FREE NOW

FREE NOW is one of Europe's leading multi-mobility "super apps," letting riders book taxis and private-hire vehicles and, in many cities, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, carsharing and public-transport tickets from a single application. Founded in Hamburg in 2009 as mytaxi and rebranded FREE NOW in 2019, the company operates across nine European countries and 150+ cities. It ran as part of the YOUR NOW mobility joint venture between Mercedes-Benz and BMW and was acquired by Lyft. FREE NOW exposes a partner/business integration API (FREE NOW for Business) through a password-gated developer portal at developer.free-now.com, and maintains an active open-source presence — including the Wave design system — under the freenowtech GitHub organization.

FREE NOW publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Mobility, Ride Hailing, Transportation, Taxi, and Mobility as a Service.

FREE NOW’s developer surface includes documentation and 5 more developer resources.

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13.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

1 APIs

MobilityRide HailingTransportationTaxiMobility as a ServiceTravelBusinessCompany

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 13.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.5 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 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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APIs 1

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

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: free-now
name: FREE NOW
description: FREE NOW is one of Europe's leading multi-mobility "super apps," letting riders book taxis and private-hire vehicles
  and, in many cities, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, carsharing and public-transport tickets from a single application. Founded
  in Hamburg in 2009 as mytaxi and rebranded FREE NOW in 2019, the company operates across nine European countries and 150+
  cities. It ran as part of the YOUR NOW mobility joint venture between Mercedes-Benz and BMW and was acquired by Lyft. FREE
  NOW exposes a partner/business integration API (FREE NOW for Business) through a password-gated developer portal at developer.free-now.com,
  and maintains an active open-source presence — including the Wave design system — under the freenowtech GitHub organization.
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x-backed-by:
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x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://files.readme.io/f5802fbd8046f4b841ab21706d09fa58a367d71d98943dcab195e97559445764-small-favicon.png
tags:
- Mobility
- Ride Hailing
- Transportation
- Taxi
- Mobility as a Service
- Travel
- Business
- Company
apis:
- name: FREE NOW Partner API
  description: FREE NOW's partner and business integration API, documented through a password-gated ReadMe developer portal
    and served from the api.free-now.com gateway. Access is granted to approved FREE NOW for Business and integration partners;
    the reference is not publicly available.
  humanURL: https://developer.free-now.com/
  baseURL: https://api.free-now.com
  tags:
  - Mobility
  - Ride Hailing
  - Partner API
  properties:
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.free-now.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.free-now.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.free-now.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.free-now.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.free-now.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/freenowtech
- type: Packages
  url: packages/free-now-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/free-now-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

FREE NOW

Kin Score

APIs 1

FREE NOW Partner API

Security Posture 1

Free Now Domain Security

Resources