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Stripe Payments Knowledge Record Example

Stripe's HTTPS REST API for accepting payments, managing customers, and handling subscriptions. Indexed in multiple catalogs and widely used as a canonical example of a well-documented commercial API.

PaymentsRESTOpenAPICommercial

Stripe Payments Knowledge Record Example is an example object payload from API Knowledge, with 15 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

idnamedescriptionhumanURLbaseURLprovidercapabilitysourcessourceOfTruthartifactssignalstagscreatedmodifiedconfidence

Example Payload

{
  "id": "stripe:payments",
  "name": "Stripe Payments API",
  "description": "Stripe's HTTPS REST API for accepting payments, managing customers, and handling subscriptions. Indexed in multiple catalogs and widely used as a canonical example of a well-documented commercial API.",
  "humanURL": "https://docs.stripe.com/api",
  "baseURL": "https://api.stripe.com",
  "provider": {
    "name": "Stripe, Inc.",
    "url": "https://stripe.com",
    "githubOrg": "https://github.com/stripe",
    "type": "Company"
  },
  "capability": {
    "summary": "Accept payments, manage customers, and run subscriptions over a REST API.",
    "intent": [
      "charge a card",
      "create a customer",
      "issue a refund",
      "subscribe a customer to a plan"
    ],
    "categories": ["Payments", "Financial Services"],
    "operations": [
      {
        "name": "createPaymentIntent",
        "method": "POST",
        "path": "/v1/payment_intents",
        "description": "Create a PaymentIntent to drive a payment flow."
      },
      {
        "name": "createCustomer",
        "method": "POST",
        "path": "/v1/customers",
        "description": "Create a customer."
      }
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "type": "ProviderPortal",
      "url": "https://docs.stripe.com/api",
      "evidence": {
        "quote": "The Stripe API is organized around REST.",
        "claim": "Stripe's API is RESTful and documented at docs.stripe.com/api.",
        "url": "https://docs.stripe.com/api"
      },
      "retrieved": "2026-05-22T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "type": "APIsGuru",
      "url": "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/stripe.com/2020-08-27/openapi.yaml",
      "retrieved": "2026-05-22T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "type": "GitHubOrganization",
      "url": "https://github.com/stripe",
      "retrieved": "2026-05-22T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "type": "Postman",
      "url": "https://www.postman.com/stripedev",
      "retrieved": "2026-05-22T00:00:00Z"
    }
  ],
  "sourceOfTruth": "https://docs.stripe.com/api",
  "artifacts": {
    "openapi": [
      "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/stripe.com/2020-08-27/openapi.yaml"
    ],
    "jsonLd": [
      "https://schema.org/WebAPI"
    ]
  },
  "signals": [
    {
      "type": "SDKCount",
      "value": 7,
      "source": "https://github.com/stripe",
      "observed": "2026-05-22T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "type": "HasPublicStatusPage",
      "value": true,
      "source": "https://status.stripe.com",
      "observed": "2026-05-22T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "type": "HasPublicChangelog",
      "value": true,
      "source": "https://docs.stripe.com/changelog",
      "observed": "2026-05-22T00:00:00Z"
    }
  ],
  "tags": ["Payments", "REST", "OpenAPI", "Commercial"],
  "created": "2026-05-22",
  "modified": "2026-05-22",
  "confidence": "High"
}