Unico

Unico (unico IDtech) is a Brazilian identity-technology company whose IDCloud platform performs facial-biometric identity verification, liveness detection, document capture and OCR, and fraud-risk decisioning for customer onboarding, step-up authentication and card-not-present payment verification. Founded out of Acesso Digital and headquartered in Sao Paulo with offices in Mexico City, Londrina and Menlo Park, it has raised roughly $338M across four rounds and states it processes 150M+ transactions per month on Google Cloud. Its public developer surface is two REST contracts — an API contract where the integrator owns the camera and sends the selfie in the request, and a Web & SDK contract where Unico hosts the whole verification journey — plus an outbound webhook, four native capture SDKs, and three published Postman collections. It publishes no OpenAPI: the developer portal's own OpenAPI page reads "Placeholder OpenAPI specification."

Unico publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: IDCloud API, IDCloud Web & SDK API, and Identity OAuth2. Tagged areas include Identity Verification, Biometrics, Facial Recognition, Liveness Detection, and KYC.

The Unico catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Unico’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, authentication, changelog, and 31 more developer resources.

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55.2/100 strong Agent 34/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0

3 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Identity Verification Biometrics Facial Recognition Liveness Detection KYC Fraud Prevention Onboarding Authentication AML Age Verification Document Verification Identity Brazil Latin America

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scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0

Composite quality — 55.2/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 15.2 / 20

Access Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 9.9 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 3

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Scopes 1

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Unico Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

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SCOPES

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Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

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Build 4

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Operate 5

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Commercial 3

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Company 2

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Website

Website

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: unico
name: Unico
description: 'Unico (unico IDtech) is a Brazilian identity-technology company whose IDCloud platform performs facial-biometric
  identity verification, liveness detection, document capture and OCR, and fraud-risk decisioning for customer onboarding,
  step-up authentication and card-not-present payment verification. Founded out of Acesso Digital and headquartered in Sao
  Paulo with offices in Mexico City, Londrina and Menlo Park, it has raised roughly $338M across four rounds and states it
  processes 150M+ transactions per month on Google Cloud. Its public developer surface is two REST contracts — an API contract
  where the integrator owns the camera and sends the selfie in the request, and a Web & SDK contract where Unico hosts the
  whole verification journey — plus an outbound webhook, four native capture SDKs, and three published Postman collections.
  It publishes no OpenAPI: the developer portal''s own OpenAPI page reads "Placeholder OpenAPI specification."'
image: https://developer.unico.io/img/unico-favicon.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unico/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-02'
modified: '2026-09-02'
tags:
- Identity Verification
- Biometrics
- Facial Recognition
- Liveness Detection
- KYC
- Fraud Prevention
- Onboarding
- Authentication
- AML
- Age Verification
- Document Verification
- Identity
- Brazil
- Latin America
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: unico:idcloud-api
  name: Unico IDCloud API
  description: The API contract (internally TCA / Check.Integration) — used when the integrator's own application owns the
    biometric capture and sends the image directly in the request. The verification result returns synchronously in the creation
    response. Requires both an Authorization Bearer token and a provisioned APIKEY header, where the API key selects the active
    product (Onboarding, Transactional, Cardholder Verification) and the capability recipe executed.
  humanURL: https://developer.unico.io/developers/api-reference/api/
  baseURL: https://api.id.unico.app
  tags:
  - Identity Verification
  - Biometrics
  - KYC
  - Fraud Prevention
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.unico.io/developers/api-reference/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.unico.io/developers/api-reference/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/unico-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/unico-scopes.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/unico-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/unico-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/unico-data-model.yml
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: postman/unico-api-integration.postman_collection.json
- aid: unico:idcloud-web-sdk
  name: Unico IDCloud Web & SDK API
  description: The Web & SDK contract — used when Unico hosts the verification journey. The process is created before capture;
    the response carries a userRedirectUrl the end user is sent to by iFrame or redirect, plus an SDK token for the native
    capture libraries. The result is delivered asynchronously by webhook or retrieved by polling GetProcess.
  humanURL: https://developer.unico.io/developers/api-reference/web-sdk/
  baseURL: https://api.idcloud.unico.app
  tags:
  - Identity Verification
  - Biometrics
  - Onboarding
  - Liveness Detection
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.unico.io/developers/api-reference/web-sdk/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/unico-authentication.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/unico-webhooks.yml
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: postman/unico-web-sdk-integration.postman_collection.json
- aid: unico:identity-oauth2
  name: Unico Identity OAuth2
  description: The OAuth2 token service every IDCloud contract authenticates against. Implements the RFC 7523 JWT-bearer grant
    with an RS256-signed assertion exchanged for a one-hour access token, and serves a live OpenID Connect discovery document.
    Served from acesso.io, Unico's own former Acesso Digital domain, which Unico's published Environments page names as the
    production token host for every contract.
  humanURL: https://developer.unico.io/developers/api-reference/authentication
  baseURL: https://identity.acesso.io
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - OAuth
  - OpenID Connect
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.unico.io/developers/api-reference/authentication
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/unico-authentication.yml
  - type: OpenIDConnect
    url: well-known/unico-openid-configuration.json
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: postman/unico-oauth2.postman_collection.json
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unico.io
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.unico.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.unico.io/developers/api-reference/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.unico.io/developers/api-reference/api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.unico.io/developers/api-reference/authentication
- type: Support
  url: https://www.unico.io/contact-us
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://developer.unico.io/resources/faq
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.unico.io/blogs
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/unico-id
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.unico.io
- type: Login
  url: https://business.unico.io/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://devcenter.unico.io/privacy/usa/policies/website-policy
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://devcenter.unico.io/privacy/usa/policies/privacy-policy
- type: Postman
  url: https://developer.unico.io/developers/api-reference/postman
- type: Security
  url: security/unico-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/unico-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/unico-security.txt
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/unico-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/unico-trust-center.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/unico-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/unico-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/unico-scopes.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/unico-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/unico-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/unico-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/unico-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/unico-changelog.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/unico-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/unico-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/unico-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/unico-components.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/unico-sandbox.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/unico-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/unico-webhooks.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/unico-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/unico-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/unico-well-known.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/unico-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 27
  pass: local-v1

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