Identity verification
built for Saudi Arabia 
Saudi National ID, Iqama, GCC ID and Passport on one session, screened against Saudi regulatory watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in Saudi Arabia.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Saudi identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks targeting the SAMA-licensed digital banks and fintech-sandbox cohort, Iqama and residence-credential misuse across the expatriate workforce, and AML pressure on Hajj-season remittance volumes and cross-border trade-finance. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- AML Law 2017 (Royal Decree M/20) and Implementing Regulations
- Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL 2021, amended 2023)
- SAMA AML/CFT Rules
- CMA AML/CFT Regulations
- SAMA Cyber Security Framework
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Saudi Arabia.
SAMA
Saudi Central Bank, prudential supervisor for banks, Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs), payment service providers, and the licensed fintech sandbox. Sets remote-onboarding requirements through the SAMA AML/CFT Rules.
CMA
Capital Market Authority, securities and capital-markets supervisor for licensed brokers, fund managers, and capital-markets institutions on the Tadawul exchange.
SAFIU
Saudi Arabia Financial Intelligence Unit, receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the AML Law of 2017 (Royal Decree M/20) and its Implementing Regulations.
SDAIA
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority, enforces the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) issued in 2021 and amended in 2023. Governs every identity verification on Saudi residents.
Absher / NIC
Absher digital-government platform operated by the Ministry of Interior, the authoritative civil-registry surface for the Saudi National ID and Iqama.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Works for every credential Saudi Arabia actually presents, Saudi National ID Card (the authoritative 10-digit civil-affairs credential surfaced via Absher), Iqama (the residency credential for foreign workers), GCC ID Cards under mutual recognition, Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), and the Saudi driving licence.
- Returns the name, National ID / Iqama number, date of birth, nationality, and expiry.
- Saudi National ID Card · Iqama
- GCC ID Card · Passport, chip read on e-Passport
- 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 Saudi watchlists:
- Saudi Arabia Financial Intelligence Unit (SAFIU), Suspicious Transaction Report watchlist.
- Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), regulatory enforcement and suspended-licence list.
- Capital Market Authority (CMA), enforcement and restricted-persons list.
- ZATCA (Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority), enforcement and customs blacklists.
- Permanent Counter Terrorism Committee, Presidency of State Security, National List pursuant to UNSCR 1373.
- National Assembly of Saudi Arabia, PEP Level 1 register.
- Council of Ministers (Ministry of Interior, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Justice), PEP Level 3 registers.
- Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange, Unlisted Corporates Sukuk/Bonds warnings.
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.
Bind every check to one audited session.
- The full bundle anchors at $0.33 per session, same price worldwide.
- Add Ongoing AML Monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation the AML Law of 2017 expects.
- Saudi Arabia does not currently expose a public consumer or government API for direct authoritative-registry lookups, the Absher / NIC population register is accessible only through SAMA-approved data-partner integrations on Enterprise. Talk to sales to wire that into your workflow.
Bind every check to one audited session , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Saudi Arabia document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Saudi Arabia.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Saudi Arabia.
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 Saudi regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Four sit on top of every Saudi identity-verification flow:
- Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), prudential supervisor for banks, Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs), payment service providers, and the licensed fintech sandbox. Sets remote-onboarding requirements through the SAMA AML/CFT Rules.
- Capital Market Authority (CMA), securities and capital-markets supervisor for licensed brokers, fund managers, and Tadawul-listed institutions.
- Saudi Arabia Financial Intelligence Unit (SAFIU), receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the AML Law 2017 (Royal Decree M/20) and its Implementing Regulations.
- Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), enforces the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL 2021, amended 2023). 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 handle both the Saudi National ID and the Iqama?
Yes, both authoritative credentials route through the same hosted flow.
- The Saudi National ID Card (10-digit, issued by the General Directorate of Civil Affairs and surfaced through Absher) is auto-classified, captured, and OCR-parsed today.
- The Iqama (the residency credential issued by the General Directorate of Passports / Jawazat for foreign workers) is recognised on the same flow.
- GCC ID Cards from UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman flow through the same session under GCC mutual recognition.
- AML, biometric, and Face Search 1:N apply identically regardless of which credential the user presents.
Is Didit ready for SAMA-licensed digital-bank and fintech-sandbox onboarding?
Yes. SAMA's e-KYC framework requires every licensed digital bank, payment service provider, and fintech-sandbox participant to run Customer Due Diligence, biometric identity proofing, AML screening against the global and Saudi regulatory watchlists, and ongoing monitoring.
Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:
- Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the Customer Due Diligence onboarding check.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Saudi regulatory watchlists, including the Permanent Counter Terrorism Committee UNSCR 1373 sanctions list and every Council of Ministers PEP register.
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation under the AML Law of 2017.
- SAR / STR workflow through the Transaction Monitoring case-management surface.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Saudi Arabia?
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 + Active 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 Saudi Arabia stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Saudi users?
Arabic and English, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Saudi users land on the Arabic flow when their device locale signals it, and on English otherwise, both are first-class on the same flow.
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 Saudi Arabia 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, no Saudi Arabia 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.