# Acuant

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/acuant/  
**Website:** https://www.acuant.com  
**APIs profiled:** 13

Acuant is an identity verification and document authentication platform offering REST APIs and SDKs for ID capture, document authentication, biometric face matching, and passive liveness detection. Originally founded in 1999 as Card Scanning Solutions and acquired by GB Group plc (GBG) in 2021, Acuant's services support AML, KYC, and identity proofing workflows across financial services, healthcare, hospitality, and government sectors. Core APIs include AssureID Connect for document processing, FRM for facial recognition and face matching, Passive Liveness for presentation attack detection, ACAS for cloud authentication, and Ozone for digital identity trust. SDKs are available for iOS, Android, and JavaScript web applications.

## Kin Score — 41.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 66.9 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Enterprise · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: enterprise, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (13)

- **Acuant AssureID Connect API** — REST API for document identity verification. Supports creating document transactions, uploading multi-spectral images, extracting data fields, and retrieving authentication resu...
- **Acuant FRM Face Recognition API** — Face recognition and matching API that compares two facial images and returns a match score. Used alongside document verification to confirm the person presenting an ID matches ...
- **Acuant Passive Liveness API** — Liveness detection API that evaluates a selfie image for presentation attacks including printed photos, masks, deepfakes, and face-swap attacks. Returns LivenessAssessment (Live...
- **Acuant ACAS (Cloud Authentication Service) API** — Acuant Cloud Authentication Service (ACAS) provides authentication token management for initializing and authorizing SDK and API sessions. Supports Basic Auth (Base64) credentia...
- **Acuant Ozone API** — Digital identity trust API derived from Acuant's acquisition of Ozone from Mount Airy Group. Provides additional identity intelligence and trust scoring layered on top of docume...
- **Acuant Authentication API** — Token issuance and validation
- **Acuant Chip Data API** — Submit and retrieve contactless chip data
- **Acuant Document Data API** — Upload and retrieve extracted document data
- **Acuant Document Instances API** — Create and manage document processing sessions
- **Acuant Face Match API** — Facial comparison and matching operations
- **Acuant Images API** — Submit and retrieve document images
- **Acuant Liveness API** — Passive liveness detection operations
- **Acuant Metadata API** — Supported document types, subscriptions, logs

## Agentic access (1)

- **Acuant Agentic Access** — 17 operations · 8 acting

## Security (2)

- **Acuant Authentication** — http · 2 schemes
- **Acuant Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Acuant Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Identity Verification, Document Authentication, Biometrics, Face Matching, Liveness Detection, KYC, AML, ID Capture

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/acuant/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.