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Quantexa vs Silent Eight

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Quantexa

Cybersecurity

Entity resolution and network analytics for financial crime investigation

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On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite
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Silent Eight

Cybersecurity

AI adjudication of sanctions screening and AML alerts

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On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Quantexa pricing is never published and lands in the seven figure range annually for a tier one deployment, so it is out of reach for mid-sized institutions no matter how well the analytics would fit.; Silent Eight automated disposition has to clear model risk governance and a regulator, and the shadow running period before auto-close is permitted can consume most of the first year of the contract.
  • They diverge on capability: Quantexa covers Entity resolution, Silent Eight covers Alert adjudication.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Quantexa and Silent Eight actually diverge.

Attributes where Quantexa and Silent Eight differ
AttributeQuantexaSilent Eight

Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), platforms (Web, Linux), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Cybersecurity).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Quantexa

  • Entity resolution
  • Network generation
  • Contextual monitoring
  • Investigation workspace
  • Data fusion
  • Deployment on customer cloud

Only in Silent Eight

  • Alert adjudication
  • Narrative generation
  • Name screening automation
  • Quality assurance
  • Shadow mode
  • Model transparency reporting

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Quantexa

  • A bank whose AML alert backlog is dominated by false positives and wants network context to close them fasternot Silent Eight
  • Sanctions investigation where the sanctioned party is not the account holder but a connected director or shareholdernot Silent Eight
  • Merging customer records across retail, commercial and wealth divisions after an acquisition to see total exposurenot Silent Eight
  • A tax or benefits agency looking for organised fraud rings rather than individual claimantsnot Silent Eight

Silent Eight

  • A bank whose level one screening team spends most of its time closing obvious false name matchesnot Quantexa
  • A payments institution with alert volumes growing faster than it can recruit and train analystsnot Quantexa
  • A compliance function asked by a regulator to demonstrate consistency of alert decisions across offshore teamsnot Quantexa
  • An institution that has just tightened screening thresholds after an enforcement action and cannot staff the resulting alert increasenot Quantexa

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Quantexa

  • Pricing is never published and lands in the seven figure range annually for a tier one deployment, so it is out of reach for mid-sized institutions no matter how well the analytics would fit.
  • Output quality is bounded by input data quality, and organisations without governed customer data spend the first phase of the programme fixing feeds rather than catching criminals.
  • Implementation typically requires a systems integrator and runs into quarters rather than weeks, so the business case has to survive a long period with no operational benefit.
  • The platform augments rather than replaces existing transaction monitoring, so you keep paying for the incumbent system alongside it and total compliance technology spend rises before it falls.
  • Skills are scarce; the platform needs people who understand both Spark scale data engineering and financial crime typologies, and those people are hard to recruit and easy to lose.

Silent Eight

  • Automated disposition has to clear model risk governance and a regulator, and the shadow running period before auto-close is permitted can consume most of the first year of the contract.
  • It does not improve detection, so an institution with a poorly tuned monitoring system automates the handling of bad alerts rather than fixing why they exist.
  • Pricing is tied to alert volume, which means efficiency gains elsewhere that reduce alerts also reduce the vendor bill in a way sales teams structure minimums against.
  • The headcount saving is only realised if the institution actually reduces the analyst pool, and many banks redeploy rather than cut, leaving the business case unrealised on paper.
  • As a mid-sized private vendor serving tier one banks, concentration risk cuts both ways; the loss of one large client materially affects the company, and buyers should ask about financial stability during diligence.

Pricing, plan by plan

Quantexa

On request
  • Quantexa Platform$undefined/year
    • Entity resolution and network generation
    • Deployed in customer cloud tenancy
    • Priced by data volume and use case count

Silent Eight

On request
  • Iris$undefined/year
    • Priced by alert volume adjudicated
    • Deploys against existing screening and monitoring systems
    • Shadow mode evaluation period

Which should you pick?

Choose Quantexa if

  • You need entity resolution.
  • You work on Web, Linux.
  • You also want network generation.
Quantexa review

Choose Silent Eight if

  • You need alert adjudication.
  • You work on Web, Linux.
  • You also want narrative generation.
Silent Eight review

Questions people ask

Is Quantexa or Silent Eight better?
Neither clearly leads. Quantexa starts at On request and Silent Eight at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Quantexa or Silent Eight?
Quantexa starts at On request and Silent Eight at On request.
Does Quantexa or Silent Eight run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, Linux, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is Quantexa best used for?
Quantexa is most often used for a bank whose aml alert backlog is dominated by false positives and wants network context to close them faster, sanctions investigation where the sanctioned party is not the account holder but a connected director or shareholder, merging customer records across retail, commercial and wealth divisions after an acquisition to see total exposure, a tax or benefits agency looking for organised fraud rings rather than individual claimants. Of those, a bank whose aml alert backlog is dominated by false positives and wants network context to close them faster and sanctions investigation where the sanctioned party is not the account holder but a connected director or shareholder are not what Silent Eight is typically brought in for.
What can Quantexa do that Silent Eight cannot?
Quantexa covers Entity resolution, Network generation, Contextual monitoring, Investigation workspace. Silent Eight covers Alert adjudication, Narrative generation, Name screening automation, Quality assurance.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Quantexa: Does Quantexa replace our transaction monitoring system?

No. It usually sits alongside it, adding network context to the alerts that system generates and to investigations.

Silent Eight: Does Silent Eight replace our screening system?

No. It consumes alerts from your existing screening and monitoring systems and decides them. The detection layer stays where it is.

Quantexa: Where does our data go?

Into your own cloud tenancy in the normal deployment model. Quantexa does not require you to send customer data to a shared multi-tenant service.

Silent Eight: Will a regulator accept AI closing alerts?

It depends on your jurisdiction and your model governance evidence. Banks typically run extended shadow mode first and phase auto-closure by alert type.

Quantexa: How is it priced?

Not publicly. Expect an annual subscription scaled by data volume and number of use cases, plus separate implementation cost.

Silent Eight: Where is the company based?

Singapore, with offices in New York, London and Warsaw.

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