Can I Self-Host Sanctions Screening?

The honest answer on self-hosting sanctions screening — what you get and what you own.

TL;DR

TL;DR: Yes. SanctionsAI is MIT-licensed and self-hostable — the screening engine, SDN data pipeline, and API run in your infrastructure. The hosted API is the fast path; self-host is always free.

What you get

• The full screening engine against the OFAC SDN list
• Hourly-synced data pipeline
• HTTP API — same shape as hosted

What you own

Your infrastructure, your data, your uptime. You are responsible for keeping the SDN mirror fresh — a stale list is a compliance gap.

Hosted vs self-host

Hosted: zero ops, hourly sync, audit log, $19/mo. Self-host: free, full control, you run it. Both run the same engine.