Identity verification
built for Laos 
Lao National ID and biometric passport on one session, face-matched against a live selfie, AML-screened across Bank of the Lao PDR watchlists and global sanctions lists. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Laos.
- Fraud landscape
- Laos faces cross-border identity fraud driven by high transaction volumes across the Thailand-Laos-China corridor, fraudulent National ID claims exploiting the ongoing digital-card rollout, and synthetic-ID attacks targeting the rapidly expanding mobile banking and payment sector. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2022
- Law on Commercial Banks 2022
- E-Commerce Law 2012
- Law on Electronic Transactions 2012
- APG Mutual Evaluation Framework
- FATF 40 Recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Laos.
BOL
Bank of the Lao PDR, central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers. Sets Customer Due Diligence and KYC requirements under the Law on Commercial Banks 2022 and the Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2022.
AMLIO
Anti-Money Laundering Intelligence Office, operates under BOL. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and oversees AML/CFT enforcement under the Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2022.
LSCO
Lao Securities Commission Office, supervises capital-market participants and securities dealers. Issues KYC compliance requirements for securities onboarding.
Ministry of Public Security
Issues the National Identity Card and maintains Laos' civil registration database through the General Department of Civil Registration, the authoritative identity data source for KYC flows.
Ministry of Technology and Communications
Governs digital service providers, fintech platforms, and electronic payment systems under the E-Commerce Law 2012. Enforces data-protection and cybersecurity requirements on identity-verification flows.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National Identity Card (smart card), biometric passport (with NFC chip read), Family Registration Book (Somunsalat), and Driving Licence.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- National Identity Card, smart card format
- Biometric Passport, NFC chip read
- Family Registration Book (Somunsalat) · Driving Licence
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.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, plus Lao PDR watchlists:
- National Assembly of Laos, PEP Level 1 (members of the National Assembly).
- AMLIO Laos, Suspicious Transaction Reports register for obligated reporting entities.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List, global designations.
- OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), US Treasury designations.
- EU Consolidated Sanctions List, European Union designated entities.
- UK HMT Sanctions List, His Majesty's Treasury financial sanctions.
- APG (Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering), mutual evaluation watchlist.
- FATF 40 Recommendations, high-risk jurisdiction monitoring.
- Interpol Notices, international law-enforcement alerts.
- Basel AML Index, country risk-scoring benchmark.
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.
Database validation for Lao identities.
- There is no public government database validation API for Laos currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the General Department of Civil Registration civil registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation for Lao identities , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Laos document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Laos.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Laos.
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 Lao PDR regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Three regulators sit on top of every Lao PDR identity-verification flow:
- Bank of the Lao PDR (BOL), central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers. Sets Customer Due Diligence requirements under the Law on Commercial Banks 2022 and the Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2022.
- Anti-Money Laundering Intelligence Office (AMLIO), operates under BOL. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports from obligated entities under the Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2022.
- Lao Securities Commission Office (LSCO), supervises capital-market participants and issues KYC compliance requirements for securities onboarding.
Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all three at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
What documents does Didit accept for Laos identity verification?
Didit accepts all primary Lao identity documents on the same session:
- National Identity Card, smart card format issued by the Ministry of Public Security; OCR-parsed and template-verified.
- Biometric Passport, ICAO 9303-compliant with NFC chip read.
- Family Registration Book (Somunsalat), accepted as supplementary proof of identity and residency.
- Driving Licence, document-template parsed as supplementary identity proof.
All 220+ country foreign passports and national IDs are also accepted, supporting Laos' large cross-border workforce from Vietnam, Thailand, and China.
Is Didit ready for BOL-licensed fintech or payment service provider onboarding in Laos?
Yes. BOL-licensed commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers must run full Customer Due Diligence under the Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2022.
Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:
- Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Lao PDR watchlists (National Assembly PEP register, AMLIO reporting register, UN/OFAC/EU/UK sanctions lists).
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for periodic-review obligations.
- 500 verifications free every month, pilot the full Laos stack at zero cost.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Laos?
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 Laos stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
What does Laos 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. 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.