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Card Level Checker
Every card carries a product level — Classic, Gold, Platinum, Signature, Infinite — and it drives interchange, limits and benefits. Enter a BIN to resolve the level behind it, and see how the whole ladder is distributed across the card population.
The ladder, entry level first
The tier ladder, by real volume
Counts are distinct BINs in our offline index, not estimates. Classic alone accounts for 24.9% of every level-tagged BIN, which is the single clearest signal that the card population is overwhelmingly entry-tier.
| Tier | BINs | Share | Recorded as |
|---|---|---|---|
| ClassicVisa's baseline consumer product and the single most common level in the dataset. | 37,011 | 24.9% | Classic, Prepaid Classic, Prepaid Horizon Classic |
| StandardMastercard's baseline consumer product, the counterpart to Visa Classic. | 14,189 | 9.5% | Standard, Prepaid Private Label Standard, Standard Digital, Heloc Standard |
| PlatinumThe most widely issued premium tier, one step above Gold. | 9,825 | 6.6% | Platinum, Prepaid Platinum, Prepaid Platinum Travel, Platinum Salary |
| GoldThe classic mid-tier upgrade: higher limits and modest travel cover. | 9,347 | 6.3% | Gold, Prepaid Gold, Personal Gold Charge, Personal Gold Revolve |
| TraditionalVisa's own name for its core non-premium product. Equivalent in standing to Classic. | 5,417 | 3.6% | Traditional, Traditional Rewards |
| EnhancedMastercard's step above Standard, sitting below World. Also issued as Business Enhanced. | 3,372 | 2.3% | Enhanced, Business Enhanced, Prepaid Private Label Enhanced |
| WorldMastercard's premium tier, broadly comparable to Visa Signature. Also issued as World Business. | 3,259 | 2.2% | World, World Business, World Black, World for Business |
| ElectronVisa Electron. Balance-checked at authorisation, so it rarely permits offline use. | 2,023 | 1.4% | Electron, Prepaid Electron |
| SignatureVisa's upper-premium tier, above Platinum and below Infinite. | 1,667 | 1.1% | Signature, Signature Business, Business Signature, Signature Preferred |
| InfiniteVisa's flagship consumer product, typically invitation-only with an income floor. | 1,452 | 1.0% | Infinite, Infinite Business, Infinite Privilege, Business Infinite |
| World EliteMastercard's top tier. Highest interchange, concierge and travel benefits. Also issued for business. | 935 | 0.6% | World Elite, World Elite for Business, World Elite Exclusive, World Elite Business |
| TitaniumA premium tier used mainly outside the US, sitting near Platinum. | 618 | 0.4% | Titanium, Titanium/gold, Standard/gold/titanium |
| BlackIssuer-branded ultra-premium naming, most common in Latin America and Asia. | 443 | 0.3% | Black, Personal Black Charge, Black Digital |
Coverage: 148,620 of 165,077 indexed BINs carry a level, drawn from 355 distinct level strings. 59,062 of those name a product family rather than a tier and are excluded from this table.
Tier and commercial status are separate axes, not one ranking. 1,076 BINs carry a level that is both — World Business, Business Infinite, Corporate Gold — so they are counted in their tier above and again as commercial. A business card is not a rung on the consumer ladder.
Why the ladder is not one ladder
Visa and Mastercard run parallel ranges that do not line up neatly. Visa goes Classic or Traditional, then Gold, Platinum, Signature, Infinite. Mastercard goes Standard, Enhanced, Gold, Platinum, World, World Elite. Signature and World sit at roughly the same height, as do Infinite and World Elite — but they are different products with different rules, and no official mapping exists between them.
This is why the table above ranks by volume rather than presenting a single ordered ladder. The tier numbers shown next to a lookup result are our own normalisation across both schemes, useful for comparison and not an official network grade.
Level is also independent of type. A Platinum debit card is an ordinary product, not a contradiction — which is why this tool reports the two separately instead of collapsing them into one label.
Does this card work with Apple Pay or Google Pay?
A BIN cannot answer that, and we would rather say so than guess. Wallet eligibility is decided by the issuing bank in a specific country, not by the card's scheme, level or number range. Two cards sharing a BIN prefix can differ if one was issued by a participating bank and the other was not.
Apple states plainly that even when a bank appears on its participating list, particular card products from that bank may still not be supported. Any tool that returns a definitive "yes, this BIN supports Apple Pay" is inferring something the data does not contain.
What a BIN lookup genuinely gives you is the issuer and the country of issuance — the two inputs you need to check the official lists. Use the BIN checker to identify the issuer, then confirm against Apple's participating banks list or Google's supported banks list. Both are maintained by the wallet operators and change as issuers join.
Looking for business cards specifically? The commercial card lookup covers the 165,077-BIN index from the business angle — corporate, purchasing, fleet and T&E programmes.
Frequently asked questions
What is a card level?
The card level (also called the product tier) is the issuer's name for the specific product a card belongs to — Visa Classic, Visa Signature, Mastercard World Elite and so on. It sits below the scheme and above the card type, and it is what actually determines the interchange band, the credit limit range and the benefits package.
Can you always tell the level from a BIN?
No, and any tool that claims otherwise is guessing. We hold a level for 148,620 of 165,077 indexed BINs — about 90%. For the rest the source leaves the column blank, and we say so rather than defaulting to a plausible-looking tier.
Why does the level matter to a merchant?
Interchange is banded by product. A premium consumer card such as Signature or World Elite costs a merchant materially more to accept than a Classic or Standard card, because the rewards funded by that interchange are richer. Knowing the mix of levels hitting your checkout explains a lot of the variance in an effective rate.
Is the level the same as the card type?
No. Type is credit, debit, prepaid or charge. Level is the product tier within that. A card can be a debit card and a Platinum card at the same time, and roughly a third of the premium-tier records in this index are debit rather than credit.
Why do some levels not appear on the ladder?
Because they are not rungs on it. Of 148,620 level-tagged BINs, 59,062 carry a level that names a product family rather than a prestige tier — "Business", "Personal", "Prepaid", "Mixed Product" or a private-label programme. Those are counted honestly as untiered instead of being forced into the nearest bucket.
Does a higher tier mean a higher credit limit?
It correlates but does not guarantee. Issuers set floors for premium products — an Infinite card typically requires a minimum limit set by the network — but the actual limit is underwritten per cardholder. The tier tells you the product's design, not the individual's line.