Open-source alternative  ·  KYC / Identity Verification

Replace Persona with KYC-KYB.

Configurable identity verification flows with document, selfie, database, and watchlist checks. Self-hosted KYC-KYB matches the workflow without per-verification billing.

You'd keep~R54 000 to ~R660 000/year

Current licence  ·  KYC / Identity Verification

Persona

~R54 000 – ~R660 000/yr

10-user estimate

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KYC-KYB

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R660 000/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. Persona's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Starter

R54 000/yr

R4 500/month

Flat rate (base + per-verification)

With KYC-KYB

Keep R54 000/yr

Growth

R216 000/yr

R18 000/month

Flat rate (volume tier)

With KYC-KYB

Keep R216 000/yr

Scale

R660 000/yr

R55 000/month

Flat rate (enterprise)

With KYC-KYB

Keep R660 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Persona grows around 10% per year on average. KYC-KYB hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR292kR585kR877kR1169kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R1063kR66k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R4.70M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

PersonaKYC-KYB, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.