Recurly

Recurly is a subscription management and recurring billing platform that handles signups, plans, add-ons, coupons, dunning, invoicing, tax, revenue recognition, and analytics for subscription businesses. The Recurly v3 REST API gives developers full access to accounts, subscriptions, invoices, transactions, plans, and webhooks, with a versioned `Accept` header for API revisions. Authentication uses HTTP Basic with a site-scoped API key.

Recurly publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: v3 API. Tagged areas include Subscriptions, Billing, Payments, Recurring Revenue, and Invoicing.

Recurly’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, pricing, signup flow, support, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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25.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

1 APIs

SubscriptionsBillingPaymentsRecurring RevenueInvoicingDunningRevenue Recognition

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Composite quality — 25.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 8.1 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20

Commercial Clarity 3.7 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

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 0 / 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

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APIs 1

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

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Signup

Signup

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Client Libraries

Client Libraries

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: recurly
name: Recurly
description: Recurly is a subscription management and recurring billing platform that handles signups, plans, add-ons, coupons,
  dunning, invoicing, tax, revenue recognition, and analytics for subscription businesses. The Recurly v3 REST API gives developers
  full access to accounts, subscriptions, invoices, transactions, plans, and webhooks, with a versioned `Accept` header for
  API revisions. Authentication uses HTTP Basic with a site-scoped API key.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/recurly.png
tags:
- Subscriptions
- Billing
- Payments
- Recurring Revenue
- Invoicing
- Dunning
- Revenue Recognition
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/recurly/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-30'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: recurly:v3-api
  name: Recurly v3 API
  description: 'Full REST API for managing accounts, subscriptions, plans, add-ons, coupons, invoices, line items, transactions,
    shipping, tax, and webhooks across a Recurly site. Authentication is HTTP Basic with a private API key as the username;
    clients pin an API version through the `Accept: application/vnd.recurly.<version>` header.'
  humanURL: https://recurly.com/developers/api/
  baseURL: https://v3.recurly.com
  tags:
  - Subscriptions
  - Billing
  - Invoices
  - Accounts
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://recurly.com/developers/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://recurly.com/developers/api/v2021-02-25/index.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://github.com/recurly/recurly-client-spec
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://recurly.com/developers/api/v2021-02-25/index.html#section/Getting-Started/API-Authentication
  - type: Webhooks
    url: https://recurly.com/developers/webhooks/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/recurly/refs/heads/main/asyncapi.yml
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/recurly-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/recurly-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/recurly
- type: Website
  url: https://recurly.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.recurly.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://recurly.com/developers/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://recurly.com/developers/api/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://recurly.com/pricing/
- type: Signup
  url: https://recurly.com/get-started/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/recurly
- type: Client Libraries
  url: https://recurly.com/developers/client-libraries/
- type: Support
  url: https://recurly.zendesk.com
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.recurly.com
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.recurly.com/llms.txt
- url: https://recurly.com/blog/rss.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com