Identity verification
built for Ecuador 
Cédula de Identidad and Pasaporte on one session, cross-checked against the Registro Civil, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in Ecuador.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Ecuadorian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-Cédula attacks on the SB-licensed digital wallets and cooperatives that drove rapid financial inclusion through DeUna! and similar rails, Cédula document forgery across the chip and legacy formats, and AML pressure on the dollarised cash-remittance corridors. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Ley Orgánica de Prevención, Detección y Erradicación del Delito de Lavado de Activos
- LOPDP (Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos Personales, 2021)
- JPRF Resolución 011-2014-F (CDD)
- Código Orgánico Monetario y Financiero
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Ecuador.
SB
Superintendencia de Bancos, prudential supervisor for banks, financial cooperatives and private financial entities. Sets remote-onboarding rules and Customer Due Diligence under JPRF Resoluciones.
SCVS
Superintendencia de Compañías, Valores y Seguros, securities, capital-market and insurance supervisor. Registers broker-dealers and investment funds.
UAFE
Unidad de Análisis Financiero y Económico, Ecuador's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Reportes de Operaciones Inusuales e Injustificadas (ROII) under the Ley Orgánica.
SPDP
Superintendencia de Protección de Datos Personales, LOPDP (Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos Personales, 2021) supervisor. Governs every identity verification on Ecuadorian residents.
Registro Civil
Dirección General de Registro Civil, Identificación y Cedulación, civil-registry 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), Cédula de Identidad para Extranjeros, Pasaporte (with the chip read on e-Passports), and driving licence.
- Returns the name, Cédula, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
- Cédula de Identidad
- Cédula de Identidad para Extranjeros
- 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 Ecuadorian watchlists:
- ECSRI, Ecuador Internal Revenue Service (SIE), Servicio de Rentas Internas enforcement actions and state-entity flags.
- ECPN-MW, National Police of Ecuador, Most Wanted (SIP), national police most-wanted and person-of-interest register.
- National Assembly of Ecuador, PEP register, Asambleístas and senior legislative-branch officials.
- National Electoral Council (CNE), PEP register, senior electoral-authority officials.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, PEP register, senior foreign-ministry and diplomatic officials.
- Ministry of Finance, PEP register, senior finance-ministry and treasury officials.
- Ministry of the Interior, PEP register, senior interior-ministry officials.
- Ministry of Transportation and Public Works, Warnings, enforcement warnings from the transport regulator.
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 Registro Civil.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The Cédula check (
ecu_cedula,$0.20) is the authoritative-source lookup, hits the Registro Civil for identification number, full name, marital status, profession, education, formatted address, parents' and spouse names. No consent required. - Among the cheapest authoritative-source checks in LATAM, with one of the richest payloads.
Cross-check against the Registro Civil , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Ecuador document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Ecuador.
Ecuador — Cédula verification
Source: Dirección General de Registro Civil, Identificación y Cedulación. $0.20 per successful query.
AML lists screened in Ecuador
1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.
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Common questions about Ecuador.
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 Ecuadorian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Three sit on top of every Ecuadorian identity-verification flow:
- Superintendencia de Bancos (SB), sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, cooperatives and private financial entities under the Código Orgánico Monetario y Financiero and the JPRF (Junta de Política y Regulación Financiera) Resoluciones (notably 011-2014-F on Customer Due Diligence).
- Unidad de Análisis Financiero y Económico (UAFE), Ecuador's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Reportes de Operaciones Inusuales e Injustificadas (ROII) under the Ley Orgánica de Prevención, Detección y Erradicación del Delito de Lavado de Activos.
- Superintendencia de Protección de Datos Personales (SPDP), supervises LOPDP (Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos Personales, 2021). 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 Ecuadorian identities against the Registro Civil?
Yes, via the `ecu_cedula` Database Validation service (POST /v3/database-validation/ with services=ecu_cedula).
- Source: Dirección General de Registro Civil, Identificación y Cedulación, the authoritative Ecuadorian civil registry.
- Price:
$0.20 per successful query, among the cheapest authoritative-source checks in LATAM. - Required inputs:
personal_number(the Cédula, exactly 10 digits). - Returns:
identification_number,first_name,last_name,marital_status,profession,education,formatted_address,father_name,mother_name,spouse,nationality, one of the richest authoritative payloads in the region. - Consent: Not required.
Is Didit suitable for Ecuadorian financial cooperatives under SB supervision?
Yes. Cooperativas de Ahorro y Crédito (COACs) sit under the Superintendencia de Bancos for the segment-1 + segment-2 institutions and the Superintendencia de Economía Popular y Solidaria (SEPS) for the rest, with the same JPRF Resolución 011-2014-F Customer Due Diligence framework.
Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:
- Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
- `ecu_cedula` Database Validation against the Registro Civil, the authoritative-source check SB and SEPS expect.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Ecuadorian regulatory watchlists.
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation.
- Proof of Address ($0.20) when the cooperative requires the JPRF residential-address evidence.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Ecuador?
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 + Registro Civil 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 Ecuador stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Ecuadorian users?
Ecuadorian Spanish, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Ecuadorian 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 Ecuador 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. - `ecu_cedula` (Registro Civil),
$0.20per successful query.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Ecuador 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.