# Carry1st

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/carry1st/  
**Website:** https://www.carry1st.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 32.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (-0.5 from 32.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 22.9 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 27.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 39.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 35.4 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| 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 (4)

- **Carry1st Authentication API** — Obtain and refresh access tokens for Gateway API requests.
- **Carry1st Payment Methods API** — Discover the local payment methods available per country.
- **Carry1st Payments API** — Create payment requests and query their status.
- **Carry1st Refunds API** — Request refunds against processed transactions.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Carry1st MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Carry1St Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 4 acting

## Security (2)

- **Carry1St Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Carry1St Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Payments, Payment Gateway, Fintech, Gaming, Mobile Games, Africa, Digital Commerce, Merchant of Record, Games Publishing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/carry1st/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.