Face++
Megvii has launched a computer vision open platform that provides APIs and SDKs such as face detection, comparison, search, liveness detection, portrait processing, optical character recognition, and image recognition. It supports public cloud calls and offline deployment, serving industries such as finance, marketing, and education.
Updated: 2026-10-26
What is Face++?
Face++ is an artificial intelligence open platform launched by Megvii. Its official website positions itself as providing developers with capabilities such as face recognition, portrait processing, human body recognition, text recognition and image recognition. Its feature is to package algorithm capabilities into standard interfaces, and simultaneously provide two access paths: online API and offline SDK. For scenarios with high security requirements like identity verification via face and liveness detection, the platform also offers independent solutions instead of just general-purpose interfaces.
Who is it for?
- Financial and government application developers: They require facial identity verification, liveness detection, and document recognition to perform real-name online registration and risk control.
- Marketing and retail teams: Use beauty enhancement, skin texture analysis and other capabilities to carry out interactive marketing and optimize user experience in mini-programs.
- Mobile and hardware manufacturers: They need to run facial and image algorithms offline on the terminal, and pay attention to the size and performance of the SDK.
- Enterprise internal system teams: Use facial recognition capabilities for scenarios such as access control and attendance to replace traditional verification methods.
Key features
6Face Recognition Series
The official states that it provides capabilities such as facial attribute detection, comparison, search, and key point detection. Detection supports attribute analysis including age, gender, and emotion, while search can support large-scale face databases.
Liveness Detection & Identity Verification
The official states that it supports multiple liveness detection methods, can resist photo attacks and face-swapping attacks, and provides a remote real-name authentication solution for face and documents to adapt to online verification scenarios.
Portrait Processing and Beauty Enhancement
Provides beauty enhancement SDK and skin texture detection capabilities. The official states that it can analyze dimensions such as skin tone, wrinkles, and acne, and is used for imaging applications and interactive marketing.
Text and Document Recognition
Provides recognition capabilities for electronic driver's licenses, business licenses, etc. The official states that the business license recognition can detect multiple common fields and support recognition of both original and duplicate copies, making it suitable for scenarios involving the entry of enterprise qualification information.
Diverse Access Methods
The official provides public cloud APIs, network-connected and offline authorized SDKs, as well as private deployment and server-side SDK integration, which can be connected to mini-programs, H5 and mobile applications.
Pricing and Qualifications
It provides free testing and multiple billing methods. The official lists multiple certifications for information security, privacy and quality management systems, facilitating enterprises to conduct supplier compliance reviews.
How to use Face++
- Facial information is sensitive personal data.
- Before access, a compliance assessment, notification and authorization process must be completed, and the data retention period must be clearly defined.
- It is recommended that liveness detection solutions conduct adversarial tests based on real attack methods, rather than just looking at the pass rate or interception rate indicators provided by the vendor.
- The free quota is suitable for verifying the interfaces and effects.
- Before the official launch, the costs of pay-as-you-go, time-based packages or volume-based packages should be calculated based on the actual call volume.
- For scenarios involving document recognition, evaluate the business risks caused by misrecognition, and retain manual review and appeal channels for important links.
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
Face++ receives about 33.2K visits per month and ranks #638,786 worldwide.
Monthly visits
12 monthsTraffic sources
- Direct48.9%
- Search34.0%
- Referrals8.3%
- Social3.5%
- Display ads1.7%
- Other3.6%
Top countries
- United States45.6%
- Singapore24.8%
- Japan10.3%
- United Kingdom9.3%
- Taiwan, China8.9%
Estimated from third-party traffic data.
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