
Entrust ships as a versioned API (v3.6) plus web and mobile SDKs that operators wire into their own onboarding flow, with document, biometric, database, age, and AML checks reachable through one integration. The no-code IDV Workflow Studio lets a compliance team combine those checks and passive fraud signals per journey without engineering work.
Products & tools
The former Onfido engine, now Entrust Identity Verification: Atlas AI classifies documents in milliseconds across 2,500+ types and 195 countries, paired with biometric liveness, database and age checks, AML workflows, and the no-code IDV Workflow Studio, delivered through a fresh set of 2026 mobile SDKs.
Entrust Identity Verification
The renamed Onfido IDV stack: document verification, biometric selfie plus liveness, database and eID checks, age verification, and AML screening on one platform, with Atlas AI reading documents in milliseconds.
- Document verification across 2,500+ types and 195 countries
- Atlas AI document classification and fraud detection, the bespoke engine carried over from Onfido
- Biometric selfie with liveness, database and eID verification, and age checks by database or document
- Deepfake and synthetic-identity detection
- AML and sanctions screening reachable in the same verification flow
IDV Workflow Studio
The renamed Onfido Studio: a no-code canvas that combines IDV checks, trusted data sources, and passive fraud signals into an onboarding flow without engineering work, aimed at operators tuning verification steps per risk level.
- No-code orchestration of document, biometric, database, and AML checks in one journey
- Passive fraud signals and trusted data sources wired into the same flow
- Carried over and renamed from Onfido Studio, the pre-acquisition orchestration product
- Sits alongside Atlas AI rather than replacing it
Entrust IDV SDKs
The replacement for Onfido's Smart Capture SDKs: native iOS, Android, and React Native SDKs whose major version shipped in January 2026, with a Flutter SDK expected later in the year, sitting over the v3.6 verification API.
- Native iOS, Android, and React Native SDKs, major version released January 2026
- Flutter SDK expected later in 2026
- Replace the deprecated Onfido Smart Capture SDKs on a migration path
- Sit over the versioned verification API (v3.6)
- Documentation split across the new entrust.com identity domain and the legacy Onfido doc host
The history
Longevity in this industry usually comes with a change of owner somewhere in it.
The product traces to Onfido, founded in London in 2012 as an AI-based identity-verification startup that grew to 1,200-plus customers across financial services, e-commerce, gaming, and the sharing economy. Its modern chapter starts with Entrust: exclusive discussions were announced on February 6, 2024, and the acquisition completed on April 9, 2024, at roughly $650M. Entrust Corporation itself is privately held by the Quandt family office, which bought Datacard in 1987, took over Entrust in 2013, and rebranded the combined company Entrust in 2020. Entrust then sold its public TLS-certificate business to Sectigo, announced January 29, 2025 and completed September 18, 2025, a move that sharpened the company onto identity and quantum-ready cryptography.
Brands & clients on the platform
Corporate
- Onfido (2024)
- nCipher
- WorldReach
Leadership
Milestones
- 2012
Onfido is founded in London as an AI-based identity-verification startup, later serving 1,200-plus customers across financial services, e-commerce, gaming, and the sharing economy.
- 2022
Onfido is originally certified against the UK DIATF at high-confidence profile H1A (October).
- 2023
Onfido adds an ETSI TS 119 461 identity-proofing certification (June).
- 2024
Entrust announces exclusive discussions to buy Onfido (Feb 6) and completes the acquisition (Apr 9, roughly $650M).
- 2025
Entrust publishes a gaming operator's guide to identity verification (April), and sells its public certificate business to Sectigo (announced Jan 29, completed Sep 18), sharpening onto identity and quantum-ready crypto.
- 2026
The Onfido-to-Entrust rebrand is complete, the new Entrust IDV mobile SDKs ship a major version (January), and a Flutter SDK is expected later in the year.
Where they're pushing next
- UK and EU regulated onboarding, carried by the DIATF high-confidence and ETSI certifications
- Gaming, pitched via the April 2025 operator's guide
- Enterprise identity-centric security, the Quandt-family focus after the Sectigo divestiture
Awards & recognition
Longevity and ownership
Switching vendors is expensive, which makes the company's staying power part of the purchase. What the contract says about your data decides how expensive an exit gets.
Entrust vs alternatives
Most buyers in this market shortlist three or four vendors long before they take a single sales call.
Pricing & terms
Entrust quotes pricing per project. Here's how the model and the terms are structured.
Turnkey
Path to launch
- 1Contact Entrust IDV sales
- 2Scope your verification mix
- 3Run the compliance and security review
- 4Design the onboarding journey in the no-code IDV Workflow Studio, combining checks and passive fraud signals per risk level
- 5Integrate the v3.6 API and the current Entrust IDV mobile SDKs
- 6Go live market by market
Support & account management
You can't demo service before you sign, so what a vendor puts in writing is the only floor you can hold it to.