Konfir Employment Verification vs Smile API

Konfir Employment Verification provides employment and income verification and insights for organisations. It draws on Open Banking, Payroll, HMRC, and document processing through direct APIs, and can verify current and previous employment as far back as six years. Gap Insights help establish what candidates were doing between jobs. Its Employer Database checks for associations with reference fraud or other suspicious activity, and employment pattern insights support assessment of candidate honesty and integrity. Requests can be managed in the web-based Konsole, submitted individually or through bulk CSV upload, with pre-built reports returned. Organisations can embed the service in their own UX, use white-labelled journeys, or receive results through webhooks, PDF output, or Konsole. Pre-built integrations are listed for Tifo, Access Screening, and Referoo. Konfir says users typically take two to five minutes to share information, with data returned instantly afterward. Applicants complete verification for free without a Konfir account. The Basic plan costs £5.50 per successfully verified activity; Kore and Enterprise pricing is usage-based and not listed.

Smile API provides real-time, user-authorized access to verified identity, employment, and financial data through an API. It consolidates information from government, HR and payroll systems, gig economy platforms, and documents users submit. Smile Wink links payroll, government, or HR accounts to retrieve employment and income data. Smile Snap extracts and validates information from identity documents, income statements, photographed IDs, PDFs, and scanned records. Smile Signals combines telecom, behavioral, and email signals for screening, while Smile Flip supports identity checks, face matching, document capture, form autofill, and configurable onboarding workflows. The API uses REST, JSON, and HTTPS, with an OpenAPI specification and Postman collection in its developer resources. New accounts can test in a sandbox using mock data; production access requires approval and is billable. Users can revoke data access, and Smile says the information is deleted through its Revoke API. The company says it complies with the Philippines Data Privacy Act of 2012 and supports data portability rights under Section 18. A free sandbox is listed, while production pricing is available on request.