Uphold
Uphold is a multi-asset digital money platform and regulated crypto exchange that lets consumers and businesses hold, trade, send and spend more than 300 cryptocurrencies, national currencies and precious metals from a single account. Its Enterprise API Suite ("Move on chain") is a modular set of OpenAPI 3.1 REST APIs — Core, Widgets, Topper, Market Pulse and KYC Connector — that partners embed to onboard and KYC/KYB-verify users, move value across bank rails (ACH, FedNow/RTP, Wire, FPS, SEPA), debit and credit cards, alternative payment methods (Apple Pay, PayPal) and 50+ blockchain networks, and to run buy/sell, trade, send, portfolio, statements and FATF Travel Rule flows. Uphold also runs a public legacy market-data and wallet API at api.uphold.com/v0, publishes embeddable Payment, KYC and Travel Rule widgets, a Svix-backed webhook event surface, a full Sandbox with test helpers, a public Postman workspace, an llms.txt, an A2A agent card and a documentation MCP server.
Uphold publishes 25 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Accounts API, Assets API, Authentication API, and 22 more. Tagged areas include Company, Cryptocurrency, Digital Assets, Payments, and Banking.
The Uphold catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Uphold’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, quickstart, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 48 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 4
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
What people ask Uphold 21
The questions people put to an LLM, and the jobs they hand an agent, that Uphold's APIs answer — each one linked to the operation that does it. Generated by API Evangelist
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Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payments | distribution | 9.6 (thin) | - | 1 |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 5
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.
APIs 25
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Uphold Public API (v0)
The long-standing public Uphold API at api.uphold.com/v0 — tickers and exchange rates, supported currencies and assets, plus OAuth 2.0 authenticated access to a member's cards, ...
Uphold Documentation MCP Server
Anonymous, read-only Model Context Protocol server published by Uphold at developer.uphold.com/mcp over streamable HTTP. Exposes three tools (documentation search, a virtualized...
Uphold Accounts API
Accounts.
Uphold Assets API
Assets, networks and rails.
Uphold Authentication API
Authentication.
Uphold Capabilities API
User capabilities.
Uphold Countries API
Countries.
Uphold External accounts API
External accounts.
Uphold Files API
Files.
Uphold General API
General.
Uphold Ingestions API
The Ingestions API from Uphold — 0 operation(s) for ingestions.
Uphold KYB API
Business User's KYB.
Uphold KYC API
Individual User's KYC.
Uphold KYC sharing API
KYC sharing.
Uphold Metadata API
Metadata.
Uphold Payment API
Payment.
Uphold Portfolio API
Portfolio.
Uphold Statements API
Statements.
Uphold Sumsub API
Sumsub KYC Connector.
Uphold Terms of service API
User terms of service.
Uphold Transactions API
Transactions.
Uphold Travel rule API
Travel rule.
Uphold Users API
Users.
Uphold Veriff API
Veriff KYC Connector.
Uphold Webhooks API
Webhooks.
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Open Collections 23
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Core Accounts API
OPEN COLLECTIONUphold Assets API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore Authentication API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore Capabilities API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore Countries API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore External accounts API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore Files API
OPEN COLLECTIONMarket Pulse General API
OPEN COLLECTIONKYC Connectors Ingestions API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore KYB API
OPEN COLLECTIONUphold KYC API
OPEN COLLECTIONTopper KYC sharing API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore Metadata API
OPEN COLLECTIONWidget Payment API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore Portfolio API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore Statements API
OPEN COLLECTIONKYC Connectors Sumsub API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore Terms of service API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore Transactions API
OPEN COLLECTIONWidget Travel rule API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore Users API
OPEN COLLECTIONKYC Connectors Veriff API
OPEN COLLECTIONCore Webhooks API
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Agent Skills 4
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
enterprise-skill
AGENT SKILLingest-third-party-kyc
AGENT SKILLonboard-and-verify-user
AGENT SKILLquote-and-execute-transaction
AGENT SKILLUphold API pricing
Prices published by Uphold, read 2026-10-12 from uphold.com/en-us/get-started/service-fees.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Most Stablecoins trading | < 0.25% |
| Major Market FX trading | 0.3% |
| BTC, ETH trading | 2.05% – 2.2% |
| Altcoins trading | 2.85% – 3.8% |
| Precious Metals trading | 2.35% – 3.40% |
| Boosted Staking commission | 35% |
| Flexible Staking commission | 50% |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Global rate limits: These limits apply globally and cap the total number of requests your integration can make within a specific time period
- Specific endpoint rate limits: These limits apply to certain endpoints and cap the total number of requests made to that endpoint within a specific tim
- User rate limits: These limits apply to requests made on behalf of a user and cap the total number of requests made by that user within a
Billed by: trade value · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Uphold Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Uphold Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
Uphold
SLAFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Uphold Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Uphold Core Webhooks
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Uphold Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Uphold API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 26
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.
Uphold Accounts Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Assets Api Phrasing Overlay
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GENERATEDUphold Core Api Overlay
DERIVEDUphold Countries Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Files Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold General Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Kyc Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Kyc Connector Api Overlay
DERIVEDUphold Kyc Sharing Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Market Pulse Api Overlay
DERIVEDUphold Metadata Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Payment Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Portfolio Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Statements Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Sumsub Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Topper Api Overlay
DERIVEDUphold Transactions Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Travel Rule Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Users Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Veriff Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Webhooks Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDUphold Widgets Api Overlay
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Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 6
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 10
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 8
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 7
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
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Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Uphold API — frequently asked questions
Does Uphold have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 25 APIs from Uphold, including Uphold Public API (v0), Uphold Documentation MCP Server and Uphold Accounts API, and 22 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Uphold API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 23 OpenAPI specifications for Uphold, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Uphold API?
Uphold documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Uphold Authentication.
How much does the Uphold API cost?
Uphold publishes its prices; its Most Stablecoins trading plan is < 0.25% as of 2026-10-12. APIs.io lists 7 pricing plans for Uphold, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Does Uphold have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Uphold: Remote MCP server at developer.uphold.com over HTTP; 3 tools listed.
Is the Uphold API ready for AI agents?
Uphold has a Kin Score of 81.6 out of 100 (exemplar) and an Agent Readiness score of 45.1 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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