# HitchPin

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/hitchpin/  
**Website:** https://www.hitchpin.com  
**APIs profiled:** 3

HitchPin is an online marketplace for the agriculture and rural economy, connecting farmers, ranchers, and rural businesses to buy and sell hay and forage, grain, cattle and livestock, farm and ranch equipment, trailers, land, and custom agricultural services. Sellers operate branded storefronts, send instant invoices, and collect payment, while buyers browse and purchase listings across the United States. HitchPin publishes public OpenAPI 3.1 definitions for its marketplace and instant-invoicing service, a receipt-rendering service, and a URL-shortcode service on GitHub. The company is backed by Foundry Group.

## Kin Score — 31.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.1 from 29.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 51.6 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 30.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 6.6 |
| Access Clarity | 6.6 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 26.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 37.0 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **HitchPin instant-invoice-share API** — Invoices shared with a buyer.
- **HitchPin instant-invoices API** — Invoices created by a seller.
- **HitchPin rendering API** — The rendering API from HitchPin — 3 operation(s) for rendering.

## MCP servers (1)

- **HitchPin MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Hitchpin Agentic Access** — 11 operations · 7 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Hitchpin Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Hitchpin Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Marketplace, Agriculture, Livestock, Hay and Forage, Farm Equipment, Invoicing, Payments, Rural

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