Biometrics-as-a-Service Market Report 2025

This report covers market characteristics, size and growth, segmentation, regional and country breakdowns, competitive landscape, market shares, trends and strategies for this market. It traces the market’s historic and forecast market growth by geography.

The biometrics-as-a-service market size has grown exponentially in recent years. It will grow from $3.75 billion in 2024 to $4.72 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.8%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to increasing digital transformation, rise of cloud services, rise of remote work and access, improved accuracy and reliability.

The biometrics-as-a-service market size is expected to see exponential growth in the next few years. It will grow to $13.47 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to increased security demands, increasing mobile and iot integration, growth in healthcare and telemedicine, infrastructure growth. Major trends in the forecast period include growing use of mobile biometrics, cloud-based baas solutions, enhanced security for online transactions, technological advancements.

The increasing adoption of biometrics is expected to drive the growth of the biometrics-as-a-service market in the coming years. Biometrics refers to the measurement and statistical analysis of individuals' physical characteristics, which are used to recognize or verify their identity. The demand for biometrics is rising due to the need for enhanced security, user convenience, and identity verification across sectors such as banking, healthcare, and government services. Biometrics as a service allows for the verification of a user's identity to grant access to secure physical or digital sites, protect transactions, and support workforce management functions. For instance, in February 2024, the Information Commissioner's Office, a UK-based government agency, projected a significant increase in the demand for biometric recognition, with global market revenues expected to nearly double from $43 billion in 2022 to $83 billion by 2027. As a result, the growing adoption of biometrics is driving the expansion of the biometrics-as-a-service market.

The increasing sophistication of security threats is expected to be a major catalyst for the growth of the biometrics-as-a-service market in the coming years. Security threats represent potential dangers or risks that can jeopardize the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information and resources. Biometrics as a service plays a crucial role in enhancing security by offering convenient and reliable identity verification, thus reducing the likelihood of unauthorized access and identity-related security breaches. For example, in June 2022, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, a US-based organization, reported a total of 1,025,968 phishing attacks in the first quarter of 2022, marking a 15% increase from the fourth quarter of 2021, when 888,585 attacks were recorded. Hence, the rising sophistication of security threats is a driving force behind the growth of the biometrics-as-a-service market.

Leading companies in the biometrics-as-a-service market are embracing advanced technologies like multimodal biometric authentication to offer reliable services and fortify their market presence. Multimodal biometric authentication involves using two or more distinct biometric identifiers for multi-factor authentication. For example, in November 2022, NEC Corporation, a prominent Japanese information technology and electronics company, introduced Bio-IDiom, a multimodal biometric authentication solution. This system combines face recognition and iris recognition, enabling high-precision, rapid authentication with an impressively low false acceptance rate of less than one in 10 billion. The biometric authentication facilitated by this technology allows for a unified ID, streamlining seamless collaboration across various services and enhancing the development of innovative client experiences and services. Additionally, the solution ensures precise data capture by automatically adjusting the camera's position based on the user's height.

In May 2022, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a US-based analytics company, acquired BehavioSec for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition fortified LexisNexis' capability to effectively detect and authenticate digital identities. BehavioSec, a US-based advanced technology provider, is known for its expertise in behavioral biometrics.

Major companies operating in the biometrics-as-a-service market are Accenture PLC, Fujitsu Ltd., NEC Corporation, Thales Group, Leidos Holdings Inc., IDEMIA SA, Nuance Communications Inc., HID Global Corporation, Bytes Technology Group PLC, VoiceIt Technologies LLC, Imprivata Inc., Uniphore Software Systems Private Limited., Suprema Inc., BioEngagable Technologies Pvt Ltd., Aware Inc., Cognitec Systems GmbH, Integrated Biometrics LLC, IRITECH Inc., CERTIFY Global Inc., M2SYS Technology Inc., SecuGen Corporation, Athena Sciences Corporation, ImageWare Systems Inc., Mogimo Inc., Accu -Time Systems Inc., Clearview AI Inc., Biometrics Research Group Inc., Union Community Co Ltd., Skybiometry, Speech Technology Center Limited.

North America was the largest region in the biometrics-as-a-service market in 2024. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in biometrics-as-a-service report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa. The countries covered in the biometrics-as-a-service market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

The biometrics-as-a-service market consists of revenues earned by entities by providing such as fraud prevention, access control and identity verification. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. The biometrics-as-a-service market also includes sales of palm or finger vein pattern sensors, cameras, signature pads and document readers. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

Biometrics-as-a-Service (BaaS) is a cloud-based software solution that offers biometric authentication and identification services to users. It enables organizations to effectively verify the identities of individuals, whether they are customers, employees, or other stakeholders.

The biometrics-as-a-service scanners encompass a range of technologies, including fingerprint recognition, iris recognition, palm recognition, facial recognition, voice recognition, and others. Fingerprint recognition involves an automated process that verifies or identifies a person by comparing two fingerprints. These biometric modalities, whether unimodal or multimodal, can be deployed across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. They find applications in various sectors including government, retail, IT, telecom, BFSI, healthcare, and others, serving purposes such as site access control, time recording, mobile applications, web-based solutions, and workplace applications.

The biometrics-as-a-service market research report is one of a series of new reports that provides biometrics-as-a-service market statistics, including biometrics-as-a-service industry global market size, regional shares, competitors with a biometrics-as-a-service market share, detailed biometrics-as-a-service market segments, market trends and opportunities and any further data you may need to thrive in the biometrics-as-a-service industry. This biometrics-as-a-service market research report delivers a complete perspective of everything you need, with an in-depth analysis of the current and future scenario of the industry.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

This product will be delivered within 3-5 business days.