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Runa

Runa is a global digital payouts platform that enables businesses to automate digital reward and gift card distribution through a single API. The platform provides access to over 5,000 gift cards and payout options across 190+ countries, supporting B2C payments, employee rewards, customer incentives, and loyalty programs. The Runa API supports synchronous and asynchronous order modes, balance management, product catalog browsing, and webhook-based event notifications for order completions.

Runa publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Balance API, Orders API, Products API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Gift Cards, Rewards, Payments, Incentives, and Payouts.

The Runa catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Runa’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, signup flow, sandbox, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

55.5/100 developing ▼ -5.7 Agent 52/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
4 APIs
Gift CardsRewardsPaymentsIncentivesPayouts

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 55.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 13.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 52/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 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
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APIs 4

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

Runa Balance API

Retrieve account balance by currency.

Runa Orders API

Create, retrieve, list, and estimate digital reward orders.

Runa Products API

Browse the Runa product catalog by name, category, or country.

Runa Utilities API

Utility endpoints for connectivity testing.

Postman Collections 4

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 1

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

Runa Payouts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Runa Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Runa Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Runa Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Runa Context

5 classes · 14 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Runa API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Runa API Rules

18 rules · 2 errors 15 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Runa Order

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Runa Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Runa Create Order Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Runa Get Balance Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

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

Runa Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Runa Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Runa Trust Center

ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Runa Agentic Access

10 operations · 2 acting

10 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: runa
name: Runa
description: Runa is a global digital payouts platform that enables businesses to automate digital reward and gift card distribution
  through a single API. The platform provides access to over 5,000 gift cards and payout options across 190+ countries, supporting
  B2C payments, employee rewards, customer incentives, and loyalty programs. The Runa API supports synchronous and asynchronous
  order modes, balance management, product catalog browsing, and webhook-based event notifications for order completions.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/runa.png
tags:
- Gift Cards
- Rewards
- Payments
- Incentives
- Payouts
created: '2025-02-08'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/runa/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: runa:runa-balance-api
  name: Runa Balance API
  description: Retrieve account balance by currency.
  humanURL: https://developer.runa.io/
  baseURL: https://api.runa.io/v2
  tags:
  - Balance
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runa-balance-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.runa.io/
- aid: runa:runa-orders-api
  name: Runa Orders API
  description: Create, retrieve, list, and estimate digital reward orders.
  humanURL: https://developer.runa.io/
  baseURL: https://api.runa.io/v2
  tags:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runa-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.runa.io/
- aid: runa:runa-products-api
  name: Runa Products API
  description: Browse the Runa product catalog by name, category, or country.
  humanURL: https://developer.runa.io/
  baseURL: https://api.runa.io/v2
  tags:
  - Products
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runa-products-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.runa.io/
- aid: runa:runa-utilities-api
  name: Runa Utilities API
  description: Utility endpoints for connectivity testing.
  humanURL: https://developer.runa.io/
  baseURL: https://api.runa.io/v2
  tags:
  - Utilities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runa-utilities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.runa.io/
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/runa/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/runa-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/runa-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/runa-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/runa-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/runapayouts
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.runa.io/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://developer.runa.io/docs/getting-an-api-key
- type: Signup
  url: https://app.runa.io/
- type: Sandbox
  url: https://developer.runa.io/docs/playground
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://runa.io/legal/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://runa.io/privacy-policy/
- type: Blog
  url: https://runa.io/blog/
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://developer.runa.io/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com