Mono
Mono is an African open-banking platform that lets businesses access bank and financial data and collect recurring payments through a single API. The Mono REST API at api.withmono.com covers account linking (Connect), transactions, statements, identity, income, and balance, plus DirectPay one-time payments and Direct Debit mandates, secured with a mono-sec-key header.
Mono publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Account Information API, Account Linking API, Direct Debit API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Open Banking, Financial Data, Payments, Direct Debit, and Africa.
The Mono catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Mono’s developer surface includes pricing, authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 2
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| African Payments (Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, WAEMU) | undeclared | - | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 10
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Mono Account Information API
Account details and balance for a linked account.
Mono Account Linking API
Initiate Connect account linking and exchange a code for an account id.
Mono Direct Debit API
Customers, mandates, balance inquiry, and recurring debits.
Mono DirectPay API
One-time bank-to-bank payments.
Mono Identity and Income API
Identity verification and income signals for a linked account.
Mono Transactions and Statements API
Transactions and bank statements for a linked account.
Mono Creditworthiness API
Affordability and credit-decisioning analysis.
Mono Financial Data API
Read financial data from a linked account.
Mono Investment API
Investment holdings for a linked account.
Mono Lookup API
Identity and data verification for KYC/KYB.
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Open Collections 8
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Mono API
OPEN COLLECTIONMono Account Information API
OPEN COLLECTIONMono Account Information Account Linking API
OPEN COLLECTIONMono Account Information Direct Debit API
OPEN COLLECTIONMono Account Information DirectPay API
OPEN COLLECTIONMono Account Information Identity and Income API
OPEN COLLECTIONMono Account Information Transactions and Statements API
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Mono API pricing
Prices published by Mono, read 2026-09-20 from mono.co/pricing.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| 30-day trial | FREE Includes: Capped at 5 unique accounts monthly |
| Basic | NGN 50,000.00 Includes: Capped at 100 unique accounts monthly |
| Enterprise band | For more information Contact sales. |
| Real-time Sync (add-on) | N100 Per call |
| CAC Lookup (add-on) | N60 - N500 Per call |
| CAC Lookup + (add-on) | N600+ Per call |
| Widget customization (add-on) | N50,000 One-time fee |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
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Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Mono Co Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
Mono
SLAFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Mono Co Finops
FINOPSSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Mono API Rules
SPECTRALSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Mono API — frequently asked questions
Does Mono have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from Mono, including Mono Account Information API, Mono Account Linking API and Mono Direct Debit API, and 7 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Mono API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 10 OpenAPI specifications for Mono, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Mono API?
Mono uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Mono Co Authentication.
How much does the Mono API cost?
Mono publishes its prices; its 30-day trial plan is FREE as of 2026-09-20. APIs.io lists 7 pricing plans for Mono, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Mono API ready for AI agents?
Mono has a Kin Score of 31.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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