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Tyler Brazos vs Unit21

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Tyler Brazos

Government

Mobile Law Enforcement Technology

From
$800/month
Free plan
No
Full reviewWebsite
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Unit21

Cybersecurity

No-code fraud and AML risk operations platform for fintechs and neobanks

From
On request
Free plan
No
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Tyler Brazos brazos is now sold as Tyler Enforcement Mobile and tylertech.com/products/brazos redirects to the Enforcement Mobile page; Unit21 it is built for fintech scale rather than card issuer scale, so organisations reaching very high transaction volumes generally re-evaluate against heavier platforms and face a migration.
  • They diverge on capability: Tyler Brazos covers Mobile Citations, Unit21 covers No-code rule builder.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Tyler Brazos and Unit21 actually diverge.

Attributes where Tyler Brazos and Unit21 differ
AttributeTyler BrazosUnit21
Starting price$800/monthOn request
Pricing modelsubscriptionquote
PlatformsIos, Android, WindowsWeb
CategoryGovernmentCybersecurity
Founded1966Unknown

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated).

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 Tyler Brazos

  • Mobile Citations
  • Field Reporting
  • License Scanning
  • Database Queries
  • Crash Reporting
  • Tyler CAD/RMS
  • NCIC
  • State DMV

Only in Unit21

  • No-code rule builder
  • Case management
  • SAR filing
  • Backtesting
  • Identity and device signals
  • Data ingestion API

What people use each for

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

Tyler Brazos

  • Electronic citation issuance from a patrol vehicle or handheld devicenot Unit21
  • Field reporting and crash reports for law enforcementnot Unit21
  • Feeding citation data into court case managementnot Unit21

Unit21

  • A neobank whose sponsor bank requires a documented monitoring programme before it will keep the BIN sponsorshipnot Tyler Brazos
  • A crypto exchange needing SAR filing and case management without building an internal compliance engineering teamnot Tyler Brazos
  • A payments startup where the fraud lead needs to ship a new rule the same day a new attack pattern appearsnot Tyler Brazos
  • A lender consolidating fraud alerts from three point tools into one investigator queue with a single audit trailnot Tyler Brazos

Where each one falls short

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

Tyler Brazos

  • Brazos is now sold as Tyler Enforcement Mobile and tylertech.com/products/brazos redirects to the Enforcement Mobile page
  • No pricing is published; Tyler routes all enquiries through contact and demo requests with no published rate, minimum or cost driver
  • The product is sold only to public sector agencies

Unit21

  • It is built for fintech scale rather than card issuer scale, so organisations reaching very high transaction volumes generally re-evaluate against heavier platforms and face a migration.
  • No-code rule authoring shifts power to the risk team, which is the point, but without governance it produces rule sprawl that nobody can explain to an examiner two years later.
  • Detection quality depends on the signals you feed it, so a thin integration produces thin results and the platform cannot compensate with proprietary consortium data the way larger vendors do.
  • Pricing is quoted by volume with an annual commitment, so a fintech whose growth stalls pays for headroom it did not use.
  • SAR filing coverage is oriented to United States FinCEN reporting, so firms filing in the United Kingdom, European Union or Asia handle those submissions outside the tool.

Pricing, plan by plan

Tyler Brazos

$800/month
  • Mobile Suite$800/month
    • Mobile Citations
    • Field Reporting
    • Database Queries

Unit21

On request
  • Unit21 Platform$undefined/year
    • Priced by monitored volume and modules, annual contract
    • Fraud, AML and case management packaged separately
    • Implementation and historical data backfill quoted with the subscription

Which should you pick?

Choose Tyler Brazos if

  • You need mobile citations.
  • You work on Ios, Android, Windows.
  • You also want field reporting.
Tyler Brazos review

Choose Unit21 if

  • You need no-code rule builder.
  • You also want case management.
Unit21 review

Questions people ask

Is Tyler Brazos or Unit21 better?
Neither clearly leads. Tyler Brazos starts at $800/month and Unit21 at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Tyler Brazos or Unit21?
Tyler Brazos starts at $800/month and Unit21 at On request.
Does Tyler Brazos or Unit21 run on more platforms?
Tyler Brazos runs on Ios, Android, Windows. Unit21 runs on Web.
What is Tyler Brazos best used for?
Tyler Brazos is most often used for electronic citation issuance from a patrol vehicle or handheld device, field reporting and crash reports for law enforcement, feeding citation data into court case management. Of those, electronic citation issuance from a patrol vehicle or handheld device and field reporting and crash reports for law enforcement are not what Unit21 is typically brought in for.
What can Tyler Brazos do that Unit21 cannot?
Tyler Brazos covers Mobile Citations, Field Reporting, License Scanning, Database Queries. Unit21 covers No-code rule builder, Case management, SAR filing, Backtesting.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Unit21: Do we need engineers to run it?

Only for the initial data integration. After that the design intent is that risk and compliance staff author and deploy rules themselves.

Unit21: Does it file SARs?

Yes, it generates and electronically files suspicious activity reports to FinCEN. Non-US regimes are not covered to the same depth.

Unit21: Can we test a rule before it goes live?

Yes. Backtesting against historical data to see projected alert volume is one of the more useful parts of the product, because alert volume is the real cost.

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