Age verification that costs your platform nothing.
Let the person being verified pay €0.99 for their own check. No contract, no minimums and no verification bill when traffic spikes. Same check, same evidence, same API.
What is user-paid age verification?
User-paid age verification is a ProntoID pricing option in which the person being verified pays €0.99 for their own age check, and the platform that requires the check pays nothing. The verification itself is the same as in ProntoID's platform-paid model: 3D liveness detection, ID document verification and a selfie-to-document face match.
It is designed for small and independent platforms that must meet age-assurance laws such as the UK Online Safety Act or the EU Digital Services Act but cannot predict or absorb a per-check bill. Because the user pays ProntoID directly, the user, not the platform, holds the verification agreement with ProntoID, and the platform never handles ID documents or payment details.
- Price per check
- €0.99, paid by the user
- Cost to the platform
- €0, at any volume
- Contract or minimums
- None
Small platforms face the same age-verification laws as large ones
None of the main age-assurance regimes exempts a service for being small. If you host age-restricted content for users in these markets, the duty applies to you.
UK Online Safety Act
Ofcom expects “highly effective” age assurance for pornographic and other age-restricted content, and self-declaration does not qualify. The duty applies to services of any size with UK users.
EU Digital Services Act
Article 28 requires online platforms accessible to minors to ensure a high level of privacy, safety and security for them. The Commission's guidelines point to privacy-preserving age verification for adult content.
US state laws
A growing list of states, including Texas, require age verification for adult sites. The Supreme Court upheld Texas's law in 2025.
Germany — JMStV
Closed user groups for adult content need age verification that the KJM recognises: an identity check plus authentication at each visit.
Two ways to pay. One verification.
Every ProntoID platform chooses who pays for the check. The check itself, the evidence it produces and the integration are identical either way.
Contracted fee
Your platform pays ProntoID per verification at a rate set by your volume. Your users verify for free.
- No payment step for your users
- Lower unit price as volume grows
- Best for established, high-traffic platforms
The user pays
The person being verified pays ProntoID directly. Your platform pays nothing for verification, at any volume.
- No contract, no minimums, no monthly invoice
- Verification agreement sits with the user
- Best for new, niche and independent platforms
The law doesn't scale with your revenue. Your costs shouldn't have to.
Age-assurance duties apply to a two-person site the same way they apply to a market leader. For a small platform, a per-check bill can be the difference between complying and closing.
No surprise bills
A viral post or a busy weekend can triple your verifications overnight. In the user-paid model, that spike costs you nothing.
No paying for tyre-kickers
Under a platform-paid model, every visitor who verifies and then leaves is a cost. Here, you only gain users who have already shown intent.
No commitments
No volume forecast, no minimum spend and no annual term. Launch, test a market or run a side project without signing anything long-term.
No payments to handle
ProntoID takes the €0.99 on its own pages. You never touch card details, refunds or chargebacks for verification.
The person verified holds the agreement, not the platform
When the platform pays, the platform is ProntoID's customer and the verification is carried out on its behalf. When the user pays, they become ProntoID's customer directly. Their identity check is governed by their own agreement with ProntoID, and the platform only receives the result they allow it to see.
- A reason for users to trust youUsers hesitate to hand ID to a site they've just found. Here, they deal with ProntoID under their own terms, and your site never asks for their documents.
- A clear separation of rolesThe platform decides who may access its content. ProntoID verifies the person. Neither depends on the other's commercial interest to do its job.
- Evidence you can still rely onYou receive the same signed result and verification token as in the platform-paid model, so you can still show a regulator or payment partner that the check happened.
Same integration. Different payer.
If you've read our API docs, you already know how this works. The only change happens on ProntoID's side of the redirect.
Start a session
Your backend calls verification-start with your user reference. Your account is set to user-paid, so nothing else changes in your code.
The user pays and verifies
On ProntoID's secure pages, the user accepts ProntoID's terms, pays €0.99 and completes the check. Users with an existing ProntoID can sign in instead.
Receive the webhook
We post the same signed event to your endpoint. Check the signature, mark the user as verified, and you're done.
Part of the ProntoID ecosystem
Comply from day one, without the overhead.
Create an account, choose user-paid verification and run your first check today.
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ProntoID and Brooks & Keitt Sàrl are not law firms and do not provide legal advice. Whether a given check satisfies a specific law depends on your service and jurisdiction.