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edu-verify
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edu-verify is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Verify whether a US college or university is accredited, flag potential diploma mills, and return recognized accreditors, operating status, and confidence scores.
Price / call$0.02
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Verify a US college or university is accredited and get a diploma-mill verdict. Give one of name, opeid, ipeds or domain plus an optional claimed_accreditor; get back an is_accredited flag, the recognized accreditors, a diploma_mill_flag with weighted signals, operating status, a confidence and cited sources. Deterministic, no LLM.
Output
Returns an is_accredited boolean flag, a list of recognized accreditors for the institution, a diploma_mill_flag with weighted signals explaining the verdict, the institution's operating status, a confidence score, and cited sources — all computed deterministically without an LLM.
Example use cases
Vetting an online degree program
“I'm thinking of enrolling in classes at University of the People (uopeople.edu) — can you verify it's properly accredited and not a diploma mill before I pay tuition?”
HR background check on a job applicant's degree
“A job applicant claims their degree is from a school with OPEID 00153600 — can you confirm that institution is legitimately accredited so we can proceed with hiring?”
Checking a school's claimed accreditor
“This school told me it's accredited by the 'Accreditation Council for Online Education' — can you look up Harvard University by name and verify whether that accreditor is actually recognized by the US Department of Education?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://payai.agentstools.dev/edu/verifyWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need a deterministic, source-cited accreditation verdict for a US college or university — especially when evaluating diploma mill risk. Prefer it over general web searches when you need structured flags (is_accredited, diploma_mill_flag) rather than unstructured text, and when you want confidence scores backed by official Department of Education data rather than LLM inference.
Side effects
- Institution not found in database — fuzzy name match may fail for uncommon or misspelled names
- Ambiguous name match returns wrong institution — use OPEID or IPEDS for precision
- Non-US institutions will not be found — only US colleges and universities are covered
- Stale accreditation data if the database is not recently updated
- Invalid or unrecognized domain returns no match
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
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