Upside Services

Upside (Upside Services, Inc.) is a retail technology company whose platform delivers personalized cash-back offers on gas, groceries, and dining to more than five million consumers through the Upside app and embedded partner experiences. Merchants across fuel and convenience, grocery, and restaurants pay only for measured incremental profit, verified against control groups. Upside operates an enterprise partner API used by companies like Fiserv, GasBuddy, Lyft, Uber, and Marqeta to embed offers, but publishes no public developer portal, API documentation, or SDKs - API access is arranged through its partnerships team. Backed by DCVC (first invested 2016).

Upside Services is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Cashback, Retail, Fuel, and Grocery.

Upside Services’ developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 13 more developer resources.

18.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyCashbackRetailFuelGroceryRestaurantsLoyaltyConsumer Incentives

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 18.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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
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Security Posture 2

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

Upside Services Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Upside Services Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: upside-services
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
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  method: derived
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name: Upside Services
description: Upside (Upside Services, Inc.) is a retail technology company whose platform delivers personalized cash-back
  offers on gas, groceries, and dining to more than five million consumers through the Upside app and embedded partner experiences.
  Merchants across fuel and convenience, grocery, and restaurants pay only for measured incremental profit, verified against
  control groups. Upside operates an enterprise partner API used by companies like Fiserv, GasBuddy, Lyft, Uber, and Marqeta
  to embed offers, but publishes no public developer portal, API documentation, or SDKs - API access is arranged through its
  partnerships team. Backed by DCVC (first invested 2016).
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Cashback
- Retail
- Fuel
- Grocery
- Restaurants
- Loyalty
- Consumer Incentives
apis: []
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/upside-services-trust-center.yml
- name: Compliance
  type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.upside.com/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/upside-services-domain-security.yml
- name: Website
  type: Website
  url: https://www.upside.com/
- name: About
  type: About
  url: https://www.upside.com/about
- name: Blog
  type: Blog
  url: https://www.upside.com/blog
- name: Newsroom
  type: PressReleases
  url: https://www.upside.com/newsroom
- name: Careers
  type: Careers
  url: https://www.upside.com/careers
- name: Support
  type: Support
  url: https://support.upside.com/hc/en-us
- name: Login
  type: Login
  url: https://dashboard.upside.com/login
- name: Terms of Service
  type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.upside.com/data-and-security/terms
- name: Privacy Policy
  type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.upside.com/data-and-security/privacy-policy
- name: Partner Tech Integration
  type: Partners
  url: https://www.upside.com/partnerships/tech-integration
- name: LLMs.txt
  type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/upside-services-llms.txt
- name: Well-Known Probe Index
  type: WellKnownProbe
  url: well-known/upside-services-well-known.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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