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Identity verification
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DPI cross-checked against the RENAP civil registry in real time, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month, covering Central America's largest economy.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Guatemala.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Guatemala faces DPI forgery driven by the remittance economy, synthetic-identity fraud exploiting cooperative and microfinance onboarding, and informal cash networks that complicate AML monitoring for regulated lenders. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, deepfake, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Decreto 67-2001, Ley contra el Lavado de Dinero u Otros Activos
  • Decreto 58-2005, Reformas a la Ley contra el Lavado
  • Acuerdo Gubernativo 118-2002, Reglamento de la Ley contra el Lavado
  • Decreto 17-73, Código Penal (delitos financieros)
  • GAFILAT 40 Recommendations
  • FATF Methodology 2022
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Guatemala.

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

    Superintendencia de Bancos, prudential supervisor for banks, financieras, cooperativas de ahorro, and insurance. Owns KYC and AML onboarding requirements under Decreto 67-2001 (Ley contra el Lavado de Dinero u Otros Activos).

  • IVE

    Intendencia de Verificación Especial, the anti-money-laundering arm of the SIB. Receives Reportes de Transacciones Sospechosas and oversees sujetos obligados compliance under Decreto 67-2001.

  • Banguat

    Banco de Guatemala, central bank. Oversees the payment system, monetary policy, and licensing of electronic-payment operators.

  • RENAP

    Registro Nacional de las Personas, civil-registry authority. Issues the DPI and maintains the authoritative identity database queried by the `gtm_dpi` service.

  • MINFIN

    Ministerio de Finanzas Públicas, supervises fiscal compliance, tax-residency lookups, and public-procurement exclusion lists relevant to KYB and treasury onboarding.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Guatemala database cross-check, composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the DPI.

Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Documento Personal de Identificación (DPI, exactly 13 digits CUI), Pasaporte (chip read on biometric passports), Cédula de Vecindad, Documento de Identificación de Extranjero, and Licencia de Conducir.
  • Returns the name, CUI number, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the DPI
  • Documento Personal de Identificación (DPI), 13-digit CUI
  • Pasaporte, chip read on biometric e-Passport
  • Documento de Identificación de Extranjero
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 Guatemalan watchlists.

  • Guatemala Presidency, PEP Level 1 official register
  • Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance, PEP Level 2 register
  • Guatemala City Government, PEP Level 4 register
  • Diario de Centro América, adverse media (SIP)
  • SIB, Superintendencia de Bancos administrative sanctions
  • IVE, Intendencia de Verificación Especial AML enforcement list
  • MINFIN, Ministerio de Finanzas Públicas exclusion lists
  • GAFILAT, Group of Financial Action of Latin America mutual evaluations
  • FATF, Financial Action Task Force consolidated list
  • UN Security Council, consolidated sanctions list
  • OFAC SDN, Specially Designated Nationals
  • Interpol, regional Central America red notices

Hits are scored by severity. Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) and Didit re-checks every customer daily, firing a webhook the moment a new hit appears, critical for Decreto 67-2001 periodic-review obligations.

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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 RENAP civil registry.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The `gtm_dpi` check ($0.20 per successful query, no end-user consent required) hits the Registro Nacional de las Personas directly, document_number (exactly 13 digits, no hyphens) in, normalised identification fields out: identification_number, first_name, last_name, full_name.
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Stage 04Cross-check against the RENAP civil registry

Cross-check against the RENAP civil registry , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Guatemala 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 Guatemala.

What is Didit?

Didit is infrastructure for identity and fraud, the platform we wished existed when we were building products ourselves: open, flexible, and developer-friendly, so it works as a real part of your stack instead of a black box you integrate around.

One API covers verifying people (KYC, know your customer), verifying businesses (KYB, know your business), screening crypto wallets (KYT, know your transaction), and monitoring transactions in real time, on a stack built to be:

  • Fast, sub-2-second p99 on every session
  • Reliable, in production with 1,500+ companies across 220+ countries
  • Secure, SOC 2 Type 1, ISO 27001, GDPR-native, and formally attested by Spain's financial regulator as safer than verifying someone in person

The footprint underneath: 14,000+ document types in 48+ languages, 1,000+ data sources, and 200+ fraud signals on every session. The Didit infrastructure dynamically learns from every session and gets better every day.

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.

Which regulators govern identity verification for digital onboarding in Guatemala?

Four authorities sit on top of every Guatemalan identity-verification flow:

  • Superintendencia de Bancos (SIB), sets KYC and AML onboarding requirements for banks, financieras, and cooperativas under Decreto 67-2001 (Ley contra el Lavado de Dinero u Otros Activos).
  • Intendencia de Verificación Especial (IVE), the SIB's AML enforcement arm. Receives Reportes de Transacciones Sospechosas and oversees sujetos obligados compliance.
  • Banco de Guatemala (Banguat), central bank. Oversees the payment system and licensing of electronic-payment operators.
  • Registro Nacional de las Personas (RENAP), civil-registry authority that issues the DPI and underpins the gtm_dpi database validation.

Didit ships the hosted flow + audit log + 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 Guatemalan identities against the RENAP registry?

Yes, via the `gtm_dpi` Database Validation service (POST /v3/database-validation/):

  • `gtm_dpi`, hits the Registro Nacional de las Personas (RENAP) directly. $0.20 per successful query, no end-user consent required. Input: document_number (exactly 13 digits, no hyphens). Returns identification_number, first_name, last_name, full_name.
Is Didit ready for SIB-supervised KYC under Decreto 67-2001?

Yes. Decreto 67-2001 (Ley contra el Lavado de Dinero u Otros Activos) and its reglamento under Acuerdo Gubernativo 118-2002 require every SIB-supervised entity, bank, financiera, cooperativa de ahorro, to verify customer identity against the civil registry and screen for AML risk before onboarding.

Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • `gtm_dpi` Database Validation against RENAP, the authoritative source SIB expects.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Guatemalan regulatory watchlists (SIB sanctions, IVE enforcement lists, MINFIN exclusions, Guatemala Presidency PEP registers).
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the Decreto 67-2001 periodic-review obligation.
How long does it take to integrate Didit for Guatemala?

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 + Passive Liveness + Face Match + AML + RENAP database, 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 Guatemala stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

Guatemalan Spanish, auto-detected from the user's browser or device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Guatemalan users land on the Spanish flow by default. English is also live on the same flow for cross-border, expat, or US-diaspora 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 Guatemala 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.
  • `gtm_dpi` (RENAP civil registry), $0.20 per successful query.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.

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