IDENTITY VERIFICATION
More customers, minus the fraudsters
Verify good users and stop bad ones in seconds.
Verify identity data
Confirm identity information against regulated data sources in seconds.
Authenticate IDs
Verify that global ID documents are authentic and valid.
Confirm liveness
Ensure a person is present and their face matches the image on the provided ID.
Protect your bottom line
Identity Verification prevents sophisticated attacks and reduces fraud losses with an anti-fraud engine that analyzes hundreds of risk signals.
Behavioral analytics
Monitor how users enter PII and catch behavior consistent with bad actors, fraud rings, and bots.
Email and phone risk
Check if the number and address are new, disposable, registered with external accounts, or compromised in breaches.
Device and network risk
Detect the use of VPN or Tor, IP geolocation and timezone mismatch, incognito browsers, or repeat sessions from the same device.
Synthetic and stolen identities
Understand whether identity information is fabricated, manipulated, or stolen.
10s
Verify identities in as little as 10 seconds
90%+
Consistently achieve pass rates of 90% or greater
16k
Support for 16,000+ ID types and 200 countries and territories
More coverage, more users
From the front-end UI to the back-end data sources, Identity Verification is built to quickly verify users, no matter where they’re from.
User experience optimized to improve automated verifications by as much as 30%
Available in English, Español, Français, Português, or 日本語
Dedicated data source coverage for unbanked and thin-file consumers
Support for rarer ID documents, such as permanent residency cards and B1/B2 temporary visas
Manage KYC, without writing code
Easy for Product, Compliance, and Risk teams - from set up to ongoing management.
No-code editor to create and change verification flows
Customize risk rules and success criteria to your tolerance levels
Comprehensive user and session information for record keeping, investigations, and future audits
Compliance agent dashboard to override failures and handle exceptions
Faster verification on the Plaid Network
Autofill
When users provide a phone number and date of birth, we autofill other details to speed up completion to under 10 seconds.
Remember Me
Say hello to “one-click” verification. Users can save their identity data to fast-track verification across Plaid-powered apps.
Experience Plaid Identity Verification
Deploy out-of-the-box or integrate flexibly
No-code
Start verifying identities with one click. Generate verification links from the Plaid dashboard, no integration needed.
Hybrid
Verify users via API and dynamically handle fallbacks and exceptions with our UI.
Fully integrated
Use our conversion-optimized, embeddable interface for all aspects of user verification.