Didit vs Chainalysis: crypto compliance with KYC in one account

Last reviewed: 25 October 2026 · Not legal advice

Teams looking for a Chainalysis alternative usually run an exchange, an on-ramp, a custody product or a fintech app that holds digital assets. Their compliance job has four parts: verify the person, verify the business when the customer is a company, screen the wallet that funds the account, and watch the money after sign-up. Most stacks buy those parts from different vendors and join them in the backend.

Chainalysis sells blockchain intelligence for crypto transaction monitoring, wallet screening and investigations.^[1] We build Didit, so read this as our side. Every Chainalysis fact below comes from Chainalysis's own public pages, read on 25 October 2026, and each one is cited. We do not compare chain coverage or attribution data; this post is about the compliance workflow around the wallet.

Didit vs Chainalysis at a glance

"Not documented publicly" means not documented on Chainalysis's public pages (checked 2026-10-25); developer docs at developers.chainalysis.com sit behind a login. Chainalysis column: chainalysis.com. Didit column: docs.didit.me.

Know the person behind the wallet in the same account

A wallet risk result says where the money has been. The regulator also asks who your customer is. On Didit, both answers sit on the same record. A full KYC check (ID verification, passive liveness, face match, and device and IP analysis) costs $0.33, and AML screening of the person costs $0.20.^[8] Didit supports 14,000+ document types, and every session decision returns each check's result, the extracted fields, the capture images and videos, and the warnings behind the decision, through one API call.^[27]

Chainalysis's crypto compliance page says it integrates with partners for KYC/AML, fraud prevention and case management tools.^[2] A first-party identity-verification product, liveness or face biometrics, and name-based sanctions and PEP screening of individuals are not documented on Chainalysis's public pages (checked 2026-10-25).^[2][4]

One customer, verified at sign-up and watched afterwards, in one Didit account.^[8][10][13]

Wallet screening with a price on the page, Travel Rule in the same account

Screen any crypto wallet address on demand for $0.15 per check, with a signed PDF report.^[10] The screening runs on blockchain-analytics providers; you order it, read it and pay for it in your Didit account. Run it on demand, for example when a user adds a new withdrawal address, in the same account where that user's document, selfie and AML result already sit.

Chainalysis's Address Screening screens wallet addresses and liquidity pools through a UI or an API.^[4] Its product pages publish no price; the KYT page refers to "competitive pricing", and list prices, a free tier or self-serve plans are not documented on Chainalysis's public pages (checked 2026-10-25).^[1][3] On Didit you can work out the cost of screening every deposit address before you talk to anyone.

Transaction monitoring tied to the verified person

Didit scores every transaction against real-time rules at $0.02 per transaction, and alerts and cases open in the same console as the KYC record.^[8][9] Rules support regex, fuzzy matching, date comparisons and list matching, in the API and the console.^[30] Didit ships over 150 preset transaction-monitoring rules, and you can backtest a rule against your own history before you switch it on, from the console, the API or an AI agent.^[11][12]

Chainalysis KYT monitors on-chain activity and generates alerts within seconds of a transaction.^[3] Its VASP Risking product assesses crypto exposure inside fiat wires to and from crypto businesses, while a general fiat transaction-monitoring rule engine is not documented on Chainalysis's public pages (checked 2026-10-25).^[5] Re-verifying the user's identity when a transaction is flagged is also not documented there.^[3]

KYB with a KYC for every owner

Didit's business verification checks the company in registries across 220+ countries and territories, and you choose per country how much registry data you buy: company profile, shareholders, or ultimate beneficial owners. Business verification is priced from $2.00 per business.^[8][17] Didit checks each declared owner and officer against the company's own documents, then screens them and sends each one a linked KYC.^[16] It also validates EU VAT numbers through VIES as part of the check.^[17]

Chainalysis's VASP Risking gives risk assessments of VASPs for onboarding clients and partners, with legal entity names, jurisdictions and licenses.^[2][5] General business verification, with registry lookup, owner identification and KYC of those owners, is not documented on Chainalysis's public pages (checked 2026-10-25).^[5]

A business, its people and its wallets end up in one record.^[10][16][17]

Agents that do the review work

Chainalysis documents Chainalysis agents, in beta, for querying blockchain intelligence and building workflows in plain language; access is limited to its Data Solutions customers.^[7] A public MCP server for customers' own AI agents is not documented on Chainalysis's public pages (checked 2026-10-25).^[7]

Didit is agentic: it automates the review work that usually needs another analyst. The Investigator agent reads each verification, transaction alert or case waiting for review, writes a report with a recommendation and cites every piece of evidence it used. It decides on its own only within the policy and autonomy level your team sets, it never files a regulatory report, and every action is logged.^[23] It runs on Didit's Growth plan and above, Didit enables it per organization, it is not available in sandbox, and it costs $0.20 per reviewed item. A support agent answers your users' support conversations from $0.02 per message.

Copilot works inside the Business Console. Describe the verification flow you need and it builds a validated draft workflow, citing the documentation it used; it also creates questionnaires and database validation steps.^[25] Publishing requires your confirmation, and when it edits a workflow, a change card lists what changed and Undo reverts it.^[24]

Your own agents connect through Didit's hosted MCP server at mcp.didit.me, over OAuth 2.1 with Log in with Didit. There is no API key to paste.^[21] An agent can create, backtest and install transaction-monitoring rules, then hand them to you in test mode, and it can explain why a session was declined by tracing the warning, status rule or reviewer override behind it.^[22]

A rule task run by an agent through the Didit MCP. A person switches it on.^[22]

Government database checks for the fiat side

Didit's catalog documents government and authoritative database checks in 45 countries plus a Global group: a government register in most countries, and a credit-bureau, financial-services, utility or residential file in some. Each entry lists the inputs it needs and the fields it returns.^[18] Where the national register holds a photo, as in Argentina, Nigeria, Panama and South Africa, Didit matches the user's selfie against it.^[19] Government identity-database checks are not documented on Chainalysis's public pages (checked 2026-10-25).^[2]

Pricing: a basket you can calculate today

Didit publishes a list price for each module and charges a session only for the checks it runs. The workflow builder shows each step's price while you build, so the cost of a flow is visible before it goes live.^[8][26] Ongoing AML monitoring is $0.07 per profile per year, and you can turn it on for up to 1,000 customers in one API call, with a cost estimate before you commit.^[8][29]

Prices are not documented on Chainalysis's public pages (checked 2026-10-25), so the same basket cannot be priced from them.^[1][3]

Switching from Chainalysis to Didit

• List what you run today: KYT alert rules, Address Screening calls, your KYC partner and where each result is stored.
• Rebuild the onboarding flow in Didit's workflow builder, or describe it to Copilot, and read the price of each step.
• Add wallet screening at deposit and withdrawal-address events, and import your transaction rules, backtesting each one.
• Map statuses and webhooks to Didit's Approved, Declined and In Review in your backend.
• Route a share of new users through Didit and compare approval rates, alerts and cost on your own traffic before moving the rest.

1. Day 1Open an accountSandbox and console, no quote to request.
2. Week 1Build and testWorkflow, wallet step, rules in test mode.
3. PilotRun in parallelA share of users on Didit.
4. RenewalMove the restWhen your current agreements allow.

A staged switch. Timing depends on your volumes and your existing contracts.

How Didit helps teams switching from Chainalysis

Didit puts KYC, KYB with a KYC per owner, AML screening, wallet screening, transaction monitoring and Travel Rule in one account and one API, priced per check, with agents that take review work off your team. See the Chainalysis alternative page for the side-by-side, the pricing page to price your flow, or the wallet screening page for the check itself.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

1. Chainalysis home, Chainalysis, read 25 October 2026.
2. Crypto compliance, Chainalysis, read 25 October 2026.
3. KYT, Chainalysis, read 25 October 2026.
4. Address Screening, Chainalysis, read 25 October 2026.
5. VASP Risking, Chainalysis, read 25 October 2026.
6. Partners, Chainalysis, read 25 October 2026.
7. Chainalysis agents, Chainalysis, read 25 October 2026.
8. Pricing, Didit docs, read 25 October 2026.
9. Transaction monitoring overview, Didit docs.
10. Wallet screening, Didit docs.
11. Transaction rules API and backtesting, Didit docs.
12. Rules library, Didit docs.
13. SDK transaction submission and step-up, Didit docs.
14. FIU reports, Didit docs.
15. Travel Rule, Didit docs.
16. Key people, Didit docs.
17. KYB supported countries and data tiers, Didit docs.
18. Database validation supported countries, Didit docs.
19. Non-document lookup and registry photo match, Didit docs.
20. Nigeria BVN, Didit docs.
21. MCP server overview, Didit docs.
22. MCP tools, Didit docs.
23. Investigator agent, Didit docs.
24. September 2026 changelog, Didit docs.
25. August 2026 changelog, Didit docs.
26. Workflows, Didit docs.
27. Retrieve session, Didit docs.
28. New pricing from 1 November 2026, Didit blog.
29. Ongoing AML monitoring, Didit docs.
30. Transaction rules, Didit docs.

Chainalysis and its marks belong to their owner; references here are nominative, for comparison only, and imply no affiliation. To compare on your own traffic, the Chainalysis alternative page has the side-by-side and the steps to start.