Card BIN → issuing bank / country API

The first 6-8 digits of a card (the BIN/IIN — NOT sensitive, not PCI) identify the issuing bank, country, brand, and card type. For checkout fraud signals and routing. Answers 'what bank issued this card', 'country of this card', 'is this debit or credit', 'is this prepaid'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/identity/bin

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit20/minute

Cache2592000s public

identitybiniincardissuerbankpaymentfraud

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/identity/bin

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "bin": "45717360"
}

Example response

{
  "bin": "45717360",
  "scheme": "visa",
  "brand": "Visa Classic",
  "type": "debit",
  "prepaid": false,
  "bank": "Jyske Bank A/S",
  "country": "Denmark",
  "countryCode": "DK",
  "currency": "DKK"
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "bin"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "bin": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "45717360"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}