Lightning Labs

At Lightning Labs, we develop software that powers the Lightning Network. Our open source, secure, and scalable Lightning systems enable users to send and receive money more efficiently than ever before. We also offer a series of verifiable, non-custodial Lightning-based financial services. We bridge the world of open source software and the next-generation of bitcoin financial software.

Lightning Labs publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Lightning API. Tagged areas include Bitcoin, Crypto, Lightning Network, and Payments.

Lightning Labs’ developer surface includes engineering blog and 4 more developer resources.

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15.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessFreemium

1 APIs

Bitcoin Crypto Lightning Network Payments

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 15.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 7.7 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 17

Access Clarity 2.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 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 Surface 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Payments 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.

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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APIs 1

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Rate Limits 1

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Lightning Labs Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

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AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

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Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 2

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LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lightning-labs
name: Lightning Labs
description: At Lightning Labs, we develop software that powers the Lightning Network. Our open source, secure, and scalable
  Lightning systems enable users to send and receive money more efficiently than ever before. We also offer a series of verifiable,
  non-custodial Lightning-based financial services. We bridge the world of open source software and the next-generation of
  bitcoin financial software.
kind: contract
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lightning-labs.png
tags:
- Bitcoin
- Crypto
- Lightning Network
- Payments
created: '2024-11-08'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightning-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: lightning-labs:lightning-labs-lightning-api
  name: Lightning Labs Lightning API
  description: The Lightning API from Lightning Labs — 64 operation(s) for lightning.
  humanURL: https://lightning.engineering/api-docs/api/lnd/
  tags:
  - Lightning
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lightning-labs-lightning-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lightning.engineering/api-docs/api/lnd/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/lightning-labs-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lightning-labs-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightning-labs-inc
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/lightningnetwork
- url: https://lightning.engineering/blog/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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