Frame Payments

Frame Payments is a payments and compliance platform ("operating system") for high-compliance and high-risk merchants across regulated verticals including travel, crypto, telemedicine, gaming, gambling, the creator economy, and AI businesses. The frameOS platform unifies payments, payouts, KYC/KYB, identity verification, fraud detection (Sonar), geocompliance, disputes, subscriptions, and usage-based billing behind one REST API at api.framepayments.com/v1. Frame ships backend SDKs (Node, PHP, Ruby), mobile SDKs (iOS, Android, React Native), the Frame.js browser SDK with embeddable elements, a sandbox-only CLI, and HMAC-signed webhooks. Backed by Techstars.

Frame Payments publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Financial Services, Fintech, and KYC.

The Frame Payments catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Frame Payments’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, pricing, signup flow, CLI, and 20 more developer resources.

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42.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 37/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs

CompanyPaymentsFinancial ServicesFintechKYCComplianceFraud DetectionBillingPayoutsIdentity Verification

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 42.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 5.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 15.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 37/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs 1

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

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Components

Conventions

Idempotency

Webhooks

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

Scroll for all 7

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

DeclineCodes

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: frame-payments
name: Frame Payments
description: Frame Payments is a payments and compliance platform ("operating system") for high-compliance and high-risk merchants
  across regulated verticals including travel, crypto, telemedicine, gaming, gambling, the creator economy, and AI businesses.
  The frameOS platform unifies payments, payouts, KYC/KYB, identity verification, fraud detection (Sonar), geocompliance,
  disputes, subscriptions, and usage-based billing behind one REST API at api.framepayments.com/v1. Frame ships backend SDKs
  (Node, PHP, Ruby), mobile SDKs (iOS, Android, React Native), the Frame.js browser SDK with embeddable elements, a sandbox-only
  CLI, and HMAC-signed webhooks. Backed by Techstars.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/frame-payments/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://framerusercontent.com/images/ZuP5qavgwprrdI5GSuMK3zq6P0.jpg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- KYC
- Compliance
- Fraud Detection
- Billing
- Payouts
- Identity Verification
apis:
- name: Frame API
  description: The Frame REST API for payments, payouts, accounts, KYC/identity, disputes, subscriptions, invoices, and usage-based
    billing. Bearer secret-key auth over HTTPS; page-based pagination; HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks.
  humanURL: https://docs.framepayments.com/
  baseURL: https://api.framepayments.com/v1
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.framepayments.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.framepayments.com/api-reference/overview
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.framepayments.com/getting-started/quickstart
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://framepayments.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.framepayments.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.framepayments.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.framepayments.com/api-reference/overview
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.framepayments.com/getting-started/quickstart
- type: Support
  url: https://help.framepayments.com
- type: Pricing
  url: https://framepayments.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.framepayments.com
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://framepayments.com/legal/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://framepayments.com/legal/privacy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Frame-Payments
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/frame-payments-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/frame-payments-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/frame-payments-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/frame-payments-cli.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/frame-payments-components.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/frame-payments-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/frame-payments-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/frame-payments-conventions.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/frame-payments-sandbox.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/frame-payments-webhooks.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/frame-payments-problem-types.yml
- type: DeclineCodes
  url: errors/frame-payments-decline-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/frame-payments-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/frame-payments-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/frame-payments-domain-security.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Frame Payments

Kin Score

APIs 1

Frame API

Event Specifications 1

Frame Payments Webhooks

Security Posture 2

Frame Payments Authentication

Frame Payments Domain Security

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