# Upside

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/upside/  
**Website:** https://www.upside.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Upside is a two-sided commerce platform that connects brick-and-mortar retailers with consumers through personalized cash-back offers on everyday purchases like fuel, groceries, and dining. More than 5 million users have earned over $1B in cash back through its app, while retailers use the Upside Marketplace, Measurement, and Loyalty+ products to drive proven incremental profit. For technology partners, Upside offers a partner-gated, enterprise-ready API that delivers personalized, evergreen offers inside partner apps, though it publishes no public developer portal or self-serve API documentation.

## Kin Score — 16.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 43.4 |
| Access Clarity | 43.4 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (3)

- **Upside Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Upside Vulnerability Disclosure** — contact published
- **Upside Trust Center** — SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, PCI DSS v4.0.1, CCPA

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Cashback, Rewards, Loyalty, Retail, Fuel, Grocery, Dining

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/upside/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.