KYTGate and Nominis, compared
Nominis offers blockchain intelligence and crypto compliance tools on its own data, with published monthly plans and a free trial. KYTGate is the decision and evidence layer a broker puts in front of every crypto deposit and withdrawal. Here is where each is stronger, from each company's own public pages as read on 30 September 2026.
Where Nominis is stronger
- Their own blockchain data across 70+ chains, with a 0 to 100 risk score.
- A conversational explorer for Bitcoin investigations.
Where KYTGate is different
- Live issuer freeze checks on USDT and USDC at every decision.
- Signed, Bitcoin-anchored decision records, replay and shadow mode.
- Broker lifecycle rules, fiat signals and wallet-ownership proof in one case file.
- A lower published entry price and a sandbox that does not expire.
Feature by feature
| Feature | KYTGate | Nominis |
|---|---|---|
| Own attribution data | No proprietary attribution database. Public sources (OFAC, UK and EU lists, Tether and Circle contracts) plus, if you have one, your own Chainalysis or Elliptic licence called with your key | Yes, across 70+ chains |
| Risk output | No single score by design: a coverage matrix shows what was and was not checked for each decision | Risk score from 0 to 100 |
| Sanctions lists | OFAC, UK and EU lists, refreshed every six hours; the list snapshot is recorded in each decision | OFAC, EU and UN |
| Live Tether/Circle freeze check | Yes: reads the USDT and USDC issuer contracts live on seven networks, plus a public freeze tracker | Not described in their public material |
| Signed, independently verifiable decision record | Yes: every decision is signed (Ed25519), batched daily into a Merkle root anchored to Bitcoin, verifiable offline without us | Audit trail |
| SAR/STR drafting | Draft STR/SAR as JSON, goAML v4 XML and a narrative pack | SAR generation |
| Wallet ownership proof | Yes: signed message or micro-transfer test, including Tron and Bitcoin | Not described in their public material |
| Pricing | Published: free sandbox, then $99, $299 and $799 a month | Published: $350, $800 and $1,800 a month |
| Self-service start | Yes: free sandbox with an API key from one e-mail link | Yes: 7-day trial |
Using both
Both publish prices and allow a self-service start, so the quickest comparison is to run the same addresses through each.
Sources
- Nominis pricing
- KYTGate: pricing, methodology, anchors, freeze tracker.
Read from public pages on 30 September 2026. “Not described in their public material” means we could not find it there, not that the product lacks it. Nominis and Nominis are trademarks of their owner; this page is not endorsed by them. If anything here is wrong or out of date, write to hello@kytgate.com and we will correct it within one working day.
Run your own addresses through KYTGate, free
KYTGate screens each crypto deposit and withdrawal against the OFAC, UK and EU lists and the USDT/USDC issuer freezes, decides under your written policy, and keeps a signed record an auditor can check without us.
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