Pricing
Pay as you go from a credit balance, or join for a monthly allowance. Setting up a transaction is free, and it shows the price before anything runs.
Pay as you go
Pay for the checks each job needs.
Put everyone involved in one transaction. The checks the law requires are ticked for you, each labelled Required by law, Recommended or Optional, and you pay only for the checks you run. One signed certificate covers the whole transaction at no extra cost (see a sample). Add people later and only the new checks are charged.
What a job costs
A let
What the law requires for a typical let: sanctions on the tenant and the landlord, and the Right to Rent record in England.
£1.98
- Lets of £10,000 a month or more: £2.78, adding PEP and adverse media, the ID and risk records and monitoring
- +£2.99 if the landlord is a company (every director and owner screened)
- Property risk pack, optional: +£1.29
A sale
What the money laundering rules require for the buyer and the seller: sanctions, PEP and adverse media, the ID and risk records, and monitoring until completion (6 weeks included).
£2.78
- £1.39 a person, so a sale with more people is easy to work out
- A company buying or selling: £4.38 in place of £1.39, plus 40p for each director and owner
- Property risk pack, optional: +£1.29
- Acting for both sides? Put them in one transaction and the property is checked once
A business client
Company onboarding for one UK company: its sanctions screen, the company and owners check (with the disqualified directors register), the FCA register and a business risk score.
£6.95
- PEP and adverse media on up to 4 of its people included
- 40p for each person after that
- A person as a client: £1.39 with PEP and adverse media
Every check
The price of each check inside a transaction.
- Sanctions screeningScreen a party against the official UK, UN, EU and US (OFAC) sanctions lists.99p per check
- PEP and adverse mediaAlso checks whether the person is politically exposed (a PEP) and for serious adverse news. Sold only as an add-on to the sanctions check: 40p more per person, £1.39 in total. For a company, it also checks each director and owner the company check finds, 40p a person.40p per check
- Right to Rent checkEvery adult tenant in England, before the tenancy starts. Three ways, chosen per letting: their ID and right to rent together by link, on their phone: a certified passport check, or their share code checked with the Home Office (£3.49); their ID by link (£1.99) with the Right to Rent done by you on the free GOV.UK share-code service or with their original documents; or both done by you, free. Either way it is recorded here, with the follow-up and keeping dates for the statutory excuse.£3.49 a tenant by link (with their ID), or free to record
- ID checkSend each person a link: on their phone they photograph their passport or driving licence and take a short selfie video, and our identity partner checks the document is genuine and the selfie is them. £1.99 a person (for a tenant in England you can choose their Right to Rent by link too: one link for both, £3.49). The result and its report come back to the transaction. Or check the document yourself and record it, free.£1.99 a person by link, or free to record
- Risk and source of funds recordA short record for each customer: what the transaction is for, where the money comes from, where they live, whether they are a politically exposed person, and your risk rating. Certaby flags what makes the risk high (a PEP match, a FATF high-risk country) and then asks for source of funds evidence, which you upload here. Kept with the other checks for 7 years. No charge. Want us to check someone's bank statements for you? A source of funds review is from £9.99 a person paying (3 months of statements; up to 24 months for £14.99): they upload their statements through a secure link and we send you a report by the end of the next working day. You order it for each person in the transaction.No charge
- Monitoring until completionEveryone in the transaction is screened every day against the UK, UN, EU and US sanctions lists, from when you run the checks until you mark the transaction complete, and you are emailed if a new match appears. The first 6 weeks are included; if the transaction runs longer, extend it for 10p a person a week.Included
- Company and owners checkThe Companies House record for a company party, all its current directors and officers, and its owners through every layer of companies, each person screened against the UK, UN, EU and US sanctions lists and checked against the register of disqualified directors (up to 30 people). With PEP and adverse media ticked, those people are checked for it too.£2.99 per check
- KYB packageFor each company party: its own sanctions screen, the company and owners check (every director and owner screened for sanctions and checked against the register of disqualified directors), the FCA register under the company's name with any FCA Warning List entry, the business risk score, and PEP and adverse media on up to 4 of its directors and owners. More people are checked for PEP at the add-on price when PEP and adverse media is ticked.£6.95 per check
- Pre-appointment checkFor each company in the case (the company and any company buying the business): its sanctions screen with adverse media on the company itself, the company and owners check (every director and owner screened for sanctions and checked against the register of disqualified directors), and PEP and adverse media on every one of them (up to 30). With a buyer in the case, the buyer's directors and owners are compared with the company's to show any connected party. One price a company.£12.99 per check
- Export screeningEach party in the shipment screened against six US export lists (the Entity List, the Denied Persons, Unverified and Military End User lists, the ITAR Debarred list and US Nonproliferation Sanctions) and the UK, UN, EU and US OFAC sanctions lists, with the date each list last changed. A UK company by its number includes everyone recorded in its ownership at Companies House. A screening record, not a licensing decision.£1.49 per check
- Property risk packPostcode geography, Police.uk crime and Environment Agency flood risk, combined with the EPC certificate for the property.£1.29 per check
- EPC + MEES checkEnergy efficiency band and MEES verdict (meets the minimum E now / C from 2030) for the property.49p per check
- Postcode intelligenceGeography, Police.uk crime and Environment Agency flood risk for the postcode.99p per check
- Ownership check (HM Land Registry title)Confirms the landlord or seller holds the title and the authority they claim for the property.Coming soon
- Source of funds review (bank statements)The person uploads their bank statements through a secure link; we review them and send you a report by the end of the next working day: the accounts checked, the money coming in, where the money for this comes from, and anything that needs a closer look. The price is for 3 months of statements; 6 months is £10.99, 12 months £12.99, 24 months £14.99. Charged when the link is sent, back in full if they upload nothing. Not Open Banking.from £9.99 a person
Right to Rent applies in England only: by link with the tenant's ID, £3.49 a tenant (Right to Rent check by link), or free to record when you do the gov.uk check yourself. For properties in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland the transaction skips it and the EPC / MEES verdict reflects the local regime. Sanctions screening applies UK-wide. An ID check by link is £1.99 a person (Digital ID check), or free to record when you see the documents yourself. A property risk pack for a postcode you checked in the last 24 hours, in any of your transactions, is reused at no charge.
A check on its own
When you need one answer rather than a whole job. Each runs in seconds and is saved to your records. Run a check.
- Business Risk + Director Score10-pack: £2.49 each · 50-pack: £1.79 each · 250-pack: £1.19 each · 1,000-pack: 69p each£2.95 a check
- Companies House Lookup10-pack: 39p each · 50-pack: 32p each · 250-pack: 25p each49p a check
- EPC Energy Lookup10-pack: 39p each · 100-pack: 29p each · 1,000-pack: 19p each · 5,000+ bulk CSV: 12p each49p a check
- FCA Firm Verification10-pack: 79p each · 100-pack: 59p each · 1,000-pack: 39p each99p a check
- Postcode Intelligence Report10-pack: 69p each · 100-pack: 45p each · 1,000-pack: 29p each99p a check
- Sanctions screening10-pack: 79p each · 100-pack: 55p each · 1,000-pack: 39p each99p a check
A list of people and companies screened together is priced by its size, down to 39p a name, for up to 2,000 names: bulk screening.
How you pay: credit
Checks are paid from a credit balance on your Certaby account. Top up by card from £5; credit never expires and pays for any check on this page.
Any amount from £5 to £50,000, in pounds and pence.
You pay by card on a secure payment page, then go to your account, where the new balance shows.
Membership
A monthly allowance, from £19.99 a month.
Lets or sales and the people in them each month, with sanctions, PEP and adverse media checks on each person, the property risk pack and monitoring until completion. ID and Right to Rent checks by link are paid from credit as above, outside the allowance. Lets and sales beyond the allowance are paid from credit at the member rate, 4% below the prices above. Monthly with no contract or minimum term, or yearly with about two months free. Cancel any time, in one click on the Membership page.
Starter
£19.99 a month
or £199 a year
Monthly with no contract, or yearly
- 5 lets or sales a month
- Up to 15 people or companies
Agency
£59.99 a month
or £599 a year
Monthly with no contract, or yearly
- 15 lets or sales a month
- Up to 45 people or companies
- The AML compliance documents included
Busy
£189.99 a month
or £1,899 a year
Monthly with no contract, or yearly
- 50 lets or sales a month
- Up to 150 people or companies
- The AML compliance documents included
Extras
Monitoring and the compliance documents.
Optional, on top of pay as you go or a membership. Running checks never needs any of these.
Monitoring
Three kinds, for three jobs.
- Your clients, every day
- A monthly plan that re-screens everyone you add against the UK, UN, EU and US sanctions lists each morning, and emails you the day one becomes a match. From £19.99 a month. Optional monthly PEP and adverse media re-check: 20p a person a month. See the plans
- A sale, until completion
- Part of every sale: the buyer and the seller are watched daily from the first run, 6 weeks included. Completion later than that: 10p a person a week.
- A company, at Companies House
- An email when a director or owner joins or leaves, its status, name or address changes, its accounts become overdue, a charge is registered or insolvency appears. From £2.49 a company a month, paid from credit; stop whenever you like.
Companies House monitoring: prices by number of companies
| Companies you watch | A company a month |
|---|---|
| 1 to 9 | £2.49 |
| 10 to 49 | £1.99 |
| 50 to 199 | £1.58 |
| 200 or more | £1.25 |
Add a company by its number on your Monitoring page. The first month is taken from your credit when you add it.
The AML compliance documents
For firms in MLR-2017 (the 2017 money-laundering regulations) scope (you also do property sales, or your lettings cross the rent threshold): the procedures HMRC inspects, around your checks. A written firm risk assessment, policies and procedures, an MLRO appointment and training log, case management for review and fail outcomes, and a one-click inspection-ready bundle. See the seven documents and how each maps to an HMRC inspection.
Solo
£19.99 /month
For a sole trader or single-office firm where one person keeps compliance.
- All seven HMRC-inspection documents, generated from your firm profile
- Firm-wide risk assessment, policies and procedures, MLRO record
- Staff training log, case management, SAR/OFSI report prep
- One-click inspection-ready bundle for any date range
- Single login
Single login. Cancel any time from your account page; your records keep working.
Firm
£49 /month
For firms where several staff need their own login into one shared compliance environment.
- Everything in Solo, for your whole firm
- Multiple staff logins sharing one compliance environment
- Shared risk assessment, policies, case load and training log
- Per-user attribution on case dispositions and training
- Priority support and inspection assistance
Multiple staff logins share one firm environment, which we set up with you (usually within one business day). You can start on Solo today and we move you across.
The documents are generated from your firm profile and your transactions. Running checks stays pay as you go with or without them.
Building checks into your own software? The same checks run through the Certaby API, paid from the same credit, and we can also set them up in your systems (£495 to £995 a day).