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 publishes 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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39.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-19 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs

Company Retail Logistics Last Mile Delivery Shipping E-CommerceParcel LockersReturns Nordic

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-19 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 39.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 9.5 / 20

Access Clarity 5.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 6.2 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

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

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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: 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://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'
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

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