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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 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Charges API, Checkouts API, and Events API. 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 13 more developer resources.

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52.7/100 developing ▼ -7.0 Agent 42/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessPaidSelf serve
3 APIs
Crypto PaymentsCryptocurrencyPayment GatewayCommerceBitcoinEthereumUSDCWebhooksChargesCheckouts

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 52.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 42/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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 0 / 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
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APIs 3

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

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

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 API 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

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

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
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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'
tags:
- 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:
  - 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:
  - 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
common:
- 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