Is Fortiro the same as VerifyPDF?
Not exactly. Both inspect documents for tampering and AI-generated content, but the products are sized for different buyers. Fortiro is a hybrid platform built around Australian lender workflows, combining 120+ configurable rules, 100+ fraud checks and pre-trained AI models with an analyst Investigator tool that visualises what was changed inside a document. It is sold on annual contracts through AWS Marketplace, with proof of value before signing.
VerifyPDF is a focused forensic fraud API. It runs pixel, metadata and internal structure checks on financial documents, ships with published prepaid pricing and self-serve API keys, and is designed to plug into any stack in any geography without an annual commitment.
When Fortiro is the right choice
Pick Fortiro when you are an Australian lender. Their customer base reads like a roll call of the local market, including NAB, Pepper Money, Plenti, Athena, Bank Australia, Latitude, BOQ, Thinktank and Resimac. That depth of regional evidence is hard to match, and Australian risk teams benefit from a vendor that already understands local payslip layouts, statement formats and lender pipelines.
The Investigator tool is also a real advantage if your fraud operations team builds analyst cases around flagged documents. Being able to reverse the changes and see the original content side by side is genuinely useful in a manual review workflow, and not something a pure API delivers.
When VerifyPDF is the right choice
Pick VerifyPDF when your operations sit outside Australia, when you cannot commit to an annual contract before validating the technology against your own data, or when your scope spans more than lending. Geography-neutral coverage matters when your portfolio includes US, UK, EU or LATAM documents, and prepaid bundles let finance set a fixed cost per document with no minimum spend lock-in.
VerifyPDF also fits better when you do not need an analyst console. If your stack already has a case management tool and you only want a forensic verdict at decisioning time, paying for the bundled Investigator workflow is overkill. Lenders, insurers, landlords and marketplaces in non-Australian markets typically use VerifyPDF as a focused forensic layer on top of whatever workflow they already run.
Pricing and procurement
Fortiro publishes pricing on AWS Marketplace, which is uncommon in this category. Their listing shows $2,925 per month for a 1,000-document monthly allowance under an annual 15,000-document contract, with $2.95 charged for each overage document. Procurement is contract-led, and Fortiro encourages a trial plus proof of value before signing.
VerifyPDF publishes prepaid bundle prices on the pricing page. Bundles start at $0.09 per document at the 10,000-document tier, never expire and do not require an annual commitment. Teams that handle fraud for lenders, insurers and landlords usually buy the smallest bundle, validate VerifyPDF against a sample of their own documents, then scale the bundle up once coverage is dialled in. The procurement steps compress to two: pick a bundle and pull an API key.
Migration from Fortiro
Most teams looking at VerifyPDF outside Australia have never used Fortiro, so there is nothing to migrate. If you are an Australian lender currently on Fortiro and considering a swap, plan for the analyst-console gap. Export a quarter of document volume to understand your mix, size a VerifyPDF prepaid bundle against that volume, point your verification endpoint at the VerifyPDF REST API, and rebuild the Investigator-style review flow inside whatever case management tool your operations team already uses. The API integration is typically a sprint of work, the analyst workflow rebuild is the slower piece.