Identity verification
built for Ireland 
Irish passport, MyGovID and Public Services Card on one session, CBI-aligned AML, GDPR by default, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in Ireland.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Irish identity fraud: deepfake injection on remote-onboarding flows used by CBI-licensed challenger banks and crypto-asset firms, synthetic-identity attacks on PPSN-linked credit applications, and document forgery on the Irish driving licence and Public Services Card. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010
- AMLD6
- MiCA
- eIDAS 2.0
- DORA
- GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018
- CBI AML/CFT Guidelines for the Financial Sector
Who supervises identity verification in Ireland.
CBI
Central Bank of Ireland, central bank and integrated supervisor for banks, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, insurance, securities markets and crypto-asset service providers (under MiCA).
DPC
Data Protection Commission, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 supervisor for Ireland and lead supervisor for most Big Tech.
FIU Ireland
Financial Intelligence Unit Ireland at An Garda Síochána, receives Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR) under the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010.
Revenue
Revenue Commissioners, operates the PPSN (Personal Public Service Number) and tax-residency registries used in KYB and treasury onboarding.
CRO / RBO
Companies Registration Office and Central Register of Beneficial Ownership, the authoritative source for Irish company and beneficial-owner data.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Works for every primary Irish credential, Irish passport (with chip read on e-Passports), Public Services Card, MyGovID, Irish driving licence, Irish Residence Permit (IRP) for non-EEA nationals, and every EU / EEA national identity card.
- Returns the name, document number, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
- Irish passport (chip + NFC)
- Public Services Card · MyGovID
- Irish driving licence · Irish Residence Permit · EU / EEA national 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 Irish regulatory watchlist (House of Assembly PEP register, An Garda Síochána alerts, The Irish Times adverse-media, FIU Ireland alerts) and cross-border lists (HMT/OFSI UK, OFAC SDN, EU consolidated, UN consolidated).
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 Irish civil + credit registries.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The `irl_credit_bureau` check (
$0.77, ~50% coverage) hits credit-bureau header data, useful for CBI consumer-credit underwriting. - The `irl_citizens` (
$2.03, ~20%) cross-checks name against Irish civil-registry data; `irl_voter_registration` ($1.13, ~20%) confirms voter-roll presence. - The `irl_residential` (
$2.03, ~20%) and `irl_utility` ($2.03, ~20%) services round out address + utility coverage.
Cross-check against Irish civil + credit registries , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Ireland document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Ireland.
Ireland Citizens
Source: Irish civil-registry data. $2.03 per successful query. Coverage ~20% of adult population.
Ireland Credit Bureau
Source: Irish consumer credit-bureau header data. $0.77 per successful query. Coverage ~50% of adult population.
Ireland Residential
Source: Irish residential records. $2.03 per successful query. Coverage ~20% of adult population.
Ireland Utility
Source: Irish utility records. $2.03 per successful query. Coverage ~20% of adult population.
Ireland Voter Registration
Source: Irish electoral roll. $1.13 per successful query. Coverage ~20% of adult population.
AML lists screened in Ireland
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 Ireland.
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 Irish regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Four sit on top of every Irish identity-verification flow:
- Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), central bank and integrated supervisor for banks, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, insurance, securities markets and crypto-asset service providers under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation and the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010.
- Data Protection Commission (DPC), supervises GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Lead supervisor for most Big Tech.
- FIU Ireland at An Garda Síochána, receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the 2010 Act.
- Revenue Commissioners, operate the PPSN and tax-residency registries used in KYB and treasury onboarding.
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 Irish identities against authoritative civil registries?
Yes, via five Database Validation services (POST /v3/database-validation/):
- `irl_citizens`, Irish civil-registry data.
$2.03 per successful query, ~20% coverage. - `irl_credit_bureau`, Irish consumer credit-bureau header data.
$0.77, ~50% coverage. - `irl_residential`, Irish residential records.
$2.03, ~20% coverage. - `irl_utility`, Irish utility records.
$2.03, ~20% coverage. - `irl_voter_registration`, Irish electoral roll.
$1.13, ~20% coverage.
All five are documented at docs.didit.me/api-reference/database-validation/ireland/. For deeper coverage, the Irish passport chip read remains the authoritative-source path for civil-registry data, no consent gate, cryptographically anchored to the issuing authority.
Is Didit ready for MiCA crypto-asset onboarding under CBI supervision?
Yes. Ireland designated the Central Bank of Ireland as the competent authority for crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), the same supervisor that covers banks and payment institutions.
Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:
- Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
- `irl_credit_bureau` Database Validation for credit-header cross-check; `irl_citizens` and `irl_voter_registration` for civil-register presence.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Irish regulatory watchlists (House of Assembly PEP register, An Garda Síochána alerts, FIU Ireland alerts, The Irish Times adverse-media).
- Wallet Screening (KYT) at $0.15 per check for the on-chain exposure assessment MiCA requires.
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the Criminal Justice Act 2010 periodic-review obligation.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Ireland?
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 +irl_citizensdatabase, 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 Ireland stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which languages does the hosted verification flow use for Irish users?
English (Ireland), Irish (Gaeilge), Polish, and Romanian are all live, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages site-wide.
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 Ireland 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. - `irl_credit_bureau`,
$0.77per successful query. - `irl_voter_registration`,
$1.13· `irl_citizens`,$2.03· `irl_residential`,$2.03· `irl_utility`,$2.03.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Ireland 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.