# OFAC Sanctions Screening API

> OFAC Sanctions Screening API is a paid API for AI agents from api.borisinc.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Checks a name or entity against OFAC SDN and other sanctions lists, returning match scores and program details

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.borisinc.com/paid/util/sanctions
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ofac-sanctions-screening-api-ff4c1d45
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_j8waF8Bq6-rz6_frbcgaF

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-ff4c1d45
```

Example prompt: Can you run an OFAC sanctions check on 'Alexei Navalny' and tell me if they appear on any SDN or restricted party list?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time, pay-per-call OFAC sanctions screening without setting up an account or API key — ideal for low-volume, ad-hoc compliance checks, agent-driven KYC workflows, or situations where you want to avoid a monthly subscription. Prefer it over embedded compliance libraries when you need always-current SDN list data without managing updates yourself.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'input' parameter returns a validation error
- Ambiguous or very common names may return false positives with lower match scores
- Payment failure via x402 returns HTTP 402 and no data
- Network timeout on upstream sanctions data source may return 503
- Empty or whitespace query may return no matches or an error

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a JSON object indicating whether a hit was found (boolean), the matched list name (e.g. 'OFAC SDN'), the original query, an array of matches each with the matched name, a confidence score (0–1), and the sanctions program identifier (e.g. 'RUSSIA-EO14024'), plus a total match count.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "hit": true,
  "list": "OFAC SDN",
  "query": "Vladimir Putin",
  "matches": [
   {
    "name": "PUTIN, Vladimir Vladimirovich",
    "score": 1,
    "program": "RUSSIA-EO14024"
   }
  ],
  "match_count": 1
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/ofac-sanctions-screening-api-ff4c1d45/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.borisinc.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.borisinc.com/llms.txt)