Sardine

Sardine is an agentic financial crime platform offering fraud prevention, AML compliance, and transaction monitoring through a unified REST API. The platform provides real-time device intelligence, behavior biometrics, transaction risk scoring, KYC/KYB identity verification, AML screening, and chargeback protection for banks, fintechs, and commerce at enterprise scale.

Sardine publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Fraud Prevention, AML, Compliance, KYC, and KYB.

The Sardine catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Sardine’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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32.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessEnterprise

1 APIs

Fraud Prevention AML Compliance KYC KYB Device IntelligenceBehavior BiometricsTransaction RiskFinancial Crime Identity VerificationChargeback ProtectionFintech

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 32.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 20

Access Clarity 9.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 1

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Sardine API

The Sardine REST API enables real-time fraud detection and compliance across the customer lifecycle. Core API categories include Device APIs for device fingerprinting and behavi...

GraphQL 1

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Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sardine Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Documentation 1

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Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

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GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 3

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TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

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Operate 2

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StatusPage

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RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

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Pricing

Pricing

Plans

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FinOps

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Company 3

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Website

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LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: sardine
name: Sardine
description: Sardine is an agentic financial crime platform offering fraud prevention, AML compliance, and transaction monitoring
  through a unified REST API. The platform provides real-time device intelligence, behavior biometrics, transaction risk scoring,
  KYC/KYB identity verification, AML screening, and chargeback protection for banks, fintechs, and commerce at enterprise
  scale.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/sardine.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sardine/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Fraud Prevention
- AML
- Compliance
- KYC
- KYB
- Device Intelligence
- Behavior Biometrics
- Transaction Risk
- Financial Crime
- Identity Verification
- Chargeback Protection
- Fintech
tags_raw:
- Fraud Prevention
- AML
- Compliance
- KYC
- KYB
- Device Intelligence
- Behavior Biometrics
- Transaction Risk
- Financial Crime
- Identity Verification
- Chargeback Protection
- FinTech
apis:
- aid: sardine:sardine-api
  name: Sardine API
  description: The Sardine REST API enables real-time fraud detection and compliance across the customer lifecycle. Core API
    categories include Device APIs for device fingerprinting and behavioral biometrics, Customer APIs for identity risk scoring
    and KYC/KYB verification, Crypto APIs for on-ramp/off-ramp fraud prevention, Issuing APIs for card fraud detection, and
    Transaction Monitoring APIs for AML compliance and sanctions screening.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.sardine.ai/home
  baseURL: https://api.sardine.ai
  tags:
  - Fraud Prevention
  - Device Intelligence
  - KYC
  - AML
  - Transaction Monitoring
  - Crypto
  - Card Issuing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sardine.ai/home
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://docs.sardine.ai/try_api_online
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sardine.ai/api/reference/operation/v1-customers
  - url: graphql/sardine-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/sardine-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/sardine-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sardine-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sardine.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.sardine.ai/home
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/sardine-ai
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sardineai/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.sardine.ai/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.sardine.ai/contact
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.sardine.ai/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/sardine
- type: Plans
  url: plans/sardine-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/sardine-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/sardine-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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