# Ko-fi

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ko-fi/  
**Website:** https://ko-fi.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Ko-fi is a creator monetization platform where fans support creators through one-off tips ("buy me a coffee"), recurring memberships, digital and physical shop products, and paid commissions. Ko-fi charges 0% platform fee on tips and donations. Its developer surface is intentionally narrow and integration-only: Ko-fi does not publish a public REST API. Instead it offers an outbound WEBHOOK that HTTP POSTs payment notifications (donations, subscription / membership payments, shop orders, and commissions) to a URL you configure on your Ko-fi webhooks page. Each POST is application/x-www-form-urlencoded with a single "data" field carrying a JSON payload, and includes a verification_token so you can confirm the request originated from Ko-fi. The webhook is one-way (Ko-fi to your endpoint) and fires only when a payment happens - there is no request/response API to read, create, or manage donations, members, or orders.

## Kin Score — 25.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 25.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 43.6 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

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

## Agent readiness — 16.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| 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 | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (1)

- **Ko-fi Webhook** — Outbound webhook that Ko-fi HTTP POSTs to a URL you configure whenever a payment happens on your Ko-fi page. The single POST body is form-encoded with a "data" field containing ...

## Security (1)

- **Ko Fi Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Ko Fi Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Creator Economy, Donations, Tips, Memberships, Shop, Payments, Webhook, Creator Monetization

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