Smile Identity
Smile Identity (Smile ID) is Africa's leading digital identity verification, fraud detection, AML and KYC/KYB compliance platform. Its V3 REST API and v12 mobile/web SDKs let businesses onboard and authenticate users across all 54 African countries and beyond, covering thousands of ID types and documents. Products include Biometric KYC, Document Verification, Enhanced Document Verification, Basic and Enhanced KYC, Business Verification (KYB), SmartSelfie registration/authentication/compare, phone and address verification, and AML monitoring. Verifications run against government and institutional data sources, with passive/active liveness, and results delivered synchronously and via asynchronous callback webhooks.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Smile Identity the way a machine reads it — 29 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Smile Identity scores 45.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 28/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Smile Identity
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Smile Identity. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 12
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Smile Identity Authentication API
The Authentication API from Smile Identity — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
Smile Identity Biometric Authentication API
The Biometric Authentication API from Smile Identity — 1 operation(s) for biometric authentication.
Smile Identity Biometric Enrollment API
The Biometric Enrollment API from Smile Identity — 1 operation(s) for biometric enrollment.
Smile Identity Biometric KYC API
The Biometric KYC API from Smile Identity — 1 operation(s) for biometric kyc.
Smile Identity Callback Replay API
The Callback Replay API from Smile Identity — 1 operation(s) for callback replay.
Smile Identity Document Verification API
The Document Verification API from Smile Identity — 1 operation(s) for document verification.
Smile Identity Enhanced Document Verification API
The Enhanced Document Verification API from Smile Identity — 1 operation(s) for enhanced document verification.
Smile Identity Enhanced KYC API
The Enhanced KYC API from Smile Identity — 1 operation(s) for enhanced kyc.
Smile Identity Services API
The Services API from Smile Identity — 4 operation(s) for services.
Smile Identity Smart Selfie Compare API
The Smart Selfie Compare API from Smile Identity — 1 operation(s) for smart selfie compare.
Smile Identity Users API
The Users API from Smile Identity — 1 operation(s) for users.
Smile Identity Verification Status API
The Verification Status API from Smile Identity — 1 operation(s) for verification status.
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Open Collections 13
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONSmile ID V3 Authentication API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmile ID V3 Authentication Biometric Authentication API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmile ID V3 Authentication Biometric Enrollment API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmile ID V3 Authentication Biometric KYC API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmile ID V3 Authentication Callback Replay API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmile ID V3 Authentication Document Verification API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmile ID V3 Authentication Enhanced KYC API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmile ID V3 Authentication Services API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmile ID V3 Authentication Smart Selfie Compare API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmile ID V3 Authentication Users API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmile ID V3 Authentication Verification Status API
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Event Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Smile Identity — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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