Napier Continuum vs OpenSanctions

Napier AI Continuum is an end-to-end platform for anti-money-laundering and financial-crime compliance. Its coverage includes client screening, transaction screening, transaction monitoring, and ongoing client risk assessment. Client Screening performs real-time and batch checks against sanctions, politically exposed persons, and adverse media. Transaction Monitoring works in real time with more than 100 built-in AML typologies. AI agents and automation assist with alerts, workflows, case management, and investigations while human decision-makers retain control. Risk teams can change rules and thresholds in a no-code sandbox without engineering support, and APIs connect Continuum to third-party systems and existing workflows. Napier says it can run on leading cloud platforms or on premises and handle billions of transactions a year. Listed safeguards include annual penetration testing by a CREST-certified third party, continuous vulnerability scanning, and encryption in transit and at rest. Napier lists ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications. The platform is available through Microsoft Marketplace and is offered through API, self-hosted, and web access. Pricing is 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.