Ibotta

Ibotta is a Denver-based consumer technology company (NYSE: IBTA) that operates a cash-back rewards platform and the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN), a digital promotions and retail-media network. Consumers earn real cash back on everyday purchases in-store and online through the Ibotta mobile app, browser extension, and connected retailer loyalty accounts. For brands, agencies, and retailers, the Ibotta Performance Network distributes digital rebates and promotions to more than 200 million shoppers across Ibotta's owned properties and a network of partner retailers and publishers (including Walmart, Dollar General, Family Dollar, and others). Ibotta was surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of GGV Capital. Ibotta publishes exactly one machine-readable API contract: the Ibotta Product API (an OpenAPI 3.0.1 document at ibotta.com/bex-api/api-docs.json), declared by the ChatGPT plugin manifest Ibotta still serves at ibotta.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json — a single product-search operation backing the Ibotta browser extension, gated by a service bearer token that is not self-serve. The Ibotta Performance Network APIs that partners actually integrate against are documented only inside the IPN partner portal (portal.ipn.ibotta.com), which is behind Auth0 and reached through a sales conversation; no public IPN API reference, pricing, or rate-limit documentation exists.

Ibotta publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: Openai API. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Cashback, Rewards, and Retail Media.

The Ibotta catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Ibotta’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, documentation, getting-started guide, and 21 more developer resources.

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33.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 71/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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2 published contracts 1 Agent Skills

Company Consumer Cashback Rewards Retail Media Coupons Loyalty Shopping Advertising Promotions Product Search Retail Affiliates Consumer Packaged Goods

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 33.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.2 / 17

Access Clarity 1.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 6.6 — up to +18.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 43.5 — up to +14.1 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 42.3 — up to +11.5 composite points

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Standards implemented 4

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

OpenID Connect

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 1

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

Ibotta Openai API

The Openai API from Ibotta — 1 operation(s) for openai.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Ibotta Product API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

ibotta-product-search

AGENT SKILL

Ibotta API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ibotta Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ibotta Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Ibotta API Rules

38 rules · 36 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Ibotta Product Api Overlay

5 actions · documentation · ibotta-product-api-openapi.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ibotta Authentication

http/oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Ibotta Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Ibotta Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Ibotta Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Plans

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Partners

Partners

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ibotta
name: Ibotta
description: 'Ibotta is a Denver-based consumer technology company (NYSE: IBTA) that operates a cash-back rewards platform
  and the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN), a digital promotions and retail-media network. Consumers earn real cash back on
  everyday purchases in-store and online through the Ibotta mobile app, browser extension, and connected retailer loyalty
  accounts. For brands, agencies, and retailers, the Ibotta Performance Network distributes digital rebates and promotions
  to more than 200 million shoppers across Ibotta''s owned properties and a network of partner retailers and publishers (including
  Walmart, Dollar General, Family Dollar, and others). Ibotta was surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company
  of GGV Capital. Ibotta publishes exactly one machine-readable API contract: the Ibotta Product API (an OpenAPI 3.0.1 document
  at ibotta.com/bex-api/api-docs.json), declared by the ChatGPT plugin manifest Ibotta still serves at ibotta.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
  — a single product-search operation backing the Ibotta browser extension, gated by a service bearer token that is not self-serve.
  The Ibotta Performance Network APIs that partners actually integrate against are documented only inside the IPN partner
  portal (portal.ipn.ibotta.com), which is behind Auth0 and reached through a sales conversation; no public IPN API reference,
  pricing, or rate-limit documentation exists.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ibotta/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- ggv-capital
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: public-openapi-found
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Cashback
- Rewards
- Retail Media
- Coupons
- Loyalty
- Shopping
- Advertising
- Promotions
- Product Search
- Retail
- Affiliates
- Consumer Packaged Goods
tags_raw:
- Company
- Consumer
- Cash Back
- Rewards
- Retail Media
- Coupons
- Loyalty
- Shopping
- Advertising
- Promotions
- Product Search
- Retail
- Affiliate
- CPG
image: https://images.ctfassets.net/zgieqvh3kubv/59XQvan2WhYzTi2PwaCGQV/454455352f937dde633bac1485ab3fdd/featured-ibotta.webp
apis:
- aid: ibotta:ibotta-openai-api
  name: Ibotta Openai API
  description: The Openai API from Ibotta — 1 operation(s) for openai.
  humanURL: https://ibotta.com/browser-extension
  baseURL: https://api.ibops.net/bex-api
  tags:
  - OpenAI
  tags_raw:
  - Openai
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ibotta-openai-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ibotta-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ibotta-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/ibotta-data-model.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/ibotta-rate-limits.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ibotta-rate-limits.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/ibotta-product-api-overlay.yaml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/ibotta-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://home.ibotta.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://home.ibotta.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://help.ibotta.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Ibotta
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://legal.ibotta.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://legal.ibotta.com/
- type: Partners
  url: https://ipn.ibotta.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://ipn.ibotta.com/integrating-with-the-ipn
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://ipn.ibotta.com/resource-hub/ipn-integration
- type: Login
  url: https://portal.ipn.ibotta.com/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ibotta-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/ibotta-well-known.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/ibotta-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/ibotta-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ibotta-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/ibotta-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/ibotta-lifecycle.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/ibotta-scopes.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ibotta-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ibotta-plans-pricing.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ibotta-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-12'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 17
  pass: local-v1

Ibotta API — frequently asked questions

Does Ibotta have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Ibotta, including Ibotta Openai API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Ibotta API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Ibotta, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Ibotta API?

Ibotta documents its authentication (http/oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Ibotta Authentication.

Is the Ibotta API ready for AI agents?

Ibotta has a Kin Score of 33.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 32.2 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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