Identity verification
built for France 
CNIe, Passeport, Titre de Séjour, Permis de Conduire on one session, ACPR + AMF + CNIL aligned, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in France.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape French identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks targeting MiCA-licensed PSANs and fast-growing neobanks, document forgery of the pre-2021 paper Carte Nationale d'Identité (still valid until 2031), and SIM-swap-driven account takeover on mobile-first onboardings. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- AMLD6 (EU Directive 2018/1673)
- MiCA (EU Regulation 2023/1114)
- DORA (EU Regulation 2022/2554)
- GDPR / Loi Informatique et Libertés
- eIDAS 2.0 (EU Regulation 2024/1183)
- Code monétaire et financier (Livre V)
- EU Regulation 2019/1157 (ID cards)
Who supervises identity verification in France.
ACPR
Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution, prudential supervisor for banks, insurers, payment institutions, and e-money issuers. Operates under Banque de France and sets remote-onboarding rules under the Code monétaire et financier.
AMF
Autorité des Marchés Financiers, securities and crypto-asset service provider (PSAN) supervisor under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation and the Règlement Général AMF.
CNIL
Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Loi Informatique et Libertés supervisor. Governs every identity verification on French residents.
TRACFIN
Traitement du Renseignement et Action contre les Circuits Financiers Clandestins, France's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports (déclarations de soupçon) under L. 561 of the Code monétaire et financier.
Banque de France
France's central bank. Operates the national payment-system infrastructure and oversees ACPR alongside the European Central Bank under the Single Supervisory Mechanism.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- CNIe (with NFC chip read), the legacy paper Carte Nationale d'Identité valid until 2031, Passeport (with NFC chip read), Titre de Séjour, and Permis de Conduire.
- Every EU and European Economic Area national identity card is recognised on the same session under AMLD6 cross-border equivalence.
- Returns the name, document number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
- CNIe, NFC chip read
- Passeport, NFC chip read
- Titre de Séjour · Permis de Conduire · EU/EEA IDs
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.
Didit screens the user's name against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus every French regulatory watchlist (AMF Sanctions Commission, CNIL Sanctions, National Frost Registry, French PEP registers spanning the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Conseil Constitutionnel, Conseil d'État, and Cour de Cassation).
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 authoritative French datasets.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The `fra_consumer` lead-generation lookup ($0.08, ~10% coverage) is the fast first-pass gate; `fra_utility_2` ($0.23, >70%) and `fra_residential_2` ($0.30, >40%) cover address verification on a budget.
- The deeper `fra_residential` ($0.89, ~85%) and `fra_utility` ($0.61, >75%) services hit census and government-agency-sourced address data; `fra_residential_3` ($0.61, ~60%) checks against e-commerce, subscription, and service-professional databases.
- `fra_phone` ($0.67, ~90%) confirms the phone is registered to the user via mobile-network-operator data. All six services are pay-per-success, no consent required.
Cross-check against authoritative French datasets , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every France document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for France.
France — Consumer lead lookup
Source: Combined French lead-generation database. $0.08 per successful query. Coverage ~10% of adult population.
France — Utility 2 (address)
Source: French utility billing records. $0.23 per successful query. Coverage >70% of adult population.
France — Residential 2 (telco billing)
Source: French telco billing and phone records. $0.30 per successful query. Coverage >40% of adult population.
France — Residential 3 (commerce + services)
Source: E-commerce transactions, service professionals, and subscription databases. $0.61 per successful query. Coverage ~60% of adult population.
France — Utility (census + government)
Source: Government-agency-sourced census data. $0.61 per successful query. Coverage >75% of adult population.
France — Phone (MNO lookup)
Source: French mobile-network-operator data. $0.67 per successful query. Coverage ~90% of mobile lines.
France — Residential (census)
Source: Government-agency-sourced census data. $0.89 per successful query. Coverage ~85% of adult population.
AML lists screened in France
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 France.
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 French regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Four sit on top of every French identity-verification flow:
- Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR), sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, insurers, payment institutions, and e-money issuers under the Code monétaire et financier (Livre V) and AMLD6 transposition.
- Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), securities and crypto-asset service provider (PSAN) supervisor under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation and the Règlement Général AMF.
- TRACFIN, France's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports (déclarations de soupçon) generated by the AML stage of the flow.
- Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), GDPR + Loi Informatique et Libertés supervisor. 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.
Does Didit cross-check French identities against authoritative datasets?
Yes, via seven Database Validation services on POST /v3/database-validation/.
- `fra_consumer` ($0.08, ~10% coverage), French lead-generation lookup. Low-cost first-pass gate.
- `fra_utility_2` ($0.23, >70%), utility billing records for address verification.
- `fra_residential_2` ($0.30, >40%), French telco billing + phone records.
- `fra_residential_3` ($0.61, ~60%), e-commerce, subscription, and service-professional databases.
- `fra_utility` ($0.61, >75%) and `fra_residential` ($0.89, ~85%), government-agency-sourced census data.
- `fra_phone` ($0.67, ~90%), French mobile-network-operator phone match.
All seven services are documented at docs.didit.me/api-reference/database-validation/france/. Pay-per-success, no consent required, no contracts.
Does Didit read the NFC chip on the CNIe and French passport?
Yes, on the same hosted session, on any phone with an NFC reader.
- CNIe, the post-2021 polycarbonate Carte Nationale d'Identité Électronique carries a contactless chip aligned with EU Regulation 2019/1157. Didit reads the chip + the MRZ on the same capture step.
- Passeport, ICAO 9303 biometric passport, Public Key Directory validated end-to-end against the issuing authority's signed certificates.
- The pre-2021 paper Carte Nationale d'Identité (valid until 2031) is captured via OCR + document-template detection; the chip read is reserved for the CNIe and the passport.
No NFC surcharge, the chip read is included in the standard $0.15 ID Verification price.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in France?
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 + a French address 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 France stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which language does the hosted verification flow use for French users?
French, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; French users land on the fr-FR flow by default. English, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese are 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 France verification cost end-to-end?
Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:
- ID Verification,
$0.15per document check (NFC chip read included on CNIe and Passeport). - 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. - `fra_consumer`,
$0.08. `fra_utility_2`,$0.23. `fra_residential_2`,$0.30. - `fra_residential_3`,
$0.61. `fra_utility`,$0.61. `fra_phone`,$0.67. `fra_residential`,$0.89.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no France 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.