Compare all 14 vetted Australian AML compliance providers

We started with every Australian-facing AML/CTF compliance platform we could identify (~40 vendors) and applied five vetting criteria: AUSTRAC alignment of the workflow, demonstrated SME pricing (we exclude enterprise-only platforms), at least one verifiable Australian client per sector served, English-speaking AU-business-hours support, and Australian or aligned-jurisdiction data handling. The 14 listed here cleared all five. Vendors don't pay to be listed — they pay per qualified lead once they are.

Self-serve (A$129–A$650/mo) means you run AML on the software — your team does CDD, screening, and reporting using the platform's tools. Mid-market (A$700–A$2,000/mo) adds multi-entity, configurable rules, and a reviewer/approver layer for firms with a dedicated compliance lead. Managed (A$650–A$2,500/mo) adds an outsourced AML officer doing the work for you — you upload the customer, they run CDD and draft any SMRs. The price overlap between self-serve and managed is real: a small firm might pay more for a managed lite service than a mid-market platform with no service layer.

Elapsed calendar time from signed contract to first live customer onboarded through the platform — not implementation hours. Self-serve products average 1–2 weeks because most setup is configuration. Mid-market deployments are 3–5 weeks (configurable rules, integrations, training). Managed services are 4–6 weeks because the provider has to learn your business before they can run it. Add 2–3 weeks for legal-sector firms with trust account integration.

Sector specialists (AML Manager, Lawmaster) build deep workflow for one sector — typically with practice-management integration that generalist platforms can't match. Multi-sector platforms (AMLHUB, Complispace, AML SmartGuard) trade depth for breadth, which matters if you operate across legal + real estate or accounting + bookkeeping. Multi-sector firms almost always need a multi-sector platform; single-sector firms often get more value from a specialist.

CDD included means the monthly fee covers a defined volume of customer due diligence checks (ID verification, sanctions/PEP screening, beneficial ownership lookup) without per-check charges. Add-on means CDD runs through the platform but is billed per check on top of subscription. No means you provide your own CDD provider and feed results into the program. For SMEs onboarding 5–30 customers/month, included is usually cheapest; above that, negotiate a volume rate; below, pay-per-check tools win.

Pricing and feature data is refreshed quarterly against published rate cards and direct provider confirmation. Major changes — new pricing tiers, sector additions, ownership changes — trigger an out-of-cycle update. The 'last reviewed' date at the top of the table reflects the most recent verification. We don't republish silently: material changes are noted in the changelog at the bottom of provider profile pages.

The page is built to be useful before being persuasive, because that's our entire moat. Three structural protections: (1) the data fields are factual and verifiable against provider materials — we can't tilt 'onboarding weeks' or 'pricing band' without it being checkable. (2) We're paid the same per qualified lead regardless of which provider you choose. (3) Featured placements (when present) are clearly labelled and sit below the independent table, never within it. Our credibility with you is worth more than any individual provider's lead spend.

There are plausible Australian-facing AML platforms we haven't yet vetted (some new entrants, some that decline to engage with comparison sites). If you've seen a provider you want us to assess, email hello@compareaml.com.au with the name and we'll add it to the next quarterly review cycle. We won't list a provider we haven't met directly — the vetting process requires a working session on their actual platform.