Instabee

Instabee is a European last-mile logistics technology company formed by the 2022 merger of Instabox and Budbee, operating consumer delivery brands Instabox (Sweden, Denmark, Norway), Budbee (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium) and Porterbuddy (Norway). It moves tens of millions of parcels a year across parcel lockers, home delivery and returns for 1,150+ merchant clients through 45+ parcel terminals, serving 10M+ active users. Instabee exposes a public REST developer API under the Budbee brand for creating and managing delivery orders, booking delivery intervals, discovering lockers/boxes and serviceable postal codes, generating shipping labels, booking returns, and subscribing to parcel-status webhooks across its Nordic and Benelux network.

Instabee is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, Logistics, Last Mile Delivery, and Shipping.

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

Instabee’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, engineering blog, authentication, sandbox, and 15 more developer resources.

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38.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Company Retail Logistics Last Mile Delivery Shipping E-Commerce Parcel Lockers Returns Nordic

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 38.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.1 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 5.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

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 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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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
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 39.0 — up to +15.3 composite points
Access Clarity scores 27.6 — up to +14.5 composite points
Contract Governance scores 0.0 — up to +12.0 composite points

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APIs 1

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

Budbee Delivery API

Budbee's public REST API for e-commerce merchants and integration partners to create delivery orders, book home and locker delivery intervals, validate serviceable postal codes,...

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Instabee Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Instabee Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

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

Instabee Authentication

http/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Instabee Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Login

Sandbox

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

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Webhooks

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Deprecation

Deprecation

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Careers

Careers

Source (apis.yml)

aid: instabee
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - 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
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/instabee.png
name: Instabee
description: Instabee is a European last-mile logistics technology company formed by the 2022 merger of Instabox and Budbee,
  operating consumer delivery brands Instabox (Sweden, Denmark, Norway), Budbee (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands,
  Belgium) and Porterbuddy (Norway). It moves tens of millions of parcels a year across parcel lockers, home delivery and
  returns for 1,150+ merchant clients through 45+ parcel terminals, serving 10M+ active users. Instabee exposes a public REST
  developer API under the Budbee brand for creating and managing delivery orders, booking delivery intervals, discovering
  lockers/boxes and serviceable postal codes, generating shipping labels, booking returns, and subscribing to parcel-status
  webhooks across its Nordic and Benelux network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/instabee/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- eqt-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
x-docs-platform: slate
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
x-docs-hosting: github-pages
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- Logistics
- Last Mile Delivery
- Shipping
- E-Commerce
- Parcel Lockers
- Returns
- Nordic
tags_raw:
- Company
- Retail
- Logistics
- Last-Mile Delivery
- Shipping
- E-commerce
- Parcel Lockers
- Returns
- Nordics
apis:
- name: Budbee Delivery API
  description: Budbee's public REST API for e-commerce merchants and integration partners to create delivery orders, book
    home and locker delivery intervals, validate serviceable postal codes, discover parcel lockers, generate shipping labels,
    book returns, and receive parcel-status webhooks across Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and Belgium.
  humanURL: https://developer.budbee.com/
  baseURL: https://api.budbee.com
  tags:
  - Delivery
  - Logistics
  - Shipping
  - Returns
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.budbee.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/instabee-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/instabee-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/instabee-webhooks.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://instabee.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.budbee.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.budbee.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.budbee.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://press.instabee.com/
- type: Careers
  url: https://career.instabee.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://instabee.com/legal/general-terms-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://instabee.com/legal/external-privacy-notice
- type: Login
  url: https://partner.instabee.com/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/instabee-authentication.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/instabee-rate-limits.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/instabee-webhooks.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/instabee-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/instabee-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/instabee-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/instabee-lifecycle.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/instabee-sandbox.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/instabee-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: DomainSecurity
  url: security/instabee-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/instabee-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Instabee API — frequently asked questions

Does Instabee have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Instabee, including Budbee Delivery API.

How do I authenticate with the Instabee API?

Instabee uses bearer-token authentication (http/oauth2 · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Instabee Authentication.

Is the Instabee API ready for AI agents?

Instabee has a Kin Score of 38.9 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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