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Age check users globally from a selfie

No ID document, no credit card – all you need is a face.

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Facial age estimation

How it works

Face capture

The customer takes a selfie using the camera on their device. Do this in real time with our Face Capture SDK or send images directly to our Facial Age Estimation API.

AI analysis

Our AI analyses the image to assess the age and runs a liveness check to make sure it’s a real person, not a bot or 2D image.

Instant results

The results are returned via API, with an estimated age and a liveness score.

Accurately estimate age from a selfie

Facial Age Estimation is highly effective, instant, and currently estimates the age of 13-24 year olds within 2 years of accuracy – better than human judgement. We test the accuracy across gender and skin tone to make sure it works well for everybody.

Three faces with their ages estimated at 13-, 25+ and 18+

Scale globally

No ID, no credit card – all you need is a face. Snap  a selfie in seconds and let the API take care of the rest – it can handle thousands of checks a day. Scale quickly and globally, without excluding your true customers.

Meet your regulatory requirements with ease

We’ll help you set an age requirement with an appropriate buffer zone to comply with your age checking policy. It’s been approved by the UK Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS), German regulators KJM and FSM, and UK regulator Ofcom.

Ethical AI

Our approach to ethical AI

Two young children using a smartphone

Trained

We train our AI with high quality images with a known age and collected inline with GDPR.

Tested

We test the accuracy of our AI across gender and skin tone to mitigate bias.

Transparent

We share our technology with industry experts and publish our accuracy results in a regularly-updated white paper.

Accreditations

Industry-approved innovation

The German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Digital Media Service Providers (FSM) logo
The Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (KJM) logo
Age Check Certification Scheme logo

“We partnered with Yoti because of their industry-leading work in this space, accuracy metrics, their work to minimize bias across skin tones and gender, and their strong privacy guardrails.”

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    Erica FinkleDirector of Policy, Meta

Face capture

Snap a perfect selfie on the first go

With our Face Capture SDK, your customers can capture an image on any device. Using machine learning, it analyses factors like lighting and face placement in real-time. Your customers are guided with live feedback to snap the perfect image at just the right time.

Image of user placing their face in the frame to scan their face
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    For native apps

    Add Face Capture with liveness detection to make sure it’s a real person behind the camera, not a 2D image or a bot.

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    For web browsers

    Add Face Capture with browser security to detect image manipulation or substitution attacks.

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