Identity verification
built for Bahrain 
Bahrain ID Card, GCC ID and Passport on one session, screened against Bahraini regulatory watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in Bahrain.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Bahraini identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the CBB-licensed crypto-asset service providers and the wider fintech-sandbox cohort, CPR and residence-credential misuse across the expatriate workforce, and AML pressure on cross-border financial flows between the GCC and the wider region. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- AML Law (Law 4/2001 and amendments)
- Personal Data Protection Law (Law 30/2018)
- CBB Rulebook (Volumes 1-6, including AML module)
- CBB Crypto-Asset Module
- CBB Regulatory Sandbox Framework
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Bahrain.
CBB
Central Bank of Bahrain, single integrated supervisor for banks, payment service providers, crypto-asset service providers, insurance firms, and capital-markets firms. Sets remote-onboarding requirements through the CBB Rulebook (Volumes 1-6) and operates the CBB Regulatory Sandbox.
PDPA Authority
Personal Data Protection Authority, enforces the Personal Data Protection Law (Law 30/2018). Governs every identity verification on Bahraini residents.
Bahrain FIU
Bahrain Financial Intelligence Unit, receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the AML Law (Law 4/2001 and its amendments).
iGA
Information & eGovernment Authority, issues the Bahrain ID Card (CPR) and runs the national digital-identity infrastructure that underpins every onboarding flow.
MOICT
Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Commercial Registry authority responsible for the SIJILAT business registry used in KYB onboarding.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Works for every credential Bahrain actually presents, Bahrain ID Card (CPR, the authoritative 9-digit national identity card), the CPR-format Residence Permit for foreign workers, GCC ID Cards under mutual recognition, Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), and the Bahraini driving licence.
- Returns the name, CPR number, date of birth, nationality, and expiry.
- Bahrain ID Card (CPR) · Residence Permit
- GCC ID Card · Passport, chip read on e-Passport
- Driving Licence
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.
- Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
- Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, plus Bahraini watchlists:
- Bahrain Financial Intelligence Unit (BFU), Suspicious Transaction Report watchlist.
- Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB), regulatory enforcement and suspended-licence list.
- Ministry of Interior (MOI) Bahrain, security blacklists and deportation orders.
- National Security Apparatus (NSA) Bahrain, anti-terrorism designations.
- GCC PEP register, cross-member politically exposed persons.
- Supreme Council for Environment, PEP Level 1 register.
- Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco), PEP Level 2 register.
- National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA), regulatory warnings.
Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media , see the docs for the full module surface.
Bind every check to one audited session.
- The full bundle anchors at $0.33 per session, same price worldwide.
- Add Ongoing AML Monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation the CBB Rulebook expects.
- Bahrain does not currently expose a public consumer or government API for direct authoritative-registry lookups, the iGA population register is accessible only through licensed data-partner integrations on Enterprise. Talk to sales to wire that into your workflow.
Bind every check to one audited session , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Bahrain document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Bahrain.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Bahrain.
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 Bahraini regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Three sit on top of every Bahraini identity-verification flow:
- Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB), single integrated supervisor for banks, payment service providers, crypto-asset service providers, insurance firms, and capital-markets firms. Sets remote-onboarding requirements through the CBB Rulebook (Volumes 1-6) and operates the CBB Regulatory Sandbox.
- Bahrain Financial Intelligence Unit (Bahrain FIU), receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the AML Law (Law 4/2001 and amendments).
- Personal Data Protection Authority, enforces the Personal Data Protection Law (Law 30/2018). Governs how the verification data is captured, stored, and disclosed.
Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all three at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
Does Didit accept GCC ID Cards under mutual recognition?
Yes. Bahraini-licensed entities frequently onboard residents and visitors holding national identity cards from the other Gulf Cooperation Council member states (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman) under GCC mutual recognition.
- Every GCC national ID is auto-classified, captured, and OCR-parsed on the same hosted flow as the Bahrain ID Card (CPR).
- Returns the name, ID number, date of birth, nationality, and expiry.
- AML, biometric, and Face Search 1:N apply identically regardless of which GCC document the user presents.
Is Didit ready for CBB Regulatory Sandbox and crypto-asset service provider onboarding?
Yes. Bahrain was one of the first GCC jurisdictions to license crypto-asset service providers under the CBB Crypto-Asset Module. The CBB Regulatory Sandbox lets fintechs test live products under a controlled framework.
Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:
- Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the Customer Due Diligence onboarding check.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Bahraini regulatory watchlists.
- Wallet Screening (KYT) at $0.15 per check for the on-chain exposure assessment the CBB Crypto-Asset Module requires.
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation.
- SAR / STR workflow through the Transaction Monitoring case-management surface.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Bahrain?
5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.
- Sign up at
business.didit.me, grab an API key, callPOST /v3/session/with aworkflow_idthat wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML, done. - AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at
docs.didit.me/integration/integration-promptinto 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 Bahrain stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Bahraini users?
Arabic and English, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Bahraini users land on the Arabic flow when their device locale signals it, and on English otherwise, both are first-class on the same flow.
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 Bahrain verification cost end-to-end?
Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:
- ID Verification,
$0.15per document check. - Passive Liveness,
$0.10. Active Liveness,$0.15. - Face Match 1:1,
$0.05. Face Search 1:N, free. - AML Screening,
$0.20per check. Ongoing AML,$0.07 per user / year. - Wallet Screening (KYT),
$0.15per check for CBB-licensed crypto-asset service provider flows.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Bahrain 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.