A sanctions check now costs €0.39. Here is the engineering that made the cut possible

Same products, same coverage, same evidence PDFs. No volume threshold, no subscription requirement, no expiry date. No monthly platform fee. Pay only for the checks and reports you run.

Most screening products carry the cost structure of the era they were built in: licensed datasets resold per lookup, manual review steps, sales-led contracts and infrastructure sized for institutional buyers. The price of a check reflects all of that before it reflects the check.

ScreenVeritAI was built the other way around. Ingestion of official sources, entity normalisation, matching and evidence generation run as an automated pipeline. This year our engineering team finished a round of optimisation work on the analytical core of that pipeline. The variable cost of running a Quick Check or an Adverse Media Check is now close to zero.

When your unit cost falls, you can keep the difference as margin or pass it on. We are passing it on in two ways. We are lowering the price of both checks, while the reports keep theirs, and we are reinvesting part of the headroom in additional validation layers on the analytical stages. In compliance work, a cheaper check that is also a less reviewed check would be a bad trade. The cut is funded by the cost structure, not by a marketing budget. That is why it has no expiry date.

Two things stayed exactly where they were, for opposite reasons.

Coverage and evidence. A Quick Check still runs against 67 official screening sources — 11 major sanctions jurisdictions, 40 additional lists, 16 criminal watchlists — and still produces a point-in-time evidence PDF you can hand to an auditor. Cutting the price by cutting the scope would have been the easy version of this announcement. It is not this one.

Report prices. Full Search (€5.90) and the Deep Research Report (€14.90) answer a different question from a check. A check tells you whether a name appears on a list. The reports tell you who the counterparty is: aliases and transliterations, AI review of every candidate match, adverse media, and a written, citation-backed dossier. Their comparison class is analyst-produced due diligence, not a list lookup. At €14.90 they are already priced for adoption.

At €0.39, a Quick Check is not the cheapest screening unit on the market. When we read the pricing pages of twelve vendors on 4 September 2026 (the survey, with every URL and the arithmetic), several units cost less:

• dilisense charged €0.10 per API call with no monthly fee, falling to €0.01 per call on its €1,200-a-month tier. Its pricing page, rechecked on 1 October 2026, lists sanctions, PEP and criminal data in that per-call price.
• SanctScan Solo was $19 a month for 250 searches, about $0.08 a search.
• Ondato listed AML screening at €0.45 to €0.04 per check, without the volumes behind the range.

None of those units is defined the same way as a Quick Check, or as each other. A Quick Check screens a name for sanctions, PEP and criminal-watchlist matches in one run and produces a point-in-time evidence PDF. Whether a cheaper unit covers the lists you need and leaves a record you can hand to an auditor is the question to put to each vendor. At 50,000 checks a year, ScreenVeritAI is the most expensive row in that survey.

What €0.39 buys is a check across three screening domains with an evidence PDF, no monthly fee and no volume commitment.

ScreenVeritAI supports compliance review and due diligence documentation. Final decisions remain with your team.