# Recharge

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/recharge-payments/  
**Website:** https://getrecharge.com  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Recharge (Recharge Payments) is a subscription and recurring-billing platform for e-commerce, most widely used on Shopify. Its public REST API at https://api.rechargeapps.com lets developers manage the full subscription lifecycle - subscriptions, customers, addresses, charges, orders, products, payment methods, onetimes, discounts, and webhooks - programmatically. Requests are authenticated with a store API token in the X-Recharge-Access-Token header and versioned via the X-Recharge-Version header (supported versions 2021-11 and 2021-01). The API is resource-oriented JSON over HTTPS with cursor-based pagination and a leaky-bucket rate limiter.

## Kin Score — 36.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 52.4 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 26.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 21.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| 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

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (10)

- **Recharge Addresses API** — Customer shipping addresses that group subscriptions and charges.
- **Recharge Charges API** — Scheduled and processed charges against a customer's payment method.
- **Recharge Customers API** — Customer records that own addresses, subscriptions, and payment methods.
- **Recharge Discounts API** — Discount codes applied to checkouts, addresses, and charges.
- **Recharge Onetimes API** — One-time (non-recurring) products added to an upcoming charge.
- **Recharge Orders API** — Orders generated from charges, plus one-time and recurring order management.
- **Recharge Payment Methods API** — Tokenized payment methods used to process charges.
- **Recharge Products API** — Products and subscription rules exposed to the storefront.
- **Recharge Subscriptions API** — Recurring subscription lines that drive future charges and orders.
- **Recharge Webhooks API** — Webhook endpoints that receive event notifications from Recharge.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Recharge Payments Agentic Access** — 57 operations · 36 acting

## Security (3)

- **Recharge Payments Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Recharge Payments Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Recharge Payments Trust Center** — SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Recharge Payments Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Subscription, Recurring Billing, E-Commerce, Payments, Shopify, Retention

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