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iban.com sells IBAN Suite, a validation and bank-data service under an annual licence, and a separate Verification of Payee service. If you are weighing it against IBANforge, here is what each one does, with the prices of both.

We sell IBANforge, so read this page with that in mind. Every fact about iban.com comes from its public pages, read on 24 September 2026 and linked at the bottom. If something is wrong or a price has changed, write to support@ibanforge.com and we will correct it.

What iban.com does well

  • IBAN Suite identifies the BIC and the bank details behind an IBAN, with BIC data licensed from S.W.I.F.T., and announces SEPA reachability and scheme support.
  • Bank Account Verification (BAV), which iban.com also calls Verification of Payee, checks the account holder’s name and answers Match, No Match, Close Match or Unavailable, in 21 listed countries.
  • SORTware, a separate service for UK and Irish sort codes and account numbers.
  • Published terms, privacy policy, DPA and SLA, and a stated rate limit of 15 requests per second per IP address and per key.
  • A free trial by online sign-up: 100 queries, active one month. Licences can be bought online, or by invoice through the sales team.

iban.de, which says its IBAN and BIC services are powered by iban.com, names in its legal notice the company that iban.com’s terms name as licensor. It lists €420 to €3,800 a year for a one-year term, and a free trial of 100 queries active one month.

What IBANforge does differently

  • The bank code is checked in the national register where we read it in full: Germany (Deutsche Bundesbank, edition of September 2026), Switzerland and Liechtenstein (SIX BankMaster, valid from 1 September 2026), Austria, Belgium, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. There, a code the register does not hold comes back not_allocated, with authoritative: true.
  • Every answer names its sources: the register behind the bank-code verdict, the source of the BIC and the edition it was read from (bank_code_check.register, bic.source, as_of).
  • National check digits inside the account number, where a country has them: France and Monaco (RIB key), Belgium, Italy and San Marino (CIN), Spain (DC) and the United Kingdom (modulus check).
  • Built for AI agents: an MCP server, hosted or as the ibanforge-mcp package, and x402, which lets an agent pay each call in USDC on Base with no account.
  • A keyless trial of 25 validations a week on POST /v1/iban/validate, to try it before taking a key.

iban.com prices · IBANforge prices

iban.com prices

As its pages showed them on 24 September 2026.

  • IBAN Suite, per year: Professional €530 for 2,000 lookups, Business €1,450 for 20,000, Corporate €2,350 for 50,000, Enterprise €4,150 unlimited.
  • Licences run for one year at least, and VAT is not included.
  • BAV (Verification of Payee), per package: 2,500 verifications for €2,000, 10,000 for €7,000, 20,000 for €12,000, 50,000 for €25,000.
  • SORTware: €2,800 a year, unlimited.

IBANforge prices

Current prices, the same as on the pricing page.

  • Keyless trial: 25 validations a week on POST /v1/iban/validate.
  • Free key: 200 requests a month once claimed with an e-mail address, on every endpoint, no card.
  • Pro: $29 a month for 10,000 requests, cancel anytime.
  • Credit packs that never expire: 1,000 credits for $4, 5,000 for $20, 25,000 for $80.
  • x402: $0.005 per validation and $0.002 per IBAN in a batch, in USDC on Base, no account.
All prices and the cost calculator

Calculation. For 2,000 validations with bank data, from the published prices: at IBANforge, $8 in prepaid credits (two packs of 1,000) that never expire. At iban.com, the Professional licence includes 2,000 lookups a year for €530, excluding VAT.

When iban.com is the better choice

  • You need to check the account holder’s name (Verification of Payee). IBANforge does not: it checks the bank behind the IBAN, not the person.
  • You validate UK or Irish sort codes and account numbers.
  • You want BIC data under a SWIFT licence, and an annual contract that can be paid by invoice.

What IBANforge does not do

  • Check the account holder’s name. That is Verification of Payee, run by the payee’s bank.
  • Check the German account-number methods, or the national keys of the countries not named above: not yet.
  • Say whether the account exists or is open. No register publishes that.

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Sources, read on 24 September 2026: iban.com/pricing · iban.com/products · iban.com/developers · iban.com/bav-service · iban.com/terms · iban.de/preise · iban.de/impressum · iban.de/entwickler