Get PAN Essentials API
Retrieve a PAN holder's essential details, including name, date of birth and gender, to match a customer's identity against their PAN in seconds.
What the Get PAN Essentials API does
Get PAN Essentials returns the core identity attributes held against a PAN: name, date of birth and gender.
Date of birth is the field that makes this more useful than a name lookup. Names repeat constantly in India, and a name-plus-date-of-birth match is a far stronger identity assertion than either alone.
Where teams use the Get PAN Essentials API
Matching identity on name and date of birth together
Verifying age eligibility during onboarding
Cross-checking declared details against tax records
Reducing false matches on common names
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Why include date of birth?
It disambiguates common names. Name-only matching produces false positives at scale in a way that name plus date of birth does not.
Can I verify age with this?
Yes, the date of birth supports age-based eligibility checks.
How does it differ from PAN Lite?
PAN Lite returns the name alone. This adds date of birth and gender.
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- One API key for every check
- Verified against official Indian records
- Built for onboarding at scale