Buy Me a Coffee

Buy Me a Coffee is a creator-support platform that lets fans tip creators ("buy a coffee"), subscribe to recurring memberships, and buy extras from a creator's shop. Its developer API is a read-only REST interface (base https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/api/v1) authenticated with a personal access Bearer token created self-serve in the Developer Dashboard. The API exposes a creator's own one-time supporters, memberships/subscriptions, and extra purchases, and the platform also delivers server-push webhooks for donation, membership, and shop events. Buy Me a Coffee charges a flat 5% platform fee on transactions with no monthly fee.

Buy Me a Coffee publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Extras API, Subscriptions API, and Supporters API. Tagged areas include Creator Economy, Memberships, Subscriptions, Tips, and Payments.

Buy Me a Coffee’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 7 more developer resources.

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34.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9

AccessPaidSelf serve

4 APIs

Creator EconomyMembershipsSubscriptionsTipsPaymentsDonations

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9

Composite quality — 34.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 15.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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

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APIs 4

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

Buy Me a Coffee Webhooks

Server-push HTTP webhooks configured in the dashboard (Integrations - New webhook). Buy Me a Coffee POSTs a JSON event envelope to a subscriber URL for donation, membership / re...

Buy Me a Coffee Extras API

Extras purchases (shop items and rewards). BETA.

Buy Me a Coffee Subscriptions API

Recurring memberships / subscriptions (members).

Buy Me a Coffee Supporters API

One-time supporters (tips / coffees) and their messages.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Buy Me a Coffee API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Buymeacoffee Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Buymeacoffee Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Buymeacoffee Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Buymeacoffee Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Buymeacoffee Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Buymeacoffee Agentic Access

6 operations

6 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: buymeacoffee
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/buymeacoffee/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Buy Me a Coffee
kind: company
description: Buy Me a Coffee is a creator-support platform that lets fans tip creators ("buy a coffee"), subscribe to recurring
  memberships, and buy extras from a creator's shop. Its developer API is a read-only REST interface (base https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/api/v1)
  authenticated with a personal access Bearer token created self-serve in the Developer Dashboard. The API exposes a creator's
  own one-time supporters, memberships/subscriptions, and extra purchases, and the platform also delivers server-push webhooks
  for donation, membership, and shop events. Buy Me a Coffee charges a flat 5% platform fee on transactions with no monthly
  fee.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/buymeacoffee.png
tags:
- Creator Economy
- Memberships
- Subscriptions
- Tips
- Payments
- Donations
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-07-05'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: buymeacoffee:buymeacoffee-webhooks-api
  name: Buy Me a Coffee Webhooks
  tags:
  - Webhooks
  - Events
  - Notifications
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://help.buymeacoffee.com/en/articles/15743173-how-to-setup-and-use-buy-me-a-coffee-webhooks
  baseURL: https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/api/v1
  properties:
  - url: https://help.buymeacoffee.com/en/articles/15743173-how-to-setup-and-use-buy-me-a-coffee-webhooks
    type: Documentation
  description: Server-push HTTP webhooks configured in the dashboard (Integrations - New webhook). Buy Me a Coffee POSTs a
    JSON event envelope to a subscriber URL for donation, membership / recurring-donation, extra purchase, commission, and
    wishlist events. Each request is signed with an HMAC-SHA256 signature in the x-signature-sha256 header. This is server-to-endpoint
    HTTP, not a WebSocket.
- aid: buymeacoffee:buymeacoffee-extras-api
  name: Buy Me a Coffee Extras API
  description: Extras purchases (shop items and rewards). BETA.
  humanURL: https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/
  baseURL: https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Extras
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/buymeacoffee-extras-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/buymeacoffee.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/buymeacoffee.opencollection.json
- aid: buymeacoffee:buymeacoffee-subscriptions-api
  name: Buy Me a Coffee Subscriptions API
  description: Recurring memberships / subscriptions (members).
  humanURL: https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/
  baseURL: https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Subscriptions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/buymeacoffee-subscriptions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/buymeacoffee.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/buymeacoffee.opencollection.json
- aid: buymeacoffee:buymeacoffee-supporters-api
  name: Buy Me a Coffee Supporters API
  description: One-time supporters (tips / coffees) and their messages.
  humanURL: https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/
  baseURL: https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Supporters
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/buymeacoffee-supporters-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/buymeacoffee.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/buymeacoffee.opencollection.json
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/buymeacoffee-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/buymeacoffee-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/buymeacoffee-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/buymeacoffee
- type: Website
  url: https://www.buymeacoffee.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/buymeacoffee-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/buymeacoffee-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/buymeacoffee-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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