Kharon Compliance vs OpenSanctions

Kharon Compliance provides risk intelligence for sanctions compliance, export-control due diligence, and supply-chain risk management. Its ClearView web platform supports KYC, sanctions, compliance investigations, and due diligence. Users can search entities, examine ownership and relationship networks, and review Dynamic Exposure Scores showing proximity to sanctioned or trade-restricted parties. Visual explanations identify relationships, pathways, and sources behind each score. ClearView cites verified sources and documents findings to support an audit trail; Kharon says researched facts are validated by subject-matter experts. Regulatory status is shown across the US, EU, UK, UN, Canada, Australia, Japan, Switzerland, and South Korea. Risk domains include sanctions, export controls, forced labor, investment risk, research security, FOCI, counter-proliferation, and third-party due diligence. GraphCast supplies curated, continuously maintained datasets for screening and monitoring, while CoreStream provides ongoing insights tailored to responsibilities. The API supports custom applications and workflows. Named integrations include Descartes, e2open, AIAG, Altana, NQC, and Resilinc. Kharon serves financial institutions, corporations, government agencies, asset managers, defense and aerospace organizations, universities, and professional services firms. Pricing is available on request.

OpenSanctions provides a structured database of sanctions, politically exposed persons, and other public-interest information assembled from hundreds of sources. It deduplicates entities across sources and models links such as ownership, family ties, political roles, and sanctions designations. The hosted API supports entity matching, full-text search, and full-record retrieval. Its /match endpoint returns ranked candidates for screening details such as names, birth dates, nationality, or tax identifiers. Users can download the full dataset; commercial license customers can run the matching API on their own infrastructure, keeping customer personally identifiable information in their environment. OpenSanctions says data points are traceable to source material and its data pipeline is open source. API access is listed at €0.10 per query, with a 30-day trial; commercial screening and reseller licenses are quoted. The company says it holds ISO 27001:2022 certification and operates under a 99.8% uptime SLA. It supplies data and matching technology, not an end-user compliance application with alert review, case management, and approval workflows. Its data collection is licensed as a complete collection rather than selected parts.