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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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Country brief

How identity verification works in Ecuador.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
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
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Ecuador.

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

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Ecuador 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.

  • 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.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Cédula de Identidad
  • Cédula de Identidad para Extranjeros
  • Pasaporte, chip read on e-Passport
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 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.

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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

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.
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Stage 04Cross-check against the Registro Civil

Cross-check against the Registro Civil , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Ecuador document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential, flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
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 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, call POST /v3/session/ with a workflow_id that 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-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 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, $0.15 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.
  • `ecu_cedula` (Registro Civil), $0.20 per 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.

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