Comms.ID Sanctions

Australian sanctions screening

Screen an individual, entity or vessel against the Australian Sanctions Consolidated List published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. A match is a candidate for review, not a determination. Live screening is for registered apps; this page shows a demonstration on fictional sample names only.

Try it

Demonstration only: these names are fictional samples, and the reply is the contract's example. Nothing on this page is screened against the live list.

Fictional sample names

Sample reply (demonstration, not a screening result)

Choose a sample name. The reply shown is the contract's example, labelled as a demonstration.

Quickstart

Sign in to the Companion App and register your app. Enable Sanctions only; one product needs no other.
Create your app's key pair on your server; Companion registers the public key.
Call the API with a short-lived token signed by your key:

curl -X POST https://api.comms.id/sanctions/v1/screen \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $(npx comms-id token sanctions)" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"type":"Individual","name":"Example Person","dateOfBirth":"1970-06-15"}'

Reference: comms.id/docs/sanctions. For agents: llms.txt.

Operations

POST /sanctions/v1/screen — Screen one individual, entity or vessel against the Australian Sanctions Consolidated List (DFAT): exact names and aliases, optionally narrowed by date and place of birth. The reply carries every possible match with its evidence, the list generation and its freshness. It refuses to answer from a stale list.

OpenAPI document: https://api.comms.id/sanctions/v1/openapi.json. Base URL https://api.comms.id.

Status and measured speed

State: checking…
Measured reply: —
Data: —
Measured at: —

Method: this site's server sends one real signed query at most once a minute and times it from request to reply. The figure includes the hop from this site to the service.

How it compares

Each cell below quotes the vendor's own public page, with the date it was read, including where each one sends personal information. Where a page does not say, the cell says so; nothing is inferred.

Vendor	Australian Consolidated List coverage	Where personal information goes	Logs what you type	Pricing
DFAT (Australian Sanctions Office) Consolidated List download	The list itself: every individual, entity and vessel under Australian sanctions, maintained and regularly updated by the Australian Sanctions Office, published as a spreadsheet (last updated 29 September 2026). A file, not a screening service. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	An Australian government department; it discloses personal information overseas only for its consular and diplomatic functions, under the APPs or with consent. Downloading the list sends it no names. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	No screening queries exist: the list is downloaded whole. Its websites may collect cookies, IP addresses and cached form information. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	Not stated; the list is published for download on the page with no price shown. Source · not stated on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03
OpenSanctions OpenSanctions API (sanctions and PEP screening)	Carries the Australian Consolidated List as one dataset among many (1.9 million entities), refreshed daily, checked every two hours; a multi-property matcher, not exact-match only. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	A German company (OpenSanctions Datenbanken GmbH, Berlin); transfers outside the European Economic Area rest on an EU adequacy decision or standard contractual clauses. No Australian location. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	Website visits go to server log files (IP address, pages, time, country); the policy does not say what is kept of the names sent to the screening API. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	€0.10 per query on the API, with free non-commercial access and bulk licensing by contact. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03
LSEG World-Check KYC screening	A global risk-intelligence database of sanctions, enforcement, PEP and adverse-media records from public-domain sources, through screening software and APIs; the Australian list is not described on its own. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	A global organisation: personal information may be stored and processed outside the user's home country, including countries with a lower level of protection, under safeguards; no country is named. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	May keep browsing and usage information, including searches within its services, to personalise and to target advertising; screening queries are not addressed. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	Not stated on the product page; it offers contact for a demonstration. Source · not stated on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03

Vendor

Australian Consolidated List coverage

Where personal information goes

Logs what you type

Pricing

DFAT (Australian Sanctions Office)

Consolidated List download

The list itself: every individual, entity and vessel under Australian sanctions, maintained and regularly updated by the Australian Sanctions Office, published as a spreadsheet (last updated 29 September 2026). A file, not a screening service.