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Asia-Pacific

Identity verification
built for India Flag of India

Aadhaar, PAN, Voter ID and Indian passport on one session, cross-checked against UIDAI, the Income Tax Department, the Election Commission, the Road Transport Office and Passport Seva, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in India.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Indian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-Aadhaar attacks on neobank and UPI-PSP onboarding, high-volume PAN and Voter-ID forgery, and the explosive growth of cross-border crypto on-ramps under the PMLA-mandated VDA Service Provider regime. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • RBI Customer Due Diligence Master Direction
  • Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)
  • SEBI KYC Registration Agency framework
  • Aadhaar Act 2016
  • Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023
  • PMLA VDA Service Provider regime (crypto)
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in India.

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

    Reserve Bank of India, central bank. Issues the Customer Due Diligence Master Direction binding on banks, payment aggregators, Payments Banks, and Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs).

  • SEBI

    Securities and Exchange Board of India, capital-markets supervisor. Sets the KYC Registration Agency (KRA) framework for mutual funds, brokers, and depository participants.

  • UIDAI

    Unique Identification Authority of India, issues Aadhaar and governs the offline-XML, paperless-eKYC, and online-eKYC channels under the Aadhaar Act 2016.

  • FIU-IND

    Financial Intelligence Unit-India, receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Regulates VDA Service Providers (crypto).

  • MeitY

    Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, implementing authority for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023. Governs how the verification data is captured, stored, and disclosed.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a India 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.

  • Aadhaar, PAN, Voter ID, Indian e-Passport (with the chip read), driving licence (all 29 state templates), and DigiLocker issuer-signed credentials.
  • Returns the name, document number, date of birth, address, and gender. Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, and the other regional scripts are preserved verbatim through OCR.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Aadhaar (offline XML or live UIDAI eKYC for AUA-licensed entities)
  • Permanent Account Number (PAN)
  • Voter ID (EPIC), Elector Photo Identity Card
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.

Didit screens the user's name against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus every Indian regulatory watchlist (Ministry of Home Affairs Banned Organisations + Unlawful Associations, Parliament of India + Council of States, every Ministry of the Government of India PEP register, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India).

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

Read the docs
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 UIDAI, ITD, ECI, RTO and Passport Seva.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Aadhaar check (ind_aadhaar, ~100% coverage) hits UIDAI directly with name + DOB + Aadhaar number + PAN.
  • The PAN check (ind_pan_permanent_account_number, ~100% coverage) hits the Income Tax Department database.
  • EPIC (ind_epic_voter_s_registration), Driver's Licence (ind_drivers_licence), and Passport (ind_passport) round out the coverage on the Election Commission, the Road Transport Offices, and Passport Seva Kendra respectively.
  • Run them in parallel and Didit picks the cheap one first, only paying for the deeper check when the first one is inconclusive.
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Stage 04Cross-check against UIDAI, ITD, ECI, RTO and Passport Seva

Cross-check against UIDAI, ITD, ECI, RTO and Passport Seva , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every India document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential, flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for India.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against, civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
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 India.

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 Indian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Four sit on top of every Indian identity-verification flow:

  • Reserve Bank of India (RBI), sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, payment aggregators, Payments Banks, and Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) under the Customer Due Diligence Master Direction.
  • Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), supervises capital-markets intermediaries under the KYC Registration Agency (KRA) framework.
  • FIU-IND (Financial Intelligence Unit, India), receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Regulates VDA Service Providers (crypto) under the PMLA notification of March 2023.
  • Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) + Data Protection Board, implementing authority for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023. 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 Indian identities against UIDAI, the Income Tax Department, the Election Commission, the RTO and Passport Seva?

Yes, via five Database Validation services on POST /v3/database-validation/.

  • `ind_aadhaar` ($0.11, ~100% coverage), UIDAI direct lookup with full_name + DOB + Aadhaar + PAN, consent required.
  • `ind_pan_permanent_account_number` ($0.84, ~100% coverage), Income Tax Department database, full_name + DOB + PAN, consent required.
  • `ind_epic_voter_s_registration` ($0.84, > 75% coverage), Election Commission of India database, full_name + DOB + EPIC card number, consent required.
  • `ind_drivers_licence` ($0.84, > 75% coverage), Road Transport Office (Sarathi) databases, full_name + DOB + driver licence number, consent required.
  • `ind_passport` ($0.19, ~25% coverage), Passport Seva Kendra database, full_name + DOB + passport file number + passport number, consent required.

All five services are documented at docs.didit.me/api-reference/database-validation/india/.

Do you support DigiLocker issuer-signed credentials?

Yes. DigiLocker issuer-signed credentials can be presented as verifiable credentials and consumed on the same session:

  • Aadhaar
  • Driving licence
  • Vehicle registration
  • Education certificates

The signature chain is validated against the Government of India issuer keys, cryptographic proof of authenticity, not just OCR. For Aadhaar specifically, both offline-XML and the live UIDAI eKYC channel (for entities holding the Authentication User Agency licence) return on the same session shape.

How long does it take to integrate Didit in India?

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 + UIDAI / ITD / ECI / RTO / Passport Seva 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 India stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

English (India), Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi are all live, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages.

Document capture is tuned for Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, and the other regional scripts. The admin console can be set independently to whichever language your compliance team prefers.

What does the India 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.
  • `ind_aadhaar`, $0.11 per successful query.
  • `ind_passport`, $0.19.
  • `ind_pan_permanent_account_number` · `ind_epic_voter_s_registration` · `ind_drivers_licence`, $0.84 each.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no India 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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