# ID.me: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 12 judge labels across 1 category by 10 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/id-me

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Identity verification](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/identity/identity-verification/index.md) | 0% | 74 | 75% | 12 |

## What the models said for it

- "Government/Healthcare high-assurance logins | ID.me" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Identity verification)

## And against it

- "ID.me harvests personal data as a gatekeeper to public agencies—which have no business requiring citizens to use a for-profit intermediary." (Muse Glimmer 30B, Identity verification)
- "Ongoing regulatory investigations (e.g., ID.me's FTC scrutiny and congressional pressure)." (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Identity verification)
- "Faced major controversy over privacy concerns with facial recognition technology" (MiniMax M2.5, Identity verification)
- "Services such as ID.me and Persona are generally described as legitimate, but legitimacy does not eliminate privacy, account-compromise, or phishing risks." (Perplexity Sonar, Identity verification)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named ID.me, from 19 of the 19 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- files.gao.gov: 7
- trustpilot.com: 7
- jumio.com: 6
- reddit.com: 6
- au10tix.com: 5
- bbb.org: 5
- ftc.gov: 5
- gao.gov: 5
- oaic.gov.au: 5
- fedscoop.com: 4

### Pages cited

- https://fedscoop.com/treasury-direct-irs-id-me-login-gov: 4
- https://finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-warren-press-treasury-and-irs-on-rushed-transition-to-id-me-for-savings-bond-investors: 4
- https://jumio.com/online-identity-verification-mistakes: 4
- https://oaic.gov.au/news/blog/our-strategy-to-make-id-verification-more-secure-and-privacy-protective: 4
- https://bbb.org/us/va/mclean/profile/identification-bureau/idme-llc-0241-236003677/complaints: 3
- https://customerthink.com/are-you-making-these-identity-verification-mistakes-heres-how-to-avoid-them: 3
- https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-25-107273/index.html: 3
- https://gao.gov/products/gao-25-107273: 3

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.