# Catnip

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/catnip/  
**Website:** https://chatfuel.com  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Catnip Inc is the company behind Chatfuel, an AI-powered business messaging and chatbot automation platform for WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, TikTok and an embeddable website chat widget. Chatfuel lets businesses and agencies build conversational flows, run Meta click-to-WhatsApp ad funnels, qualify leads, book appointments and automate customer support with AI agents. Its developer surface is small and shrinking: the only currently documented API is a Contacts API that bulk-imports up to 1,000 phone numbers into an automation using a Bearer token from Settings, while the older Broadcasting API on api.chatfuel.com and Dashboard API on dashboard.chatfuel.com remain live on the wire but lost their documentation when the docs.chatfuel.com developer help centre was retired. Chatfuel publishes no OpenAPI, but it does serve an llms.txt and a real remote MCP documentation server on its academy docs host.

## Kin Score — 44.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: rising (+17.4 from 27.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 12.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 52.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 60.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 73.7 |

## Agent readiness — 30.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | yes |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **Chatfuel Contacts API** — Bulk-create WhatsApp contacts inside a Chatfuel automation. POST a list of up to 1,000 E.164 phone numbers plus a contact_data.properties map of custom attributes applied to eve...
- **Chatfuel Broadcasting API** — Programmatically send messages and trigger flows/blocks to a specific bot user on Messenger, Instagram, or WhatsApp. POST to the send endpoint with the bot's unique chatfuel_tok...
- **Chatfuel Dashboard API** — Manage Chatfuel bots and their Facebook page bindings. Create empty bots, clone content between bots, generate role-scoped invite links (ADMIN, EDITOR, MARKETER, OPERATOR, VIEWE...

## MCP servers (1)

- **catnip-mcp.yml**

## Security (2)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Catnip Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Chatbots, Messaging, Conversational AI, Marketing Automation, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Customer Engagement, Lead Qualification

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