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Identity verification
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Cartão de Cidadão and Portuguese passport on one session, AMLD6 + GDPR aligned, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Portugal.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Portuguese identity fraud: synthetic Cartão de Cidadão attacks on the wave of MiCA-licensed crypto exchanges and fintech wallets, deepfake injection on digital-nomad-visa remote onboarding flows, and cross-border iGaming pressure as SRIJ-licensed operators expand. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Lei 83/2017 (PBC/FT)
  • AMLD6
  • MiCA
  • eIDAS 2.0
  • DORA
  • GDPR / Lei 58/2019
  • Aviso 1/2022 do Banco de Portugal (PBC/FT)
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Portugal.

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

    Central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions (IP) and electronic money institutions (IME).

  • CMVM

    Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários, securities supervisor and competent authority for crypto-asset service providers under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation.

  • ASF

    Autoridade de Supervisão de Seguros e Fundos de Pensões, supervisor for insurance undertakings and pension funds.

  • CNPD

    Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Lei 58/2019 supervisor.

  • Autoridade Tributária

    Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira, tax and customs authority. Operates the NIF (Número de Identificação Fiscal) registry used in KYB and treasury onboarding.

  • UIF Portugal

    Unidade de Informação Financeira at the Polícia Judiciária, Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives suspicious-transaction reports under Lei 83/2017.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Portugal 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 active Portuguese credential, Cartão de Cidadão (with chip read on the contactless interface), Passaporte português (chip read on e-Passports), Título de Residência for foreign nationals, every EU / EEA national identity card, and the Carta de Condução.
  • Returns the name, document number, NIF (where present), date of birth, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Cartão de Cidadão (chip + NFC)
  • Passaporte português · Título de Residência
  • EU / EEA national IDs · Carta de Condução
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 Portuguese regulatory watchlist (National Assembly PEP register, Banco Português de Gestão, Caixa Geral de Depósitos PEP, Portugal OSAE warnings, UIF Portugal alerts at the Polícia Judiciária).

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 residential address against Portuguese records.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The `prt_residential` check ($1.02 per successful query, ~50% coverage, no consent required) aggregates Portuguese residential records, first_name, last_name, address in, validated address envelope out.
  • The Cartão de Cidadão chip read is the authoritative-source path for civil-registry data, the residential check complements that with a real-world address signal.
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Stage 04Cross-check residential address against Portuguese records

Cross-check residential address against Portuguese records , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Portugal 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 Portugal.

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 Portuguese regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

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

  • Banco de Portugal, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions and electronic money institutions, under Aviso 1/2022 (PBC/FT) and Lei 83/2017.
  • Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM), securities supervisor and competent authority for crypto-asset service providers under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation.
  • Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), supervises GDPR and Lei 58/2019. Governs how the verification data is captured, stored and disclosed.
  • UIF Portugal at the Polícia Judiciária, Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives suspicious-transaction reports under Lei 83/2017.

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 support the Cartão de Cidadão chip read?

Yes. The hosted flow walks the user through the Cartão de Cidadão chip read on the contactless interface and validates the data against the issuing certificate chain, cryptographic proof of authenticity, not just OCR.

  • Falls back to a standard OCR + Machine-Readable Zone (MRZ) parse when the device camera doesn't support NFC.
  • The Chave Móvel Digital (CMD) is accepted as a complementary high-assurance credential for many administrative use cases.
  • Pricing is the standard `$0.15` per Identity Document Verification module, no surcharge for the chip read.
Is Didit ready for MiCA crypto-asset onboarding under CMVM supervision?

Yes. Portugal designated CMVM as the competent authority for crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).

Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • `prt_residential` Database Validation for residential-address anchoring.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Portuguese regulatory watchlists (National Assembly PEP register, Banco Português de Gestão, Caixa Geral de Depósitos PEP, Portugal OSAE warnings, UIF Portugal alerts).
  • 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 Lei 83/2017 periodic-review obligation.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Portugal?

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 + prt_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 Portugal stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

European Portuguese, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Portuguese users land on the Portuguese flow by default. English is also live on the same flow for cross-border or expat users.

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 Portugal 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.
  • `prt_residential` (Portuguese residential records, ~50% coverage), $1.02 per successful query.

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