Ebates

Ebates is a consumer cash-back and rebate shopping platform founded in 2000 in San Francisco that pays members a percentage of their purchases back as cash when they shop through its links at thousands of partner retailers. Rakuten acquired Ebates in 2014 and rebranded the U.S. service as Rakuten Rewards in 2019; the ebates.com domain now redirects to rakuten.com. The business is a consumer-facing rewards and affiliate-commerce brand and does not operate an independent public developer API program. It was surfaced as a portfolio company of Canaan Partners and added to the API Evangelist network for enrichment.

Ebates is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Cash Back, Rewards, Shopping, and E-Commerce.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyCash BackRewardsShoppingE-CommerceAffiliateRetailConsumer

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ebates
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ebates.png
name: Ebates
description: Ebates is a consumer cash-back and rebate shopping platform founded in 2000 in San Francisco that pays members
  a percentage of their purchases back as cash when they shop through its links at thousands of partner retailers. Rakuten
  acquired Ebates in 2014 and rebranded the U.S. service as Rakuten Rewards in 2019; the ebates.com domain now redirects to
  rakuten.com. The business is a consumer-facing rewards and affiliate-commerce brand and does not operate an independent
  public developer API program. It was surfaced as a portfolio company of Canaan Partners and added to the API Evangelist
  network for enrichment.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ebates/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- canaan-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Cash Back
- Rewards
- Shopping
- E-Commerce
- Affiliate
- Retail
- Consumer
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ebates-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.rakuten.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Ebates

Kin Score

Security Posture 1

Ebates Domain Security

Resources

Access & Security 1

Company 1

Source (apis.yml)