Benelux has 111 providers, 1,412 APIs, a median Kin Score of 15.7, and a clear commercial strength in payments. Mollie leads the region on both the Kin Score and Agent Readiness. The less expected result is that the 18 university records in the cohort have a median of 33.0, against 13.1 for the other 93.
The cut
| Provider | What it does | Kin Score | Agent Readiness | APIs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mollie | Payments | 72.2 | 61.1 | 2 |
| publiq | Flemish culture and events data | 69.9 | 30.8 | 33 |
| KPN | Telecom | 68.8 | 33.5 | 103 |
| Bancontact | Payments | 65.3 | 49.1 | 8 |
| Whisper Security | Network identity for AI agents | 64.3 | 57.6 | 13 |
| Sendcloud | E-commerce shipping | 62.7 | 46.0 | 26 |
| iBanFirst | Cross-border payments | 60.4 | 49.0 | 11 |
| Logius | Dutch digital government | 59.0 | 35.5 | 13 |
| Portbase | Port community system | 57.1 | 37.6 | 32 |
| Silverflow | Card processing | 49.9 | 41.3 | 50 |
The evidence
Payments is where the region is ahead. Mollie has the top agent score at 61.1. Bancontact and iBanFirst are third and fourth among the region’s agent scorers, and Silverflow is sixth. Only Whisper Security breaks up that run, in second at 57.6.
Retail banking looks nothing like that. Rabobank scores 7.4, with 0.0 on contract quality and 71.4 on discoverability, which is what a record looks like when we can find a provider but do not hold a usable contract. bunq is 39.2 and Bitvavo 32.3. That is what the record shows, and the distance from Mollie is large.
The Dutch and Belgian public sector is present and middling: Logius, VNG Realisatie at 45.4 with 42 APIs, and the universities, among them TU Delft at 48.0, KU Leuven at 40.2 and Ghent University at 34.1. 42 of the 111 show no API on the page, and 54 are human-only.
The description’s logistics claim also holds up better than Schiphol suggests. Portbase, run for the ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, is a strong record, and Sendcloud sits in the top six.
What is ours to fix
The page says membership comes from a tag, a name pattern or a stated headquarters. Each of these shows up here as a defect.
- A word match. Dutch is described as a United States pet telemedicine service. Our region file admits it by
name. - A headquarters mismatch. Quantum Machines is admitted by
hq, but its own description places it in Tel Aviv and it carries anIsraeltag. - A missed member. The region’s description names Schiphol, and Schiphol Airport is in the catalog at 7.4 with tags that do not name a country, so it is not in the region at all.
- Duplicates. Delft University of Technology appears twice, at 48.0 and 10.0, and Université libre de Bruxelles twice, at 32.0 and 11.5. The university count above includes both pairs.
Takeaway
Come to Benelux for payments contracts, starting with Mollie, and read the member list as a work in progress. See the live page at Benelux.