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 "id": "compliancely",
 "name": "Compliancely",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "compliancely.com",
 "category": "Financial Operations",
 "task": "Tax & compliance",
 "summary": "Compliance and verification API for US businesses and individuals: real-time and bulk IRS TIN matching, KYB business verification, USPS address and Secretary of State lookups, Form I-9 and E-Verify, consent-based IRS tax transcript retrieval, and ongoing OFAC, watchlist and FATCA monitoring. Built by Zenwork, the company behind Tax1099.",
 "best_for": "finance, tax and HR teams with a steady monthly volume of US identity and business checks, who would rather buy TIN matching, KYB, I-9 and sanctions screening behind one API than integrate three separate vendors. It suits those willing to run a sales conversation to price the modules beyond TIN matching",
 "skip_if": "you need a handful of one-off verifications a year. The cheapest plan still bills a monthly allowance whether you use it or not, and the per-match rate is at its worst down there. Also skip it if you need the full cost of a compliance stack on paper before you talk to a salesperson, since only the TIN-match tiers are published",
 "honest_knock": "The pricing page prices one product and the marketing sells about a dozen. Every tier you can actually buy online is an allowance of TIN verifications. The moment you want the things the homepage leads with — KYB business verification, credit-risk assessment, address verification, Form I-9 and E-Verify, IRS tax transcripts, OFAC and watchlist monitoring — the button changes from Get Started to Contact Sales. So the compliance stack this tool is pitched as has no advertised cost, and the number you can see is the smallest part of it. The second thing to read carefully is that the tiers are allowances rather than rates. You commit to a monthly verification count up front, and the per-match price moves against the smallest buyers. It is $0.79 a check on the cheapest month-to-month plan versus $0.54 on the largest annual one — a 46% spread that falls the wrong way for anyone testing the product at low volume. If your usage is lumpy — a filing-season spike and eleven quiet months — an allowance you buy every month is the wrong shape, and the Prepaid toggle is the shape to check first: it sells yearly packs from 50 verifications for $43.95 to 3,000 for $1,799.95 (read 12 October 2026), although on the small packs the price per match is higher than on the monthly subscriptions.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$16.95",
  "entry_price_terms": "per month billed yearly ($19.95 monthly)",
  "from_price_usd_month": 16.95,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Essential 25",
    "price": "$16.95/mo (billed annually)",
    "includes": "25 monthly TIN verifications, $0.67 per match"
   },
   {
    "name": "Essential 50",
    "price": "$32.54/mo (billed annually)",
    "includes": "50 monthly TIN verifications, $0.65 per match"
   },
   {
    "name": "Essential 75",
    "price": "$45.79/mo (billed annually)",
    "includes": "75 monthly TIN verifications, $0.61 per match"
   },
   {
    "name": "Plus 100",
    "price": "$57.99/mo (billed annually)",
    "includes": "100 monthly TIN verifications, $0.57 per match"
   },
   {
    "name": "Plus 250",
    "price": "$135.04/mo (billed annually)",
    "includes": "250 monthly TIN verifications, $0.54 per match"
   },
   {
    "name": "Enterprise",
    "price": "quote-only",
    "includes": ""
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(2026-07-29, re-verified 2026-08-05, read in a live browser session on their own pricing page, both billing toggles) The published price list covers one product only: TIN-match volume. Billed annually, Essential 25 is $16.95/mo for 25 monthly TIN verifications ($0.67 per match), Essential 50 $32.54/mo ($0.65), Essential 75 $45.79/mo ($0.61), Plus 100 $57.99/mo ($0.57) and Plus 250 $135.04/mo ($0.54). Switch the toggle to monthly billing and the same five tiers read $19.95, $38.49, $53.95, $67.95 and $159.95 per month, at $0.79 down to $0.63 per match. The page advertises 15% off for annual billing, and the real gap holds at roughly 15% on every tier. Enterprise is quote-only. Everything else Compliancely sells carries no public price at all: the business verification and credit-risk report packages, address verification, Form I-9, IRS tax transcripts and income verification each end in Contact Sales or Book a Demo rather than a number. Compliancely's partner team told us on 5 August 2026 that the published tiers are meant for buyers up to roughly 3,000 checks and that anything above that moves to a custom quote — that threshold is theirs, not a number the pricing page states. They confirmed on 11 August 2026 that buyers over that line are sent to their demo-request form at compliancely.com/demo-request, where the quote is written by hand; there is no published rate card for that range at all. Re-verified 12 October 2026 on compliancely.com/pricing: the annual and monthly ladders are unchanged to the cent, and the third toggle, Prepaid, now prints yearly packs: Essential 50 at $43.95 a year ($0.87 a match as printed), Essential 75 $64.95 ($0.86), Essential 100 $93.95 ($0.94), Plus 250 $224.95 ($0.90), Plus 500 $369.95 ($0.74), Plus 1000 $689.95 ($0.69), Plus 2500 $1,489.95 ($0.59) and Plus 3000 $1,799.95, which the page prints as $0.58 a match although $1,799.95 over 3,000 checks is $0.60. Enterprise stays Talk to Sales.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-12",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "The page advertises 15% off for annual billing, and the real gap holds at roughly 15% on every tier.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-12",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Checkr or Tax1099",
  "why": "the honest head-to-head is Checkr, which owns one slice of what Compliancely does — employment and identity screening — and owns it with the more mature product and public self-serve pricing. If background checks are the job, Checkr wins; Compliancely is the broader bet when IRS TIN matching and KYB sit at the centre of the workflow rather than hiring. Tax1099 belongs in the conversation for an odder reason: it is family. Zenwork, Inc. is named in Compliancely's own footer and builds Tax1099 too, so the filing product and the verification product come out of one house — complements rather than rivals, and worth raising as an integration question before you price either. Verify both current price lists yourself; ours were read on 2026-07-29."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/compliancely.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/compliancely-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/compliancely/",
  "vendor_site": "https://compliancely.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://get.compliancely.com/nu7sf4gds5ba",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "compliancely:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "compliancely:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "compliancely:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "compliancely:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}