# OFAC Sanctions Screening API

> OFAC Sanctions Screening API is a paid API for AI agents from x402.donnyautomation.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Screens a person or company name against the US Treasury SDN and Consolidated sanctions lists and returns matched records with sanctions programs, designation remarks, and a fuzzy match score.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.donnyautomation.com/sanctions?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ofac-sanctions-screening-api-5eb529c3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6sul9SA5LGqWvuO31k0kb

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability ofac-sanctions-screening-api-5eb529c3 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Run an OFAC sanctions screen on 'Viktor Bout' — check both the SDN and Consolidated lists and return any matched records with their sanctions programs and match score, using a minimum score of 0.7.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to screen individuals, companies, vessels, or aircraft against the full OFAC SDN and Consolidated lists (19,600+ designated parties, 40,000+ aliases) with fuzzy matching that handles name-order differences. Prefer this over manual list lookups or less comprehensive compliance APIs when building KYC, AML, or payment compliance workflows that require program-level and alias-level detail.

## Known failure modes

- 503 returned when the OFAC list cannot be loaded — treat as indeterminate, not a clear
- No matches returned when minScore threshold is too high — try lowering to 0.5
- Name not found due to word-order mismatch — the API normalizes order so this should be rare but verify input encoding
- Invalid limit or minScore parameter values return errors — ensure limit is 1–50 and minScore is 0.1–1.0

## How this service works

Pay-per-call (x402/USDC on Base) market-data, geocoding, randomness and hook-risk endpoints. Free demo route included.

## Output

Returns a list of matched records from the OFAC SDN and Consolidated lists, each including the designated party's official name, all aliases, entity type, sanctions programs, designation remarks, and a numeric match score between 0 and 1. A 503 is returned if the list could not be loaded, never a false clear.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ts": "2026-08-05T00:00:00.000Z",
  "count": 1,
  "match": true,
  "query": "Vladimir Putin",
  "matches": [
   {
    "uid": "35096",
    "list": "OFAC SDN",
    "name": "PUTIN, Vladimir Vladimirovich",
    "type": "individual",
    "score": 1,
    "title": "President of the Russian Federation",
    "programs": [
     "RUSSIA-EO14024"
    ],
    "matchedOn": "alias",
    "matchedName": "PUTIN, Vladimir"
   }
  ],
  "screened": {
   "lists": [
    {
     "list": "OFAC SDN",
     "entries": 19178
    },
    {
     "list": "OFAC Consolidated (non-SDN)",
     "entries": 481
    }
   ],
   "searchableNames": 40936
  },
  "riskLevel": "hit",
  "attribution": "U.S. Treasury OFAC sanctions lists (public domain).",
  "notScreened": [
   "EU consolidated list",
   "UK OFSI",
   "UN Security Council"
  ]
 }
}
```

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