Compare SEON vs Nethone
As both SEON and Nethone continue to grow in reputation, this article aims to help businesses looking to upgrade their fraud prevention product stack with more modern, innovative solutions.
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About Nethone
Nethone is a machine learning-based fraud prevention SaaS company that supports online merchants and financial institutions with online user profiling.
Founded in 2016, Nethone was created to “make the online space a safer, and more transparent place for all users” and was established within the Daftcode ecosystem that also features the European payment solution Straal.
In June 2021, Nethone raised $6.7m in a Series A funding round to focus on its Know Your Users mission. It currently secures traffic from 140 countries for 90 clients and employs 110 people worldwide from its headquarters in Warsaw, Poland.
Nethone Key Products
- Nethone offers data enrichment to let you learn more about customers based on devices, geolocation, email, and behvioral signals.
- A dashboard with decision engine: this is the heart of the Nethone offering, which lets you monitor and control decision logic, visualize data, and create fraud prevention reports.
- Nethone KYC, which integrates Authologic to identify customers and reduce identity fraud, multi-accounting, and more.
- Customer success team, who is theer to help you get the most of Nethone (only available on the highest paid plan).
- The company has been created with engineers in mind so integration can be complete “within minutes” with no impact on user experience.
- Nethone allows for 3rd party API plugins so you are able to develop a multi-layered defence with other solutions available on the market.
- Signals offer human readable reasoning behind the decision made by their machine learning engine.
- Although they pull together recommendations based on 5000+ data points, you might still need to enrich that data to have full context.
- Relying on a blackbox machine learning algorithm means you will have to deal with false positives.
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SEON vs Nethone Features Comparison Table
| SEON | Nethone |
Data aggregation | ||
IP Analysis | Yes | Yes |
Email data enrichment | Yes | Yes |
Phone data enrichment | Yes | No |
Find user social media | Yes, checks 50+ platforms | No |
Device Fingerprinting | Yes | Yes |
BIN for transaction | Yes | Yes |
Behavior tracking | Yes, via custom rules | Yes |
User authentication | Yes | Yes |
Risk analysis | ||
Custom rules | Yes | Yes |
Machine learning suggestions | Yes | Yes |
Industry preset rules | Yes | Yes |
Risk score | Yes | No |
Integration / deployment | ||
API calls | Yes | Yes |
Modular APIs | Yes | Yes |
Custom API fields | Yes | Yes |
GUI | Yes | Yes |
Chrome extension | Yes | No |
Manual query | Yes | Yes |
Graph visualization | No | Yes |
Reporting | Yes | Yes |
Team management | Yes | No |
Integration with other tools | Yes | Yes |
Pricing | ||
Chargeback guarantee | No | No |
Free integration | Yes | No |
Free support | Yes | Yes |
Free version | Yes | No |
Cost per month | Flexible pay-per-API request model. A free version is also available with limited API calls. | The company offers a three-tiered pricing. Essential costs 0.03€ per API requests with a 300€ minimum monthly fee, up to 20k requests. Standard increases the API call price to €0.1 for a higher number of features. Premium is only available upon request. |
Its AI looks to handle the majority of transactions without input from your risk team, although you are able to look into any particular decision and have some level of flexibility with input from their team.
- The availability of connection graphs can help uncover more complex fraud schemes and provide a deeper understanding of where fraudsters are attacking.
Where SEON Wins Over Nethone
- Customer success team is available with all paid plans, not just the highest tier.
- Our data enrichment gives you more real-life context of a transaction by looking at your users’ social media presence (or lack thereof) and the risk scores are applied accordingly – not just at the signals captured during the user journey.
- The AML capabilities are stronger, as SEON checks sanction lists and PEP lists, among others.
SEON vs Nethone Conclusion
You require more in depth user profiling with access to real-time data enrichment, phone and email analysis, and device fingerprinting – or powerful integration of KYC and AML data.
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