Coinbase Commerce

Coinbase Commerce is a merchant crypto payment solution enabling businesses to accept cryptocurrency payments natively. The platform provides a REST API for creating payment charges, managing hosted checkouts, accessing payment metadata, configuring webhooks, and tracking crypto payment status across charge lifecycle events. Supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, and other major cryptocurrencies with 1% per-transaction fees and no monthly or setup costs.

Coinbase Commerce publishes 13 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Charges API, Checkouts API, Events API, and 10 more. Tagged areas include Crypto Payments, Cryptocurrency, Payment Gateway, Commerce, and Bitcoin.

The Coinbase Commerce catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Coinbase Commerce’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, support, and 14 more developer resources.

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41.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 43/100 agent ready Front door AI 3/6 light saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessPaid

3 published contracts

Crypto Payments Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway Commerce Bitcoin Ethereum USDC Webhook Charges Checkout

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 41.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 11.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 15

Access Clarity 3.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 43/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Contract Governance scores 9.8 — up to +10.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 46.4 — up to +10.7 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 13

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

Coinbase Commerce Charges API

Create and retrieve crypto payment charges

Coinbase Commerce Checkouts API

Create and manage single-use hosted payment checkouts

Coinbase Commerce Events API

Retrieve charge-related webhook events

Coinbase Commerce Webhooks API

Checkout lifecycle event notifications

Coinbase Commerce Account Management API

The Account Management API from Coinbase Commerce — 17 operation(s) for account management.

Coinbase Commerce Authentication API

The Authentication API from Coinbase Commerce — 2 operation(s) for authentication.

Coinbase Commerce Combo Books API

The Combo Books API from Coinbase Commerce — 5 operation(s) for combo books.

Coinbase Commerce Market Data API

The Market Data API from Coinbase Commerce — 30 operation(s) for market data.

Coinbase Commerce Session Management API

The Session Management API from Coinbase Commerce — 5 operation(s) for session management.

Coinbase Commerce Subscription Management API

Subscription works as [notifications](#notifications), so users will automatically (after subscribing) receive messages from the server. Overview for each channel response forma...

Coinbase Commerce Supporting API

The Supporting API from Coinbase Commerce — 4 operation(s) for supporting.

Coinbase Commerce Trading API

The Trading API from Coinbase Commerce — 32 operation(s) for trading.

Coinbase Commerce Wallet API

The Wallet API from Coinbase Commerce — 1 operation(s) for wallet.

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Open Collections 3

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

Coinbase Commerce Charges API

OPEN COLLECTION

Coinbase Commerce Charges Checkouts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Coinbase Commerce Charges Events API

OPEN COLLECTION

Coinbase Commerce API pricing

Not yet checked against Coinbase Commerce's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Standard Merchant	—
Enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Coinbase Commerce

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

context Context

11 classes · 38 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Coinbase Commerce — jsonschema rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Charge

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Checkout

21 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 5

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Charge Response

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Checkout Response

14 fields

EXAMPLE

Create Charge Request

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Create Checkout Request

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Webhook Checkout Payment Success

15 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

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

Commerce Coinbase Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Commerce Coinbase Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Commerce Coinbase Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Commerce Coinbase Agentic Access

12 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

MigrationGuide

MigrationGuide

WebhooksDocumentation

WebhooksDocumentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

name: Coinbase Commerce
description: Coinbase Commerce is a merchant crypto payment solution enabling businesses to accept cryptocurrency payments
  natively. The platform provides a REST API for creating payment charges, managing hosted checkouts, accessing payment metadata,
  configuring webhooks, and tracking crypto payment status across charge lifecycle events. Supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC,
  and other major cryptocurrencies with 1% per-transaction fees and no monthly or setup costs.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/commerce-coinbase.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/commerce-coinbase/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
version: '0.19'
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-24
tags:
- Crypto Payments
- Cryptocurrency
- Payment Gateway
- Commerce
- Bitcoin
- Ethereum
- USDC
- Webhook
- Charges
- Checkout
tags_raw:
- Crypto Payments
- Cryptocurrency
- Payment Gateway
- Commerce
- Bitcoin
- Ethereum
- USDC
- Webhooks
- Charges
- Checkouts
apis:
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-charges-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Charges API
  description: Create and retrieve crypto payment charges
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Charges
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-charges-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/coinbase-business/checkout-apis/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/api-reference/business-api/rest-api/checkouts/list-checkouts
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-checkouts-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Checkouts API
  description: Create and manage single-use hosted payment checkouts
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Checkout
  tags_raw:
  - Checkouts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-checkouts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/coinbase-business/checkout-apis/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/api-reference/business-api/rest-api/checkouts/list-checkouts
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-events-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Events API
  description: Retrieve charge-related webhook events
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Event
  tags_raw:
  - Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/coinbase-business/checkout-apis/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/api-reference/business-api/rest-api/checkouts/list-checkouts
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-webhooks-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Webhooks API
  description: Checkout lifecycle event notifications
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-account-management-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Account Management API
  description: The Account Management API from Coinbase Commerce — 17 operation(s) for account management.
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Account Management
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-account-management-api-openapi.yml
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-authentication-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Authentication API
  description: The Authentication API from Coinbase Commerce — 2 operation(s) for authentication.
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-authentication-api-openapi.yml
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-combo-books-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Combo Books API
  description: The Combo Books API from Coinbase Commerce — 5 operation(s) for combo books.
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Combo Books
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-combo-books-api-openapi.yml
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-market-data-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Market Data API
  description: The Market Data API from Coinbase Commerce — 30 operation(s) for market data.
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Market Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-market-data-api-openapi.yml
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-session-management-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Session Management API
  description: The Session Management API from Coinbase Commerce — 5 operation(s) for session management.
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Session Management
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-session-management-api-openapi.yml
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-subscription-management-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Subscription Management API
  description: Subscription works as [notifications](#notifications), so users will automatically (after subscribing) receive
    messages from the server. Overview for each channel response format is described in [subscriptions](#subscriptions) section.
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Subscription Management
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-subscription-management-api-openapi.yml
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-supporting-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Supporting API
  description: The Supporting API from Coinbase Commerce — 4 operation(s) for supporting.
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Supporting
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-supporting-api-openapi.yml
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-trading-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Trading API
  description: The Trading API from Coinbase Commerce — 32 operation(s) for trading.
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Trading
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-trading-api-openapi.yml
- aid: commerce-coinbase:commerce-coinbase-wallet-api
  name: Coinbase Commerce Wallet API
  description: The Wallet API from Coinbase Commerce — 1 operation(s) for wallet.
  humanURL: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.commerce.coinbase.com
  tags:
  - Wallets
  tags_raw:
  - Wallet
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commerce-coinbase-wallet-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/coinbase-commerce/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/commerce-coinbase-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/commerce-coinbase-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/commerce-coinbase-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/commerce-coinbase-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://commerce.coinbase.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/coinbase-business/checkout-apis/overview
- type: Documentation
  url: https://commerce.coinbase.com/docs/api
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.coinbase.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://help.coinbase.com/en/commerce/getting-started/fees
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://commerce.coinbase.com/legal/user-agreement
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.coinbase.com/legal/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.coinbase.com
- type: Support
  url: https://help.coinbase.com/en/commerce
- type: MigrationGuide
  url: https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/coinbase-business/checkout-apis/migrate-from-commerce/api-schema-mapping
- type: WebhooksDocumentation
  url: https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/commerce/docs/using-webhooks
- type: Plans
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/commerce-coinbase/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/commerce-coinbase/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/commerce-coinbase/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Coinbase Commerce API — frequently asked questions

Does Coinbase Commerce have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 13 APIs from Coinbase Commerce, including Coinbase Commerce Charges API, Coinbase Commerce Checkouts API and Coinbase Commerce Events API, and 10 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Coinbase Commerce API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 13 OpenAPI specifications for Coinbase Commerce, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Coinbase Commerce API?

Coinbase Commerce uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Commerce Coinbase Authentication.

How much does the Coinbase Commerce API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Coinbase Commerce, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Coinbase Commerce API ready for AI agents?

Coinbase Commerce has a Kin Score of 41.0 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 42.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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