Identity verification
built for South Africa

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.

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.

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.

Four sit on top of every South African identity-verification flow:

• South African Reserve Bank (SARB), prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, and the National Payment System.
• Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA), market-conduct supervisor for banks, insurers, securities firms and the declared Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASPs).
• Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC), South Africa's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers FICA (Financial Intelligence Centre Act 38 of 2001) and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
• Information Regulator, enforces POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013). 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.

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

• Source: Department of Home Affairs (DHA), South Africa's authoritative national population register.
• Coverage: ~100% of the adult population.
• Price: $2.95 per successful query.
• Required inputs: first_name, last_name, date_of_birth, national_id (the 13-digit ID number). No user consent required.
• Returns: identification_number, first_name, last_name, date_of_birth, plus the per-field validation array.

The service is documented at docs.didit.me/api-reference/database-validation/south-africa/national-id. Pay-per-success, no contracts.

Yes. Even after the Smart ID Card rollout, the green-barcoded ID Book remains legally valid and Didit auto-classifies, captures, and OCR-parses both formats on the same hosted flow.

• The Smart ID Card carries the chip and the cleanest OCR template.
• The ID Book is parsed via document-template recognition; the 13-digit ID number is extracted with the same model.
• Both formats route through the same zaf_africa_national_id Database Validation against the Department of Home Affairs, the authoritative-source check FICA expects regardless of which document the user presents.

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 + DHA national-ID cross-check, 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 South Africa stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

English, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; South African users land on the English flow by default.

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.

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.
• `zaf_africa_national_id` (DHA direct), $2.95 per successful query.

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