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How to compare
Everyone credible keeps the data off their own servers now. So compare the rest.
On-device custody used to be the whole argument. It is table stakes, and a page that tells you otherwise is a page to be careful with. What still differs is what the check actually proves, what else the same integration answers, and whether you can find out the price without booking a call.
The first question
Estimating an age and verifying one are different products.
One reads a face and returns a likelihood. The other reads a document once and returns a yes or a no. Both are legitimate and they answer different risk appetites, so the useful question is not which scores higher. It is what you are willing to be wrong about, and what you are willing to hold if you are.
An estimate
Fast, and it needs nothing from the customer but a camera. It returns a probability, so there is a threshold, and the threshold is a business decision about who you are prepared to turn away.
A verified credential
Checked once against a real document, then reusable. It returns a fact rather than a likelihood, and the document itself never has to be handed over again.
Side by side
Three ways to answer “are they old enough?”
| The question | Age estimation | Document upload | A held credential |
|---|---|---|---|
| What the check actually proves | A likelihood, from a face | A document was shown, once | A verified fact, every time |
| Where the personal data sits afterwards | Depends on the vendor | With whoever you handed it to | On the holder's own phone |
| What a business stores | An estimate and its confidence | A copy of an identity document | A yes or a no |
| What it costs to find out the price | Usually a sales call | Usually a sales call | ShareRing publishes $0.45 a check |
| What else the same integration answers | Age | Whatever you re-collect each time | Age, identity, address and AML |
What it costs
Ask what a check costs. See who answers.
ShareRing is one of the few in this market that publishes a per-check price: $0.45 for an age check, on the pricing page. The first proof is about 45 cents, a returning proof is free, and there is no monthly minimum and no lock-in. Prices are in Australian dollars. Most vendors publish nothing and quote after a call, which makes a like-for-like comparison something you can only do by having several of those calls.
What else it answers
Age is one question. Most businesses have four.
Identity, address, AML screening and age come from one integration, each priced on the same page. An age-only vendor is a second contract and a second integration the first time the business needs to know anything else about a customer.
Independently looked at
Somebody with no stake in this has tested it.
ShareRing was one of around 60 providers in the Australian Government's Age Assurance Technology Trial, overseen by ACCS and technically evaluated by KJR Consulting. ShareRing's deployment ran in April 2025.
The price is published. The rest is a conversation.
Start with the number, then tell us what you actually have to prove.