CLEAR review

Thomson Reuters CLEAR is an investigative research, risk intelligence, and identity verification platform—not the airport security service with a similar name. It brings together public records, Thomson Reuters’ proprietary databases, and deep-web content for investigations and risk assessment.

The product information lists uses including identity verification, fraud detection, background checks, and compliance research. Searches can cover criminal histories, property records, and corporate filings. CLEAR also includes tools to connect records and people: entity resolution uses machine learning to handle ambiguous identities and provide relationship confidence scores, while link analysis displays visual charts and mapping overlays.

The product is sold in versions for law enforcement, investigations, government fraud, and enhanced due diligence. That makes it a specialized research platform for organizations, rather than a self-serve consumer lookup tool. The available information does not give a starting price or specify seat and usage limits.

CLEAR’s strongest case is bringing several investigative workflows into one platform. Rather than stopping at a name search, its listed features cover identity resolution, relationship mapping, monitoring, and verification.

• Its data searches span public records, proprietary databases, and deep-web content, with examples including criminal histories, property records, and corporate filings.
• Entity resolution is designed to distinguish between people or organizations with similar or incomplete identifying details. The product description says it provides relationship confidence scores, though it does not explain how those scores are calculated.
• Link analysis turns connected records into visual link charts and mapping overlays, which can help investigators examine relationships rather than review results one at a time.
• CLEAR Investigate supports conversational queries across public records and open-web data. It also logs one year of audit chat history, according to the published feature information.
• CLEAR ID Confirm supports customizable verification and scoring for onboarding workflows. Batch services can run high-volume searches, while batch alerts monitor changes such as arrest status, addresses, or risk flags.

That breadth may reduce handoffs between research and verification tools. But the feature list does not establish how many records or jurisdictions are covered, or whether every feature is included in every plan.

The biggest buying problem is price opacity. The available pricing information lists no starting price, monthly rate, or annual rate, and says plans require a one-year minimum contract. It also says pricing varies by plan features; seat and usage limits are not published. Treat any budget estimate as a quote-dependent guess until Thomson Reuters puts the terms in writing.

The listed plans are CLEAR for Law Enforcement, Law Enforcement Plus, Investigations Basic, Investigations Advanced, Government Fraud, and Enhanced Due Diligence. Their prices are not published. Prices are also not published for the listed add-ons: Real-Time Incarceration and Arrest Records, License Plate Recognition, Alerting, Batch Services, CLEAR ID Confirm, and CLEAR Risk Inform. Overage costs are not published either.

The published pricing information is marked low confidence, so confirm current terms directly before comparing vendors. It lists no free plan; a free-trial offer is not published. The materials also do not state coverage totals or specific search, alert, or batch caps. For a switch decision, ask for a written breakdown of included features, seats, usage thresholds, add-ons, overages, and renewal terms.

According to the published pricing details, CLEAR does not publish plan prices. The listed options are CLEAR for Law Enforcement, Law Enforcement Plus, Investigations Basic, Investigations Advanced, Government Fraud, and Enhanced Due Diligence. There’s no disclosed price to compare across tiers, so we can’t quantify the jump from Basic to Advanced or between other plans.

The pricing details state a one-year minimum contract. They don’t publish monthly or annual rates, seat limits, usage limits, or overage costs. That makes it hard to estimate the total bill before getting a quote.

Listed paid add-ons include Real-Time Incarceration and Arrest Records, License Plate Recognition, Alerting, Batch Services, CLEAR ID Confirm, and CLEAR Risk Inform; prices aren’t published for any of them. Ask for a written quote that itemizes the plan, seats, usage, add-ons, and overages before signing. The published pricing information was checked on 2026-11-06 and marked low confidence.

The published materials don’t document a migration process, implementation effort, supported integrations, or data-export options. They also don’t include Reddit reports about why customers leave, so we can’t responsibly claim that a particular migration problem or complaint is common.

The clearest switching risk is contractual: the pricing details specify a one-year minimum, while renewal terms and cancellation windows aren’t published. Before moving in, ask Thomson Reuters how records, saved searches, alerts, and audit history can be transferred or exported, in what format, and whether export carries a fee. The product description says CLEAR Investigate logs one year of audit chat history, but doesn’t say whether that history is exportable.

Before moving out, confirm when access ends, what data you can retrieve, and whether any replacement system can handle your verification and batch-alert workflows. Get those answers in writing before committing; the published materials don’t establish them.