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The decision in brief
If proofed onboarding and several modalities are in scope, Daon covers more of the lifecycle. If the job is passwordless sign-in for accounts you have already established, SenseCrypt IdP does that job with the identity provider included.
Choose Daon when
you need identity proofing, onboarding and multi-modal authentication from one supplier with a long record in audited sectors.
Choose SenseCrypt IdP when
accounts are already established and you want face sign-in, federation and provisioning from one standards-based identity provider.
Side by side
| Dimension | SenseCrypt IdP | Daon |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | An identity provider built around a live face check | Identity proofing, onboarding and biometric authentication |
| Identity proofing | Not in scope | Part of the published offering |
| Biometric modalities | Face only | Several |
| Track record | Younger; NIST FRTE participant since 2021 | More than two decades in regulated industries |
| List price | $1 per user per month; 20-seat minimum | Varies by plan |
What you buy
- SenseCrypt IdP
- An identity provider built around a live face check
- Daon
- Identity proofing, onboarding and biometric authentication
Identity proofing
- SenseCrypt IdP
- Not in scope
- Daon
- Part of the published offering
Biometric modalities
- SenseCrypt IdP
- Face only
- Daon
- Several
Track record
- SenseCrypt IdP
- Younger; NIST FRTE participant since 2021
- Daon
- More than two decades in regulated industries
List price
- SenseCrypt IdP
- $1 per user per month; 20-seat minimum
- Daon
- Varies by plan
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Identity lifecycle or focused sign-in?
Daon covers the front half of the lifecycle as well as the back: a new person proved against a document, onboarded, then recognized on every later visit. SenseCrypt IdP is built for the last of those jobs, and the same service that runs the face check issues the token an application reads.
None of that weakens the case for treating sign-in as a product in its own right. The 2026 Verizon DBIR found credentials present in 28 percent of breaches, and however rigorous the proofing at account opening, it does nothing for the thousandth sign-in.
Evaluate deployment experience
A supplier with more than two decades of regulated deployments behind it is easier to defend to a risk committee. That is not a technical argument, and it is often the decisive one.
Proofing is outside our scope
SenseCrypt IdP does not verify a person against a document. Enrollment links a face to an account you have already accepted, so the onboarding half has to be bought or built elsewhere.
Federate rather than migrate
Registered as an external identity provider over OIDC or SAML 2.0, SenseCrypt IdP sits behind the provider you operate today, so a single application or pilot group can move while nothing else does.
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Questions for your evaluation
Any grid, the one above included, can award identical ticks to products that earned them for unrelated reasons. These questions separate them. Our short answers follow; the full inventory is in the panel below.
Identity proofing or authentication?
Establishing that a new customer is genuine before any account exists is identity proofing, a discipline in its own right. We handle the returning-user half only, so count the other half into any comparison.
What remains after enrollment?
Ours: quantum-safe, sealed, biometric-free, disposable face tokens and their verifier challenges, plus ordinary identity-provider records. No face images or templates are retained in the documented phone flow.
Which biometric methods do you need?
A single method is cheaper to run and leaves fewer soft edges; several methods reach more people. Write down which employee groups cannot put a face in front of a camera.
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SenseCrypt IdP at a glance
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Frequently asked questions
How is SenseCrypt IdP different from Daon?
Daon covers identity proofing, onboarding and multi-modal biometric authentication; see its published material for delivery options. SenseCrypt IdP is a standards-based identity provider with one face-based sign-in, matching on the user's enrolled phone and, in the documented phone flow, storing no face image or biometric template.
Can SenseCrypt IdP handle customer onboarding?
It can enroll a user but it cannot prove one. Document verification and data-source checks are a separate discipline that SenseCrypt IdP does not perform. If both jobs are in scope, budget for both.
Does SenseCrypt IdP store a face on a server?
No face image or template is retained in the documented phone flow. It stores a quantum-safe, sealed, biometric-free face token, which cannot be reversed into a face, alongside ordinary account records.
What evidence is available for a security questionnaire?
Presentation-attack detection tested by iBeta to ISO/IEC 30107-3 Levels 1 and 2, face recognition evaluated in the NIST FRTE under Seventh Sense's own name since 2021 (the report card is public), and patent-pending face tokenization. ISO/IEC 24745:2022 is the design reference for its protected biometric reference properties, not a certification. Administrative actions go to a hash-chained, tamper-evident log; end-user sign-ins are recorded in a separate activity stream that is not part of that chain.