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Identity verification
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Osobna iskaznica, Putovnica, Vozačka dozvola on one session, EU Reg. 2019/1157 + ICAO 9303 + HNB-aligned, Schengen zone since 2023. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Croatia.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Croatian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the post-Schengen fintech onboarding wave, document forgery on the Osobna iskaznica and legacy Putovnica, and cross-border mule networks exploiting Schengen freedom of movement via Croatian payment corridors to the Balkans. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Zakon o sprječavanju pranja novca i financiranja terorizma (NN 108/17)
  • AMLD6 (EU Directive 2018/843)
  • GDPR (Regulation 2016/679)
  • EU Regulation 2019/1157 (national identity cards)
  • MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation)
  • Payment Services Act (Zakon o platnom prometu)
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Croatia.

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

    Hrvatska narodna banka (Croatian National Bank), central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, and electronic-money issuers. Primary AML supervisor under the Zakon o sprječavanju pranja novca i financiranja terorizma (NN 108/17).

  • HANFA

    Hrvatska agencija za nadzor financijskih usluga, supervises capital-markets firms, insurers, pension funds, and Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASPs) under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).

  • UAML

    Ured za sprječavanje pranja novca (Croatian Financial Intelligence Unit), receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the AML/CFT Act (NN 108/17) and coordinates with Europol and MONEYVAL.

  • AZOP

    Agencija za zaštitu osobnih podataka, Croatian supervisory authority for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR / Regulation 2016/679). Governs every identity verification on Croatian residents.

  • Porezna uprava

    Croatian Tax Administration, issues and manages the OIB (Osobni identifikacijski broj) tax-identification number referenced in KYB onboarding and treasury compliance flows.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Croatia 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.

  • the chip-enabled Osobna iskaznica (under EU Regulation 2019/1157), Putovnica (with the NFC chip read on e-Passports), Vozačka dozvola, and Dozvola boravka for non-EU residents.
  • Returns the name, OIB (where encoded), date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Osobna iskaznica (chip) · Putovnica
  • Vozačka dozvola · Dozvola boravka
  • EU/EEA national IDs
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 Croatian watchlists:

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia, PEP Level 1 designated officials.
  • Dubrovnik City Government, PEP Level 4 local-government register.
  • Državno odvjetništvo Republike Hrvatske (State Attorney's Office), Special Interest Persons (SIP) in active proceedings.
  • Dubrovački, Naslovnica, SIP adverse-media signals.
  • Agency for the Protection of Market Competition (HAKOM), regulatory warning designations.
  • EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, applies under EU enforcement in Croatia.
  • OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), US Treasury designations applied under EU overlap.
  • MONEYVAL (Council of Europe), mutual evaluation and high-risk country findings.
  • Europol, organised crime and terrorist organisation designations.
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List, global terrorism and proliferation designations.
  • FATF 40 Recommendations, high-risk and monitored jurisdiction register.
  • Basel AML Index, country-risk composite signals.
  • Council of Europe GRECO, anti-corruption and political integrity register.

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

Bind every check to one audited session.

  • Croatia does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators, the Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova national identity registry and the OIB system do not publish a standalone database-validation endpoint for commercial use.
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Stage 04Bind every check to one audited session

Bind every check to one audited session , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Croatia 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 Croatia.

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.
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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 Croatia.

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 Croatian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Four sit on top of every Croatian identity-verification flow:

  • Hrvatska narodna banka (HNB), central bank, prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, and electronic-money issuers. Primary AML supervisor under the Zakon o sprječavanju pranja novca i financiranja terorizma (NN 108/17).
  • Hrvatska agencija za nadzor financijskih usluga (HANFA), supervises capital-markets firms, insurers, pension funds, and Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASPs) under MiCA.
  • Ured za sprječavanje pranja novca (UAML), Croatia's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under NN 108/17 and coordinates with MONEYVAL and Europol.
  • Agencija za zaštitu osobnih podataka (AZOP), Croatian supervisory authority for GDPR (Regulation 2016/679). Governs how the verification data is captured, stored, and disclosed.

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

Is Croatia in Schengen? How does that affect onboarding?

Yes, Croatia joined the Schengen Area in January 2023. For compliance teams, that means:

  • Croatian nationals now travel and onboard across the EU with the Osobna iskaznica (national ID card) alone, no Putovnica (passport) required at Schengen borders.
  • EU and Schengen-area identity cards are recognised under AMLD6 mutual recognition, so Croatian platforms onboarding French, German, or Spanish users can accept their national ID cards on the same Didit session.
  • The HNB and UAML AML supervisory obligations apply to all customers regardless of nationality, Schengen movement increases the cross-border onboarding volume, not the risk threshold.

Didit auto-classifies every EU/EEA national identity card on the same hosted flow, no country-specific configuration required.

Is Didit ready for an HNB payment institution authorisation in Croatia?

Yes. Croatia's Hrvatska narodna banka (HNB) authorises every Payment Institution (PI) and Electronic-Money Institution (EMI), and every entity must run full Customer Due Diligence under the Zakon o sprječavanju pranja novca i financiranja terorizma (NN 108/17).

Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus every Croatian regulatory watchlist (Ministry of Foreign Affairs PEPs, State Attorney's SIP register, Market Competition Agency Warnings, EU Consolidated Sanctions, Europol, UN, OFAC SDN).
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation under NN 108/17.

One audited session, one JSON report, one webhook contract, ready for the HNB + UAML dual-supervisor model.

How long does it take to integrate Didit in Croatia?

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, 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 Croatia stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

Croatian, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Croatian users land on the Croatian flow by default. English, German, Italian, and Hungarian are also live on the same flow for cross-border and 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 Croatia 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. Ongoing AML, $0.07 per user / year.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Croatia 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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