Didit vs Hummingbird: alerts, cases and FIU reports in one account

Last reviewed: 25 October 2026 · Not legal advice

Teams looking at a Hummingbird alternative usually sit in compliance operations: a BSA/AML team at a bank or sponsor bank, a fintech's financial-crime unit, or a crypto compliance desk. The question that decides the tooling is whether the case tool also produces the alerts and holds the identity evidence, or collects them from somewhere else.

Hummingbird sells a case-management and investigations platform for financial-crime compliance teams. We build Didit, so read this as our side. Every Hummingbird fact below comes from Hummingbird's own public pages, read on 25 October 2026, and each one is cited.

Didit vs Hummingbird at a glance

Hummingbird column: hummingbird.co and docs.hummingbird.co. Didit column: docs.didit.me.

The case and its alert source in one account

On Didit, the alert and the evidence behind it live in the same account as the case. Every transaction is scored against real-time rules at $0.02 per transaction, and alerts and cases open in the same console as the user's KYC record.^[11][12] 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.^[15][16]

Hummingbird delivers its monitoring on top of your cloud data warehouse. Its monitoring page says your team must have some proficiency with SQL, because you write SQL queries to define the data views used for monitoring.^[6] The same page says the solution does not sit in the flow of funds, and that it can be used against fraud for certain non-real-time payment methods such as ACH, wire and check.^[6]

When a Didit rule flags a transaction, Didit can hold it and ask the user for one selfie, matched against the face they already verified.^[17] The case then opens with the transaction, the rule, the step-up result and the original verification.

One identity, one alert, one case, one report draft, in one account.^{[13][14][17][19]}

From case to FIU report

Didit drafts SAR, STR and other FIU reports from the case and exports them as goAML XML and PDF for your filing.^[14]

Hummingbird documents filing SARs and STRs from the case, including direct e-filing with FinCEN and FINTRAC.^[2][3] The report is the end of the case. Didit's advantage sits upstream: how the alert is raised, what evidence the case already holds and how much of the review an agent prepares.

The identity half underneath every case

Most alerts end with a question about the person or the company. On Didit, the answers come from checks in the same account as the case.

A full KYC check (ID verification, passive liveness, face match, and device and IP analysis) costs $0.33, and Didit supports 14,000+ document types.^[11] AML screening is $0.20 a check, and ongoing AML monitoring is $0.07 per profile per year.^[11]

Hummingbird's customer screening uses sanctions, PEP and adverse media data from third-party providers in its data marketplace, and says coverage varies by provider.^[7] Its own document or selfie verification is not documented on Hummingbird's public pages (checked 2026-10-25).^[9]

KYB with a KYC for every owner

Company registry checks cover 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 from $2.00 per business.^[11][27] Didit checks each declared owner and officer against the company's own documents, then screens them and sends each one a linked KYC.^[26] Hummingbird brings in third-party business-data apps; its own business verification is not documented on its public pages (checked 2026-10-25).^[8]

Government and authoritative databases, documented per country

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.^[28] Each check lists the inputs it needs, the fields it returns and prerequisites such as recorded consent for South Africa's Home Affairs photo lookup.^[31] Where the national register holds a photo, as in Argentina, Nigeria, Panama and South Africa, Didit matches the user's selfie against it.^[29]

Native government database checks are not documented on Hummingbird's public pages (checked 2026-10-25); public-records search comes through third-party apps.^[8]

Wallet screening for crypto compliance desks

Screen any crypto wallet address on demand for $0.15 per check, with a signed PDF report.^[11][18] Didit runs it on blockchain-analytics providers, and the result sits on the same user as the KYC and the transactions. Hummingbird connects third-party blockchain-analytics tools through integrations to create cases automatically; its own wallet screening is not documented on its public pages (checked 2026-10-25).^[8]

Agents in the review queue

Hummingbird documents AI agents too.^[4][5] The useful comparison is what the agent can see.

Didit is agentic, and its agents read the evidence already in the Didit account. 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 decision is logged.^[19] 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 Didit Copilot builds a validated draft workflow, citing the documentation it used.^[23] Publishing requires your confirmation, and when it edits a workflow, a change card lists what changed and Undo reverts it.^[22]

Your own agents connect through Didit's hosted MCP server at mcp.didit.me, over OAuth 2.1 with Log in with Didit, so there is no API key to paste.^[20] Your AI agent can create, backtest and install transaction-monitoring rules through the Didit MCP, then hand them to you in test mode. Ask it why a session was declined, and the Didit MCP traces the warning, status rule or reviewer override behind it.^[21] An MCP server is not documented on Hummingbird's public pages (checked 2026-10-25); its announcement says customer-built agents can work inside Hummingbird using its API and forthcoming agent tools.^[5]

A rule task run by an agent through the Didit MCP. A person switches it on.^[21]

Prices you can read before the first call

Didit publishes a list price for each module and charges a session only for the checks it runs. Passive liveness alone is $0.10 and Document AI reads any document you define for $0.20 per document, alongside the prices above.^[11] Didit's workflow builder shows each step's price while you build.^[24]

No pricing page or published prices are documented on Hummingbird's public pages (checked 2026-10-25); its product pages route to an expert call or a demo request.^[1] Its developer docs site is password protected.^[10] On Didit you open an account at business.didit.me and work in the sandbox, with no quote to request.

Workflows and the evidence behind every decision

Didit's workflow builder lets branches merge back into one path and flags a branch that contradicts the outcome it routes to, before you publish.^[24] Every Didit 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.^[25]

Switching from Hummingbird to Didit

• List the alert sources feeding your Hummingbird cases today: warehouse SQL views, screening providers, KYC, KYB and blockchain apps.
• Pick the Didit preset rules that match your SQL monitoring logic and backtest them on your own history.
• Map case statuses and webhooks to your backend, and agree who files each goAML export.
• Set the Investigator's autonomy level per queue, then move a share of alerts and compare outcomes.

1. Day 1Open an accountSandbox and console, no quote to request.
2. Week 1Build and backtestWorkflow, rules, webhooks, your own data.
3. PilotRun in parallelA share of users and alerts on each platform.
4. Cut-overMove the restWhen your Hummingbird agreement allows.

A staged switch. Timing depends on your volumes and your current agreement.

How Didit helps compliance teams switching from Hummingbird

Didit puts the alert source, the identity evidence, the case and the report draft in one account. See the Hummingbird alternative page for the side-by-side, the pricing page to price your flow, or the FIU reports guide to see the goAML export.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

1. Hummingbird home page, Hummingbird, read 25 October 2026.
2. Investigations, Hummingbird, read 25 October 2026.
3. Regulatory reporting, Hummingbird, read 25 October 2026.
4. Hummingbird AI, Hummingbird, read 25 October 2026.
5. Introducing the Agent Orchestration Platform, Hummingbird, read 25 October 2026.
6. Transaction and risk monitoring, Hummingbird, read 25 October 2026.
7. Customer screening, Hummingbird, read 25 October 2026.
8. Apps and integrations, Hummingbird, read 25 October 2026.
9. Customer due diligence, Hummingbird, read 25 October 2026.
10. Developer docs (password protected), Hummingbird, read 25 October 2026.
11. Pricing, Didit docs, read 25 October 2026.
12. Transaction monitoring overview, Didit docs.
13. Case management, Didit docs.
14. FIU reports, Didit docs.
15. Rules library, Didit docs.
16. Transaction rules API and backtesting, Didit docs.
17. SDK transaction submission and step-up, Didit docs.
18. Wallet screening, Didit docs.
19. Investigator agent, Didit docs.
20. MCP server overview, Didit docs.
21. MCP tools, Didit docs.
22. September 2026 changelog, Didit docs.
23. August 2026 changelog, Didit docs.
24. Workflows, Didit docs.
25. Retrieve session, Didit docs.
26. Key people, Didit docs.
27. KYB supported countries and data tiers, Didit docs.
28. Database validation supported countries, Didit docs.
29. Non-document lookup and registry photo match, Didit docs.
30. New pricing from 1 November 2026, Didit blog.
31. South Africa DHA photo retrieval, Didit docs.

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