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Trulioo vs Very Good Security

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Trulioo

Cybersecurity

Identity and business verification against national data sources in nearly 200 countries

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Very Good Security

Cybersecurity

Tokenisation proxy that keeps card and personal data out of your own systems and out of PCI scope

From
$1000/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Trulioo per-check rates vary widely by country and data source, so a blended average from the sales conversation misleads if your volume concentrates in expensive markets.; Very Good Security vGS sits in the live path of every request carrying sensitive data, so its latency and availability become yours, and an outage in the proxy is a payment outage no matter how healthy your own systems are.
  • They diverge on capability: Trulioo covers Person match, Very Good Security covers Aliasing proxy.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Trulioo and Very Good Security actually diverge.

Attributes where Trulioo and Very Good Security differ
AttributeTruliooVery Good Security
Starting priceOn request$1000/month
Pricing modelquotePer month

Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web, API), 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 Trulioo

  • Person match
  • Business verification
  • Watchlist screening
  • Document and biometric
  • Single API
  • Workflow orchestration

Only in Very Good Security

  • Aliasing proxy
  • PCI scope reduction
  • Network tokenisation
  • Processor optionality
  • Card issuing data
  • Vault and access controls
  • Data residency options
  • Compliance artefacts

What people use each for

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

Trulioo

  • A payments firm onboarding across dozens of countries where building a data-source integration per market is impracticalnot Very Good Security
  • A marketplace verifying business sellers and needing beneficial ownership rather than just a company numbernot Very Good Security
  • A fintech wanting a cheap frictionless first check and reserving document scanning for the minority that fail itnot Very Good Security
  • A bank expanding into a market where document upload completion rates are poor and registry matching works betternot Very Good Security

Very Good Security

  • A marketplace facing its first PCI DSS Level 1 assessment that wants to keep card data off its own estate rather than harden a dozen servicesnot Trulioo
  • A merchant negotiating with a second acquirer that needs card credentials portable so the negotiation is real rather than theoreticalnot Trulioo
  • A fintech collecting bank account and identity documents that wants sensitive fields absent from logs, backups and analytics warehouses by constructionnot Trulioo
  • A card issuer that must display a full PAN in its own mobile app without the app or its backend touching cardholder datanot Trulioo

Where each one falls short

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

Trulioo

  • Per-check rates vary widely by country and data source, so a blended average from the sales conversation misleads if your volume concentrates in expensive markets.
  • Coverage breadth is real but depth is uneven; a country on the map may be served by one thin source with low match rates, which you only discover in a live test.
  • You are charged per query including no-match results, so a market with poor source coverage burns budget producing nothing usable.
  • Because it aggregates third-party data, data residency and consent handling depend on the underlying provider terms, which complicates GDPR assessments in some jurisdictions.
  • Document and biometric capability is competent but not the strongest in the market, so buyers whose primary need is document fraud detection usually pair it with a specialist.

Very Good Security

  • VGS sits in the live path of every request carrying sensitive data, so its latency and availability become yours, and an outage in the proxy is a payment outage no matter how healthy your own systems are.
  • Token portability is the whole selling point yet leaving VGS means migrating tokens back out, a project the vendor has no incentive to streamline, so the lock-in you removed from your acquirer partly moves to VGS.
  • Entry pricing at around one thousand US dollars a month is real money for a pre-revenue fintech, and it buys volume-limited throughput, so cost scales with exactly the growth that made you buy it.
  • Scope reduction is not scope elimination: your QSA still assesses how you integrate, and teams regularly discover that a support tool or an internal admin screen pulled plaintext back in and dragged systems into scope again.
  • Proxy-based interception constrains how you design request flows, and non-standard payloads, streaming uploads or binary formats often need custom routing rules that make debugging production issues noticeably harder.

Pricing, plan by plan

Trulioo

On request
  • Trulioo Platform$undefined/year
    • Priced per check with rates varying by country and data source
    • Person, business and watchlist checks charged separately
    • Volume commitment negotiated annually

Very Good Security

$1000/month
  • Starter$1000/month
    • Aliasing proxy
    • Vault storage
    • PCI scope reduction
  • Growth$undefined/month
    • Network tokenisation
    • Multiple processors
    • Data residency options
  • Enterprise$undefined/year
    • Custom vault architecture
    • Dedicated support and SLA
    • Contractual compliance coverage

Which should you pick?

Choose Trulioo if

  • You need person match.
  • You work on Web, API.
  • You also want business verification.
Trulioo review

Choose Very Good Security if

  • You need aliasing proxy.
  • You work on Web, API.
  • You also want pci scope reduction.
Very Good Security review

Questions people ask

Is Trulioo or Very Good Security better?
Neither clearly leads. Trulioo starts at On request and Very Good Security at $1000/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Trulioo or Very Good Security?
Trulioo starts at On request and Very Good Security at $1000/month.
Does Trulioo or Very Good Security run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, API, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is Trulioo best used for?
Trulioo is most often used for a payments firm onboarding across dozens of countries where building a data-source integration per market is impractical, a marketplace verifying business sellers and needing beneficial ownership rather than just a company number, a fintech wanting a cheap frictionless first check and reserving document scanning for the minority that fail it, a bank expanding into a market where document upload completion rates are poor and registry matching works better. Of those, a payments firm onboarding across dozens of countries where building a data-source integration per market is impractical and a marketplace verifying business sellers and needing beneficial ownership rather than just a company number are not what Very Good Security is typically brought in for.
What can Trulioo do that Very Good Security cannot?
Trulioo covers Person match, Business verification, Watchlist screening, Document and biometric. Very Good Security covers Aliasing proxy, PCI scope reduction, Network tokenisation, Processor optionality.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Trulioo: Does it need a document?

Not for the core product. Data-source matching uses name, address and date of birth, which is why completion rates are higher than document flows.

Very Good Security: Does VGS make me PCI compliant?

No. It removes cardholder data from your systems so your assessment covers a far smaller boundary, but you still complete an assessment and your integration is part of it.

Trulioo: Are unmatched queries billed?

Yes, in general you pay per query rather than per successful match. Negotiate this explicitly if you are entering markets with thin coverage.

Very Good Security: Can I move to another processor without re-collecting cards?

Yes, that is a core reason people buy it. The vault reveals stored credentials to whichever processor you route to.

Trulioo: Can it verify companies as well as people?

Yes. Business verification including beneficial ownership is a distinct product line and a common reason to choose Trulioo over document-first vendors.

Very Good Security: What does it cost?

Published entry pricing is about one thousand US dollars per month; growth and enterprise tiers are quoted.

Very Good Security: Is it only for card data?

No. The proxy handles any sensitive field, including bank details, national identifiers and documents, though payments is where the product is now focused.

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