# SightRadar

> Face recognition API, Rekognition-compatible, pay per photo

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url: "https://earlyhunt.com/project/sightradar"
markdown: "https://earlyhunt.com/project/sightradar.md"
type: project
name: SightRadar
slug: sightradar
website: "https://sightradar.com/"
launch_status: scheduled
launch_type: free
pricing: Freemium
upvotes: 0
categories:
  - Developer Tools
  - "APIs & Integrations"
  - Artificial Intelligence
launch_start: "2028-01-31T08:00:00.000Z"
launch_end: "2028-02-07T07:59:59.999Z"
updated: "2026-10-13T07:43:31.647Z"
maker: Hitesh Sisara
maker_url: "https://earlyhunt.com/founder/sightradar-connect"
---

## About SightRadar

## What is SightRadar?

SightRadar is a high-accuracy face recognition API built as a drop-in replacement for AWS Rekognition. It uses the same request and response shapes (CreateCollection, IndexFaces, SearchFacesByImage, CompareFaces, DetectFaces), so you migrate by changing the endpoint URL. Point the AWS SDK (boto3 and others) at SightRadar's endpoint and your existing code keeps working.

It is built for teams that need face search, verification and detection at scale, without AWS Rekognition's pricing. Find a person across thousands of photos from one selfie, run 1:1 verification with your own similarity threshold, or detect faces with confidence scores.

## Key features

- Drop-in AWS Rekognition replacement: same API shapes, change only the endpoint
- Face search across collections from a single selfie (event photos, media libraries, photo delivery)
- 1:1 face verification with configurable similarity thresholds
- Face detection with confidence scores you can threshold on
- Photos with no faces return valid empty results, not errors
- Per-photo billing, never per face, with no subscription or minimums
- Privacy by design: GDPR-ready with a Data Processing Agreement, face vectors isolated and encrypted per account, never used for model training
- SDKs for JavaScript (npm) and Python (PyPI), plus a Rekognition shim for Python

## Who it is for

- Event and wedding photographers delivering each guest's photos from one selfie
- Apps adding selfie-based identity verification (KYC, onboarding)
- Media libraries and DAMs tagging and searching people across archives
- Teams on AWS Rekognition cutting their face-API bill without rewriting code

## Pricing

Free to start with trial credits, no credit card required. After that, SightRadar runs on pay-as-you-go prepaid credits, with no subscription, no auto-renewal and no minimums.

- Batch indexing: $0.00062 per photo
- Real-time: $0.00093 per photo
- Search by face ID: $0.00062; face storage: $6 per million faces per month

## Migrating from Rekognition

Because the API mirrors Rekognition's operations and response shapes, migrating is mostly a matter of changing the endpoint URL in your AWS SDK client. A migration guide, API docs and an interactive playground are available on the SightRadar website.

## Responsible use

SightRadar is designed for consented use cases: photo delivery to guests, identity verification and search within your own photo collections.

## Overview

### What is it?

Face recognition API, Rekognition-compatible, pay per photo

### Categories

- Developer Tools
- APIs & Integrations
- Artificial Intelligence

### How is it priced?

Freemium

### Launch on EarlyHunt

- Status: scheduled
- Launch tier: free
- Upvotes: 0

## Screenshots / media

- Logo: https://txmhk1zrnc.ufs.sh/f/xSkWTCqmKWx99OB4ahSYksFrxbCcIQZtwhXo1HyLjU3f6O7m
- Screenshot 1: https://txmhk1zrnc.ufs.sh/f/xSkWTCqmKWx9Mb7cyQfw0IQSs3YPpBURmCGa5fnq94vekFJH

## Links

- Listing (HTML): https://earlyhunt.com/project/sightradar
- AI-friendly Markdown: https://earlyhunt.com/project/sightradar.md
- Website: https://sightradar.com/
- Maker profile: https://earlyhunt.com/founder/sightradar-connect
- Maker Markdown: https://earlyhunt.com/founder/sightradar-connect.md

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