Free, open-source tools for payment testing. ccgenerator.org generates Luhn-valid test card numbers, validates BINs, and collects the sandbox cards Stripe, Adyen and Braintree publish. Dummy data for developers and QA: no bank issued these numbers, and no payment will ever clear on one.
Everything runs in your browser. No signup, no account, no upload — the numbers
are generated on your machine with crypto.getRandomValues and never sent
anywhere.
The credit card number generator is the main tool: pick a network, get a complete card — number, expiry, CVV and cardholder name — with the correct prefix and length for that network.
Per-network pages, each with the ranges and rules that network actually uses:
| Visa | Mastercard | American Express |
| Discover | JCB | Diners Club |
| Maestro | UnionPay | Troy |
Also: bulk credit card generator for fixture files, debit card generator, virtual credit card generator, and a CVV generator when you only need the security code.
- Credit card validator — paste a number and see exactly why a form accepted or rejected it: the Luhn check digit, the detected network, whether the length is valid, and the full anatomy of the digits.
- BIN lookup — what the first six to eight digits say about the issuer, the network and the card type.
- BIN generator — build numbers from a specific BIN when you are testing issuer-specific routing.
Test card numbers — the numbers each provider publishes, in one table, with the decline triggers and 3-D Secure cards: Stripe, Braintree, Adyen, Square, PayPal, Authorize.Net and iyzico.
These are the provider's own numbers, not generated ones. That distinction matters: why test cards fail on real payment systems.
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CC Generator — test card numbers puts the same three things in the toolbar, one keyboard shortcut from any checkout form you are building:
- Generate — 1 to 25 cards on any of nine networks; copy one, copy all, copy JSON, export CSV
- Validate — Luhn check digit, network, length and digit anatomy
- Test cards — the gateway sandbox numbers, ready to copy or fill
- Autofill — writes number, expiry, CVC and cardholder name into the form
on screen, from the popup, the right-click menu, or
Alt+Shift+F
No host permissions, no content script running in the background, and no network requests of any kind. Source: ccgenerator-chrome, MIT licensed — every claim in that list can be read off the code.
@ccgenerator/test-cards
is the same engine as a dependency, for the test suite rather than the toolbar:
import { generate, validate, detectBrand } from '@ccgenerator/test-cards';
generate('mastercard');
// { network: 'mastercard', pan: '5312448763449521', cvv: '204',
// expiryMonth: '09', expiryYear: '2029' }
detectBrand('2223 0031 2200 3222'); // 'mastercard'
validate('4111111111111112').errors; // ['luhn_failed']npm install --save-dev @ccgenerator/test-cardsZero dependencies, no network calls, no install scripts. Nine networks on the same ranges the site and the extension use — including 2-series Mastercard and the 19-digit Maestro and UnionPay formats most hand-rolled tables miss. Ships with TypeScript types. Source: ccgenerator-npm, MIT licensed.
The guides behind the tools. Written to be read once and settle the question:
| The Luhn algorithm | The check digit every card number carries, and how it is computed — plus code examples in a dozen languages |
| Credit card number structure | MII, IIN, account identifier, check digit — what each part of the number is for |
| BIN/IIN explained | What the issuer prefix tells you, and what it does not |
| Card number length by network | Including the 19-digit Maestro and UnionPay ranges most generators get wrong |
| Card brand detection regex | Prefix rules for detecting the network client-side, and the ones that are commonly wrong |
| What is CVV | Why it cannot be derived from the card number, by design |
Testing a payment integration
Payment form testing checklist · Stripe test card numbers · PayPal sandbox testing · 3-D Secure testing · PCI DSS for developers · Card tokenization explained · Test data management for QA
A generated number satisfies the Luhn checksum and a network's published prefix and length rules. That is the whole of it. No bank issued it, it is attached to no account, it holds no funds, and it will be declined by every real payment system it is ever presented to.
Tools like this are often called a fake credit card generator, and the numbers are fake in the only sense that matters. If you came looking for working, live or funded card numbers, this is not that — and no honest tool is:
- Do credit card numbers that work exist?
- Why generated cards have no balance
- What fake credit card generators actually do
- Is generating test card numbers legal?
- How carding works, and how to protect yourself
- Free trials, the legitimate way
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