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Middle East & Africa

Identity verification
built for Algeria Flag of Algeria

Algerian National Identity Card and Passport on one session, screened against the AFTIU National List of Terrorist Persons and Entities plus global watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Algeria.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Algerian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-CNI attacks targeting Bank-of-Algeria-supervised mobile-payment operators and Islamic finance windows, CNI and Passeport Biométrique template forgery during the ongoing biometric credential rollout, and AML pressure on the Algeria-France remittance corridor under AFTIU designations and EU financial sanctions. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law No. 05-01 of 2005 on the Prevention and Fight Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
  • Banking and Credit Act No. 90-10 of 1990 (as amended by Ordinance No. 03-11 of 2003)
  • Law No. 18-07 of 2018 on the Protection of Individuals in Personal Data Processing
  • Ordinance No. 15-01 of 2015 amending anti-terrorism provisions
  • FATF 40 recommendations
  • MENAFATF 40 recommendations (FATF-style regional body)
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Algeria.

These are the supervisors a Algeria verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them, no separate integration per agency.
  • Banque d'Algérie

    Bank of Algeria, central bank and primary financial supervisor for banks and financial institutions under the Banking and Credit Act No. 90-10 of 1990 (as amended by Ordinance No. 03-11 of 2003).

  • Commission Bancaire

    Banking Commission, prudential supervisor for licensed banks. Enforces AML/CFT compliance requirements on obliged institutions and issues administrative sanctions.

  • AFTIU (CTRF)

    Algerian Financial Intelligence Processing Unit (Cellule de Traitement du Renseignement Financier), Algeria's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 05-01 of 2005 on Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing; maintains the National List of Terrorist Persons and Entities.

  • CNDP

    Commission Nationale de Protection des Données Personnelles, data protection authority. Enforces Law No. 18-07 of 2018 on the Protection of Individuals in Personal Data Processing.

  • DGSN

    Direction Générale de la Sûreté Nationale (Ministry of Interior), issuer of the biometric CNI and Passeport Biométrique; maintains the civil registry and identity document database.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Algeria database cross-check, composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Algerian biometric CNI (18-character NIN), Passeport Biométrique (with NFC chip read), Permis de Conduire, and Carte de Résident.
  • Returns: full name, 18-character NIN, date of birth, place of birth, nationality, expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Carte Nationale d'Identité (CNI biométrique)
  • Passeport Biométrique, NFC chip read
  • Permis de Conduire · Carte de Résident
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows, user turns or blinks.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, plus Algeria watchlists:

  • AFTIU/CTRF, National List of Terrorist Persons and Entities, Algeria's primary terror-financing designations under Law No. 05-01 of 2005.
  • Bank of Algeria (Banque d'Algérie), PEP register, senior central-bank and financial-authority PEPs.
  • Ministry of National Defense Naval Forces, defence PEP register, senior military and defence Politically Exposed Persons.
  • Algerian National Television Network (ENTV), adverse-media register, domestic adverse-media and enforcement coverage.
  • UN Security Council, Consolidated List, ISIL/Al-Qaida (1267/1989/2253) designations transposed in Algeria.
  • OFAC SDN List, Algeria-related designations, US Treasury asset-freeze measures.
  • EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, Algeria-related restrictive measures.
  • MENAFATF regional designated entities, Middle East and North Africa FATF-body named persons and entities.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media , see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Cross-check the identity at scale.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Algeria currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Direction Générale de l'État Civil does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.

The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative Commission Bancaire- and AFTIU-compliant path today: the 18-character NIN is OCR-parsed from the biometric CNI, the face is matched against the portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Algerian regulatory watchlist. Enterprise customers can talk to sales about registry-linkage options as Bank-of-Algeria-authorised data partners onboard.

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Stage 04Cross-check the identity at scale

Cross-check the identity at scale , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Algeria document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential, flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Algeria.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against, civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter, the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
Read the security & compliance dossier
EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about Algeria.

What does Didit ship?

Didit is the infrastructure layer for identity and fraud. One Application Programming Interface (API), 25+ composable modules across four product lines:

  • User Verification (KYC, know your customer), Identity Document Verification, liveness, face match, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening, Internet Protocol (IP) analysis. $0.33 per full bundle.
  • Business Verification (KYB, know your business), registry, Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO), officers, entity AML, plus a linked KYC session per UBO.
  • Transaction Monitoring, real-time rule engine, case management, Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) workflow.
  • Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction), on-chain wallet risk at $0.15 per check, or bring your own screening provider and run it inside Didit.

Compose any module into a workflow with the visual no-code builder, ship in 5 minutes, 500 verifications free every month, forever.

How is Didit different from a single-product Know Your Customer (KYC) vendor?

Most identity vendors sell one slice, a KYC check, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) list, a wallet screen. Didit ships the infrastructure underneath all of them:

  • Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts.
  • Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup.
  • Developer experience. Public docs, MCP server, and native SDKs for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes.
  • User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second inference, 48+ languages with full right-to-left support.
  • Flexibility. One API composes 25+ modules across KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening.
  • AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session.
What does it cost? Is anything actually free?

500 verifications free every month, forever, on every account. No credit card. No sales call. No expiry.

Above the free tier, every module has a public per-success price on didit.me/pricing, $0.33 per full KYC bundle, $0.15 per Identity Document Verification, $0.20 per AML Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match.

Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises.

Which Algerian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Three bodies govern every Algerian identity-verification flow:

  • Bank of Algeria (Banque d'Algérie), primary financial supervisor for banks and payment institutions under the Banking and Credit Act No. 90-10 of 1990 (as amended by Ordinance No. 03-11 of 2003). Licensed entities must perform customer due diligence on onboarding.
  • Commission Bancaire, prudential supervisor enforcing AML/CFT compliance requirements and issuing sanctions on non-compliant banks.
  • AFTIU/CTRF, Algeria's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 05-01 of 2005 on the Prevention and Fight Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing and maintains the National List of Terrorist Persons and Entities.

Didit ships the hosted flow + audit log + watchlist coverage to satisfy all three, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.

Does Didit screen against the Algerian AFTIU National Terrorist List?

Yes, on every AML Screening call.

  • Didit screens against 1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists.
  • Plus Algeria-specific lists: AFTIU/CTRF National List of Terrorist Persons and Entities under Law No. 05-01 of 2005, Bank of Algeria PEP register, and UN Security Council Consolidated List.
  • AML Screening costs $0.20 per check; Ongoing AML monitoring costs $0.07 per user / year and re-checks daily, what Commission Bancaire-obliged institutions need for the periodic-review obligation.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Algeria?

5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.

  • Sign up at business.didit.me, grab an API key, call POST /v3/session/ with a workflow_id that wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML, done.
  • AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at docs.didit.me/integration/integration-prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, or any AI coding agent.
  • Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.

The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever, pilot the full Algeria stack at zero cost.

Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Algerian users?

Arabic, auto-detected from the user's browser or device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages with full right-to-left support; Algerian users land on the Arabic flow by default. French is also fully supported for teams that prefer it.

The document-recognition layer is decoupled from the UI layer, capture works in Arabic, French, or Tamazight, and the admin console can be configured independently.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.

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