Use Case

Identity Verification & KYC/AML

Verifying who a customer is before onboarding them.

7 providers 65 APIs 6 declared variants

Document, biometric, and database checks that establish identity, plus sanctions screening, AML monitoring, and the ongoing due diligence regulated businesses must run.

7 API providers on the APIs.io network offer identity verification & kyc/aml. The highest-rated are Dun & Bradstreet, Reducto, Alloy, Amazon Rekognition, Mastercard.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented

What Providers Actually Declared

This use case is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

AML ComplianceAssessment & Background CheckCompliance and Sanctions ScreeningDigital identity verification and KYC complianceIdentity VerificationIdentity verification

Scroll for all 6

Work with this as data

Every use case here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP. Use Cases is not yet its own endpoint on the v1 API. Reach it through catalog search and the tag graph, or the MCP server.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for use cases

3 MCP tools reach this
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page
Search the catalog
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/search?q=identity-verification&limit=10"
Everything under a tag
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/tags/identity-verification"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no email required.

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.