TL;DR: Studid's Free API that confirms a user belongs to a real university — through their own institution's login. Two API calls, no documents, no email verification, no API keys.

The problem

You need to know if someone is actually a student or researcher. The usual options:

Upload a student ID or transcript — privacy hassle, manual review, easy to fake

Check their .edu email — anyone can buy one, not real verification

Build university SSO yourself — SAML certs, metadata, federation paperwork, weeks of work

None of these are good for you or your users.

A different way

The user logs in at their own university (same credentials they use for courses, email, library). You get back a simple result: yes, this person is at this institution.…