# bKash

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bkash/  
**Website:** https://developer.bka.sh/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

bKash is Bangladesh's largest mobile financial services (MFS) provider, offering a Payment Gateway (PGW) that lets online and mobile merchants accept bKash wallet payments through secure REST APIs. The developer platform (developer.bka.sh, public beta "Inferno Dragon") documents Checkout (hosted iframe/URL), Tokenized Checkout (agreement-based PIN-only payments), Instant Payout (B2C disbursement), Add Wallet, Auth and Capture, Subscriptions, and real-time webhook Instant Payment Notifications. Integration follows a token-based flow — Grant Token, Create Payment, Execute Payment, Query, Refund — with a self-service sandbox (service-name.sandbox.bka.sh) and production (service-name.pay.bka.sh) environments. bKash is a portfolio company associated with the SoftBank Vision Fund and is majority owned by BRAC Bank, with investment from Ant Group, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and IFC.

## Kin Score — 32.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 42.7 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 32.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 25.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **bKash Payment Gateway (PGW)** — REST API for accepting bKash payments — token-based auth (Grant/Refresh Token), Checkout and Tokenized Checkout (create/execute/query payment, create/execute agreement), Refund,...

## MCP servers (1)

- **bKash MCP Server** — Candidate MCP server tool surface derived from bKash Payment Gateway documented operations. bKash publishes no official hosted/remote MCP server; this is a starting point (not a...

## Security (2)

- **Bkash Authentication** — token/apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Bkash Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Tags

Company, Fintech, Payments, Payment Gateway, Mobile Financial Services, Digital Wallet, Bangladesh, Checkout, Webhook

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/bkash/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.