Identity verification
built for Costa Rica 
Cédula de Identidad and Pasaporte on one session, cross-checked against the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in Costa Rica.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Costa Rican identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-Cédula attacks on the digital wallets and SUGEF-licensed neobank rails like SINPE Móvil, Cédula document forgery across the chip and legacy formats, and the AML-monitoring uplift required as a Central American financial-services hub. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Ley 8204 (PLA/FT)
- CONASSIF Acuerdo 12-21 (CDD)
- Ley 8968 (Protección de la Persona frente al Tratamiento de Datos Personales)
- Ley 9298 (UBO registry)
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Costa Rica.
SUGEF
Superintendencia General de Entidades Financieras — prudential supervisor for banks, financial cooperatives, EMIs and currency-exchange entities. Sets remote-onboarding rules under Acuerdo SUGEF 12-10 and CONASSIF Acuerdo 12-21.
SUGEVAL
Superintendencia General de Valores — securities and capital-market supervisor. Registers broker-dealers, investment funds and stock-exchange intermediaries.
ICD
Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas — Costa Rica's Financial Intelligence Unit equivalent (UIF). Receives Reportes de Operación Sospechosa under Ley 8204.
PRODHAB
Agencia de Protección de Datos de los Habitantes — Ley 8968 supervisor. Governs every identity verification on Costa Rican residents.
TSE
Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones — civil-registry and electoral authority. Issues every Cédula de Identidad and serves as the authoritative-source database for identity verification.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Cédula de Identidad (chip and legacy), DIMEX, Pasaporte (with the chip read on e-Passports), and driving licence.
- Returns the name, Cédula, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
- Cédula de Identidad
- DIMEX
- Pasaporte — chip read on e-Passport
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 Costa Rican watchlists:
- CRSUGESE — Costa Rican General Superintendency of Insurance (SIE) — sanctions for irregularities in insurance supervision.
- Office of the President (Costa Rica) PEP register — presidential-level politically exposed persons.
- Ministry of Public PEP register — ministerial-level politically exposed persons.
- Council of Ministers PEP register — cabinet-level politically exposed persons.
- National Stock Exchange Warnings — SUGEVAL-supervised capital-market enforcement alerts.
- ICD sanctions register — Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas designated entities under Ley 8204.
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.
Cross-check against the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The Cédula check (
cri_cedula,$0.20) is the authoritative-source lookup — hits the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones for identification number and full name. No consent required. - Among the cheapest authoritative-source checks in the Central American region — well-suited to high-volume SINPE Móvil and digital-wallet onboarding.
Cross-check against the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Costa Rica document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Costa Rica.
Costa Rica — Cédula verification
Source: Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE). $0.20 per successful query.
AML lists screened in Costa Rica
1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.
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Common questions about Costa Rica.
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