Both services put a business address on your 2257 statement so your home address does not go on the internet. The real difference is narrower and more useful than any feature list: 2257Sentry stores the record you build, and Easy2257 builds it.
You examine the performer's government-issued photo ID, you assemble the paperwork, and you upload it. Their FAQ says so in its own words. They hold the files, encrypt them, back them up, and let you publish their address instead of yours. If your own check was sound, the record is sound.
The identity check runs here, with document authentication and facial comparison. The cross-reference index builds itself as scenes close. Releases go out for signature and a scene cannot close without them. You get the same address, plus a record you did not have to assemble correctly under pressure.
That single difference explains almost every row in the table below, including the price rows.
Read the 2257Sentry column as what their public pages describe. An absence here is an absence of published documentation, not a claim about what they will do for a customer who asks them.
Their FAQ states the position plainly: each producer must check a government-issued picture ID. The producer performs the check, and the record is only as good as that check. Easy2257 runs the verification itself, with automated document authentication and facial comparison on scene plans, and guided self-capture with attestation on Solo.
The regulation asks that records be cross-referenced so a performer can be found from a depiction and a depiction from a performer. Easy2257 generates the index as scenes close, searchable by legal name, alias, stage name and content title.
Documented consent to publish the specific content. Federal record-keeping does not ask for it; the card networks do. Easy2257 sends the release on every scene and will not let a scene close until every performer has signed.
A public intake form anyone depicted can use, with deadlines computed automatically: 48 hours for NCII claims under the TAKE IT DOWN Act, 72 hours under state NCII laws, 7 business days for card-network appeals. Included on every Easy2257 plan.
A monthly report to your payment acquirer, required even when nothing happened. Easy2257 generates it automatically on the 2nd of each month on Producer plans and up, as a PDF and machine-readable JSON.
A partner API so a platform hosting user-uploaded content can create productions, verify performers and pull compliance state programmatically, instead of asking every creator to keep records by hand.
Both services put a business address on your 2257 statement instead of your home address. This is the need that brings most producers to either of us, and both answer it.
The two services are not priced on the same axis. Theirs counts domains. Ours counts scenes and identity verifications. Which one is cheaper depends entirely on how much you shoot.
2257Sentry
$518.40
A $99 setup fee plus $34.95 a month, on their entry plan.
Easy2257 Solo Creator
$120/yr
No setup fee. This is the lane where the gap is widest.
Their higher tier covers 20 domains for $914.40 in year one, still unmetered. If you are shooting eight or more scenes a month and you do not need the verification, the releases or the acquirer report, their flat plan costs several times less than ours and no amount of framing changes that.
Our metering is not a packaging choice. Every identity verification is a live third-party check that costs money each time it runs, so the price follows the work instead of being averaged across everyone. Storing a file someone else already checked costs almost nothing to repeat, which is why an unmetered plan is possible for a service that does not verify. Both models are rational. They answer different questions.
2257Sentry prices were read from their public pricing page in August 2026 and are quoted here for comparison only. Check their site for current numbers before you decide. Easy2257 prices on this page come from our live plans and match our pricing page.
A comparison page that finds nothing good to say about the other service is not worth reading. Here is where they are genuinely the stronger pick.
Their site states the service has operated since 2012. For a buyer who weighs years in the market above everything else, that is a real answer and we do not have a longer one.
Their plans do not meter performers, uploads or storage. Nothing you add changes the bill, so there is no arithmetic to do before a shoot and no surprise line item after one.
Their tiers are sold as 5 domains or 20 domains. Adult producers think in sites, so that is instantly legible in a way that a per-scene allowance is not.
If you shoot often and want storage rather than verification, a flat unmetered plan wins on price. We would rather you read that here than discover it after signing.
Pick 2257Sentry if you already run a sound identity check yourself, you shoot a lot, you want storage with an address on it, and a predictable unmetered bill matters more to you than anything on the card-network list.
Pick Easy2257 if you are a solo creator, if you would rather the verification and the index were somebody else's job than yours, or if a payment processor has started asking about model releases, removal deadlines or a monthly acquirer report. A card-network review is the thing most likely to interrupt your income this year, and it is the part of the problem we were built for.
Everything in the 2257Sentry column was read from their own public pages in August 2026: their homepage, pricing page, FAQ, and their explanation of the service. We have not tested their product and we do not claim to know what they do for a customer behind the login. Where this page says something is not described, it means their published pages do not describe it. Products change, so if a row matters to your decision, ask them and hold us to the same standard.
Both provide a Custodian of Records address so your home address stays off your 2257 statement. The difference is who builds the record. 2257Sentry stores the records you create and check yourself; their FAQ states that each producer must examine the performer's government-issued photo ID. Easy2257 performs the identity verification and generates the cross-referenced index required by 28 CFR 75.2(a)(2)-(3). It also collects performer-signed model releases and runs a depicted-person removal portal, which the card networks require rather than federal law.
For a solo creator, yes, substantially. For a producer shooting many scenes a month, no. 2257Sentry sells unmetered plans priced by number of domains, so their cost does not move with volume. Easy2257 meters scenes and identity verifications, because each verification is a live third-party identity check that costs real money every time it runs. Above a certain volume their flat plan is the cheaper one.
Their public pages do not describe model releases, a removal portal, acquirer reports, Mastercard AN 5196, the Visa Integrity Risk Program, or the TAKE IT DOWN Act. That is an observation about what they publish, not a statement about what they may do for a customer who asks. If those obligations apply to you, ask them directly before you decide.
Because the two products do different amounts of work per record. Storing a file that a producer already checked costs almost nothing to repeat. Running a document authentication and facial comparison on a new performer costs money every single time. Metering is how the price follows the work rather than being averaged across everyone.
Yes. Records created elsewhere can be imported and held to the retention clock, and they stay marked as imported rather than being presented as verifications Easy2257 performed. An imported record never silently becomes a verified one, because the identity check that would justify that never happened here.
This page provides general information about federal record-keeping and card-network requirements. It is not legal advice.
Solo creators from $120/yr. Scene plans from $39.95/scene.