Tollbit

TollBit is the web stack for the agentic internet, giving publishers and commerce sites the infrastructure to analyze, control, and monetize AI agent access to their content. Publishers verify a property, stream logs for AI-bot analytics, and stand up an "Agent Site" front door (the tollbit. subdomain) that separates bot traffic from humans and applies content controls, licensing, and usage-based paywalls. Its developer API lets AI agents and builders discover licensable content through Licensed Search, fetch rates and license options, mint cryptographically signed one-time access tokens, retrieve licensed or indexed content as markdown or HTML, self-report usage, and receive webhook notifications when content changes. TollBit ships official Python and Node SDKs, a native CLI with a bundled Agent Skill, an MCP toolbox server, and additional agent access methods (NLWeb, Agent2Agent). Added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Lightspeed Venture Partners and enriched from its public developer surface.

Tollbit publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Auth Tokens API, Dev API, Reporting API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Company, Content Licensing, Content Monetization, AI Agents, and Agentic Web.

The Tollbit catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Tollbit’s developer surface includes authentication, CLI, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, and 20 more developer resources.

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47.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 40/100 agent native Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 78/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills

Company Content Licensing Content Monetization AI Agents Agentic Web Search Bot Management Web Infrastructure Developer API

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Subscription Billing & Revenue Management

BC-4250

Reporting

POST /dev/v2/transactions/selfReport

Kin Score

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

Composite quality — 47.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 11.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 10.2 / 15

Access Clarity 5.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 40/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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):

Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
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)

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 10.5 — up to +11.6 composite points
Contract Quality scores 61.0 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 6

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

Tollbit Auth Tokens API

The Auth Tokens API from Tollbit — 3 operation(s) for auth tokens.

Tollbit Dev API

The Dev API from Tollbit — 1 operation(s) for dev.

Tollbit Reporting API

The Reporting API from Tollbit — 1 operation(s) for reporting.

Tollbit Search API

The Search API from Tollbit — 1 operation(s) for search.

Tollbit Content API

The Tollbit Content API from Tollbit — 4 operation(s) for tollbit content.

Tollbit Subdomain API

The Tollbit Subdomain API from Tollbit — 1 operation(s) for tollbit subdomain.

Open Collections 11

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

TollBit Auth Tokens API

OPEN COLLECTION

TollBit Auth Tokens Dev API

OPEN COLLECTION

TollBit Auth Tokens Get Catalog of Pages for Property API

OPEN COLLECTION

TollBit Auth Tokens Get Tollbit Content API

OPEN COLLECTION

TollBit Auth Tokens Get Tollbit Rates API

OPEN COLLECTION

TollBit Auth Tokens Report Content Usage API

OPEN COLLECTION

TollBit Auth Tokens Reporting API

OPEN COLLECTION

TollBit Auth Tokens Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

TollBit Auth Tokens Search Content API

OPEN COLLECTION

TollBit Auth Tokens Tollbit Content API

OPEN COLLECTION

TollBit Auth Tokens Tollbit Subdomain API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

TollBit MCP Toolbox

TollBit ships an official Model Context Protocol server ("MCP Toolbox") that connects AI agents to TollBit's dynamic toolbox — licensed search and authorized content access acro...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

tollbit-index-property-catalog

AGENT SKILL

tollbit-licensed-search-to-content

AGENT SKILL

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

TollBit Content Events (Webhooks)

TollBit pushes real-time webhook notifications to subscriber applications when content becomes available (created or updated) from TollBit publisher properties, so consumers do ...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Tollbit API Rules

60 rules · 53 errors 5 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Tollbit Openapi Overlay

4 actions · update · tollbit-openapi.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Tollbit Authentication

apiKey/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Tollbit Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Components

Conformance

Lifecycle

Conventions

Idempotency

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

CLI

CLI

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tollbit
name: Tollbit
description: TollBit is the web stack for the agentic internet, giving publishers and commerce sites the infrastructure to
  analyze, control, and monetize AI agent access to their content. Publishers verify a property, stream logs for AI-bot analytics,
  and stand up an "Agent Site" front door (the tollbit.<domain> subdomain) that separates bot traffic from humans and applies
  content controls, licensing, and usage-based paywalls. Its developer API lets AI agents and builders discover licensable
  content through Licensed Search, fetch rates and license options, mint cryptographically signed one-time access tokens,
  retrieve licensed or indexed content as markdown or HTML, self-report usage, and receive webhook notifications when content
  changes. TollBit ships official Python and Node SDKs, a native CLI with a bundled Agent Skill, an MCP toolbox server, and
  additional agent access methods (NLWeb, Agent2Agent). Added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Lightspeed
  Venture Partners and enriched from its public developer surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tollbit/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/159727288?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-enriched
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-09-16'
x-docs-platform: readme
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-17
tags:
- Company
- Content Licensing
- Content Monetization
- AI Agents
- Agentic Web
- Search
- Bot Management
- Web Infrastructure
- Developer API
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: tollbit:tollbit-auth-tokens-api
  name: Tollbit Auth Tokens API
  description: The Auth Tokens API from Tollbit — 3 operation(s) for auth tokens.
  humanURL: https://docs.tollbit.com/reference
  baseURL: https://gateway.tollbit.com
  tags:
  - Auth Tokens
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tollbit-auth-tokens-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/tollbit-content-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/tollbit-content-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/tollbit-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/tollbit-data-model.yml
- aid: tollbit:tollbit-dev-api
  name: Tollbit Dev API
  description: The Dev API from Tollbit — 1 operation(s) for dev.
  humanURL: https://docs.tollbit.com/reference
  baseURL: https://gateway.tollbit.com
  tags:
  - Dev
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tollbit-dev-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/tollbit-content-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/tollbit-content-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/tollbit-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/tollbit-data-model.yml
- aid: tollbit:tollbit-reporting-api
  name: Tollbit Reporting API
  description: The Reporting API from Tollbit — 1 operation(s) for reporting.
  humanURL: https://docs.tollbit.com/reference
  baseURL: https://gateway.tollbit.com
  tags:
  - Reporting
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tollbit-reporting-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/tollbit-content-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/tollbit-content-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/tollbit-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/tollbit-data-model.yml
- aid: tollbit:tollbit-search-api
  name: Tollbit Search API
  description: The Search API from Tollbit — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://docs.tollbit.com/reference
  baseURL: https://gateway.tollbit.com
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tollbit-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/tollbit-content-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/tollbit-content-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/tollbit-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/tollbit-data-model.yml
- aid: tollbit:tollbit-tollbit-content-api
  name: Tollbit Content API
  description: The Tollbit Content API from Tollbit — 4 operation(s) for tollbit content.
  humanURL: https://docs.tollbit.com/reference
  baseURL: https://gateway.tollbit.com
  tags:
  - Tollbit Content
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tollbit-tollbit-content-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/tollbit-content-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/tollbit-content-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/tollbit-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/tollbit-data-model.yml
- aid: tollbit:tollbit-tollbit-subdomain-api
  name: Tollbit Subdomain API
  description: The Tollbit Subdomain API from Tollbit — 1 operation(s) for tollbit subdomain.
  humanURL: https://docs.tollbit.com/reference
  baseURL: https://gateway.tollbit.com
  tags:
  - Tollbit Subdomain
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tollbit-tollbit-subdomain-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/tollbit-content-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/tollbit-content-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/tollbit-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/tollbit-data-model.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/tollbit-capability-edges.yml
  name: Tollbit Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/tollbit-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tollbit-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tollbit-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/tollbit-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/tollbit-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/tollbit-cli.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/tollbit-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/tollbit-llms.txt
- type: Components
  url: components/tollbit-components.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tollbit-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/tollbit-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/tollbit-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/tollbit-conventions.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://hack.tollbit.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.tollbit.com
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.tollbit.com/reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.tollbit.com/docs/quickstart
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.tollbit.com/docs/feedback-support
- type: Blog
  url: https://tollbit.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/tollbit
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.tollbit.com/sign-up
- type: Login
  url: https://app.tollbit.com/sign-in
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://tollbit.com/legal/developer-platform-agreement/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://tollbit.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Website
  url: https://tollbit.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1

Tollbit API — frequently asked questions

Does Tollbit have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Tollbit, including Tollbit Auth Tokens API, Tollbit Dev API and Tollbit Reporting API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Tollbit API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Tollbit, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Tollbit API?

Tollbit uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Tollbit Authentication.

Does Tollbit have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Tollbit: TollBit ships an official Model Context Protocol server ("MCP Toolbox") that connects AI agents to TollBit's dynamic toolbox — licensed search and authorized content access across TollBit publisher pr

Is the Tollbit API ready for AI agents?

Tollbit has a Kin Score of 47.2 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 40.3 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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