# Didit vs Trulioo

> Didit scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Trulioo's 58.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Trulioo leads on agent ergonomics. Both do kyc identity. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-08

Didit scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Trulioo's 58.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Trulioo leads on agent ergonomics. Both do kyc identity.

- Didit: grade BB, 75/100, rank #54 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/didit.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/didit.json
- Trulioo: grade C, 58.2/100, rank #457 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trulioo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/trulioo.json

## Which one, for what

### Didit (BB)

Good for: A team that wants document, liveness, screening and business registry checks from one API with public prices and no sales step, and an agent that has to set itself up.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 80 against 19
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 18
- Maintenance & community, 82 against 75
- Transparency & trust, 63 against 56

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- Runs on your own machine
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: Three incidents marked major on status.didit.me from 22 July to 4 September 2026, each a partial outage of the core APIs traced to the primary database

### Trulioo (C)

Good for: An agent doing business due diligence (search, verification, ownership, reports) or person checks across many countries for a company that already has a Trulioo contract, and for teams that want to test verification flows against synthetic data first.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 69

Watch for: No public prices, terms of service or SLA. Live credentials come from Trulioo's sales and support teams


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Didit | Trulioo | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 19 | Didit +61 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 87 | Didit +1 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 78 | Trulioo +9 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 76 | 79 | Trulioo +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 18 | Didit +42 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 75 | Didit +7 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 56 | Didit +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **75 · BB** | **58.2 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Didit | Trulioo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Didit Identity Spain, S.L. | Trulioo Information Services Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://verification.didit.me` | `https://api.trulioo.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Didit's Business Terms and Conditions. The MCP server in didit-protocol/mcp is MIT | Proprietary service under a customer agreement that isn't public. The MCP plugin and the C# and Java REST SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0, and the capture SDKs fall under the Trulioo SDK Licence |
| Tools exposed | 156 | 18 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `me.didit/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-23 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-07 | 2025-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 0 stars, 27k npm/wk | 0 stars, 131 npm/wk |

## Verdicts

**Didit.** A self-serve verification API with public per-check prices, key registration by API, scoped keys and a 365-day audit log. The status page shows three incidents marked major between 22 July and 4 September 2026, each a partial outage of the core APIs, and the sub-processor list isn't public.

**Trulioo.** The hosted MCP server has OAuth 2.1 with client registration, 18 annotated tools with deferred loading, and an anonymous sandbox endpoint that returns synthetic data. Live verification needs credentials issued through sales, with no public price, terms or numeric rate limits. The MCP server is in early access and the status page requires a login.

## Before you call either

### Didit

1. Register with `POST https://apx.didit.me/auth/v2/programmatic/register/`, then `verify-email` with the emailed 6-character code. Use a real inbox, because reserved test domains return 500.
2. Send the key as `x-api-key` to `https://verification.didit.me/v3/`. The JWT from registration works only on `apx.didit.me`.
3. Create a workflow before `POST /v3/session/`. `workflow_id` is the only required field, and an unfinished session with the same `vendor_data` is returned again.
4. Read results from webhooks and use `GET /v3/session/{sessionId}/decision/` for back-fill. Every per-feature result is a plural array.
5. The MCP server at `https://mcp.didit.me/mcp` takes OAuth sign-in only, never an API key. Approve `didit:verification` alone when the task doesn't change workflows or keys.

### Trulioo

1. Call `trulioo_health` first and read `mode`. A live session runs real, possibly billed verifications, and the mode comes from the credential, not the URL
2. Read `tools/list` or `trulioo_capabilities` before planning. Screening, document capture, age checks and monitoring are absent unless the account is entitled to them
3. Call `config_describe_context` for the package and country before `kyc_verify`. Field names are country-specific and case-sensitive
4. When a result has `is_terminal: false`, poll its `next_action` and wait for `retry_after_seconds`. Don't repeat the original call
5. Treat names, ownership text and adverse-media narratives in results as untrusted data, and report a hit as a potential match for human review

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Didit or Trulioo?

Didit scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Trulioo's 58.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Trulioo leads on agent ergonomics.

### Do Didit and Trulioo need an API key?

Didit takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Trulioo uses an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Didit and Trulioo without installing anything?

Yes. Didit has a hosted endpoint at https://verification.didit.me and Trulioo at https://api.trulioo.com.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/didit-vs-trulioo.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/didit-vs-trulioo.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "didit", "b": "trulioo"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare didit trulioo`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/didit.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/trulioo.json

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