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 is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Mobile Payments, Carrier Billing, and Digital Wallet.

Boku’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, API reference, support, and 10 more developer resources.

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17.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Company Payments Mobile Payments Carrier Billing Digital Wallet Local Payment Methods Subscription Fintech

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 17.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

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 Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 33.3 — up to +13.3 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Gulf and Southeast Asia Open Finance	regulated	55.6	-	-
Mobile SDK Publishers (Play SDK Index, CocoaPods, ADA certification)	regulated	55.6	-	-
Brazil BCB Authorized Institutions (Banco Central do Brasil register beyond Pix)	regulated	55.6	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 1

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

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...

Security Posture 2

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

Boku Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Boku Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

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 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

BlogRSS

Website

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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).
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
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: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Mobile Payments
- Carrier Billing
- Digital Wallet
- Local Payment Methods
- Subscription
- Fintech
tags_raw:
- 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:
- url: https://www.boku.com/blog/
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.boku.com/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- 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

Boku API — frequently asked questions

Does Boku have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Boku, including Boku Direct - Payment Gateway API.

Is the Boku API ready for AI agents?

Boku has a Kin Score of 17.7 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.0 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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