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PhilID and UMID on one session, cross-checked against the Philippines residential registry and credit-bureau header data, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Philippines.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Philippine identity fraud: deepfake injection against the BSP's mandated digital-onboarding flows for EMIs and VASPs (Circular 1108), forgery of older national IDs (UMID, SSS, driver's licence) before the PhilID rollout reached scale, and remittance-corridor mule-account farming targeting OFW-facing payment apps. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • RA 9160 / 11521 (AMLA, Anti-Money Laundering Act)
  • RA 10173 (Data Privacy Act 2012)
  • BSP Circular 1108 (Digital Onboarding)
  • MORB Section 921 (Customer Due Diligence)
  • SEC Memorandum Circular 16-2022 (KYC)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Philippines.

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

    Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, EMIs and Virtual Asset Service Providers. Issues BSP Circular 1108 on digital onboarding and the Manual of Regulations for Banks (MORB) Section 921 on Customer Due Diligence.

  • SEC

    Securities and Exchange Commission, supervises securities firms, investment companies, lending companies and financing companies. Sets KYC rules under SEC Memorandum Circular 16-2022.

  • AMLC

    Anti-Money Laundering Council, the Philippines' Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and Covered Transaction Reports under RA 9160 (AMLA) as amended by RA 11521.

  • NPC

    National Privacy Commission, enforces RA 10173 (Data Privacy Act 2012). Governs how identity-verification data is captured, stored and disclosed.

  • PSA

    Philippine Statistics Authority, civil-registry authority and PhilSys implementer. Issues the PhilID under RA 11055 and operates the authoritative-source database for identity verification.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Philippines 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.

  • PhilID (the current PhilSys card), UMID, Philippine Passport with the chip read on the NFC channel, LTO Driver's Licence, and legacy voter's ID.
  • Returns the full name, PCN / SSS / GSIS / TIN, date of birth, sex, and address.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • PhilID, 12-digit PCN
  • UMID · SSS · GSIS · TIN
  • Philippine Passport, NFC chip read
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.
Read the docs
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 Philippine regulatory watchlist (AMLC warnings, PHPNP Most Wanted, House of Representatives PEP register, Bureau of Customs, NEDA).

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 the Philippines residential registry.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Philippines Residential check (phl_residential, $0.16, >80% coverage) hits the government citizen-records database, name + date of birth + optional address are verified against the residential dataset.
  • The Philippines Credit Bureau check (phl_credit_bureau, $0.44, ~60% coverage) cross-checks against credit-header data via SSS / GSIS / TIN, useful for fintech credit underwriting and BSP-licensed EMI onboarding.
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Stage 04Cross-check against the Philippines residential registry

Cross-check against the Philippines residential registry , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Philippines 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 Philippines.

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 Philippine regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Four sit on top of every Philippine identity-verification flow:

  • Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, EMIs and Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs). Sets remote-onboarding rules under BSP Circular 1108 and the MORB Section 921 on Customer Due Diligence.
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), supervises securities firms, lending and financing companies. Issues KYC rules under SEC Memorandum Circular 16-2022.
  • Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC), the Philippines' Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under RA 9160 (AMLA) as amended by RA 11521.
  • National Privacy Commission (NPC), supervises RA 10173 (Data Privacy Act 2012). Governs how the verification data is captured, stored and disclosed.

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 Philippine identities against PhilSys or the residential registry?

Yes, via the `phl_residential` Database Validation service (POST /v3/database-validation/ with services=phl_residential).

  • Source: Government agency database of Filipino citizen records.
  • Coverage: >80% of the adult population.
  • Price: $0.16 per successful query.
  • Required inputs: first_name, last_name, date_of_birth (optional address).
  • Returns: date_of_birth, name_match_score, verification flags per field.

A second service rounds out the surface: `phl_credit_bureau` ($0.44, ~60% coverage) cross-checks credit-header data via SSS / TIN / GSIS, useful for fintech credit underwriting. Both are documented at docs.didit.me/api-reference/database-validation/philippines/.

Is Didit ready for a BSP-licensed VASP or EMI in the Philippines?

Yes. The BSP licenses Virtual Asset Service Providers under Circular 1108 and Electronic Money Issuers under the broader payment-system rules, both require digital onboarding with biometric assurance and full AML.

Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • `phl_residential` Database Validation, the citizen-records source check BSP and AMLC expect.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Philippine regulatory watchlists (AMLC, PHPNP Most Wanted, House PEP register).
  • Wallet Screening (KYT) at $0.15 per check for the on-chain exposure assessment VASPs need under Circular 1108.
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation under RA 9160 as amended.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in the Philippines?

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 + Philippines residential 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 Philippines stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Philippine users?

English (Philippines), auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Philippine users land on the English flow by default (it's the predominant business-onboarding language). Filipino / Tagalog is also live on the same flow for users who prefer it.

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 Philippines 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.
  • `phl_residential` (Filipino citizen records), $0.16 per successful query.
  • `phl_credit_bureau` (SSS / TIN / GSIS), $0.44 per successful query.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Philippines 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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