BIS

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) provides a free SDMX RESTful API offering programmatic access to global financial statistics, international banking data, derivatives market statistics, property prices, exchange rates, and central bank research data. The API follows the SDMX REST v1.4.0 specification and supports JSON, XML, and CSV response formats with no authentication required.

BIS publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Data availability queries API, Data queries API, Item queries API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Financial Statistics, Banking Data, Derivatives, Exchange Rates, and Central Bank.

The BIS catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

BIS’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 10 more developer resources.

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39.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreeOpen⚡ Free to try

4 APIs

Financial StatisticsBanking DataDerivativesExchange RatesCentral BankSDMXOpen DataInternational Finance

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 39.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bis Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

BIS Stats API Schema

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bis
name: BIS
description: The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) provides a free SDMX RESTful API offering programmatic access to
  global financial statistics, international banking data, derivatives market statistics, property prices, exchange rates,
  and central bank research data. The API follows the SDMX REST v1.4.0 specification and supports JSON, XML, and CSV response
  formats with no authentication required.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bis.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
tags:
- Financial Statistics
- Banking Data
- Derivatives
- Exchange Rates
- Central Bank
- SDMX
- Open Data
- International Finance
apis:
- aid: bis:bis-data-availability-queries-api
  name: BIS Data availability queries API
  description: The Data availability queries API from BIS — 1 operation(s) for data availability queries.
  humanURL: https://stats.bis.org/api-doc/v1/
  baseURL: https://stats.bis.org/api/v1
  tags:
  - Data availability queries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bis-data-availability-queries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://stats.bis.org/api-doc/v1/
  - type: DataPortal
    url: https://data.bis.org/
  - type: BulkDownload
    url: https://data.bis.org/bulkdownload
  - type: ReleaseCalendar
    url: https://data.bis.org/release-calendar
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.bis.org/terms_statistics.htm
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/plans/bis-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/bis-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/finops/bis-finops.yml
- aid: bis:bis-data-queries-api
  name: BIS Data queries API
  description: The Data queries API from BIS — 1 operation(s) for data queries.
  humanURL: https://stats.bis.org/api-doc/v1/
  baseURL: https://stats.bis.org/api/v1
  tags:
  - Data queries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bis-data-queries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://stats.bis.org/api-doc/v1/
  - type: DataPortal
    url: https://data.bis.org/
  - type: BulkDownload
    url: https://data.bis.org/bulkdownload
  - type: ReleaseCalendar
    url: https://data.bis.org/release-calendar
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.bis.org/terms_statistics.htm
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/plans/bis-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/bis-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/finops/bis-finops.yml
- aid: bis:bis-item-queries-api
  name: BIS Item queries API
  description: The Item queries API from BIS — 4 operation(s) for item queries.
  humanURL: https://stats.bis.org/api-doc/v1/
  baseURL: https://stats.bis.org/api/v1
  tags:
  - Item queries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bis-item-queries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://stats.bis.org/api-doc/v1/
  - type: DataPortal
    url: https://data.bis.org/
  - type: BulkDownload
    url: https://data.bis.org/bulkdownload
  - type: ReleaseCalendar
    url: https://data.bis.org/release-calendar
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.bis.org/terms_statistics.htm
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/plans/bis-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/bis-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/finops/bis-finops.yml
- aid: bis:bis-structure-queries-api
  name: BIS Structure queries API
  description: The Structure queries API from BIS — 12 operation(s) for structure queries.
  humanURL: https://stats.bis.org/api-doc/v1/
  baseURL: https://stats.bis.org/api/v1
  tags:
  - Structure queries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bis-structure-queries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://stats.bis.org/api-doc/v1/
  - type: DataPortal
    url: https://data.bis.org/
  - type: BulkDownload
    url: https://data.bis.org/bulkdownload
  - type: ReleaseCalendar
    url: https://data.bis.org/release-calendar
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.bis.org/terms_statistics.htm
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/plans/bis-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/bis-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/finops/bis-finops.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/bis-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bis-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bis.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://stats.bis.org/api-doc/v1/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/bis-org
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bis
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.bis.org/rss/index.htm
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.bis.org/terms_statistics.htm
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://data.bis.org/
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/BIS_org
- type: Plans
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/plans/bis-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/bis-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bis/refs/heads/main/finops/bis-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

BIS

Kin Score

APIs 4

BIS Data availability queries API

BIS Data queries API

BIS Item queries API

BIS Structure queries API

Pricing Plans 1

Bis Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Bis Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Bis Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Bis Stats Api Context

Spectral Rules 1

BIS API Rules

JSON Schema 1

BIS Stats API Schema

Examples 3

Get Availability Example

Get Data Example

Get Dataflow Example

Security Posture 1

Bis Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

Bis Agentic Access