What Accredited Investor Verification Costs in 2026

What we did, so you can judge the numbers

On 27 July 2026 we opened every accredited investor verification service we could find and read the price off the vendor's own page. No figures carried over from our earlier research, none taken from comparison articles, none lifted from a search result snippet. If a number is in this post, we loaded the page it came from on that date, and the URL is named next to it.

We expected to publish a price comparison table. We could not, and the reason is more useful to you than the table would have been.

The prices you can actually look up

Accredited.AM publishes a rate on its homepage and does not make you ask for it: $35 per accreditation, and $25 for a re-accreditation on the same account. That is the lowest verified price in the category, and it is a real price, not a teaser. The page gives no entity pricing, no volume pricing, and no turnaround commitment beyond a description of aiming for "a timely turnaround," but the number itself is plainly stated and easy to find.

AccreditedNow publishes the full rate card: $99 for an individual verification, an optional $29 Priority 24-Hour add-on, and seat packs at $445, $790, $1,725 and $3,250 for 5, 10, 25 and 50 seats, falling to $59 a seat at 100 or more. Entity verification starts at $199. Every one of those figures is on the sponsor page and the entity page right now, without a form in front of it.

North Capital is a partial case worth stating precisely. Its verification page carries exactly one dollar figure — $125 per person for bad actor checks — which is a different product. The verification itself has no published price. What the page does commit to is a typical turnaround of one business day, and it states that every verification is conducted by a North Capital registered representative, which means they are working under the broker-dealer safe harbor rather than the CPA or attorney one. That is a legitimate route to the same rule and we would rather describe it accurately than score a point off it.

The ones that will not tell you until you ask

Service	Price published?	What the page says as of 27 July 2026
AccreditedNow	Full rate card	$99 individual, $29 priority add-on, packs from $445, entity from $199
Accredited.AM	Yes	$35 per accreditation, $25 per re-accreditation
North Capital	Partly	$125 per person for bad actor checks; verification price not published; 1 business day typical
InvestReady	No	Rates moved to a DocSend guide that may ask for a business email
VerifyInvestor	No	No figure on the homepage or the how-to-order page; several pricing URLs return 404
Accredd	No	"Schedule Demo" and "Contact Us" in place of a rate; states responses in under 12 hours
iCapital (formerly Parallel Markets)	No	Institutions and platforms only; no self-serve path for an individual investor

The most commonly cited figure in this category is $75 for InvestReady. It is not on their page. The page's browser title still reads "Accredited Investor Verifications - Now $75," which is why search engines and comparison writers keep repeating it, but the body of the page contains no dollar amount at all. In its place is a link to a DocSend document and an explanation of why.

The second most commonly cited figure is $69 for VerifyInvestor. We could not find it. The homepage carries no price. The page explaining how to order a self-verification carries no price and tells the reader to sign up or email support. The pricing URLs we tried returned 404. The homepage does make speed claims through customer testimonials, including a letter received "in less than 10 minutes," but there is no stated service level anywhere on it.

Two names in every roundup that should not be there

EarlyIQ. Type earlyiq.com into a browser today and you land on investready.com. The redirect happens at the domain level, and InvestReady's own site does not mention EarlyIQ anywhere. Google still holds a title tag reading "Accredited Investor Verification $69 | EarlyIQ," and every comparison article we read still lists EarlyIQ as a live, separate option with its own pricing. It is not one.

Parallel Markets. The URL investors were sent to for years, parallelmarkets.com/get-accredited, now redirects to iCapital's identity solutions page, which carries the footnote "formerly Parallel Markets" and is written entirely for institutions and platforms. There is no self-serve route for an individual investor on it. If you are a sponsor whose investor materials or help documentation still tell people to verify through Parallel Markets, those instructions now point at a redirect, and it is worth fixing this week.

We want to be fair about how this happened. The best-sourced comparison guide we found — published in June 2026, updated in July, written under a named author with an explicit disclosure that he holds no position in and has no commercial relationship with any company mentioned — quotes "$50 to $100 per investor" for VerifyInvestor and EarlyIQ. Those are presented honestly as the author's own observation rather than as quoted rates. He is not being careless. He simply cannot cite a source, because the sources stopped existing.

Why pricing moved behind a form

InvestReady is the only vendor that explains the decision, and the explanation deserves to be taken seriously rather than mocked. Their page says they share commercial terms through a controlled document "instead of a static website rate table," and gives the reason directly: "No stale public rate table. One controlled document for the latest commercial terms."

There is a real argument in that. A published price that has quietly gone out of date is worse than no price, because it produces exactly the situation this post is documenting — a number circulating for years after the company stopped standing behind it. A single controlled document genuinely does solve that problem.

It solves it by moving the cost onto you. The buyer now has to give up an email address and wait for a reply to learn something that used to take four seconds, and every buyer pays that cost, including the ones who were only ever going to verify three investors and were never going to be worth a sales conversation. It also makes the price negotiable in a market where the buyer has no reference point, which is usually the actual reason quote-only pricing appears in a category.

The alternative is not a stale table. The alternative is a published table with a date on it and someone whose job is to keep it current. That is harder, and it is the position we have taken.

What verification actually costs a raise

Set the vendors aside for a moment. Here is the arithmetic that matters, using only the two verified prices in the category plus our own pack pricing.

A 25-investor 506(c) raise costs somewhere between roughly $875 and $2,475 to verify if every investor is an individual and every verification is bought one at a time. Bought as a pack, our 25 seats are $1,725, or $69 a seat. Against a $50,000 minimum check that pack is 3.45% of a single investor's commitment, and it covers the entire round.

That is the number sponsors consistently get wrong in both directions. They budget for verification as if it were a meaningful line item in a raise — it is not, at any realistic check size — and then they treat the friction of it as if it were free, which it very much is not. One investor who stalls at the verification step and never comes back costs roughly twenty-nine times what the whole pack did.

The one figure genuinely worth budgeting carefully is entity verification. An LLC, revocable trust, SDIRA or SPV is a different piece of work from an individual, and it is priced differently: ours starts at $199 covering up to two entities, with additional entities at $59 each, and an entity qualifying under the $5 million investments test is $499. If your cap table is mostly SPVs and self-directed IRAs, size the budget off the entity line and not the individual line, or you will be out by a factor of two.

What is not on any rate card

Four costs never appear in a price comparison and all four are larger than the fee.

• Re-verification. Verification has a shelf life. A letter issued three months ago does not cover a wire that arrives today, so a raise that runs long pays twice for some investors. Accredited.AM prices this explicitly at $25, which is a point in their favour — most vendors do not tell you.
• The investor who does not finish. Every additional step between soft commitment and wire loses somebody. This is not a hypothetical cost, it is the dominant one, and it is the entire argument for a sponsor covering verification rather than passing it along.
• Your own time. Chasing documents from twenty investors by email, without a dashboard telling you who has started and who has stalled, is several hours of somebody's closing week.
• The rejected letter. A letter that does not say what your counsel needs it to say has to be redone, and you find out at the worst possible moment. This is the real reason turnaround claims matter more than prices do.

How to get a real number in one email

For the four vendors that will not publish, you have to ask. Ask well, and ask all of them the same thing, so the answers are comparable when they come back.

The turnaround question is the one that separates the answers. "Typically" and "usually" are averages, and an average is not something you can plan a closing around. Ask what happens when it does not hit, and whether anything is refunded. We attach money to ours precisely because that is the only version of the claim that means anything: the $29 Priority add-on is issuance within 24 business hours of a complete upload, or the add-on fee comes back.

Our numbers, in full

It would be poor form to write this post and then be vague, so: $99 for an individual verification. $29 for the Priority 24-Hour add-on. Packs at $445, $790, $1,725 and $3,250 for 5, 10, 25 and 50 seats, and from $59 a seat at 100 or more. Seats do not expire and are not tied to a single deal. Entity verification from $199 covering up to two entities, $59 for each additional entity, $499 for an entity qualifying under the $5 million investments test. Referral partners pay nothing and their clients pay $89.

The CPA typically signs within 24 hours of a complete submission, and most verifications complete end to end in two to three business days. "Typically" is doing real work in that sentence, which is why the add-on exists.

We are not the cheapest option in this category. Accredited.AM is $35 and we are $99, and no amount of writing changes that. What we will do is tell you the number before you talk to anyone, keep this page dated, and correct it the week anything moves. If you find a figure here that is wrong, tell us and we will fix it.