# Kik

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kik/  
**Website:** https://kik.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Kik is a freeware instant-messaging mobile app for iOS and Android, known for letting users register with only a username rather than a phone number. Founded in 2009 by University of Waterloo students and released in 2010, Kik grew to hundreds of millions of registered users and was especially popular with teens. It has been owned by MediaLab AI since 2019. Kik formerly operated a developer surface — the Kik Bot Platform at dev.kik.com — and the Kin cryptocurrency, but that developer/bot API platform is no longer online and Kik currently publishes no public API.

## Kin Score — 9.2 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 9.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (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 | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Kik Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Social-Media, Messaging, Chat, Mobile, Bots

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