RESTful API for Automated Screening

Developer friendly, easy-to-implement and enterprise-grade RESTful API with a guaranteed uptime of more than 99.99+% and ~350ms response time.

Trusted by 200+ Organizations Worldwide

Fast, Reliable API for Real-Time and Batch Screening

API Performance for real-time screening scenarios
Our API is with an average response time of ~350ms fast enough to support real-time screening use cases such as live onboarding and event-driven transaction screening.
High-Volume Batch Screening
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Enterprise-Grade Availability
Guaranteed uptime of 99.99+% of all our API services. Our actual uptime over the last four years has been 99.997%.
Low-Code Friendly
Integrate our API with any no-/low-code platform and connect to your favorite apps in no time.
Extensive API Documentation
We provide extensive API documentation on our support portal, including field catalogues, Postman collections and code snippets in various languages.
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Real-Time Screening
With an average response time of 350ms, our API is sufficiently performant to support real-time screening use cases such as live-onboarding and event-driven transaction screening.

Real-Time Screening

High-Volume Batch Screening
Our API supports concurrent processing of high-volume batches and webhook-based notifications for screening result payloads. Perfect for periodic screenings of entire business partner databases.

High-Volume Batch Screening

Enterprise-Grade Reliability
We guarantee an uptime of more than 99.99% in our SLA for all our API services. Our average uptime over the last four years exceeded 99.995%.

Enterprise-Grade Reliability

Low-/No-Code Friendly
Integrate our API easily with any no-/low-code platform and seamlessly connect to various applications and services.

Low-/No-Code Friendly

Extensive Documentation
We provide extensive and developer-friendly API documentation on our support portal, including field catalogs, Postman collections, and code snippets in various programming languages.

Extensive Documentation

Real-Time Screening
With an average response time of 350ms, our API is sufficiently performant to support real-time screening use cases such as live-onboarding and event-driven transaction screening.

Real-Time Screening

High-Volume Batch Screening
Our API supports concurrent processing of high-volume batches and webhook-based notifications for screening result payloads. Perfect for periodic screenings of entire business partner databases.

High-Volume Batch Screening

Enterprise-Grade Reliability
We guarantee an uptime of more than 99.99% in our SLA for all our API services. Our average uptime over the last four years exceeded 99.995%.

Enterprise-Grade Reliability

Low-/No-Code Friendly
Integrate our API easily with any no-/low-code platform and seamlessly connect to various applications and services.

Low-/No-Code Friendly

Extensive Documentation
We provide extensive and developer-friendly API documentation on our support portal, including field catalogs, Postman collections, and code snippets in various programming languages.

Extensive Documentation

Extensive Data Coverage for Robust AML and Sanctions Compliance

Global Sanctions Lists

Global coverage of more than 75+ sanctions and watchlists from 30+ jurisdictions.

All data are updated every 60 minutes, cleansed, standardized and enriched, including auditable timestamps for audit trails.

Updated every 60 Minutes

Cleansed & Enriched

Additional Lists on Demand

Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)

Our PEP Database covers more than 1M records from every country worldwide, including family members and close associates.

1M Profiles in Database

Global Coverage

Family Members & Close Associates

Criminal Watchlists

Our Criminal Watchlists Database includes thousands of records from Interpol (Red Notices) and the FBI (Most-Wanted).

FBI Most Wanted

Interpol Red Notices

Updated every 60 Minutes

Adverse Media (Beta)

Bolster your AML compliance with our global adverse media data screening. Screen against more than 60k global news sources with custom keywords.
(Currently in closed beta)

60k News Sources

Custom Keywords

Global Coverage

Global Sanctions Lists

Global coverage of more than 75+ sanctions and watchlists from 30+ jurisdictions.

All data are updated every 60 minutes, cleansed, standardized and enriched, including auditable timestamps for audit trails.

Updated every 60 Minutes

Cleansed & Enriched

Additional Lists on Demand

Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)

Our PEP Database covers more than 1M records from every country worldwide, including family members and close associates.

1M Profiles in Database

Global Coverage

Family Members & Close Associates

Criminal Watchlists

Our Criminal Watchlists Database includes thousands of records from Interpol (Red Notices) and the FBI (Most-Wanted).

FBI Most Wanted

Interpol Red Notices

Updated every 60 Minutes

Adverse Media (Beta)

Bolster your AML compliance with our global adverse media data screening. Screen against more than 60k global news sources with custom keywords.
(Currently in closed beta)

60k News Sources

Custom Keywords

Global Coverage

Smart Matching Technology

Our name matching technology leverages NLP and Machine Learning to overcome challenges in AML and sanctions screening, including diverse name phenomena and transliteration issues in non-Latin languages.

  • Industry-leading name matching technology based on latest research in AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP)

  • Covers transliteration issues, nicknames, spelling errors, honorifics, and many more 'real-world' matching challenges

  • Significantly reducing false positives while making sure no real matches slip through the cracks

Phonetic Similarity
Transliteration & Spelling
Semantic Similarity
Multiple Languages
Nicknames, Honorifics etc.

What Our Customers Are Saying

The product is amazing and the tech is tight. We integrated the sanctions.io API within a couple of days and now perform daily screenings of our entire customer base.

Dan Westgarth
COO, Deel Inc.

Sanctions.io combines robust, reliable and industry leading technology with hands on customer support. We implemented full passenger vetting in a matter of days and have had no issues with the API since inception.

Patrick O'Brian
Flight Operations & Business Development,
Innotech-Execaire Aviation Group

We couldn't be happier with sanctions.io. The team is super responsive to our requests for help. In short, total satisfaction!

Randy Trigg
Director of Information Management,
Global Fund for Women

Our experience with sanctions.io has been transformative for our compliance processes. Their reliable and comprehensive sanctions data feeds have provided us with the peace of mind that comes from knowing we're operating within international compliance standards.

Armand Brunelle
CTO, WeFi Technology Group LLC
4.6

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