Verify students
Institution-verified login in two API calls — no document uploads, no password handling, no credentials stored.
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Built on global identity infrastructure
Studid is a registered service provider in DFN-AAI and eduGAIN, the international federation connecting 70+ national research and education identity federations.
Use cases
Built for the moments institutions matter
Whenever proof of academic affiliation decides eligibility, access, or trust, Studid turns the university login your users already have into an answer your product can use.
Student discounts & edu pricing
Verify that a user is an enrolled student, researcher, or faculty member before granting your education discount tier — in seconds, with no document uploads.
Learn moreResearch & academic platforms
Gate access to research tools, datasets, and academic SaaS to users from eligible institutions — without a manual approval queue.
Learn moreAlumni & community
Confirm alumni status for membership perks and communities, or restore access for your institution’s graduates.
Learn moreScholarships & applications
Replace transcript and enrollment-letter checks with an institution-signed login, cutting review time from weeks to seconds.
Learn moreHow it works
Your user clicks "Sign in with your university". We handle everything in between.
No document uploads, no password handling, no SAML expertise on your side. The university's own login page — including any institutional MFA — becomes your proof of academic affiliation.
The user always authenticates at their own institution — Studid never sees their password, and neither do you.
Create a verification
Your backend calls the Stud API with a secret token, a callback URL, and a service name. You get back a verification ID and a link. Two lines of code.
POST /v2/auth/verification
User authenticates at their institution
Redirect the user to the link. They pick their institution from our searchable directory and log in through their existing institutional SSO — complete with whatever MFA their university requires.
SAML flow handled by Stud
Check the result
After the user returns to your callback URL, poll the verification status endpoint. You get an institution-verified identifier and the institution's identity. Done.
GET /v2/auth/verification/{id}
Why Studid
Institutional login beats document uploads
Don't ask users to photograph transcripts or student ID cards. Let them prove their academic status with the institutional login they already use every day.
Global reach
Thousands of institutions across 70+ federations — from Germany's DFN-AAI to the US InCommon and Japan's GakuNin.
No SAML knowledge needed
Two API calls: create a verification, then check the result. We handle metadata, certificate exchange, and protocol.
No user data stored
No document uploads, no password collection, no identity data retained. Users authenticate with their institution — you never see credentials.
Institution-verified
Every login is backed by the institution's identity provider and MFA. You get a verified institutional identifier, not a self-attested claim.
Free. No catch.
No accounts, no API keys, no rate-limited tiers. The verification API is free now and will remain free.
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