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Veriff’s Age Validation solution enables your business to seamlessly confirm whether or not users are above a minimum age threshold, granting access to age-appropriate users while underage users are automatically declined.
Deploy it as a standalone check for maximum compliance, or integrate it as the high-fidelity “step-up” layer within Veriff’s risk driven Age Assurance.
Seamless age verification with automated checks
Veriff’s Age Validation solution enables you to seamlessly confirm whether or not users are above a predefined minimum age threshold, crucial for any business that provides age-gated content, goods, or services.
Support regulatory compliance
Keep your business, reputation, and underage users safe with automated age checks.
Customized to your needs
Set different age thresholds by product, market, or region, without additional configuration.
Unmatched global coverage
Over 12.5K identity documents covered in 230+ countries and territories and 50 languages and dialects.
Privacy-preserving tech
Avoid the liability of storing minor data. We verify the age, you get a decision, minimizing your data footprint.
How Age Validation works
Validate user age instantly with our secure, compliant age verification solution. A user submits their ID. Veriff extracts their date of birth, checks it against your age threshold, and returns a pass or fail verdict automatically. No manual review.
Veriff extracts the date of birth from your user’s identity document to calculate their age.
The calculated age is cross-checked to see if it is above your predefined minimum age threshold. You can set your own thresholds, the most common are 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, or 25.
The age validation result is returned and users below your predefined threshold can be automatically declined.
Protect your business and underage users by ensuring that age-restricted content, products, and communities cannot be accessed by minors.
Why Veriff
Veriff’s age validation solution automates verification globally with 12,500+ identity documents across 230+ countries, 50 languages, and real-time liveness detection, preventing underage fraud without manual review
12,5K+ identity documents
Veriff supports over 12,5K identity documents from across 230+ countries and territories. Our global reach enables you to confirm your user’s age from all corners of the world.
Supports 50 languages and dialects
We localized our end-user flows for the world’s biggest markets, and the more languages we offer, the more customer populations we can support. With 50 unique languages and dialects today, our team will continue to expand our reach to keep up with the strategic visions of our partners.
Assisted Image Capture
Veriff uses machine-learning technology to assess sessions in real-time and guide users during the photo-taking steps. Poor lighting, glare, cropped ID, and obstructed facial images are just a couple of examples of how Assisted Image Capture pre-validates images and boosts first-time pass rates.
Network and device analytics
As a fraud prevention measure, Veriff analyzes the device and network used for a verification session and assigns each a unique fingerprint. Along with hundreds of other parameters, personal data on the ID, and other inconsistencies before a result is provided.
Liveness detection
Veriff can determine if a session or user is real or a spoof attempt, without unnecessary input from the user. Your customers won’t have to complete any additional steps for Veriff’s liveness detection.
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Explore Veriff's Age Assurance solution
Veriff’s Age Assurance helps platforms verify user age without adding friction to onboarding. Our smart, risk driven approach runs as a single, unified journey, starting with low-friction checks and stepping up only when needed. Most users move through quickly in one seamless flow, while strong verification is reserved for those who need it. Meet global regulations, safeguard minors, and protect conversion.
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FAQs
What age thresholds does Age Validation support?
Age Validation supports any minimum age threshold you define, whether that’s 13, 16, 18, 21, or another requirement specific to your market or product category. The same integration works across jurisdictions without additional configuration.
Which document types does Age Validation accept?
Age Validation works with government-issued identity documents across 230+ countries and territories, including passports, national ID cards, and driver’s licenses. Veriff’s document coverage is continuously updated as new document types are added.
How long does an Age Validation check take?
Most checks complete in seconds. The user captures their document, Veriff extracts the date of birth, runs liveness detection, and returns a pass or fail verdict automatically, with no manual review required for the majority of sessions.
What happens when a user is declined?
When a user does not meet the age threshold, they receive an automatic decline. Your platform receives the verdict via API and can apply the appropriate access restriction. Veriff does not expose the user’s date of birth to your system, only the pass or fail outcome.
What is the difference between Age Validation and Age Assurance?
Veriff’s Age Validation is a standalone, deterministic method that extracts the explicit date of birth from a government-issued ID to provide an absolute pass/fail verdict. Veriff’s Age Assurance is a broader, risk-based framework that utilizes various methods (like database checks or AI facial age estimation) to verify age with minimal friction, automatically deploying Age Validation as the highest-certainty “step-up” when absolute, document-backed proof is required.
How does Veriff’s Age Validation protect against minor identity spoofing?
Simply reading data from an ID card is no longer enough to meet modern compliance. Veriff’s Age Validation couples high-precision OCR document extraction with integrated biometric liveness detection and device intelligence. This ensures that the physical person attempting to access your platform is a real, live human who actually owns the valid government document being presented.
How does Veriff minimize the privacy and liability risks of storing minor data?
Storing sensitive PII or biometric information of minors introduces massive regulatory and security liabilities. Veriff utilizes a privacy-preserving infrastructure. We securely process the ID and facial metrics to calculate
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