Sunlight

Sunlight is an educational-spending platform that lets organizations fund learning for their people. Administrators create groups, invite registered or unregistered members, allocate a per-user education budget ("sunlight"), and let members place orders for courses, books and subscriptions from providers such as Amazon and Platzi, while an activity feed tracks what members join and buy. Its REST API is built on the JSON:API specification (media type application/vnd.api+json) with Bearer-token authentication, and exposes groups, group membership and invitations, per-user credit/budget transactions, orders, and activities. Sunlight was backed by Seedcamp and Speedinvest.

Sunlight publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Education, EdTech, Learning, and Budgeting.

Sunlight’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, authentication, and 9 more developer resources.

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16.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 17/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs
CompanyEducationEdTechLearningBudgetingSpendingFintechJSON:APIGroupsOrders

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 16.2/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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
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APIs 1

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

Sunlight API

Sunlight's REST/JSON:API for managing education-spending groups: create groups, invite registered and unregistered users, edit individual member budgets (credits/transactions), ...

Security Posture 2

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

Sunlight Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Sunlight Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 DataModel
DataModel
 Conformance
Conformance
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: sunlight
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/sunlight.png
name: Sunlight
description: Sunlight is an educational-spending platform that lets organizations fund learning for their people. Administrators
  create groups, invite registered or unregistered members, allocate a per-user education budget ("sunlight"), and let members
  place orders for courses, books and subscriptions from providers such as Amazon and Platzi, while an activity feed tracks
  what members join and buy. Its REST API is built on the JSON:API specification (media type application/vnd.api+json) with
  Bearer-token authentication, and exposes groups, group membership and invitations, per-user credit/budget transactions,
  orders, and activities. Sunlight was backed by Seedcamp and Speedinvest.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sunlight/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- seedcamp
- speedinvest
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-operational-note: As of 2026-07-21 the documented API backend host (app.sunlight.is / api.sunlight.is) is a dangling CNAME
  to a decommissioned AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment (sunlight-production.eu-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com, no A record)
  and the apex sunlight.is TLS endpoint returns a handshake internal-error alert. The Slate developer docs (docs.sunlight.is,
  GitHub Pages) and the Webflow marketing site (www.sunlight.is) remain online. The API surface captured here is faithfully
  harvested from the live public docs; the service itself appears dormant.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 8
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Education
- EdTech
- Learning
- Budgeting
- Spending
- Fintech
- JSON:API
- Groups
- Orders
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Sunlight API
  description: 'Sunlight''s REST/JSON:API for managing education-spending groups: create groups, invite registered and unregistered
    users, edit individual member budgets (credits/transactions), list orders, and read the activity feed. Authenticated with
    a Bearer API key issued by Sunlight support.'
  humanURL: https://docs.sunlight.is/
  baseURL: https://app.sunlight.is/api
  tags:
  - Education
  - Groups
  - Orders
  - Activities
  - Budgeting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sunlight.is/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sunlight.is/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/sunlight-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/sunlight-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/sunlight-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/sunlight-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/sunlight-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/sunlight-lifecycle.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://sunlight.is
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.sunlight.is/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.sunlight.is/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.sunlight.is/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sunlight-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/sunlight-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/sunlight-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/sunlight-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/sunlight-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/sunlight-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sunlight-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/sunlight-llms.txt