Identity verification
built for Congo - Kinshasa 
National Identity Card and Passport on one session, screened against DRC regulatory watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Congo - Kinshasa.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape DRC identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on mobile-money operators in Kinshasa and mining-belt towns, Carte d'Identité Nationale forgery amid an ongoing civil-registry reform programme, and AML/sanctions exposure tied to conflict-minerals trade flows and UN-designated armed groups. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- AML/CFT Law 04/016 of 2004 (DRC)
- BCC Instruction 14 on KYC and due diligence
- UN Security Council Sanctions Regime (DRC arms embargo, UNSCR 1807/2008 and successors)
- GABAC mutual-evaluation framework
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Congo - Kinshasa.
BCC
Banque Centrale du Congo, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, financial institutions, payment service providers, and electronic-money operators in the DRC.
CENAREF
Centre National d'Evaluation, de Traitement et de Renseignements Financiers, DRC's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives and analyses Suspicious Transaction Reports under AML/CFT Law 04/016 of 2004.
DGM
Direction Générale de Migration, issues passports and residence documents; maintains the foreign-national registry. Key identity-document authority for cross-border onboarding flows.
ONI
Office National d'Identification, issues the Carte d'Identité Nationale and maintains the national civil register. Primary authority for Congolese citizen identity.
ARPTC
Autorité de Régulation de la Poste et des Télécommunications du Congo, telecoms regulator overseeing mobile-money operators and digital-payment providers in the DRC.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Carte d'Identité Nationale, Passport (MRZ-parsed), Driver's Licence, and Carte de Résidence for foreign nationals.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- Carte d'Identité Nationale
- Passport, MRZ-parsed
- Driver's Licence · Carte de Résidence
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 DR Congo watchlists:
- Cabinet of Ministers (DRC), PEP Level 2 executive-branch officials.
- National Assembly and Senate (DRC), PEP Level 2 legislative officials.
- Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, PEP Level 2 senior ministry officials.
- Congolese National Police, PEP Level 2 law enforcement officials.
- Central Bank of the Congo (BCC), PEP Level 2 regulatory officials.
- Attorney General's Office, enforcement and prosecution watchlist.
- Public Procurement Regulatory Authority, Warnings for entities barred from public procurement.
- Security Council Report (DRC), Warnings and adverse-media register.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions, DRC arms embargo and individual designations (UNSCR 1807/2008 and successors).
- OFAC SDN List, conflict-minerals and armed-group designations.
- GABAC, Central Africa regional AML/CFT watchlist.
- Interpol Central Africa, international law enforcement cooperation register.
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.
- There is no public government database validation API for DR Congo currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the ONI national identity registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Bind every check to one audited session , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Congo - Kinshasa document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Congo - Kinshasa.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Congo - Kinshasa.
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. - AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay.
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 DRC regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Three sit on top of every DRC identity-verification flow:
- Banque Centrale du Congo (BCC), sets KYC and due-diligence requirements for banks, payment service providers, and electronic-money operators under BCC Instruction 14.
- CENAREF, DRC's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under AML/CFT Law 04/016 of 2004.
- GABAC, the FATF-style regional body for Central Africa. Mutual evaluations set the compliance baseline for every DRC regulated entity.
Additionally, every DRC session must be run against UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions (the DRC arms embargo and individual designations) and OFAC SDN designations.
Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all of the above at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
Why does the DRC require enhanced AML screening compared to other African markets?
The DRC carries elevated risk on three vectors regulators explicitly flag:
- UN arms embargo (UNSCR 1807/2008 and successors), individual and entity designations covering armed groups active in eastern Congo. Every DRC onboarding must screen against the full UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions list.
- OFAC SDN designations, US Treasury has designated individuals and entities tied to conflict-minerals trade (gold, coltan, cassiterite) and armed groups.
- FATF grey-list risk, the DRC has been subject to mutual-evaluation findings requiring strengthened AML controls at the national and institutional level.
Didit screens against 1,300+ lists including all UN, OFAC, and GABAC sources by default on every session, no additional configuration needed.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in DR Congo?
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. - 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 DRC stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which language does the hosted verification flow use for DRC users?
French, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; DRC users land on French by default (the sole official administrative language).
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 DR Congo 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.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no DRC 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.