Yoti Digital Identity REST API
Yoti digital identity REST API for businesses to verify customer identities, ages, and documents — using Yoti's privacy-preserving digital identity app, age estimation AI, and reusable identity attributes — enabling automated identity verification, age assurance, document authentication, and eIDAS-compliant identity sharing without retaining unnecessary personal data. Enables AI agents to manage identity session management for digital identity verification session creation and completion automation, handle document authenticity for government document liveness and tamper detection automation, access attribute retrieval for verified identity attribute sharing (name, DOB, address) automation, retrieve age verification for AI age estimation and document-based age assurance automation, manage QR code generation for mobile identity sharing flow initiation automation, handle eIDAS integration for EU electronic identity and trust service automation, access Yoti sign for digital signing workflow with verified identity automation, retrieve face comparison for face-to-document match verification automation, manage compliance for UK Online Safety Act age assurance automation, and integrate Yoti with retail, gaming, financial services, and social platforms for privacy-preserving identity verification automation.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
Digital identity. GDPR, eIDAS, UK DPA. API key + RSA. UK/EU. Identity attributes and verified document data.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
A UK or EU consumer-facing business needing age verification, document verification, or reusable digital identity for customers — especially for Online Safety Act compliance, adult content age assurance, or eIDAS-compliant identity — through Yoti's privacy-preserving digital identity platform.
Avoid When
YOTI APP REQUIRED FOR IDENTITY SHARING: Yoti's reusable identity feature requires users to have installed the Yoti app; automated universal-user assumption creates app_not_installed for users without Yoti app; automated must support fallback document verification for users without Yoti app. PRIVACY DESIGN IS SELECTIVE DISCLOSURE: Yoti shares only requested attributes, not full documents; automated full-document assumption creates attribute_not_shared for businesses expecting full document copies instead of verified attributes; automated must request specific attributes, not assume document access. AGE ESTIMATION IS PROBABILISTIC: Yoti's age estimation AI provides probability estimates, not guaranteed age verification; automated binary-age assumption creates compliance_gap for age assurance regulations requiring higher certainty than AI estimation alone; automated must use appropriate assurance level for regulatory context. UK OSA AND GDPR APPLY: UK Online Safety Act and GDPR govern age assurance and identity processing; automated unregulated assumption creates regulatory_non_compliance for UK/EU identity processing without proper lawful basis and age assurance methods.
Use Cases
- • Verifying user ages for age-restricted services using privacy-preserving AI age estimation for compliance agents
- • Authenticating government ID documents and verifying identity attributes for onboarding automation agents
- • Enabling reusable digital identity for frictionless returning user verification for customer experience agents
- • Meeting UK Online Safety Act and EU AI Act age assurance requirements for platform compliance agents
Not For
- • High-volume institutional KYC at AML compliance depth (Yoti is consumer-friendly identity; dedicated KYC platforms have deeper AML capabilities)
- • US market-primary identity verification (Yoti is strongest in UK/EU; Persona, Onfido, and Jumio are stronger for US market)
- • Enterprise workforce identity management (Yoti is consumer/customer identity; workforce IGA uses different platforms)
Interface
Authentication
Yoti uses API key + private key cryptography for Digital Identity REST API. REST API with JSON. London, UK HQ. Founded 2014 by Robin Tombs. Raised $90M+. Products: Yoti App (digital identity), Yoti Doc Scan (document verification), Yoti Age Scan (age estimation), Yoti Sign (digital signing), Yoti Ready (eIDAS). UK Online Safety Act age assurance provider. eIDAS notified scheme (UK). Deployed by Post Office, government agencies, banks. Competes with Onfido, Veriff, and Idemia for European identity verification.
Pricing
London UK. $90M raised. Free sandbox. Pay-per-verification. UK/EU identity specialist. Online Safety Act provider.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ PRIVATE KEY IS REQUIRED FOR REQUEST SIGNING: Yoti API requests must be signed with a private key (RSA); automated api-key-only assumption creates authentication_failure for Yoti requests not signed with private key; automated must implement private key signing for all API requests
- ⚠ SESSION RESULTS ARE ONE-TIME: Yoti session results can only be retrieved once after the session completes; automated re-retrieve assumption creates session_result_not_found for results retrieved more than once; automated must store session results on first retrieval
- ⚠ QR CODE HAS SHORT VALIDITY: Yoti QR codes for app-based identity sharing expire quickly; automated indefinite-qr assumption creates expired_session for users who don't scan within the validity window; automated must handle QR code expiry and regeneration
- ⚠ ATTRIBUTE AVAILABILITY DEPENDS ON DOCUMENT: Different passport/ID types yield different attributes; automated uniform-attribute assumption creates attribute_not_available for specific attributes (e.g., document number) not present on all document types; automated must handle optional attributes gracefully
- ⚠ AGE ESTIMATION CONFIDENCE VARIES: Yoti's age estimation AI confidence varies by image quality and demographics; automated always-certain assumption creates incorrect_gating for age decisions on low-confidence estimates; automated must implement confidence threshold checks for age assurance
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.