Free BIN API from Frequently Updated Database

With the public, community-based BIN database that well maintained through thousands of daily BIN corrections from our users, we proudly presents this RESTful API web service to ease out the developmental process for fraud prevention. Through feedbacks of API users, merchants, and developers; the database field arrangement for API as well as its presentation interface layer continue to evolve. Though this public BIN / IIN database is frequently updated, it is not perfect. Please use it with caution.

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The request

You can make either HTTP GET or HTTP POST requests to https://api.freebinchecker.com/bin/{bin} to get the result. The returned format is JSON.

Some good examples of the API requests are:

https://api.freebinchecker.com/bin/371241 https://api.freebinchecker.com/bin/370245

Bad examples:

https://api.freebinchecker.com/bin/AMEX https://api.freebinchecker.com/bin/debit-card

Test it

• api.freebinchecker.com/bin/370245

• api.freebinchecker.com/bin/52000820

• API Call for 52000820434

The response

Plain JSON format

Parameter	Type	Value	Description
valid	boolean	true or false	A valid request
message	string	optional	Additional information of this specific API call
card	object	bin, length, luhn check, prepaid, commercial, scheme, type, category	Card Information
card→bin	string	370245, etc	The BIN result. In case of duplicate due to long BIN number sent, the most accurate BIN will return and reflect it here
card→length	string	15, 16, etc	The number length of this card for the requested BIN
card→luhn	boolean	true or false	Return the Luhn algorithm of this card for the requested BIN
card→prepaid	boolean	true or false	Prepaid ?
card→commercial	boolean	true or false	Commercial ?
card→scheme	string	AMEX, VISA, MATERCARD, etc	Card issuer company (also called network, brand, scheme)
card→type	string	"credit", "debit", "charge", etc	Card type classification
card→category	string	"STANDARD", "VIP", etc	Card category
issuer	object	name, url, tel, city	Information about the issuer
issuer→name	string	Bank of America, Chase, Wellsfargo, etc	Name of the card issuer
issuer→url	string	https://www.freebinchecker.com, etc	URL of the card issuer
issuer→tel	string	+1 408 434 5454, etc	Telephone of the card issuer
issuer→city	string	San Francisco, New York, etc	The city where the card issuer located
country	object	name, alpha-2-code, numberic code, latitude, longitude	Information about issuer country
country→name	string	United States, China, France, Japan, etc	Name of the card issuer country
country→alpha-2-code	string	US, CN, FR, JA, etc	Alpha 2 code of the card issuer country
country→numeric-code	string	840, 841, etc	Numeric code of the card issuer country
country→latitude	string	37.09024, etc	Latitude of the card issuer country
country→longitude	string	-95.712891, etc	Longitude of the card issuer country
country→currency	string	USD, EUR, etc	Currency code of the card issuer country
country→currency name	string	United states dollar, etc	Full Currency name of the card issuer country

An Example of a successful BIN API response

https://api.freebinchecker.com/bin/370245

{
  "valid": true,
  "card": {
    "bin": "370245",
    "scheme": "AMEX",
    "type": "credit",
    "category": "STANDARD"
  },
  "issuer": {
    "name": "BANESCO BANCO UNIVERSAL S.A.",
    "url": "www.banesco.com",
    "tel": "+58 212 501 11 11"
  },
  "country": {
    "name": "United States",
    "numeric code": "840",
    "alpha 2 code": "US",
    "latitude": "37.09024",
    "longitude": "-95.712891",
    "currency": "USD",
    "currency name": "United States dollar"
  }
}

https://api.freebinchecker.com/bin/46000736434

{
  "valid": true,
  "card": {
    "bin": "460007",
    "scheme": "VISA",
    "type": "debit"
  },
  "issuer": {
    "name": "METABANK",
    "url": "bankmeta.com",
    "tel": "800-554-8969"
  },
  "country": {
    "name": "United States",
    "numeric code": "840",
    "alpha 2 code": "US",
    "latitude": "37.09024",
    "longitude": "-95.712891",
    "currency": "USD",
    "currency name": "United States dollar"
  }
}