# KakaoPay

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kakaopay/  
**Website:** https://www.kakaopay.com  
**APIs profiled:** 4

KakaoPay is a Korean mobile payment platform and fintech service by Kakao Corp providing REST APIs for payment processing, QR code payments, online checkout, subscription billing, money transfers, and financial product management. The platform enables merchants and developers to integrate KakaoPay's payment infrastructure via secure REST APIs authenticated with admin keys or bearer tokens.

## Kin Score — 19.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 9.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **KakaoPay Online Payment API** — REST API for integrating KakaoPay online payment functionality into PC and mobile web or app environments. Supports single payments, subscription (recurring) billing, order inqu...
- **KakaoPay Login API** — REST API providing KakaoPay authentication services including token issuance, token refresh, user information retrieval, and consent management. Enables applications to authenti...
- **KakaoPay Money Transfer API** — REST API for code-based money transfers, enabling users to send and receive money via generated links. Supports money transfer link generation, retrieval, deletion, bill-splitti...
- **KakaoPay Face Recognition API** — REST API providing facial detection and comparison capabilities for identity verification and authentication within KakaoPay financial services.

## Security (1)

- **Kakaopay Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Kakaopay Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Payments, Mobile Payments, QR Code Payments, Subscription Billing, Money Transfer, Fintech, Korean, REST API

---

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