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Balance

Balance is a financial infrastructure platform for B2B commerce that lets merchants and marketplaces accept payments, offer net-terms financing (digital trade credit / B2B BNPL), and automate order-to-cash accounts-receivable operations. Its APIs power embedded, customizable buyer journeys, advanced and consolidated billing, split payments, and AI-powered credit-risk management, covering the full B2B flow from checkout through invoicing, financing, and reconciliation. Balance ships pre-built integrations for platforms including Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, and Salesforce Commerce, plus marketplace solutions, and exposes a v2 REST API documented on a developer portal. The company was surfaced as a portfolio company of Forerunner Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ribbit Capital, and Techstars, and is profiled in the API Evangelist network. Card processing runs through Stripe (PCI DSS Service Provider Level 1); Balance publishes a security policy, status page, monthly product-update changelog, and a beta Model Context Protocol server for agentic commerce.

Balance publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Fintech, Payments, B2B Payments, and Accounts Receivable.

Balance’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, support, signup flow, changelog, and 14 more developer resources.

35.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyFintechPaymentsB2B PaymentsAccounts ReceivableNet TermsTrade CreditBNPLBillingEmbedded Finance

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2
Composite quality — 35.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 6.3 / 17
Access Clarity 7.2 / 17
Operational Transparency 4.7 / 11
Contract Governance 1.9 / 10
Discoverability 6.5 / 9
Regulatory Posture 8.9 / 15
Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Payments regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/balance: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Want it done for you? Prioritized profiling — $2,500 →

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Balance API v2

Balance's v2 REST API for B2B payments, net-terms financing, invoicing, and accounts-receivable automation. Reference documentation is hosted on a password-gated ReadMe.io porta...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Balance MCP Server

Balance announced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for B2B agentic commerce, in closed beta at the time of capture. It lets LLMs and AI agents interact with Balance's APIs ...

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Balance Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Balance Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: balance
name: Balance
description: Balance is a financial infrastructure platform for B2B commerce that lets merchants and marketplaces accept payments,
  offer net-terms financing (digital trade credit / B2B BNPL), and automate order-to-cash accounts-receivable operations.
  Its APIs power embedded, customizable buyer journeys, advanced and consolidated billing, split payments, and AI-powered
  credit-risk management, covering the full B2B flow from checkout through invoicing, financing, and reconciliation. Balance
  ships pre-built integrations for platforms including Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, and Salesforce Commerce, plus marketplace
  solutions, and exposes a v2 REST API documented on a developer portal. The company was surfaced as a portfolio company of
  Forerunner Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ribbit Capital, and Techstars, and is profiled in the API Evangelist network.
  Card processing runs through Stripe (PCI DSS Service Provider Level 1); Balance publishes a security policy, status page,
  monthly product-update changelog, and a beta Model Context Protocol server for agentic commerce.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/balance/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- forerunner-ventures
- lightspeed-venture-partners
- ribbit-capital
- techstars
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://files.readme.io/b57e38a-small-Frame_2_4.png
tags:
- Company
- Fintech
- Payments
- B2B Payments
- Accounts Receivable
- Net Terms
- Trade Credit
- BNPL
- Billing
- Embedded Finance
apis:
- name: Balance API v2
  description: Balance's v2 REST API for B2B payments, net-terms financing, invoicing, and accounts-receivable automation.
    Reference documentation is hosted on a password-gated ReadMe.io portal (access requested via the Get API page).
  humanURL: https://docs.getbalance.com
  baseURL: https://api.getbalance.com
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getbalance.com
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.getbalance.com
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.getbalance.com/get-api
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://getbalance.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.getbalance.com/get-api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.getbalance.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.getbalance.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.getbalance.com/contact-us/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.getbalance.com/get-api
- type: Login
  url: https://dashboard.getbalance.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.getbalance.com/legal/balance-website-terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.getbalance.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.getbalance.com
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/balance-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/balance-lifecycle.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/balance-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/balance-mcp.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.getbalance.com/legal/security-policy
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/balance-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/balance-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/balance-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.getbalance.com/legal/security-policy
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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