Boku

Boku is a global mobile payments network that connects digital merchants to more than 200 local payment methods — mobile wallets, real-time account-to-account bank transfers, and direct carrier billing — across 70+ countries, reaching over 7 billion payment accounts. Through its Boku Direct payment gateway API, merchants such as Epic Games, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Sony, Spotify, and Tencent accept local payments, run subscriptions, and settle globally. Boku processes over $9 billion in payments annually and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange (LON:BOKU).

Boku publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Mobile Payments, Carrier Billing, and Digital Wallets.

Boku’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, engineering blog, support, and 8 more developer resources.

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19.7/100 emerging Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
1 APIs 0 Features
CompanyPaymentsMobile PaymentsCarrier BillingDigital WalletsLocal Payment MethodsSubscriptionsFintech

API Rating

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scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
Composite quality — 19.7/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 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
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APIs

Boku Direct - Payment Gateway API

Boku Direct is Boku's payment gateway API for accepting local payment methods — mobile wallets, account-to-account transfers, and direct carrier billing — with support for one-o...

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal

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

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 Security
Security

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 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: boku
name: Boku
description: Boku is a global mobile payments network that connects digital merchants to more than 200 local payment methods
  — mobile wallets, real-time account-to-account bank transfers, and direct carrier billing — across 70+ countries, reaching
  over 7 billion payment accounts. Through its Boku Direct payment gateway API, merchants such as Epic Games, Google, Meta,
  Microsoft, Netflix, Sony, Spotify, and Tencent accept local payments, run subscriptions, and settle globally. Boku processes
  over $9 billion in payments annually and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange (LON:BOKU).
image: https://developer.boku.com/json/static/images/boku-logo.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/boku/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Mobile Payments
- Carrier Billing
- Digital Wallets
- Local Payment Methods
- Subscriptions
- Fintech
apis:
- name: Boku Direct - Payment Gateway API
  description: Boku Direct is Boku's payment gateway API for accepting local payment methods — mobile wallets, account-to-account
    transfers, and direct carrier billing — with support for one-off charges, subscriptions, refunds, and settlement across
    70+ countries. The reference is published as a hosted developer portal at developer.boku.com; the machine-readable specification
    is not exposed as a public OpenAPI download at the time of enrichment.
  humanURL: https://developer.boku.com
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Mobile Payments
  - Carrier Billing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boku.com
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boku.com/json/index.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/boku-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/boku-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.boku.com/boku-bug-bounty-program
- type: Website
  url: https://www.boku.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.boku.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.boku.com
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.boku.com/json/index.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.boku.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.boku.com/contact-us
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.boku.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.boku.com/payments-privacy-notice
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/boku-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence