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DVS Driver Licence, Passport, Medicare, ImmiCard and VEVO on one session, screened against AUSTRAC + DFAT consolidated sanctions, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Australia.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Australian identity fraud: deepfake and injection attacks on the neobank and crypto onboarding flows, state Driver Licence forgery across the 8 state / territory templates, and iGaming pressure as NSW, Victoria, and Northern Territory online wagering markets expand. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • AML/CTF Act 2006 + AML/CTF Rules
  • Privacy Act 1988 + Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)
  • APRA CPS 234 (Information Security)
  • APRA CPS 231 (Outsourcing)
  • ASIC RG 105 (AFS licensing)
  • Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (ACMA + state regulators)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Australia.

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

    Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, administers the AML/CTF Act 2006 and AML/CTF Rules. Receives Suspicious Matter Reports (SMRs) and Threshold Transaction Reports (TTRs).

  • APRA

    Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, prudential supervisor for banks, insurers, friendly societies, and superannuation funds. Sets CPS 234 (Information Security) and CPS 231 (Outsourcing) standards relevant to identity-verification vendors.

  • ASIC

    Australian Securities and Investments Commission, corporate, markets, financial services, and consumer credit regulator. Maintains the ASIC Personal Name Register and administers the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence regime.

  • OAIC

    Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, administers the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles. Notifiable Data Breaches scheme operator.

  • AGD (DVS / iDMatch)

    Attorney-General's Department, operates the Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch), the authoritative-source cross-check service available to regulated entities for every Australian credential type.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Australia 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.

  • state / territory Driver Licence, Australian Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Medicare Card, ImmiCard, Citizenship Certificate, Australian Visa, Centrelink Concession Card, and state-issued Birth / Marriage / Change-of-Name Certificates.
  • Returns the name, document number, date of birth, address, and state / territory of issue.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Driver Licence (8 state / territory templates)
  • Passport · Medicare · ImmiCard · Citizenship Certificate
  • Visa · Birth / Marriage / Change-of-Name Certificate
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.

Didit screens the user's name against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus every named Australian regulatory watchlist (DFAT Consolidated Sanctions, Australian National Security Listed Terrorist Organisations, AUSTRAC Infringement Notices, AUSTRAC Warnings, plus the Department of Climate Change, Ministry of Justice, CASA, and ASIC enforcement registers).

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

Read the docs
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 against the DVS (iDMatch).

After the ID is captured, Didit runs the Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch) cross-check against the authoritative source for every Australian credential type, the same authoritative-source check AUSTRAC reporting entities expect.

  • The DVS Driver Licence check (aus_australia_driver_licence, $0.45, 100% coverage) returns full-match data from the issuing state / territory authority.
  • The DVS Passport (aus_australia_passport, $0.45, 100%), DVS Medicare Card (aus_australia_medicare_card, $0.45, 100%), DVS ImmiCard (aus_immicard, $0.45, 100%), DVS Citizenship Certificate (aus_citizenship_certificate, $0.45, 100%), DVS Visa (aus_australia_visa, $0.45, 100%), and DVS Centrelink Card (aus_centrelink_card, $0.45, 100%) all run on the same POST /v3/database-validation/ shape.
  • The Credit Bureau (aus_credit_bureau, $0.70, ~75%) and Electoral Roll (aus_electoral_roll, $0.45, 100%) layer on as the AUSTRAC-recognised electronic-data-source checks.
  • Lower-cost lookups, Birth Certificate (aus_birth_certificate, $0.04), Death Check (aus_death_check, $0.05), Consumer (aus_consumer, $0.06), Citizens (aus_citizens, $0.30), and Residential (aus_residential, $0.32), round out the surface.
Read the docs
Stage 04Cross-check against the DVS (iDMatch)

Cross-check against the DVS (iDMatch) , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Australia 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 Australia.

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.
aus_australia_driver_licence

DVS - Australia Driver Licence

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_australia_passport

DVS - Australia Passport

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_australia_medicare_card

DVS - Australia Medicare Card

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_immicard

Australia DVS - ImmiCard

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_citizenship_certificate

Australia DVS - Citizenship Certificate

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_australia_visa

DVS - Australia Visa

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_centrelink_card

Australia DVS - Centrelink Card

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_birth_certificate

Australia DVS - Birth Certificate

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.04 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_marriage_certificate

Australia DVS - Marriage Certificate

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_change_of_name_certificate

Australia DVS - Change of Name Certificate

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_travel_document

Australia DVS - Travel Document

Source: Attorney-General's Department Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch). $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_vevo

Australia VEVO (Visa Entitlement Verification Online)

Source: Department of Home Affairs — VEVO. $0.32 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

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aus_credit_bureau

Australia Credit Bureau

Source: Australian consumer credit bureau. $0.70 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage ~75%.

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aus_electoral_roll

Australia Electoral Roll

Source: Australian Electoral Commission Electoral Roll. $0.45 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_citizens

Australia Citizens

Source: Australian civil records aggregator. $0.30 per successful query. Coverage ~55%.

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aus_residential

Australia Residential

Source: Australian residential identity aggregator. $0.32 per successful query. Coverage ~65%.

Read the API docs
aus_residential_lookup

Australia Residential Lookup

Source: Australian residential phone + address lookup. $0.32 per successful query. Coverage ~65%.

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aus_personal_name_register

Australia - ASIC Personal Name Register

Source: Australian Securities and Investments Commission. $0.12 per successful query. Coverage ~15%.

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aus_consumer

Australia Consumer

Source: Australian lead-generation consumer database. $0.06 per successful query. Coverage ~10%.

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aus_death_check

Australia Death Check (BDM)

Source: Australian state Births, Deaths and Marriages registries. $0.05 per successful query. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
aus_phone

Australia Phone

Source: Australian telco billing records. $0.12 per successful query. Coverage ~15%.

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aus_superannuation_payroll

Australia Superannuation & Payroll

Source: Australian superannuation and payroll registries. $0.67 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage ~50%.

Read the API docs
aus_tenancy_register

Australia - TICA Tenancy Register

Source: Tenancy Information Centre of Australia. $0.84 per successful query. Coverage ~25%.

Read the API docs
aml-screening

AML lists screened in Australia

1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.

Read the AML coverage 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 Australia.

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, and the gap shows up on six axes:

  • Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts. Single-product vendors hide six-figure minimums behind a sales call.
  • Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup. Single-product vendors gate the sandbox behind a contract, months to evaluate.
  • Developer experience. Public docs, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Claude Code and Cursor, and native Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes with an AI agent or in a working afternoon by hand.
  • User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second end-to-end inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages out of the box.
  • Flexibility. One /v3/ Application Programming Interface (API) composes 25+ modules across KYC, Know Your Business (KYB), Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction). A KYB session spawns a linked KYC for every Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO); a flagged transaction spawns a step-up KYC remediation, same session, same webhook contract, same audit trail. Single-product vendors sell one shape of KYC and stop there.
  • AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay. Single-product vendors treat deepfake and injection detection as roadmap items, not defaults.

Common in fintech and crypto, the same architecture fits marketplaces, iGaming, mobility, and any vertical where you need to know who someone is and what they are doing.

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, $0.15 per Wallet Screening, $0.20 per Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match, $0.03 per Internet Protocol (IP) analysis.

Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises. Volume discounts kick in automatically as you grow.

Which Australian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Five sit on top of every Australian identity-verification flow:

  • AUSTRAC (Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre), administers the AML/CTF Act 2006 and AML/CTF Rules. Receives Suspicious Matter Reports and Threshold Transaction Reports.
  • APRA (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority), prudential supervisor for banks, insurers, and superannuation funds. Sets CPS 234 (Information Security) and CPS 231 (Outsourcing) for vendor controls.
  • ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission), corporate, markets, financial-services, and consumer-credit regulator. Administers the AFS licence regime.
  • OAIC (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner), administers the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). Notifiable Data Breaches scheme operator.
  • AGD (Attorney-General's Department), operates the Document Verification Service (DVS / iDMatch) that authenticates every Australian credential type.

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

Does Didit run the DVS (iDMatch) authoritative-source cross-check?

Yes, for every Australian credential type the DVS exposes, on one POST /v3/database-validation/ shape:

  • DVS Driver Licence (aus_australia_driver_licence, $0.45, 100% coverage), all 8 state / territory templates.
  • DVS Passport (aus_australia_passport, $0.45, 100%).
  • DVS Medicare Card (aus_australia_medicare_card, $0.45, 100%).
  • DVS ImmiCard (aus_immicard, $0.45, 100%), for refugees and humanitarian entrants without an overseas passport.
  • DVS Citizenship Certificate (aus_citizenship_certificate, $0.45, 100%).
  • DVS Visa (aus_australia_visa, $0.45, 100%) and VEVO (aus_vevo, $0.32, 100%) for the live visa-entitlement check.
  • DVS Centrelink Card (aus_centrelink_card, $0.45, 100%).
  • DVS Birth / Marriage / Change-of-Name / Travel Document ($0.04 to $0.45 per check) for the state Births, Deaths and Marriages registers.

All DVS services require user consent (the same consent AUSTRAC reporting entities already collect). Coverage is 100% on every credential because the DVS is the authoritative federal cross-check.

Is Didit AUSTRAC-ready for the Safe Harbour applicable customer identification procedure (ACIP)?

Yes. AUSTRAC's AML/CTF Rules Part 4 + Chapter 4 Safe Harbour ACIP require a reporting entity to verify customer identity from either a primary photographic identification document + matching secondary document, or electronically against two independent data sources.

Didit covers both paths on one workflow:

  • Document path: capture the primary photographic credential (Driver Licence, Passport, ImmiCard) + DVS cross-check + Active Liveness + Face Match.
  • Electronic path: combine DVS (one of 11 credential types) + Credit Bureau (aus_credit_bureau, $0.70, ~75%) or Electoral Roll (aus_electoral_roll, $0.45, 100%) as the two independent data sources.

All Australian regulatory watchlists, DFAT Consolidated Sanctions, Australian National Security Listed Terrorist Organisations, AUSTRAC Infringement Notices, AUSTRAC Warnings, ASIC enforcement, flow into the same AML Screening call. The audit log is SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 attested.

How long does it take to integrate Didit in Australia?

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 + DVS Driver Licence + Electoral Roll, done.
  • AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at docs.didit.me/integration/integration-prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, Aider, or Replit Agent. The agent provisions the application, builds the workflow, wires the webhook, and runs a smoke test.
  • 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 Australia stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

English (Australia), auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages, so any non-English-speaking resident lands on a localised flow in the language their device prefers; the Australian English flow is the default.

The document-recognition layer is decoupled from the UI layer, capture works in any language, and the admin console can be set independently to whichever language your compliance team prefers.

What does the Australia verification cost end-to-end?

Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:

  • ID Verification, $0.15 per document check.
  • Passive Liveness, $0.10. Active Liveness, $0.15.
  • Face Match 1:1, $0.05. Face Search 1:N, free.
  • AML Screening, $0.20 per check (DFAT consolidated sanctions included). Ongoing AML, $0.07 per user / year.
  • DVS family (Driver Licence, Passport, Medicare, ImmiCard, Citizenship Certificate, Visa, Centrelink, Marriage / Change-of-Name / Travel Document), `$0.45` per successful query, 100% coverage, consent required.
  • Other Australian datasets: aus_birth_certificate $0.04, aus_death_check $0.05, aus_consumer $0.06, aus_phone $0.12, aus_personal_name_register $0.12, aus_citizens $0.30, aus_residential $0.32, aus_vevo $0.32, aus_superannuation_payroll $0.67, aus_credit_bureau $0.70, aus_tenancy_register $0.84.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Australia surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier; Enterprise adds a custom Master Services Agreement (MSA) and data-residency choice.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

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

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