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Commercial and free-tier services (not open source) that Bangladeshi developers integrate daily. These are listed separately so the open-source sections stay clean about what is actually open. Access models are stated honestly: sandbox-free, free-tier, or fully commercial. Nothing here is an advertisement — each service is one a verified BD developer actually builds against. Where an open-source SDK for the same service exists, it lives in Fintech & e-commerce or APIs & integrations and is cross-linked from the table.

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bKash Payment Gateway Bangladesh's dominant mobile financial service, exposed as a developer platform: Tokenized Checkout, refunds, payouts and webhooks. Access: sandbox free with registration. The community SDK ecosystem (Laravel, Flutter, Go, Rust) lives in the fintech section. see notes BD org / for-BD
SSLCommerz The country's most-used payment gateway aggregator: cards, net banking, MFS aggregation (bKash/Nagad/Rocket), hosted checkout and IPN. Access: sandbox free with registration. Official open-source integrations exist for Laravel, PHP, Flutter, WooCommerce and ASP.NET. see notes BD org / for-BD
aamarPay Hosted-checkout payment gateway with IPN support and ready-made plugins for popular Bangladeshi e-commerce stacks. Access: sandbox free with registration. see notes BD org / for-BD
Pathao Courier API Pathao's logistics API: order creation, pricing, zone lookup, tracking and OAuth2 auth. Access: sandbox via merchant account — register as a merchant to get credentials before coding. see notes BD org / for-BD
RedX Courier API Courier operations with a published OpenAPI spec and sandbox — the cleanest API documentation among BD courier services, worth reading even if you ship with another provider. Access: sandbox via merchant account. see notes BD org / for-BD
Nagad The state-backed MFS with the second-largest user base. Access: merchant-only — there is no public developer portal; API documents are shared during merchant onboarding. Community SDKs exist (see the fintech section). see notes BD org / for-BD
upay MFS payments from United Commercial Bank. Access: merchant-only; the API PDF is shared with registered merchants. see notes BD org / for-BD
Barikoi Bangladeshi geocoding, routing and place search, plus Rupantor for parsing Bangla-language addresses into structured data. Access: freemium — a free tier covers low volume, which is enough to prototype. see notes BD org / for-BD
Porichoy Government NID/KYC identity verification for regulated businesses (banks, telcos, fintechs). Access: paid merchant contract — budget for it only if you genuinely need real identity checks. The official portal domain (porichoy.gov.bd) was unresolvable at last verification, so it is not linked; see the NID Wing services portal or check with BNDA / your onboarding partner for current access. see notes BD org / for-BD
BD SMS gateways (BulkSMSBD, Alpha SMS, SSL Wireless, MiM SMS, GreenWeb) Bulk and masking SMS delivery — OTP flows, order notifications, marketing blasts. Access: paid, each with its own tariff. For code, abstract them behind the open-source barta or laravelbdsms packages instead of hand-rolling each provider's API. see notes BD org / for-BD
Bangladesh Bank exchange rates The official taka reference rates. Access: no API, and site terms apply. For programmatic use, the free keyless open.er-api.com endpoint serves BDT rates cleanly. see notes BD org / for-BD
Survey of Bangladesh The national mapping authority's official base maps and geodata. Access: verbatim terms — no reproduction, no export, no resale. For open boundaries use geoBoundaries (CC-BY-4.0), HDX COD-AB (CC-BY-3.0 IGO) or OpenStreetMap (ODbL) instead — see the geography section. see notes BD org / for-BD
Bangladesh Meteorological Department The national weather authority's observations and climate records. Access: purchase — there is no public developer API. For research and apps, use the open Kaggle weather datasets listed in the datasets section (including the 1901–2023 century series) or NOAA open data instead. see notes BD org / for-BD
Bangla AI Gateway Commercial Bangla LLM and OCR API. Access: commercial. The SDKs against it are free and open source: bangla-ai on npm and bangla-ai-sdk on PyPI. see notes BD org / for-BD

✨ Editor’s picks

bKash Payment Gateway

The MFS that defines Bangladesh's digital payments. The Tokenized Checkout flow is well documented, sandbox access is free with registration, and the community SDK ecosystem around it — Laravel, Flutter, Go, Rust, Node — is the deepest of any Bangladeshi payment service. If you are building anything paid for the BD market, start here.

Open data instead of paid data

Two rows in this table point you somewhere better: Survey of Bangladesh's restrictive licence is best replaced by the open boundary sources in the geography section, and the Meteorological Department's purchase-only climate data is best replaced by the century-long Kaggle weather series and NOAA open data in the datasets section. Knowing the open alternative is half the value of this table.

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