Patreon

Patreon is a membership platform for creators offering tiered subscriptions, content publishing, community, and payments. The Patreon API v2 follows the JSON:API specification and exposes campaigns, members, posts, tiers, benefits, and webhooks via OAuth 2.0.

Patreon publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Oauth2 API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Creator Economy, Membership, Subscription, Content, and Community.

The Patreon catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Patreon’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, signup flow, pricing, and 10 more developer resources.

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34.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 50/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Creator Economy Membership Subscription Content Community

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 34.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.5 / 15

Access Clarity 4.3 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.4 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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 Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) 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.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 28.9 — up to +14.2 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 29.8 — up to +14.0 composite points
Contract Quality scores 45.2 — up to +13.7 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/patreon/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/patreon to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

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
Social and Fediverse	standard	18.6	-	-
IFTTT Services (service publishers)	standard	18.6	-	-

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Patreon API v2

The Patreon REST API v2 follows the JSON:API specification. It exposes campaigns, members (patrons), posts, tiers, benefits, addresses, and webhooks. Authentication uses OAuth 2...

Patreon Oauth2 API

The Oauth2 API from Patreon — 13 operation(s) for oauth2.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Patreon API v2 Oauth2 API

OPEN COLLECTION

Patreon API v2

OPEN COLLECTION

Patreon API pricing

Not yet checked against Patreon's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 from www.patreon.com/pricing; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Creator usage	Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Client requests: 100 requests
Token requests: 100 requests
Edge 4xx protection: 2000 4xx errors

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Patreon's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Patreon Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Patreon Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Patreon

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Patreon Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Patreon API Rules

48 rules · 46 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Patreon Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Patreon Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Patreon Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Patreon Agentic Access

16 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Signup

Signup

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Forums

Forums

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: patreon
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/patreon/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Patreon
kind: company
description: Patreon is a membership platform for creators offering tiered subscriptions, content publishing, community, and
  payments. The Patreon API v2 follows the JSON:API specification and exposes campaigns, members, posts, tiers, benefits,
  and webhooks via OAuth 2.0.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/patreon.png
x-docs-platform: readthedocs
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Creator Economy
- Membership
- Subscription
- Content
- Community
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: patreon:patreon-api-v2
  name: Patreon API v2
  humanURL: https://docs.patreon.com/
  baseURL: https://www.patreon.com/api/oauth2/v2
  tags:
  - Creator Economy
  - Membership
  - Campaigns
  - Members
  - Posts
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Creator Economy
  - Membership
  - Campaigns
  - Members
  - Posts
  - Webhooks
  description: The Patreon REST API v2 follows the JSON:API specification. It exposes campaigns, members (patrons), posts,
    tiers, benefits, addresses, and webhooks. Authentication uses OAuth 2.0 with creator-issued access tokens or three-legged
    OAuth flows.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.patreon.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.patreon.com/#oauth
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.patreon.com/portal/registration/register-clients
  - type: Webhooks
    url: https://docs.patreon.com/#webhooks
- aid: patreon:patreon-oauth2-api
  name: Patreon Oauth2 API
  description: The Oauth2 API from Patreon — 13 operation(s) for oauth2.
  humanURL: https://docs.patreon.com/
  baseURL: https://www.patreon.com/api/oauth2/v2
  tags:
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - Oauth2
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/patreon-oauth2-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/patreon-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/patreon-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/patreon-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/patreon-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Patreon
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/patreon
- type: Website
  url: https://www.patreon.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://docs.patreon.com/
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.patreon.com/portal/registration/register-clients
- type: Forums
  url: https://www.patreondevelopers.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.patreon.com/pricing
- type: Plans
  url: plans/patreon-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/patreon-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/patreon-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Patreon API — frequently asked questions

Does Patreon have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Patreon, including Patreon API v2 and Patreon Oauth2 API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Patreon API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Patreon, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Patreon API?

Patreon uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Patreon Authentication.

How much does the Patreon API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Patreon, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Patreon API ready for AI agents?

Patreon has a Kin Score of 34.2 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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