Buying snapshot
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| Decision point | What Outris states |
|---|---|
Deployment | Cloud server at mcp-server.outris.com with an API key from the Outris Portal, or local installation with pip or Docker (server runs on localhost:8000). |
License | MIT license for the server code on GitHub. |
Transports | Streamable HTTP (new), SSE (legacy) and STDIO (local); bearer-token (API key) authentication with credit-based rate limiting. |
Clients | Claude Desktop, Cursor IDE, Windsurf or any MCP-compatible client, plus direct REST API access. |
Data coverage | Platform registration checks on 31+ platforms (India) + 3 global; the README describes full India coverage and partial global support. |
Our take
If your agents need phone and email checks, such as platform registrations, breaches and linked names, from inside an MCP client, Outris is worth a trial on the free plan, which lists the website's verification tools. If you also need the README's Indian registry lookups, confirm which plan includes them first. If most of the identities you check are outside India, test the coverage on your own numbers before you pay, because Outris itself calls its global support partial.
Evaluate Outris Identity MCP
Where it stands out
Per-check credit costs. The website prices each tool in credits: Platform Check, Breach Check, Commerce Check and WhatsApp cost 1 credit; Phone to Name, Phone to Address, Phone to Email and Alt Phones cost 2 credits; Identity Profile, a comprehensive background check, costs 3 credits. You can size a plan from the checks your workflow runs.
Indian business and KYC lookups. The README lists tools for PAN verification, GST registration from a GSTIN, MCA filings (AOC-4, MGT-7), beneficial ownership (natural persons at 10% or more), vehicle owner from an RC number and pennyless bank-account validation via NPCI with no money moved. Modular stacks (kyb, ubo, collections, fraud, compliance) expose a focused tool set per product domain.
Open code you can run yourself. Because the code is MIT-licensed and installs locally or in Docker, teams can inspect the server and choose where it runs; the Docker command passes an Outris API key (OUTRIS_API_KEY).
Short setup for MCP clients. Outris says setup takes 2 minutes: sign up, copy the MCP key from the dashboard, and add a config block to Claude Desktop. The server is also registered on the official MCP registry.
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Trade-offs to weigh
Two tool lists to reconcile. The website prices its nine available tools at 1 to 3 credits each, while the GitHub README lists a different set of intent tools, some at 5 credits (due-diligence screening, beneficial ownership, unified enforcement, law-enforcement intelligence). Confirm which tools and credit costs your plan includes before you budget.
Consent and wait time on some checks. In the README, find_contacts needs a consent token, and the full background check needs consent and runs asynchronously in 40–70 seconds. Agent flows must handle consent and polling for these tools.
KYC/MSME on the website is not live yet. The website lists "All KYC / MSME" business and KYC verification tools as Coming Soon.
Pricing and plan conditions
Plans are monthly credit allowances; each check uses credits at its listed rate. Free, Starter and Pro each list all 10 verification tools (one of them, All KYC / MSME, is marked Coming Soon), so those plans differ in credits, support level and extras. For more than the Pro plan, Outris says to contact it for enterprise pricing.
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| Plan | Published price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
Free | $0 forever, 50 credits per month | All 10 verification tools, standard support, dashboard access |
Starter | $20 per month, 200 credits per month | All 10 verification tools, priority support, usage analytics, API access |
Pro | $100 per month, 1,000 credits per month | All 10 verification tools, dedicated support, advanced analytics, custom integrations, SLA guarantee |
Enterprise | Contact Outris for enterprise pricing | For teams that need more than the listed plans |
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Alternatives to Outris Identity MCP
The reviewed substitutes for Outris Identity MCP among the identity verification, and what would make each one the better answer.
Other approaches
A different approach to the same problem. Each substitutes only for the workload named beside it.
- Didit v3
- Both are MCP servers an agent calls to decide whether a signup is genuine, and they overlap on exactly one check. Didit's MCP exposes phone and email verification as a low-cost pre-KYC filter alongside documents, biometrics and AML; Outris does phone and email investigation only, returning platform registrations, linked names and breach exposure. So Didit stands in for Outris on the screening question and carries the regulated checks Outris cannot do at all, while Outris answers an investigative question — where else is this number registered, has it leaked — that Didit's compliance modules do not ask. Conditional rather than direct: neither covers the other's full surface.Applies to: Screening a phone number or email for fraud from an AI agent over MCP. Didit stands in for Outris when the same check must also satisfy regulated onboarding — document KYC, liveness, AML screening; Outris stands in for Didit when the need is investigative context on a number and not a compliance record.