Identity verification
built for Paraguay 
Cédula de Identidad cross-checked against the Departamento de Identificaciones in real time, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month, built for South America's fastest-growing fintech corridor.




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How identity verification works in Paraguay.
- Fraud landscape
- Paraguay's identity fraud landscape is shaped by cédula cloning for e-wallet access, synthetic-identity fraud in the rapidly expanding EMPE sector, and informal cross-border cash corridors with Argentina and Brazil creating money-laundering risk for regulated fintechs. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, deepfake, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Ley 1015/1997, Ley de Prevención y Represión de los Actos Ilícitos destinados a la Legitimación de Dinero o Bienes
- Ley 6497/2020, Reforma de la Ley 1015 (AML/CFT reforms)
- Ley 861/1996, Ley General de Bancos, Financieras y Otras Entidades de Crédito
- Resolución BCP, Normativa de Entidades de Medios de Pago Electrónico (EMPE)
- GAFILAT 40 Recommendations
- FATF Methodology 2022
Who supervises identity verification in Paraguay.
SEPRELAD
Secretaría de Prevención de Lavado de Dinero o Bienes, Paraguay's AML/CFT supervisory and intelligence authority. Owns suspicious-transaction reporting requirements under Ley 1015/1997 and Ley 6497/2020.
BCP
Banco Central del Paraguay, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, financieras, and Entidades de Medios de Pago Electrónico (EMPE). Oversees the electronic-payment licensing regime and monetary policy.
SB
Superintendencia de Bancos, the prudential banking arm of the BCP. Sets KYC onboarding requirements and AML supervision for licensed financial institutions.
Departamento de Identificaciones
Departamento de Identificaciones de la Policía Nacional, civil-registry authority. Issues the Cédula de Identidad and maintains the authoritative identity database queried by the `pry_cedula` service.
MADES
Ministerio del Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, also oversees environmental and reporting compliance relevant to corporate KYB flows. The Ministerio Público (Fiscalía General del Estado) handles criminal enforcement of AML/CFT laws.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the Cédula de Identidad.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Cédula de Identidad (6–10 digit number), Pasaporte (chip read on biometric passports), Cédula de Identidad de Extranjero, Licencia de Conducir, and Cédula de Identidad de Menores.
- Returns the name, CI number, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
- Cédula de Identidad (CI), 6–10 digit number
- Pasaporte, chip read on biometric e-Passport
- Cédula de Identidad de Extranjero
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 Paraguayan watchlists.
- National Assembly of Paraguay, PEP Level 1 register for legislators
- ADN Paraguayo, ADN Digital, adverse media (SIP)
- SEPRELAD, Secretaría de Prevención de Lavado de Dinero o Bienes enforcement list
- BCP, Banco Central del Paraguay regulatory warnings
- Ministerio Público, Unidad de Delitos Económicos enforcement list
- SB, Superintendencia de Bancos administrative sanctions
- Dirección General de Migraciones, immigration enforcement alerts
- GAFILAT, Group of Financial Action of Latin America mutual evaluations
- FATF, Financial Action Task Force consolidated list
- UN Security Council, consolidated sanctions list
- OFAC SDN, Specially Designated Nationals
- Interpol, regional South America red notices
Hits are scored by severity. Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) and Didit re-checks every customer daily, firing a webhook the moment a new hit appears, critical for Ley 6497/2020 periodic-review obligations.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media , see the docs for the full module surface.
Cross-check against the Departamento de Identificaciones.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The `pry_cedula` check (
$0.20per successful query, no end-user consent required) hits the Departamento de Identificaciones de la Policía Nacional directly,document_number(6–10 digits, no hyphens) in, normalised identification fields out:identification_number,first_name,last_name,full_name.
Cross-check against the Departamento de Identificaciones , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Paraguay document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Paraguay.
Paraguay — Cédula de Identidad verification (Departamento de Identificaciones)
Source: Departamento de Identificaciones de la Policía Nacional — authoritative civil registry. $0.20 per successful query.
AML lists screened in Paraguay
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 Paraguay.
What is Didit?
Didit is infrastructure for identity and fraud, the platform we wished existed when we were building products ourselves: open, flexible, and developer-friendly, so it works as a real part of your stack instead of a black box you integrate around.
One API covers verifying people (KYC, know your customer), verifying businesses (KYB, know your business), screening crypto wallets (KYT, know your transaction), and monitoring transactions in real time, on a stack built to be:
- Fast, sub-2-second p99 on every session
- Reliable, in production with 1,500+ companies across 220+ countries
- Secure, SOC 2 Type 1, ISO 27001, GDPR-native, and formally attested by Spain's financial regulator as safer than verifying someone in person
The footprint underneath: 14,000+ document types in 48+ languages, 1,000+ data sources, and 200+ fraud signals on every session. The Didit infrastructure dynamically learns from every session and gets better every day.
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.
Which regulators govern identity verification for digital onboarding in Paraguay?
Four authorities sit on top of every Paraguayan identity-verification flow:
- Secretaría de Prevención de Lavado de Dinero o Bienes (SEPRELAD), Paraguay's AML/CFT supervisor and FIU. Receives Reportes de Operaciones Sospechosas under Ley 1015/1997 and Ley 6497/2020 reforms.
- Banco Central del Paraguay (BCP), central bank and supervisor of banks, financieras, and Entidades de Medios de Pago Electrónico (EMPE) under the payment-inclusion framework.
- Superintendencia de Bancos (SB), the prudential banking arm of the BCP. Sets KYC onboarding requirements and AML supervision.
- Departamento de Identificaciones de la Policía Nacional, civil-registry authority that issues the Cédula de Identidad and underpins the
pry_ceduladatabase validation.
Didit ships the hosted flow + audit log + 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 Paraguayan identities against the Departamento de Identificaciones?
Yes, via the `pry_cedula` Database Validation service (POST /v3/database-validation/):
- `pry_cedula`, hits the Departamento de Identificaciones de la Policía Nacional directly.
$0.20 per successful query, no end-user consent required. Input:document_number(6–10 digits, no hyphens). Returnsidentification_number,first_name,last_name,full_name.
Is Didit ready for SEPRELAD-supervised KYC under Ley 1015/1997 and Ley 6497/2020?
Yes. Ley 1015/1997 (Ley de Prevención y Represión de los Actos Ilícitos) and the Ley 6497/2020 reforms require every SEPRELAD-supervised entity, bank, financiera, EMPE, cooperative, to verify customer identity against the civil registry and screen for AML risk before onboarding.
Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:
- Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
- `pry_cedula` Database Validation against the Departamento de Identificaciones, the authoritative source SEPRELAD expects.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Paraguayan regulatory watchlists (SEPRELAD enforcement lists, BCP warnings, National Assembly PEP registers, Ministerio Público lists).
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the Ley 6497/2020 periodic-review obligation.
How long does it take to integrate Didit for Paraguay?
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 + Departamento de Identificaciones database, 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 Paraguay stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Paraguayan users?
Paraguayan Spanish, auto-detected from the user's browser or device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Paraguayan users land on the Spanish flow by default. English is also live on the same flow for cross-border or expat users.
Guaraní is spoken by the majority of the Paraguayan population alongside Spanish; the document-recognition layer handles all languages natively, and the admin console can be set independently to whichever language your compliance team prefers.
What does the Paraguay 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. - `pry_cedula` (Departamento de Identificaciones),
$0.20per successful query.
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.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.