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 is listed with 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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57.1/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent ready Front door AI 5/6 prominent Full breakdown ↓
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AccessOpen

3 APIs

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

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 57.1/100 · strong

Contract Quality 8.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 17

Access Clarity 7.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 8.1 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 6.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 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 Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 39.0 — up to +15.3 composite points
Access Clarity scores 43.4 — up to +11.3 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
RegTech, AML/KYC and Money Transmission	undeclared	-	-	-
Biometrics Testing (biometric recognition vendors, identity verification depth)	undeclared	-	-	-
ONVIF Video Analytics (video surveillance, edge cameras, computer vision)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Postman Collections

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Unico IDCloud API

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 ve...

Unico IDCloud Web & SDK API

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...

Unico Identity OAuth2

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 to...

Postman Collections 3

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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POSTMAN

unico - Authentication - Oauth2

POSTMAN

Plataforma Unico

POSTMAN

Unico API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Unico Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Unico Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Unico Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Unico Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Unico Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Unico Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Unico Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Unico Trust Center

SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, ISO/IEC 42001, iBeta Level 1 (Presentation Attack Detection), iBeta Level 2 (Presentation Attack Detection), BixeLab Level 1 (Presentation Attack Detection),...

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Unico Scopes

1 scope

1 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Login

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

Components

DataModel

Webhooks

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Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Postman

Packages

SDKs

Access & Security 8

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

SecurityTxt

TrustCenter

Compliance

Authentication

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

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Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

HelpCenter

StatusPage

RateLimits

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

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."'
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
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'
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-17
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
  tags_raw:
  - 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: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/unico-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- 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

Unico API — frequently asked questions

Does Unico have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Unico, including Unico IDCloud API, Unico IDCloud Web & SDK API and Unico Identity OAuth2.

How do I authenticate with the Unico API?

Unico documents its authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Unico Authentication.

Is the Unico API ready for AI agents?

Unico has a Kin Score of 57.1 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 33.5 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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