Carry1st

Carry1st is Africa's leading mobile games publisher and digital commerce platform, headquartered in South Africa and operating across high-growth African markets including Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Egypt, and Morocco. Beyond publishing and distributing mobile games from partners such as Riot Games, Activision, and Supercell, Carry1st operates Pay1st, a payment gateway that lets digital-content and game developers accept payments through 120+ local payment methods across six African geographies. Pay1st offers a single unified API, acts as Merchant of Record (handling compliance, taxation, FX, and risk so businesses collect in USD), and supports hosted-payment, game-client, and Carry1st Shop marketplace integration styles. Carry1st is backed by a16z. This profile was enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline from the public Pay1st developer documentation.

Carry1st publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Pay1st Gateway API. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Payment Gateway, Fintech, and Gaming.

The Carry1st catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Carry1st’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, changelog, authentication, and 21 more developer resources.

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48.3/100 developing Agent 84/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers 0 Features
CompanyPaymentsPayment GatewayFintechGamingMobile GamesAfricaDigital CommerceMerchant of RecordGames Publishing

API Rating

API Evangelist API Evangelist Rating How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
Composite quality — 48.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 14.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 84/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs

Pay1st Gateway API

The Pay1st Gateway API lets partners authenticate, list local payment methods per country, create signed payment requests, query payment status, and issue refunds across 120+ Af...

MCP Servers

carry1st-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Arazzo Workflows

_Index

ARAZZO

Pay1st - collect a payment

Authenticate, create a signed payment request, and confirm the payment status.

ARAZZO

Event Specifications

Carry1St Pay1St Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Sandbox
Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 8

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Idempotency
Idempotency
 Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conformance
Conformance
 DataModel
DataModel
 Webhooks
Webhooks
 Arazzo
Arazzo

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Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages
Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 Deprecation
Deprecation

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: carry1st
name: Carry1st
description: Carry1st is Africa's leading mobile games publisher and digital commerce platform, headquartered in South Africa
  and operating across high-growth African markets including Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Egypt, and Morocco. Beyond
  publishing and distributing mobile games from partners such as Riot Games, Activision, and Supercell, Carry1st operates
  Pay1st, a payment gateway that lets digital-content and game developers accept payments through 120+ local payment methods
  across six African geographies. Pay1st offers a single unified API, acts as Merchant of Record (handling compliance, taxation,
  FX, and risk so businesses collect in USD), and supports hosted-payment, game-client, and Carry1st Shop marketplace integration
  styles. Carry1st is backed by a16z. This profile was enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline from the public Pay1st developer
  documentation.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/carry1st/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-enriched
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.carry1st.com/favicon.ico
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Payment Gateway
- Fintech
- Gaming
- Mobile Games
- Africa
- Digital Commerce
- Merchant of Record
- Games Publishing
apis:
- name: Pay1st Gateway API
  description: The Pay1st Gateway API lets partners authenticate, list local payment methods per country, create signed payment
    requests, query payment status, and issue refunds across 120+ African payment methods, with Carry1st acting as Merchant
    of Record.
  humanURL: https://pay1st-docs.carry1st.com/
  baseURL: https://api-gateway.carry1st.com
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Payment Gateway
  - Africa
  - Fintech
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/carry1st-pay1st-gateway-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pay1st-docs.carry1st.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://pay1st-docs.carry1st.com/reference/gateway-api-overview
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://pay1st-docs.carry1st.com/reference/gateway-integration-step-by-step-checklist
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/carry1st-authentication.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/carry1st-sandbox.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/carry1st-conventions.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/carry1st-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/carry1st-problem-types.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/carry1st-pay1st-webhooks.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/carry1st-data-model.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/carry1st-pay1st-gateway-overlay.yaml
  - type: AgenticAccess
    url: agentic-access/carry1st-agentic-access.yml
common:
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://pay1st-docs.carry1st.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://pay1st-docs.carry1st.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://pay1st-docs.carry1st.com/reference/gateway-api-overview
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://pay1st-docs.carry1st.com/reference/gateway-integration-step-by-step-checklist
- type: Website
  url: https://www.carry1st.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.carry1st.com/blog
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.carry1st.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.carry1st.com/privacy-policy
- type: Support
  url: https://www.carry1st.com/contact
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/carry1st-changelog.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/carry1st-authentication.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/carry1st-conventions.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/carry1st-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/carry1st-problem-types.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/carry1st-sandbox.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/carry1st-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://pay1st-docs.carry1st.com/reference/gateway-migration-guide
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/carry1st-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/carry1st-conformance.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/carry1st-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/carry1st-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/carry1st-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/carry1st-packages.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/carry1st-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/carry1st-pay1st-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/carry1st-agentic-access.yml
- type: Arazzo
  name: Pay1st - collect a payment
  url: arazzo/carry1st-collect-payment.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence