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Middle East & Africa

Identity verification
built for Rwanda Flag of Rwanda

Indangamuntu National ID, Passport and Driver's Licence on one session, screened against Rwandan regulatory watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Rwanda.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Rwandan identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the wave of cross-border payments and remittance corridors, Indangamuntu card forgery, and AML pressure on regional trade and remittance corridors with Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the DRC. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law 075/2019 (AML/CFT)
  • Law 058/2021 (personal data protection and privacy)
  • NBR Regulation on AML/CFT
  • Kigali International Financial Centre regulatory framework
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Rwanda.

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

    National Bank of Rwanda, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, microfinance institutions, and electronic-money issuers.

  • CMA Rwanda

    Capital Market Authority, capital-markets supervisor for licensed brokers, fund managers, and investment advisors. Hosts the Kigali International Financial Centre regime.

  • FIC Rwanda

    Financial Intelligence Centre, Rwanda's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under Law 075/2019 on the prevention and punishment of money laundering and terrorism financing.

  • NIDA

    National Identification Agency, issuer of the Indangamuntu National ID and the 16-digit National Identification Number. Maintains the authoritative national identity register.

  • MINICT

    Ministry of Information Communication Technology and Innovation, administers Law 058/2021 on the protection of personal data and privacy.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Rwanda 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.

  • Indangamuntu National ID (with the 16-digit National Identification Number parsed), Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), and Driver's Licence.
  • Returns the name, NIDA number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Indangamuntu National ID
  • Passport, chip read on e-Passport
  • Driver's Licence
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.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, plus Rwandan watchlists:

  • House of Representatives of Rwanda, PEP Level 1 elected officials.
  • National Electoral Commission, PEP Level 2 electoral authority officials.
  • Rwanda National Police, PEP Level 2 law enforcement officials.
  • Office of the Prime Minister, PEP Level 2 executive officials.
  • Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, PEP Level 2 senior finance officials.
  • Ministry of Defense, PEP Level 2 senior defense officials.
  • Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA), PEP Level 2 regulatory officials.
  • Rwanda Development Board (RDB), PEP Level 2 development authority officials.
  • National Security Council, PEP Level 2 security officials.
  • Kigali City Council, PEP Level 4 municipal officials.
  • Rwanda Office of the Ombudsman (RWOMBUD), ombudsperson enforcement register.
  • Rwanda Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warnings and diplomatic designations.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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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

Bind every check to one audited session.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Rwanda currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the NIDA registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Bind every check to one audited session

Bind every check to one audited session , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Rwanda document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential, flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Rwanda.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against, civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
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.
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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 Rwanda.

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 Rwandan regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

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

  • National Bank of Rwanda (NBR), sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, payment service providers, and electronic-money issuers.
  • Capital Market Authority (CMA Rwanda), capital-markets supervisor for licensed brokers, fund managers, and investment advisors. Hosts the Kigali International Financial Centre regime.
  • Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC Rwanda), Rwanda's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law 075/2019 on the prevention and punishment of money laundering and terrorism financing.
  • Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT), administers Law 058/2021 on the protection of personal data and privacy. 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 Rwandan identities against NIDA?

Not as a Database Validation service today. The Indangamuntu National ID is read end-to-end on the hosted flow (full OCR of the 16-digit National Identification Number, name, date of birth, place of issue, expiry, and template authenticity check), and the AML stage screens the user against every named Rwandan regulatory watchlist.

For higher-assurance Rwandan flows, pair the ID + Biometric + AML stages with Ongoing AML Monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) and the visual workflow builder so the full session, including every signal and the tamper-evident audit log, lands in one JSON report.

A new Database Validation provider ships every month; the NIDA surface is on the upcoming list.

Which Rwandan watchlists does the AML stage screen against?

Every named Rwandan regulatory body + adverse-media signal, on top of the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media sources:

  • House of Representatives of Rwanda (PEP Level 1).
  • National Electoral Commission, Rwanda National Police, Office of the Prime Minister, Rwanda Development Board (RDB), Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Defense, RURA, National Security Council (PEP Level 2).
  • Kigali City Council, Ministry of Local Government (PEP Level 4).
  • RWANDA, RWOMBUD, Rwanda Office of the Ombudsman.
  • Rwanda Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Warnings.

The full list is documented at docs.didit.me/core-technology/aml-screening/watchlist-database-aml-screening. Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation FIC expects.

How long does it take to integrate Didit in Rwanda?

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, 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 Rwanda stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

English, French, and Kinyarwanda, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Rwandan users land on the language signalled by their device, with English as the default fallback.

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 Rwanda 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.

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