# Coinbase Commerce

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/commerce-coinbase/  
**Website:** https://commerce.coinbase.com  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 44.9 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 69.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 42.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 46.9 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (3)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Commerce Coinbase Agentic Access** — 12 operations · 6 acting

## Security (3)

- **Commerce Coinbase Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Commerce Coinbase Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Commerce Coinbase Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Crypto Payments, Cryptocurrency, Payment Gateway, Commerce, Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, Webhook, Charges, Checkouts

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