# Cleartax

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cleartax/  
**Website:** https://docs.cleartax.in/cleartax-docs  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Cleartax (operating as Clear, clear.in) is an Indian fintech and financial-compliance automation platform that provides tax, GST, and e-invoicing software for individuals, tax professionals, and over 4,000 enterprises. Clear exposes a suite of developer APIs through its documentation portal at docs.cleartax.in, including the Clear Finance Cloud (CFC) ingestion APIs, the GST 2.0 / GSP filing API, the Max ITC input-tax-credit reconciliation API, the GLS API, the E-Invoicing and E-Waybill APIs (with government IRP/NIC-compatible endpoints and DSC signing), the Invoicing API, and KSA (Saudi Arabia) e-invoicing APIs. APIs authenticate with a client secret exchanged for an access token and run against production (api.clear.in) and sandbox (api-sandbox.clear.in) hosts.

## Kin Score — 36.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 48.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 5.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| 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 (5)

- **Clear E-Invoicing & E-Waybill API** — Generate, cancel, and retrieve GST e-invoices (IRN) and e-waybills, including government IRP/NIC-compatible endpoints, DSC PDF signing, and bulk operations.
- **Clear GST 2.0 API** — ASP/GSP GST filing API for uploading documents and filing G1-G9 returns via Clear's GST Suvidha Provider integration.
- **Clear Finance Cloud (CFC) API** — Document ingestion APIs for sale and purchase documents via file upload (pre-signed URL) with access-token authentication and ingestion-status tracking.
- **Clear Max ITC API** — Input Tax Credit (ITC) reconciliation API: upload purchase documents, trigger the Max ITC workflow, and fetch reconciliation results.
- **Clear Invoicing API** — Create sale and non-sale documents, download document PDFs, and retrieve document details for invoicing workflows.

## Security (3)

- **Cleartax Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Cleartax Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Cleartax Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Tax, GST, E-Invoicing, Compliance, Fintech, Accounting, India, Financial Automation, Government

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