What is the Live Human Presence claim type?
Live Human Presence evaluates whether a real, live person is present at the time of verification. It uses liveness detection and anti-spoofing safeguards to tell genuine users apart from automated or synthetic inputs.
It is the humanness claim type in Relay, rather than an age claim type, so it answers a different question: not how old someone is, but whether anyone is really there.
Where you might use it
The use cases below are examples of where this claim type may be a fit:
- Account signup and onboarding
- Preventing automated traffic and scraping
- Protecting feeds and discovery surfaces
It works well where a traditional bot check has stopped being convincing but a full identity verification would be far too heavy for the moment. A signup form, a first post, or access to a discovery surface are all good candidates.
How the claim is evaluated
Live Human Presence uses one method:
- Live selfie. Confirms a real, live person is present by capturing a selfie and checking for liveness.
The user is asked for a selfie, and Relay checks for signs of a live capture rather than a photo of a screen, a recorded video, or a generated image. Persona tunes how that check is applied for this claim type; the specifics are part of Persona’s implementation and are not published.
When you redeem the result, the payload reports the method as live_selfie. It is worth storing that alongside the result for your records.
Where do you find it in the Dashboard?
Navigate to the Dashboard and click on Relay > Claim Types. Live Human Presence is listed under Humanness, and you can copy its ID directly from the table.
Relay runs inside your own product, so there is nothing to configure on this page and no verification records to review. Pass the ID from your integration when you create a Relay session, then store the claim result you get back. See Integrating Relay.
You can also see this claim type running in the public demo at explore.withpersona.com/relay.
Plans Explained
Live Human Presence Claim Type by plan
| Startup Program | Essential Plan | Growth Plan | Enterprise Plan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Human Presence Claim Type | Available | Available | Available | Available |