This content is designed for subscribers to the Pagos BIN Database only. If you’ve subscribed to multiple Pagos services, head over to our Getting Started with Pagos guide.
With the Pagos BIN Database, you can request detailed bank and market data for the payment cards your customers transact with. Submit a 6-10 digit bank identification number (BIN)—also known as an Issuer Identification number (IIN)—for a customer’s card and receive information about the card type and brand, the bank that issued it, and details of the market it was issued in, such as currency, country, and time zone. BIN data can help you better understand both your customers and their preferred payment cards. With this added context, you can design and implement a payments strategy that benefits your bottom line and improves the checkout experience for your customers!

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Perform BIN Lookups Via the UI

A BIN search in Pagos.
You can perform BIN lookups directly from the Pagos Service Panel. Click BIN Data in the main navigation, then enter a BIN value into the search bar and click Lookup. The BIN details appear in both plain text and as they would in a response from the BIN Data API. For a full list of the data fields available and their descriptions, see our BIN Data API Dictionary.

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Request BIN Data From the Pagos APIs

Pagos provides two APIs for accessing our BIN data tools:

BIN Data API

Submit a BIN to our simple REST API and receive a JSON object back containing known details for that BIN! All Pagos BIN Database subscribers can access the BIN Data API.

BIN Data Batch API

Use this file-based product to bulk retrieve BIN bank and market details via a file you add to your local database. To access the BIN Data Batch API, you must subscribe to the Batch BIN File add-on.
BIN Data API users can also query BIN data through AI tools using the Pagos MCP Server.

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Review Your BIN API Metrics

You can monitor and manage your usage of the BIN Data API in the BIN Routing section of the Pagos Service Panel. To do so, click BIN Routing under Card Network APIs in the main navigation. This section contains the following visuals:
  • Requests - The number of API requests you’ve made for Standard vs. Enhanced BIN data over the selected date range
  • Response Time - The response times for API requests made to for Standard vs. Enhanced BIN data over the selected date range
By default, these graphs contain data from the last seven days; to view historical data, use the Date Range filter.