Astra

Astra (Astra Finance, Inc.) is a financial technology company providing an all-in-one instant payments API that lets product teams embed real-time money movement between bank accounts and debit cards. The platform powers instant disbursements and payouts, instant account funding, accelerated bank transfers, card-to-account movement, cross-border payments, and automated "Routines," with built-in compliance, fraud detection, and chargeback management. Developers integrate over a versioned REST API (v1) using OAuth 2.0 authorization for end-user money movement plus client-credential authorization for administrative operations, with webhooks for asynchronous updates and a full sandbox environment for testing.

Astra publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Fintech, Money Movement, and ACH.

The Astra catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Astra’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, signup flow, authentication, and 14 more developer resources.

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32.0/100 thin Agent 23/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
1 APIs 0 Features
CompanyPaymentsFintechMoney MovementACHInstant PaymentsBank TransfersDisbursementsAPI

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scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
Composite quality — 32.0/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs

Astra API

Astra's REST API (v1) for embedding instant money movement — accounts, users, cards, transfers, payment instruments, and Routines — authorized via OAuth 2.0 and delivered with w...

Event Specifications

Astra Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login
 Sandbox
Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Webhooks
Webhooks
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conformance
Conformance

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 Compliance
Compliance
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: astra
name: Astra
description: Astra (Astra Finance, Inc.) is a financial technology company providing an all-in-one instant payments API that
  lets product teams embed real-time money movement between bank accounts and debit cards. The platform powers instant disbursements
  and payouts, instant account funding, accelerated bank transfers, card-to-account movement, cross-border payments, and automated
  "Routines," with built-in compliance, fraud detection, and chargeback management. Developers integrate over a versioned
  REST API (v1) using OAuth 2.0 authorization for end-user money movement plus client-credential authorization for administrative
  operations, with webhooks for asynchronous updates and a full sandbox environment for testing.
image: https://astrafi.com/static/images/favicons/apple-touch-icon.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/astra/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- canaan-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Fintech
- Money Movement
- ACH
- Instant Payments
- Bank Transfers
- Disbursements
- API
apis:
- name: Astra API
  description: Astra's REST API (v1) for embedding instant money movement — accounts, users, cards, transfers, payment instruments,
    and Routines — authorized via OAuth 2.0 and delivered with webhooks for asynchronous events.
  humanURL: https://docs.astra.finance/reference/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.astra.finance/v1
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Money Movement
  - ACH
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.astra.finance/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.astra.finance/reference/introduction
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.astra.finance/docs/getting-started
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/astra-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/astra-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/astra-error-codes.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/astra-webhooks.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/astra-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/astra-sandbox.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/astra-conformance.yml
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/astra-domain-security.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.astra.finance/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.astra.finance/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.astra.finance/reference/introduction
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.astra.finance/docs/getting-started
- type: Blog
  url: https://astrafi.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://dashboard-sandbox.astra.finance/support
- type: SignUp
  url: https://dashboard-sandbox.astra.finance/login
- type: Login
  url: https://dashboard.astra.finance/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://astrafi.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://astrafi.com/privacy/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.astrafi.com/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://astrafi.com/security-and-privacy/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/astra-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/astra-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/astra-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/astra-error-codes.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/astra-webhooks.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/astra-lifecycle.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/astra-sandbox.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/astra-conformance.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence