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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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Country brief

How identity verification works in Ireland.

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

Who supervises identity verification in Ireland.

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

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Ireland 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.

  • 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.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Irish passport (chip + NFC)
  • Public Services Card · MyGovID
  • Irish driving licence · Irish Residence Permit · EU / EEA national IDs
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 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.

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 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.
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Stage 04Cross-check against Irish civil + credit registries

Cross-check against Irish civil + credit registries , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Ireland 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.
Read the security & compliance dossier
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 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, call POST /v3/session/ with a workflow_id that wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML + irl_citizens 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 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, $0.15 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.
  • `irl_credit_bureau`, $0.77 per 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.

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