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 API contracts indexed 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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29.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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Financial StatisticsBanking DataDerivatives Exchange Rates Central Bank SDMX Open DataInternational Finance

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 29.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 4.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 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 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Securities & Market Data regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 26.3 — up to +14.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 43.2 — up to +14.2 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

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

BIS Data availability queries API

The Data availability queries API from BIS — 1 operation(s) for data availability queries.

BIS Data queries API

The Data queries API from BIS — 1 operation(s) for data queries.

BIS Item queries API

The Item queries API from BIS — 4 operation(s) for item queries.

BIS Structure queries API

The Structure queries API from BIS — 12 operation(s) for structure queries.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

SDMX RESTful Data availability queries API

OPEN COLLECTION

SDMX RESTful Data availability queries Data queries API

OPEN COLLECTION

SDMX RESTful Data availability queries Item queries API

OPEN COLLECTION

SDMX RESTful Data availability queries Structure queries API

OPEN COLLECTION

BIS API pricing

Not yet checked against BIS's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Public Access	Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Bis Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bis Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

BIS

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Bis Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Bis Stats Api Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

BIS — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

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.

Get Availability Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Get Data Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Get Dataflow Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Bis Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Bis Agentic Access

18 operations

18 operations · 0 acting

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.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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: '0.23'
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
  tags_raw:
  - 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 API — frequently asked questions

Does BIS have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from BIS, including BIS Data availability queries API, BIS Data queries API and BIS Item queries API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the BIS API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for BIS, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the BIS API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for BIS, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the BIS API ready for AI agents?

BIS has a Kin Score of 29.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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