Identity verification
built for Costa Rica 
Cédula de Identidad and Pasaporte on one session, cross-checked against the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in Costa Rica.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Costa Rican identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-Cédula attacks on the digital wallets and SUGEF-licensed neobank rails like SINPE Móvil, Cédula document forgery across the chip and legacy formats, and the AML-monitoring uplift required as a Central American financial-services hub. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Ley 8204 (PLA/FT)
- CONASSIF Acuerdo 12-21 (CDD)
- Ley 8968 (Protección de la Persona frente al Tratamiento de Datos Personales)
- Ley 9298 (UBO registry)
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Costa Rica.
SUGEF
Superintendencia General de Entidades Financieras, prudential supervisor for banks, financial cooperatives, EMIs and currency-exchange entities. Sets remote-onboarding rules under Acuerdo SUGEF 12-10 and CONASSIF Acuerdo 12-21.
SUGEVAL
Superintendencia General de Valores, securities and capital-market supervisor. Registers broker-dealers, investment funds and stock-exchange intermediaries.
ICD
Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas, Costa Rica's Financial Intelligence Unit equivalent (UIF). Receives Reportes de Operación Sospechosa under Ley 8204.
PRODHAB
Agencia de Protección de Datos de los Habitantes, Ley 8968 supervisor. Governs every identity verification on Costa Rican residents.
TSE
Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones, civil-registry and electoral authority. Issues every Cédula de Identidad and serves as the authoritative-source database for identity verification.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Cédula de Identidad (chip and legacy), DIMEX, Pasaporte (with the chip read on e-Passports), and driving licence.
- Returns the name, Cédula, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
- Cédula de Identidad
- DIMEX
- Pasaporte, chip read on e-Passport
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 Costa Rican watchlists:
- CRSUGESE, Costa Rican General Superintendency of Insurance (SIE), sanctions for irregularities in insurance supervision.
- Office of the President (Costa Rica) PEP register, presidential-level politically exposed persons.
- Ministry of Public PEP register, ministerial-level politically exposed persons.
- Council of Ministers PEP register, cabinet-level politically exposed persons.
- National Stock Exchange Warnings, SUGEVAL-supervised capital-market enforcement alerts.
- ICD sanctions register, Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas designated entities under Ley 8204.
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.
Cross-check against the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The Cédula check (
cri_cedula,$0.20) is the authoritative-source lookup, hits the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones for identification number and full name. No consent required. - Among the cheapest authoritative-source checks in the Central American region, well-suited to high-volume SINPE Móvil and digital-wallet onboarding.
Cross-check against the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Costa Rica document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Costa Rica.
Costa Rica — Cédula verification
Source: Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE). $0.20 per successful query.
AML lists screened in Costa Rica
1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Costa Rica.
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 Costa Rican regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Three sit on top of every Costa Rican identity-verification flow:
- Superintendencia General de Entidades Financieras (SUGEF), sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, financial cooperatives, EMIs and currency-exchange entities under Acuerdo SUGEF 12-10 and CONASSIF Acuerdo 12-21 (Customer Due Diligence).
- Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas (ICD), Costa Rica's Financial Intelligence Unit equivalent. Receives Reportes de Operación Sospechosa under Ley 8204 (Estupefacientes, Sustancias Psicotrópicas, Drogas de Uso No Autorizado, Actividades Conexas, Legitimación de Capitales y Financiamiento al Terrorismo).
- Agencia de Protección de Datos de los Habitantes (PRODHAB), supervises Ley 8968 (Protección de la Persona frente al Tratamiento de Datos Personales). 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 cross-check Costa Rican identities against the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones?
Yes, via the `cri_cedula` Database Validation service (POST /v3/database-validation/ with services=cri_cedula).
- Source: Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE), the authoritative Costa Rican civil registry and electoral authority.
- Price:
$0.20 per successful query, among the cheapest authoritative-source checks in Central America. - Required inputs:
personal_number(the Cédula, 9-12 digits). - Returns:
identification_number,first_name,last_name,full_name. - Consent: Not required.
Is Didit suitable for SUGEF Category-1 banks on Acuerdo 12-21 onboarding?
Yes. SUGEF and CONASSIF rolled out Acuerdo 12-21 as the unified Customer Due Diligence framework for all supervised entities, banks (including state-owned banks), cooperatives, EMIs, currency-exchange houses and SUGEVAL-registered broker-dealers.
Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:
- Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
- `cri_cedula` Database Validation against the TSE, the authoritative-source check SUGEF expects.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Costa Rican regulatory watchlists.
- Business Verification (KYB) with UBO chain extraction under Ley 9298 (UBO registry, the Registro de Transparencia y Beneficiarios Finales, RTBF, run by the Banco Central).
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Costa Rica?
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 + TSE Cédula cross-check, 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 Costa Rica stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Costa Rican users?
Costa Rican Spanish, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Costa Rican users land on the Spanish flow by default. English is also live on the same flow for cross-border or expat users.
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 Costa Rica 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. - `cri_cedula` (TSE),
$0.20per successful query.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Costa Rica 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.