Run a face search
Discover where it leads
- Free face search.
Pay only to unlock sources - Private & secure.
Uploaded photos are never searchable
- >10 billion indexed images
- >250 million social profiles
- U.S. public records
- Multiple search channels in one place
- >22 million mugshots and criminal records
- >700,000 registered sex offenders
Start your face lookup
Surfface helps identify and verify people and uncover relevant information across multiple sources
by combining reverse image search, context-based discovery and facial recognition where legally permitted.
01Upload
Add up to 5 photos and start
a free face search.02Search
Surfface searches its extensive proprietary index, major search engines and multiple other third-party tools in one place.
03Review
See face matches and public-record check results, including criminal records, offender registries and more.
04Unlock
Unlock the full search results with all source links and get the complete context behind each match.
Don’t judge someone solely by Surfface findings. People are more than their past and public presence.
Use results as context, not a final conclusion. Don't use Surfface for FCRA-regulated decisions.
Face finder that delivers value
Found my college bestie with Surfface from just one old photo. Total long shot, but it worked. So grateful.
Didn’t expect much from a blurry group photo, but Surfface still found the guy I met at a conference and helped us reconnect.
Had no idea my pics were being used by random IG accounts. Surfface found them and helped me handle it.
Why Surfface?
Go beyond a standard face search or reverse image search
Face search orchestrator.
Many in one place
Surfface brings together its proprietary index, major search engines and third-party face and image search tools in one place.
One photo. Multiple search channels and methods.
One place to start.
The easiest place to start a people search with a photo
index
engines
search engines
Best-in-class discoverability
Find face matches that individual search engines may miss.
>46% of basic searches and >68% of Deep Searches find the right matching photos of the searched person.
>68%
Deep searches
>46%
Basic searches
*After privacy, safety and trust filtering. U.S. market data.
U.S. public records
search by face
A unique, specialized index of U.S. public records enables face search across available mugshots, criminal records, registered sex offender registries and other government records with faces.
*See the person, not just the record. Public records can be incomplete, outdated, inaccurate or affected by legal and administrative errors.
High-coverage
social profile discovery
Surfface indexes over 250 million social profiles and expands discovery with third-party face search, reverse image search and facial recognition search tools, making it one of the strongest tools for finding social accounts from a face photo.
*No access-control or friendly-zone bypasses. Surfface only indexes profiles and content that have been publicly accessible at least once.
Advanced
facial recognition
Find harder matches across aging, lower-quality photos and different angles, ranked by similarity.
Explore how Surfface searches*Extremely low-quality searches or searches with suspicious intent may be deprioritized and return noisier results due to our privacy, safety and ethics safeguards.
Compliance-first
Built around public data, privacy and compliance with applicable privacy and biometric regulations, including CCPA/CPRA, BIPA and GDPR.
Searches are encrypted. Uploaded images stay private and are never added to the search index or used for model training.
Clear controls support opt-out, de-indexing, suppression and removal requests. 99.8% of eligible opt-out and suppression requests are approved.
Designed for safer,
responsible use
Multiple safety filters and controls govern how Surfface can be used, searched and indexed.
Searches involving minors and explicit content are prohibited and access is restricted where required by law.
*Strict privacy and safety rules also govern how data is indexed and processed.
Face search for safety, discovery and investigations
Discover and protect your digital footprint
Run a face search on yourself to see where your photos appear online, detect unauthorized use and potential identity theft and protect your identity and reputation.
Explore Identity Theft & Reputation ProtectionRun people search & person lookup by face
Surfface complements traditional people search and background check tools with face search. Names can be fake, misspelled or too common, making a photo an ideal starting point for finding and verifying people.
Search criminal records & mugshot with a photo
Search specialized U.S. public-record sources by face and check available mugshots and criminal records when a name alone is not enough.
Explore Mugshot & Criminal Records Check>22 million
mugshots and criminal
records with faces
Check sex offender registry by face
Check available U.S. registered sex offender registries using a face photo. Many women use Surfface as an added safety check before meeting or trusting a potential date.
Explore Sex Offender Registry Search>700,000
registered sex
offender faces
Detect catfishing & impersonation
Use face search to uncover reused photos, hidden profiles and identity conflicts. Spot potential catfishing and impersonation scams before trust is established.
Explore Catfishing & Impersonation DetectionAssist legal investigations & locate parties
Use face search to help locate parties, connect identities and discover relevant public information when names or contact details are incomplete or outdated.
Supercharge your investigations
A powerful face identifier for journalists, private investigators, security professionals and OSINT researchers. Surfface is also used to support missing-person searches and has helped bounty tipsters identify and locate suspects.
Streamline debt collection & skip tracing
Add face-based discovery to traditional skip tracing. Find potential public profiles and online leads that can help locate and verify hard-to-find individuals.
Enhance E-commerce fraud prevention
Investigate suspicious identities, reused photos and conflicting online profiles. Add face search as another signal to help uncover impersonation and identity fraud.
Support KYC & AML research
Support Know-Your-Customer and Anti-Money-Laundering investigations with an additional face-search layer. Discover public profiles, identity connections and relevant open-source information to support deeper verification and investigation.
Perform face reverse image search
Find exact and modified copies of a photo, then go further. Surfface combines face reverse image search with facial recognition search to discover the same person across different photos, appearances and sources.
Explore Face Reverse Image SearchDon’t judge someone solely by Surfface findings
People are more than their past and public presence. Do not use Surfface for FCRA-regulated decisions. Public records can be incomplete, outdated or inaccurate, and a past record does not define a person. Always verify findings in context.