For SMEs and independent compliance pros
Screen people or companies against 9 official sanctions lists: OFAC SDN, EU Consolidated, UN Security Council, UK HMT, and more. Match score, source link, full audit trail. Sub-second.
OFAC SDN, US Consolidated, UN Security Council, UK HMT, EU Consolidated, Swiss SECO, Canada GAC, Australian DFAT, Japan MOF. Refreshed daily from official sources.
Americas
US Official List
US Screening List
CA Official List
Europe
Asia
JP Official List
Data sourced from U.S. Treasury OFAC , EU Council , UN Security Council , UK HMT , Australian DFAT , Swiss SECO , Canada GAC , and Japan MOF . More lists coming soon.
12
John Smith
No matches
54
Alexander Petrov
Possible match on EU list
92
Viktor Sokolov
OFAC SDN + UK HMT match
No onboarding call, no demo, no procurement. Sign up and screen.
Person or company. Aliases, transliterations, partial matches. Fuzzy matching is on by default.
OFAC SDN, US Consolidated, UN Security Council, UK HMT, EU Consolidated, Swiss SECO, Canada GAC, Australian DFAT, Japan MOF. Refreshed daily from official sources.
Color-coded risk score, exact list and entity citation, PDF for the audit file. One click and the entity is in continuous monitoring.
Most AML platforms come bundled with eight things you didn't ask for. SanctScan unbundles. Sanctions screening, $0 to start, same engine on every plan.
You don't pay for adverse media, KYB, or transaction monitoring you don't use. From $0, and only the screenings you actually run.
Account, name, PDF. Done. No implementation project, no professional services line item, no kickoff with a 'solutions engineer'.
No "contact sales" wall. You see what it costs before you sign up.
SanctScan vs enterprise AML platforms
SanctScan | Enterprise AML platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From $0 / month | Sales-quoted |
| Setup | Minutes | Weeks to months |
| Scope | Sanctions, focused | Full KYC/AML suite |
| Pricing model | Published, transparent | Contact sales |
Sanctions screening is the process of checking the names of your customers, vendors, suppliers, and counterparties against government-published lists of sanctioned individuals, companies, vessels, and countries: lists like the U.S. Treasury's OFAC SDN List, the EU Consolidated List, the UN Security Council list, and the UK's OFSI list. Regulated businesses (banks, fintechs, payment providers, law firms, crypto exchanges, and exporters) are required to screen before onboarding a client and, under most regimes, to keep screening as the lists change. If a name matches, you generally cannot transact until you have either cleared the match as a false positive or blocked the transaction and reported it to your regulator. Failing to screen carries real consequences: civil fines reaching into the millions, frozen funds, personal liability for officers, and in willful cases criminal prosecution.
SanctScan screens every search against nine official sanctions lists, updated daily from the primary government sources: the US OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List, the US Consolidated Screening List, the EU Consolidated Sanctions List, the UK Financial Sanctions List published by HM Treasury's OFSI, the UN Security Council Consolidated List, Australia's DFAT Consolidated List, the Swiss SECO sanctions list, Canada's Global Affairs (GAC) sanctions list, and Japan's Ministry of Finance list. Together these cover the jurisdictions that matter for most compliance programs: the US, EU, UK, and UN, plus the major independent regimes that diverge from them. Post-Brexit UK/EU divergence in particular means a name can be sanctioned in one jurisdiction and clean in another. Every result shows exactly which list matched, which authority publishes it, and when that list was last refreshed.
Continuous monitoring is automated rescreening: you add an entity to your monitored list once, and SanctScan re-checks it against all nine sanctions lists every time those lists change, without anyone having to remember to run the search again. When a list update produces a new match (or removes an existing one), you get an email alert within minutes, and on API plans a webhook so the change lands directly in your own systems. This matters because sanctions lists change constantly; OFAC alone publishes dozens of updates a year, and a counterparty who was clean at onboarding can be designated the day after. Monitoring frequency scales with plan: daily rescreening on Solo, hourly on Starter, and every 15 minutes on Growth. Onboarding-only screening satisfies the checkbox; continuous monitoring is what actually catches the change.
Yes. The free plan is a real, permanent tier, not a trial. You get 25 screenings per month against all nine sanctions lists, with full match details, risk scoring, and confidence levels on every result. No credit card, no trial countdown, no results hidden behind a sales call. You can stay on the free plan for as long as 25 monthly searches covers your volume; for many small businesses doing occasional counterparty checks, it simply does. The paid tiers exist for when you outgrow ad-hoc checking: Solo at $19/month adds continuous monitoring for 25 entities, PDF exports for your audit file, and 250 screenings a month; Starter at $39/month adds API access, webhooks, hourly monitoring, and up to five team members. Upgrade when you need monitoring or an audit trail, not because a timer expired.
Biased answer, but here is the case: SanctScan's free plan runs 25 screenings a month against the OFAC SDN List and the US Consolidated Screening List, plus seven more official lists including the EU, UN, and UK, with results returned in under a second. You see the full match detail: which list matched, the confidence score, known aliases, and the official listing reference, with no credit card and no sales call required to see your own result. Most "free" OFAC checkers cap you at a handful of searches per day, cover only the SDN list, or show that a match exists while hiding the details behind a demo booking. The honest comparison: OFAC's own Sanctions List Search is free and authoritative, but it covers only US lists and offers no monitoring, no history, and no API.
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