16 September 2026 · Trust & Safety APIs · 6 min read
Texas's App Store Accountability Act took effect January 1, 2026. Utah and Louisiana run near-identical laws, the Supreme Court let Texas keep enforcing its version through 2026, and Australia's under-16 social-media ban has been live since December 10, 2025. None of it was a line item on anyone's infrastructure budget two years ago. Now every signup flow that touches a minor needs an age check, and the three vendors people actually reach for — Didit, ID Analyzer and Stripe Identity — bill that check in three completely different shapes. I ran three real signup volumes through today's live pricing pages to see where each one wins.
Didit is pure pay-as-you-go: its Age Estimation module (a live selfie plus liveness check, no ID document needed) is $0.10 per check, no monthly minimum, no plan to commit to. Analizador de ID bundles document-based age extraction — OCR the date of birth off a government ID, cross-check it against a face match — into monthly subscription plans: Entry at $89/month for 1,000 included checks ($0.12/check overage), Advanced at $350/month for 5,000 checks ($0.10 overage), Business at $880/month for 15,000 checks ($0.08 overage). Identidad de Stripe charges a flat $1.50 per check, full stop, at every volume — no free tier, no discount ladder. Rates verified live against each vendor's official pricing page, checked 2026-09-16.
A small app past the Utah/Texas signup-count threshold that needs to age-gate every new account.
| Proveedor | Forma de facturación | Costo |
|---|---|---|
| Didit | 2,000 checks × $0.10, no minimum | $200.00/mo |
| Analizador de ID | Entry plan: $89 + 1,000 over-included × $0.12 | $209.00/mo |
| Identidad de Stripe | 2,000 checks × $1.50 flat | $3,000.00/mo |
Didit and ID Analyzer's Entry plan land within $9 of each other — at this volume the no-minimum PAYG rate and the smallest subscription tier are nearly a wash. Stripe Identity is already 14-15x more expensive than either, purely because its per-check rate is 15x Didit's with nothing to offset it.
A growth-stage app with real monthly signup volume, still choosing between vendors rather than negotiating a custom contract.
| Proveedor | Forma de facturación | Costo |
|---|---|---|
| Didit | 50,000 checks × $0.10, no minimum | $5,000.00/mo |
| Analizador de ID | Business plan: $880 + 35,000 over-included × $0.08 | $3,680.00/mo |
| Identidad de Stripe | 50,000 checks × $1.50 flat | $75,000.00/mo |
The ranking flips. ID Analyzer's Business tier — a lower per-check overage rate stacked on top of 15,000 already-included checks — pulls ahead of Didit's flat rate by over $1,300/month once volume is high enough to make good use of that included quota. Stripe Identity's bill scales linearly with no relief at all; at this volume it's not a rounding error anymore, it's real money left on the table for no functional benefit.
A platform-scale signup flow, the kind that actually draws regulator attention under these new laws.
| Proveedor | Forma de facturación | Costo |
|---|---|---|
| Didit | 500,000 checks × $0.10, no minimum | $50,000.00/mo |
| Analizador de ID | Business plan: $880 + 485,000 over-included × $0.08 | $39,680.00/mo |
| Identidad de Stripe | 500,000 checks × $1.50 flat | $750,000.00/mo |
ID Analyzer's lead widens to over $10,000/month against Didit, purely because its published Business-tier overage rate (8 cents) undercuts Didit's flat rate (10 cents) at any volume once the plan fee is amortized. Stripe Identity's flat pricing, which looked merely expensive in scenario one, is now a $700K/year gap versus the cheapest option — at true platform scale, a self-serve flat-rate vendor with no volume discount is the wrong tool for the job, and this is exactly the volume where most published self-serve rates stop applying anyway and vendors move you to a negotiated enterprise contract.
Not just monthly volume — also which check type actually satisfies the regulation you're complying with. Didit's facial age estimation is lower-friction and cheaper, but it's an estimate with a confidence range, not a document-backed record; some compliance thresholds (especially anything requiring parental consent verification, not just an age bracket) need ID Analyzer's document-based date-of-birth extraction instead. Once you've confirmed which assurance level you actually need, the cost comparison is straightforward: pure per-check pricing wins at low-to-moderate volume since there's no minimum to clear, tiered subscription plans with dropping overage rates win once volume is high enough to use their included quota efficiently, and a flat no-discount rate rarely wins at any real scale — it's a simplicity trade, not a savings play.
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Rates verified live against Didit, ID Analyzer and Stripe's official pricing pages, checked 2026-09-16. Reference estimates using each vendor's published self-serve rates — enterprise discounts, regional variation, negotiated contracts and future rate changes vary; confirm current pricing at the source before budgeting, and confirm which check type satisfies your specific regulatory requirement.