OpenSanctions

OpenSanctions is an open global database and high-performance self-hosted API, called Yente, covering world sanctions, PEP and criminal lists. It is based in Berlin, Germany, and has operated since 2020.

Products Listed offerings are the Yente On-Premise Matching API, more than 100 global sanction and PEP lists, Crypto Sanctioned Wallets and Structured Graph Data. The company states that a team can deploy its own Yente container in Kubernetes and run millions of checks free of charge inside its own network, which removes per-request pricing and keeps customer data in-house.

Who it suits Target users are fintech developers, crypto platforms, PSPs, RegTech vendors and banks. Coverage is global. It is a data and matching layer rather than a case management tool, so compliance teams still need their own workflow for alerts and decisions.

Licensing and pricing The data is open, and commercial use is covered by a commercial license or hosted API starting from EUR 350 per month. Which uses of the free data are allowed and what the commercial license adds should be checked against the terms before it is built into a production onboarding flow.