Compliancely Review (2026)
The pricing page prices one product and the marketing sells about a dozen.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 5 Aug 2026
(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. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
What the pricing page doesn’t say
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 option the page offers as a third toggle is worth asking about before you subscribe.
What Compliancely does
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.
What buyers report about Compliancely
Recurring themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run Compliancely ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.
- • IRS TIN matching returns in seconds, and reviewers say that combination of speed and accuracy is rare. Checks run against OFAC, FATCA, secretary of state records and the Death Master File across 40+ countries.
- • Direct-source checks rather than a cached database, so reviewers trust they are not working from stale data. Support is described as proactive.
- • Audit trails and structured output that let you build a repeatable mismatch-resolution workflow.
- • The advanced functions take time to learn, particularly for anyone not working in compliance daily, and configuring workflows took reviewers more effort than expected.
- • Reports could be more customisable to fit how a specific organisation works.
- • Country-specific documentation requirements are unclear, which bites hardest for teams operating across several jurisdictions.
When the paid plan is worth it
Only one of the things Compliancely sells has a published price, and knowing which is the whole point. The TIN-match ladder is fully priced: billed annually, Essential 25 is $16.95 a month for 25 verifications ($0.67 each), Essential 50 $32.54 ($0.65), Essential 75 $45.79 ($0.61), Plus 100 $57.99 ($0.57) and Plus 250 $135.04 ($0.54). So the per-match cost falls by about a fifth across the ladder -- worth having, but not enough to buy volume you will not use.
Monthly billing runs the same five tiers at $19.95 to $159.95, or $0.79 down to $0.63 a match; the page advertises 15% off for annual and the real gap holds at roughly 15% on every tier. Everything else has no public price whatsoever: business verification and credit-risk reports, address verification, Form I-9, IRS tax transcripts and income verification all end in Contact Sales or Book a Demo. If your reason for looking at Compliancely is one of those, the published ladder tells you nothing about what it will cost.
One boundary the pricing page does not state, and we had to ask for it. Their partner team told us on 5 August 2026 that the published tiers are meant for buyers up to roughly 3,000 checks. They confirmed on 11 August that anyone above that is sent to a demo-request form where the quote is written by hand. There is no rate card for that range at all, so treat Plus 250 as the top of the self-serve product rather than the top of the product.
How to actually use Compliancely
There are two front doors and they are not equivalent. In the dashboard, bulk TIN matching runs off a pre-defined TIN and name template or a CSV or Excel upload; Compliancely states that results come back in 30 seconds or less and that it can search 100,000+ TINs per minute. That path needs no developer. The API is the other, and its timing matters right now. Authentication is JWT: you sign in once with username and password at /api/v2/token/ for an access token valid one hour and a refresh token valid 24, and the docs advise refreshing 10 to 15 minutes before the hour is up.
Basic Auth was deprecated on 31 May 2026 and V1 auth support runs only to 31 August 2026, so anything built on the old scheme has to move now. TIN match offers an asynchronous submissions endpoint and a hybrid one, an optional webhook URL for results, and a sandbox to test against first.
Distilled from Compliancely's bulk TIN matching page at compliancely.com/bulk-tinmatching and their API documentation at apideveloper.compliancely.com, chiefly the authentication guide and the endpoint index at /llms.txt, read 21 August 2026.
Compliancely vs Checkr, side by side
Both columns come from the same place: each vendor’s own published pricing, read on the date shown in the sources at the foot of this page. We do not average them into a score.
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The natural comparison is Checkr or Tax1099 — 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..
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- Buyer reviews on G2, SourceForge and Slashdot, read August 2026.
- 2026-07-29, re-verified 2026-08-05, read in a live browser session on their own pricing page, both billing toggles.
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