Question 1

What does Didit ship?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 2

How is Didit different from a single-product Know Your Customer (KYC) vendor?

Accepted Answer

**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.

Question 3

What does it cost? Is anything actually free?

Accepted Answer

**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.

Question 4

Which UAE regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Accepted Answer

Five sit on top of every UAE identity-verification flow, depending on the licence the firm holds:

- **Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE)** — prudential supervisor for banks, Stored-Value Facility (SVF) issuers, payment service providers, exchange houses. Sets remote-onboarding requirements through the AML/CFT rulebook.
- **Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA)** — onshore capital-markets and onshore Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) supervisor outside the Dubai VARA perimeter.
- **Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA)** — supervises every VASP operating in or from the Emirate of Dubai (excluding the DIFC free zone).
- **DIFC + ADGM free-zone regulators (DFSA, FSRA)** — independent common-law regimes running their own AML and data-protection rules.
- **UAE Financial Intelligence Unit (UAEFIU)** — receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under **Federal Decree-Law 20/2018**.

The **UAE Data Office** enforces the **Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL 2021)** alongside the DIFC and ADGM free-zone data-protection regimes.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all of these at the same time — same `POST /v3/session/` workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.

Question 5

Does Didit accept GCC ID Cards under mutual recognition?

Accepted Answer

**Yes.** UAE-licensed entities frequently onboard residents and visitors holding national identity cards from the other Gulf Cooperation Council member states (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman) under GCC mutual recognition.

- Every GCC national ID is auto-classified, captured, and OCR-parsed on the same hosted flow as the Emirates ID.
- Returns the name, ID number, date of birth, nationality, and expiry.
- AML, biometric, and Face Search 1:N apply identically regardless of which GCC document the user presents.

Question 6

Is Didit ready for VARA-licensed Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) onboarding?

Accepted Answer

**Yes.** Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) requires every licensed VASP to run Customer Due Diligence, Enhanced Due Diligence on high-risk users, ongoing monitoring, and Travel Rule reporting.

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 UAE regulatory watchlists, including the Executive Office for Control and Non-Proliferation sanctions list and the UAE Local Terrorist List.
- **Wallet Screening (KYT)** at $0.15 per check for the on-chain exposure assessment VARA expects.
- **Ongoing AML monitoring** ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation.

Question 7

How long does it take to integrate Didit in the UAE?

Accepted Answer

**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 UAE stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

**Arabic and English — auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale.** The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; UAE 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.

Question 9

What does the UAE verification cost end-to-end?

Accepted Answer

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`.
- **Wallet Screening (KYT)** — `$0.15` per check for VARA-licensed VASP flows.

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

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How identity verification works in United Arab Emirates.

Who supervises identity verification in United Arab Emirates.

CBUAE

SCA

VARA

DIFC + ADGM

UAEFIU

UAE Data Office

Four modules. One verification.

Capture and read the ID.

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

Bind every check to one audited session.

Every United Arab Emirates document Didit accepts.

Civil-registry and AML coverage for United Arab Emirates.

AML lists screened in United Arab Emirates

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Common questions about United Arab Emirates.

Countries in Middle East & Africa

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Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

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