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Identity verification
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Cédula de Identidad and Pasaporte on one session, cross-checked against the Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Uruguay.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Uruguayan identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-Cédula attacks on the BCU-licensed EMI wallets (Prex, MiDinero, Bantotal-issued cards), Cédula document forgery across the legacy and current chip formats, and crypto onboarding pressure as BCU rolls out Ley 20.345 Virtual Asset Service Provider registration. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Ley 19.574 (PLA/FT)
  • Ley 18.331 (Datos Personales)
  • Ley 20.345 (Virtual Asset Service Providers)
  • BCU Recopilación de Normas (SSF)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Uruguay.

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

    Banco Central del Uruguay, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, EMIs and Virtual Asset Service Providers under Ley 20.345. Runs the Superintendencia de Servicios Financieros (SSF).

  • SENACLAFT

    Secretaría Nacional para la Lucha contra el Lavado de Activos y el Financiamiento del Terrorismo, Uruguay's Financial Intelligence Unit equivalent. Receives Reportes de Operación Sospechosa under Ley 19.574.

  • URCDP

    Unidad Reguladora y de Control de Datos Personales, Ley 18.331 (Datos Personales) supervisor. Governs every identity verification on Uruguayan residents.

  • DNIC

    Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil, civil-registry authority. Issues every Cédula de Identidad and serves as the authoritative-source database for identity verification.

  • JUTEP

    Junta de Transparencia y Ética Pública, the transparency and public-ethics authority. Maintains sworn asset declarations for every public official; screened as part of AML PEP verification under Ley 17.060.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Uruguay 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.

  • Cédula de Identidad (legacy and chip), Cédula de Identidad para Extranjeros, Pasaporte (with the chip read on e-Passports), and driving licence.
  • Returns the name, Cédula number, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Cédula de Identidad
  • Cédula de Identidad para Extranjeros
  • Pasaporte, chip read on e-Passport
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 Uruguayan watchlists:

  • BCUSSF, Central Bank of Uruguay Superintendency of Financial Services (SIE), BCU-SSF sanctions against supervised financial entities.
  • UYMI-SI, Ministry of Interior of Uruguay, Sentenced Individuals (SIP), individuals sentenced by Uruguayan courts.
  • Parliament of Uruguay, PEP register, Senadores, Diputados and senior parliamentary officials.
  • Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining, Warnings, regulatory warnings from the MIEM.
  • SENACLAFT sanctions register, PLA/FT enforcement actions from Uruguay's AML secretariat.
  • Junta de Transparencia y Ética Pública (JUTEP), Sworn Asset Declarations, public officials' sworn asset declarations cross-referenced for PEP status.

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

Cross-check against the DNIC.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Cédula check (ury_cedula, $0.20) is the authoritative-source lookup, hits the Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil for identification number, full name, and date-of-birth match. Returns a normalised match score on every field. No consent required.
  • One of the cheapest authoritative-source checks in LATAM, well-suited to high-volume EMI and crypto onboarding.
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Stage 04Cross-check against the DNIC

Cross-check against the DNIC , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Uruguay 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 Uruguay.

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 Uruguay.

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 Uruguayan regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Three sit on top of every Uruguayan identity-verification flow:

  • Banco Central del Uruguay (BCU), central bank and prudential supervisor via the Superintendencia de Servicios Financieros (SSF). Sets remote-onboarding rules for banks, payment institutions, EMIs and Virtual Asset Service Providers under Ley 20.345 and the BCU Recopilación de Normas.
  • SENACLAFT (Secretaría Nacional para la Lucha contra el Lavado de Activos y el Financiamiento del Terrorismo), Uruguay's Financial Intelligence Unit equivalent. Receives Reportes de Operación Sospechosa under Ley 19.574.
  • Unidad Reguladora y de Control de Datos Personales (URCDP), supervises Ley 18.331 (Datos Personales). Governs how the verification data is captured, stored and disclosed.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all three 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 Uruguayan identities against the DNIC?

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

  • Source: Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil (DNIC), the authoritative Uruguayan civil registry.
  • Price: $0.20 per successful query, among the cheapest authoritative-source checks in LATAM.
  • Required inputs: personal_number (the Cédula, 7-9 digits), date_of_birth.
  • Optional inputs: first_name, last_name.
  • Returns: identification_number, first_name, last_name, full_name, date_of_birth.
  • Consent: Not required.
Is Didit ready for Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) registration under Ley 20.345?

Yes. Uruguay's Ley 20.345 (in force from 2024) added Virtual Asset Service Providers to the BCU regulatory perimeter and assigned them to the Superintendencia de Servicios Financieros (SSF) for licensing, with full Customer Due Diligence and AML obligations under Ley 19.574.

Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • `ury_cedula` Database Validation against the DNIC, the authoritative-source check BCU expects.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Uruguayan regulatory watchlists.
  • Wallet Screening (KYT) at $0.15 per check for the on-chain exposure assessment.
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Uruguay?

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 + DNIC Cédula 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 Uruguay stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

Uruguayan Spanish, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Uruguayan users land on the Spanish flow by default. Portuguese and English are also live on the same flow for cross-border (Brazilian and 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 Uruguay 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.
  • `ury_cedula` (DNIC), $0.20 per successful query.

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