Identity verification
built for Côte d’Ivoire 
Carte Nationale d'Identité and Passport on one session, screened against CENTIF-CI sanctions lists and West African GIABA watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Côte d’Ivoire.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Ivorian identity fraud: synthetic-CNI and deepfake attacks targeting Wave, MTN Mobile Money, and BCEAO-licensed e-money operators, national identity card forgery across legacy paper and current biometric formats, and AML pressure on cross-border remittance corridors under CENTIF-CI and GIABA mutual-evaluation requirements. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Loi Uniforme GIABA/WAEMU relative à la lutte contre le blanchiment de capitaux et le financement du terrorisme
- BCEAO Instruction n°008-05-2015 sur la monnaie électronique
- Loi n°2013-450 relative à la protection des données à caractère personnel
- Règlement Général de la Commission Bancaire UMOA
- Ordonnance n°2012-293 relative aux Télécommunications
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Côte d’Ivoire.
BCEAO
Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, central bank and financial supervisor across the WAEMU zone. Supervises banks, electronic-money issuers, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers in Côte d'Ivoire under Instruction n°008-05-2015.
CENTIF-CI
Cellule Nationale de Traitement des Informations Financières, Côte d'Ivoire's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Déclarations d'Opérations Suspectes from obliged entities and coordinates with GIABA on regional AML/CFT enforcement.
Direction Générale du Trésor
Direction Générale du Trésor et de la Comptabilité Publique, oversees the broader Ivorian financial system, public finances, and coordinates with CENTIF-CI on obliged-entity compliance.
ARTCI
Autorité Nationale de Régulation des Télécommunications de Côte d'Ivoire, governs digital services, electronic signatures, and internet service providers. Issues the regulatory framework for e-commerce and digital identity.
CNIL-CI
Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés, Côte d'Ivoire's data-protection authority. Governs how identity verification data on Ivorian residents is captured, stored, and disclosed.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Carte Nationale d'Identité (CNI, biometric format), Passeport Ivoirien (with the chip read on e-Passports), Permis de Conduire, Titre de Séjour for foreign residents, ECOWAS biometric card for citizens of other ECOWAS member states, and UNHCR refugee cards.
- Returns the name, document number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
- Carte Nationale d'Identité (CNI)
- Passeport Ivoirien, chip read on e-Passport
- Permis de Conduire · Titre de Séjour · Carte CEDEAO · Carte de Réfugié
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 Ivorian regulatory and West African regional watchlist:
- House of Representatives of Côte d'Ivoire, PEP register, Members of the National Assembly and senior legislative-branch officials (PEP Level 1).
- National Assembly and Senate of Côte d'Ivoire, PEP registers, legislative-branch Politically Exposed Persons.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Côte d'Ivoire, PEP register, senior executive-branch Politically Exposed Persons (PEP Level 2).
- Ministry of Finance of Côte d'Ivoire, PEP register, financial-sector executive-branch PEPs (PEP Level 2).
- Ministry of Justice of Côte d'Ivoire, enforcement register, domestic regulatory and enforcement actions (PEP Level 2).
- Constitutional Council of Côte d'Ivoire, PEP register, senior constitutional-branch officials (PEP Level 2).
- National Commission for the Restoration of Democracy, political-transition officials, transitional PEPs.
- SIVES, Special Interest Vessel register, maritime enforcement signals for Côte d'Ivoire.
- Le Journal International, adverse-media signals, investigative press for negative-news screening.
- CENTIF-CI, enforcement register, Côte d'Ivoire's FIU designations and enforcement actions.
- GIABA, Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa, regional FATF-style body watchlist covering 16 ECOWAS member states.
- UN Security Council, Consolidated Sanctions List, global multilateral sanctions transposed by CENTIF-CI.
- OFAC SDN, Specially Designated Nationals List, US Treasury designations with West Africa coverage.
- AU Commission, African Union sanctions registry, continental political and economic sanctions decisions.
- Interpol Africa, criminal-notice registry, cross-border wanted persons and criminal diffusions.
- Basel AML Index, Côte d'Ivoire risk signals, country-level risk context updated annually.
- ECOWAS, regional enforcement register, Economic Community of West African States cross-border enforcement.
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 the identity at scale.
Côte d'Ivoire does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators, no public database validation API exists for the Office National de l'État Civil's CNI register.
- The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative CENTIF-CI- and CNIL-CI-compliant path today: the CNI document number is OCR-parsed from the card, the face is matched against the document portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Ivorian regulatory and GIABA regional watchlist.
- For phone, email, and address enrichment, pair the session with global Database Validation services that already work in Côte d'Ivoire today.
- A direct ONEC authoritative-source lookup ships as BCEAO Instruction n°008-05-2015 and CNIL-CI-compliant data partners onboard, Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their workflow.
Cross-check the identity at scale , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Côte d’Ivoire document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Côte d’Ivoire.
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Common questions about Côte d’Ivoire.
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 regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding in Côte d'Ivoire?
Five sit on top of every Ivorian identity-verification flow:
- Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO), supervises banks, electronic-money issuers, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers across the WAEMU zone under BCEAO Instruction n°008-05-2015.
- Cellule Nationale de Traitement des Informations Financières (CENTIF-CI), Côte d'Ivoire's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Déclarations d'Opérations Suspectes and coordinates with GIABA on regional AML/CFT enforcement under the GIABA/WAEMU AML framework.
- Direction Générale du Trésor et de la Comptabilité Publique, oversees the broader Ivorian financial system and coordinates on obliged-entity compliance.
- Autorité Nationale de Régulation des Télécommunications (ARTCI), governs digital services and electronic-signature frameworks for e-commerce operators.
- Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (CNIL-CI), Côte d'Ivoire's data-protection authority. Governs how verification data on Ivorian residents is captured, stored, and disclosed under Loi n°2013-450 relative à la protection des données à caractère personnel.
Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all five at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
Does Didit screen against CENTIF-CI sanctions and GIABA watchlists for Côte d'Ivoire?
Yes, on every AML Screening call.
- Didit screens names against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists.
- Plus every Ivorian and regional list CENTIF-CI expects an obliged entity to monitor, House of Representatives PEP register, National Assembly and Senate PEP registers, Ministry of Justice enforcement register, GIABA West Africa watchlist, and ECOWAS regional enforcement register.
- AML Screening costs
$0.20per check; Ongoing AML monitoring costs$0.07 per user / yearand re-checks every customer daily, what CENTIF-CI-obliged institutions need for the periodic-review obligation under the GIABA/WAEMU AML framework.
Does Didit support onboarding for BCEAO-licensed e-money issuers and mobile-money operators in Côte d'Ivoire?
Yes, the full Didit stack maps directly onto BCEAO Instruction n°008-05-2015 requirements for electronic-money issuers and payment service providers.
- Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for Simplified Due Diligence and Standard Due Diligence tiers.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against every CENTIF-CI, GIABA, and WAEMU watchlist the BCEAO expects.
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation under the GIABA/WAEMU AML framework.
- The hosted flow ships in French, auto-detected from the user's device, for the highest pass rates across Ivorian MTN Mobile Money, Wave, and Moov Money users.
Same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack, one stack, BCEAO Instruction n°008-05-2015-compliant out of the box.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Côte d'Ivoire?
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 + Passive Liveness + Face Match + AML, 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 Côte d'Ivoire stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Ivorian users?
French, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Ivorian users land on the French flow by default, with regional French localisation on the same layer.
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 Côte d'Ivoire 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.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Côte d'Ivoire 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.