FaceCheck.ID
FaceCheck.ID is a face search engine: upload a photo and it returns public web pages where a matching face appears, ranked by similarity score, with red-flag warnings for scam reports, sex-offender registries and mugshots.
What is FaceCheck.ID?
FaceCheck.ID is a face search engine. You upload a photo of a person and it returns links to public web pages where the same face, or a face that closely resembles it, has been indexed. The publisher calls it an investigative search engine rather than an identification service, and the distinction matters: the product returns a similarity score, never a confirmed identity.
The index is built from publicly accessible pages: social media profiles, news sites and blogs, scam-reporting sites, sex-offender registries, mugshot databases and video sites. FaceCheck stores only a cropped, low-resolution thumbnail of each face and the URL of the page it came from, with no name, location or criminal record attached. Its proprietary neural networks are trained to match faces across angles, lighting conditions, beards, glasses, hats and even masks, and the publisher claims strong results on blurred or low-quality pictures. Children are excluded by design: the model is trained on adult faces only, and searching for a minor leads to a ban.
Every result carries a match score from 0 to 100, grouped into four bands: 90-100 certain, 83-89 confident, 70-82 uncertain, 50-69 weak. The publisher puts the practical reliability threshold at 83, and above that score red flags appear when the image matches a scam report, many accounts under different names, adult or escort content, an offender registry, a mugshot, a wanted list, or when the uploaded picture is detected as AI-generated.
Searching needs no account: a photo dropped on the home page returns results straight away. Credits, sold in cryptocurrency only, open the source links and up to three times more images per search, and add scheduled daily monitoring, Telegram alerts and PDF or Excel export on the higher packs. A Chrome extension brings right-click search to any image on the web, and a REST API lets developers embed the same search in their own products; a separate ScamCheck API screens profile photographs at sign-up for dating sites, marketplaces and social networks.
The service is published by Tech Solutions, a company declared in Belize. Anyone can have their own images removed free of charge through a takedown form verified by selfie or anonymised identity document.
What it does
- Search the indexed web from a photo of a face and get the pages where a similar face appears
- Read a 0-100 match score grouped into four reliability bands
- Spot red flags: scam reports, many accounts under different names, offender registries, mugshots, wanted lists, AI-generated faces
- Open the source page of any match once credits are available
- Schedule continuous daily searches on a person of interest and receive Telegram alerts
- Export search results to PDF or Excel on the top credit pack
- Request free removal of your own photographs from the search database
When to use FaceCheck.ID / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if FaceCheck.ID is the right fit.
When to use FaceCheck.ID
- People checking a dating or messaging contact before meeting them, to see whether the profile photo appears elsewhere under another name
- Investigative journalists, fact-checkers and photo editors tracing where an image has already been published
- Fraud, AML and KYC analysts running open-source checks on a counterparty before a transaction
- Trust and safety teams screening profile photos at sign-up on dating apps, marketplaces and social networks through the ScamCheck API
- Creators, models and public figures monitoring where their own photographs are being reused without permission
When not to use FaceCheck.ID
- Recruiters and HR teams: the terms of use forbid any employment decision based on the site
- Landlords, insurers and lenders: tenant screening, insurance and consumer credit decisions are explicitly prohibited
- Anyone needing a legally usable identification: the publisher states the tool does not identify people and that results must not confirm identity for legal or prosecutorial purposes
- Users looking for a mobile app or a card payment: there is no official iOS or Android application, and credits are sold in cryptocurrency only
- Organisations bound by GDPR, HIPAA, FISMA or GLBA, which the site declares it is not built to comply with
How to use FaceCheck.ID
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the home page and drop, browse or paste a photograph of the person you want to find; up to three pictures of the same person can be sent in one search
- Use a sharp image of at least 500x500 pixels, with the face no smaller than 60x60 pixels and the file under 6 MB, in JPG, PNG, WEBP or BMP
- Tick the acceptance of the terms of use and launch the search; no account is required at this stage
- Read each result through its match score and colour band, and check the red flags displayed above the results
- Install the Chrome extension if you want to right-click any image on the web and search it directly
- Create an account and buy a credit pack on the purchase page to open the source links and see up to three times more images per search
- Pay in Bitcoin, Litecoin or Solana, then wait for the network confirmation, which can take from two minutes to several hours
- Turn on continuous daily searches and Telegram alerts, available from the second pack upwards, to keep monitoring a person of interest
- For developers: create an API account, then call POST /api/upload_pic followed by POST /api/search with your token in the Authorization header, testing free of charge with TESTING_MODE enabled
- To remove your own pictures, search your face, select the images and confirm with a selfie for an instant decision, or with an anonymised identity document reviewed within one to five business days
Pros & Cons
Pros
- A search can be run without an account, without any personal information and without paying, and the results are visible before any purchase
- The publisher states that it logs neither IP addresses nor search history, uses no third-party trackers, and deletes each search after 24 hours
- Uploaded photographs are never indexed: the original is discarded right after face extraction and the thumbnail disappears within a day
- Removing your own images is free, often instant through the selfie check, and the publisher insists that it never charges for it
- Strong claimed performance on the hard cases: side profiles, masked faces, poor-quality pictures and recently published news photographs
- Red flags put a match in context instead of leaving the reader alone with a resemblance, and the site repeatedly warns against the doppelganger effect
- A documented REST API with samples in eight programming languages and a testing mode that consumes no credits
Cons
- Payment is accepted in cryptocurrency only, with no card, PayPal or bank transfer, no refunds at all and credits that expire between 14 days and one year
- The publisher is opaque: no executive, founder or beneficial owner is named anywhere on the site
- The registered address in the terms of use, in Belize City, does not match the headquarters address shown on the contact page, in Surabaya, Indonesia
- No GDPR framework whatsoever: no mention of the regulation, no Article 27 representative, no data protection officer and no data processing agreement
- No support address: the only email of the domain is reserved for business enquiries, and the privacy contact sits on a different domain
- The comparison page that scores FaceCheck at 99 percent was produced by an expert paid by the publisher, as the page itself admits
- The publisher claims it processes no biometric data while operating a facial recognition search engine, a position whose legal standing varies by country
Pricing & Plans
A permanent free tier is available: a search can be launched from the home page without an account and without payment, but the number of images returned is limited and the source links remain closed. Paid access takes the form of prepaid credit packs sold in cryptocurrency only, starting at USD 19.00 for 150 credits, each search consuming three credits. There is no subscription, no recurring billing and no refund, and credits expire at the end of the period attached to their pack.
- USD 19 in cryptocurrency
- 150 credits
- expiring after 14 days
- with access to links and priority search
- USD 47 in cryptocurrency
- 400 credits
- expiring after 2 months
- adding continuous search and Telegram alerts
- USD 197 in cryptocurrency
- 2000 credits
- expiring after 6 months
- with the same features as Private Eye
- USD 597 in cryptocurrency
- 10000 credits
- expiring after 1 year
- adding export to PDF and Excel
- Every pack is payable in Bitcoin
- Litecoin or Solana
- and one search costs three credits
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how FaceCheck.ID handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no mention of the GDPR anywhere on the site. Across the fourteen pages collected — terms of use, privacy policy, FAQ and all product pages — the words GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, CCPA and BIPA do not appear once. No Article 27 representative is designated, no data protection officer is named, and no data processing agreement is published or offered. The terms are governed by the laws of Belize, with the courts of Belize holding exclusive jurisdiction, and they warn that the site is hosted in Belize and that continued use transfers the visitor's data there. The only channel resembling a data subject right is the free takedown form, which removes indexed images after verification by selfie or anonymised identity document. The FAQ tells users whose jurisdiction prohibits facial recognition to stop using the site immediately.
Who owns the data?
The publisher, Tech Solutions, states that it collects and shares no personally identifiable information about its users. An uploaded photo is used only to extract a face; the original file is discarded immediately, and the low-resolution thumbnail of the extracted face is deleted after 24 hours together with the cached results. Uploaded photos are never indexed, published or shared. The indexed database itself holds only cropped low-resolution thumbnails and the URL of the public page they came from, with no name, location or criminal record attached. Users keep full ownership of anything they contribute, but any suggestion or feedback sent to the publisher becomes its exclusive property. Anyone can request free removal of their own images.
Reuse rights
The terms grant a limited, personal and non-commercial licence to use the site and its content: source code, databases, design, text and images belong to or are licensed by the publisher, and nothing may be copied, republished, redistributed, sold or exploited commercially without prior written permission. Search results may therefore be consulted and followed to their source, but not repackaged into a product or a public database. Automated access is restricted to the official API: scraping, bots, scripts and any circumvention of rate limits or bot detection are forbidden. The terms also bar using information obtained from the site to harass, stalk, blackmail or harm anyone, and bar decisions on credit, employment, insurance or tenant screening. Feedback sent to the publisher becomes its property and may be reused freely.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The terms of use state that the site is hosted in Belize and that continuing to use it means transferring your data to Belize, where it will be processed; disputes fall under the laws and courts of Belize. The FAQ adds that no third-party tools are involved and that all software is proprietary and runs on the publisher's own servers, which is also the basis for its claim that no subprocessor is used. Beyond that single country, no region, no data centre and no residency option is disclosed, and no data residency commitment is offered. On the technical side, the domain resolves to an anycast Cloudflare address geolocated in the United States, which reflects the content delivery network sitting in front of the site rather than the place where searches are processed. Nothing on the site contradicts the Belize declaration, but nothing independently confirms it either.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting FaceCheck.ID.
- Look-alikes are common: the publisher itself insists that a face match is never proof, and that other evidence must corroborate it before any judgement is formed
- A matching photograph may belong to a victim, not a culprit, because scammers routinely steal pictures of innocent people
- Acting on a result can be dangerous or illegal: the site advises against confronting anyone, and warns that harassing a registered offender is a criminal offence in many places
- The publisher cannot be identified: no named executive, no beneficial owner, a Belize registration, and a contact address in Indonesia that contradicts the terms of use
- The publisher states it processes no biometric data while running a facial recognition search engine, a claim whose legal standing differs from one country to the next and shifts the compliance burden onto the user
- The site's own comparison ranking it first is funded by the publisher, and the terms forbid credit, employment, insurance and tenant screening while the ScamCheck page promotes vetting tutors and childcare providers
- Credits are bought in cryptocurrency, never refunded, and expire between 14 days and one year, which encourages searching faster than one thinks
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Almost none for web use: there is nothing to install and nothing to configure, and a first search runs without an account. The Chrome extension takes one click from the Chrome Web Store. The hardest step for a general audience is paying, since credits require an account and a cryptocurrency wallet holding Bitcoin, Litecoin or Solana. For developers the API is straightforward: two REST calls, a token in the Authorization header, ready-made samples in eight languages and a testing mode that consumes no credits.
Deployment
Integrations
Supported languages
Behind FaceCheck.ID
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement FaceCheck.ID.
Frequently asked questions
What does FaceCheck.ID actually do?
Does it identify the person in the photo?
What does the number displayed on a result mean?
What are the red flags shown above the results?
Is it free, and how much does it cost?
Are my searches private?
How do I have my own photos removed?
Can it be used to search for a child?
Is there an API, and is there a mobile app?
Who is behind the service?
Should you pick FaceCheck.ID?
FaceCheck.ID does one thing and does it with unusual focus: it finds where a face has already appeared on the public web. For a quick check before a first date, a private sale or a business introduction, it is fast, needs no account, and shows enough before payment to judge whether the paid credits are worth it. Investigators, journalists and trust and safety teams get real value from the red flags, the continuous monitoring and the API, and the free, self-service removal of one's own images is more generous than the field average.
Three reservations weigh heavily. The publisher is anonymous: Tech Solutions is declared in Belize, no executive is named, and the contact page points to a headquarters in Indonesia that the terms of use never mention. There is no GDPR framework at all, not even a denial: no representative, no data protection officer, no processing agreement, and a jurisdiction clause that sends every dispute to Belize. And payment is cryptocurrency only, final, with credits that expire.
The tool itself also carries a warning the publisher repeats honestly: many unrelated people look alike, and scammers use photographs of innocent third parties. A match is a lead, never a conclusion, and the terms explicitly bar the high-stakes uses where people would be most tempted to treat it as proof: credit, employment, insurance and tenant screening.
Use it as a starting point for verification, cross-check every match against other evidence, and check what your own jurisdiction allows before running a single search.
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