Prompt
global document verification api
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Sep 30, 2026
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If you mean a global document verification API for checking identity documents like passports, driver’s licenses, and national IDs across multiple countries, here are the main options:
Popular global document verification providers
- Onfido — strong global coverage, ID document verification + face verification
- Jumio — widely used for global ID verification and AML/KYC flows
- Sumsub — document verification, liveness, fraud detection, broad country support
- Persona — flexible identity verification workflows, document + selfie checks
- Veriff — good international coverage and fraud detection
- AU10TIX — enterprise-grade ID verification
- Mitek — document capture and verification, often used in banking
- IDnow — strong in Europe, also global offerings
- Trulioo — more focused on identity/data verification, but also supports document checks depending on product
What these APIs usually verify
- Document authenticity
- MRZ / barcode / chip reading
- Selfie match / face liveness
- Expiry date and document validity
- Country-specific ID formats
- Risk/fraud signals
Things to compare
- Country coverage
- Supported document types
- Liveness/selfie verification
- SDKs for mobile/web
- Manual review fallback
- Compliance: GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001
- Pricing and per-verification cost
- API latency and webhook support
Example use cases
- KYC onboarding
- Age verification
- Marketplace seller verification
- Cross-border customer onboarding
- SIM registration / fintech compliance
If you want, I can also give you:
- a comparison table of the top providers,
- a sample API integration, or
- help you choose the best one for your country/use case.