Upway

Upway is the largest marketplace for certified pre-owned electric bikes, founded in 2021 by former Uber executives Toussaint Wattinne and Stephane Ficaja. It buys used e-bikes from individuals, retailers and manufacturers, reconditions them through a 50-point inspection at its own UpCenter facilities in France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and the United States, and resells them at up to 60% off with a one-year warranty. Upway has no developer program and publishes no OpenAPI, but it does run a real agent-facing commerce API: each of its storefronts serves an llms.txt and an /agents.md, a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp, and an anonymous Model Context Protocol endpoint whose tools/list returns 13 tools with full JSON Schema inputSchemas covering catalog search, cart, checkout and order retrieval.

Upway is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, E-Commerce, Retail, Marketplace, and Agentic Commerce.

Upway’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 20 more developer resources.

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26.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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1 API 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills

Company E-Commerce Retail Marketplace Agentic Commerce MCP Universal Commerce Protocol Electric Bikes Micromobility Circular EconomyRefurbished GoodsShopping Agents

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 26.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 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 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 5 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
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
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
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 27.6 — up to +14.5 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 30.4 — up to +13.9 composite points

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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
Carbon Markets and Environmental Services (carbon removal, waste, mining)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-
Electronics Recycling & Circular Economy (e-waste, battery value chain, circularity networks)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-

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 3

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 (platform)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (shopify)

APIs 1

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

Upway Commerce (UCP MCP) API

Upway's agent-facing commerce surface. A remote Model Context Protocol server at https://upway.co/api/ucp/mcp implementing the Universal Commerce Protocol shopping service, vers...

MCP Servers 1

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

Upway UCP Commerce MCP Server

Upway's storefront exposes a live, anonymous Model Context Protocol endpoint at https://upway.co/api/ucp/mcp, advertised from https://upway.co/llms.txt and https://upway.co/agen...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

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

upway-browse-catalog

AGENT SKILL

upway-buy-a-used-ebike

AGENT SKILL

Upway API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Upway Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Upway Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

Upway Authentication

4 schemes

SECURITY

Upway Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Upway Scopes

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

MCPServer

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: upway
name: Upway
description: 'Upway is the largest marketplace for certified pre-owned electric bikes, founded in 2021 by former Uber executives
  Toussaint Wattinne and Stephane Ficaja. It buys used e-bikes from individuals, retailers and manufacturers, reconditions
  them through a 50-point inspection at its own UpCenter facilities in France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy
  and the United States, and resells them at up to 60% off with a one-year warranty. Upway has no developer program and publishes
  no OpenAPI, but it does run a real agent-facing commerce API: each of its storefronts serves an llms.txt and an /agents.md,
  a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp, and an anonymous Model Context Protocol endpoint whose
  tools/list returns 13 tools with full JSON Schema inputSchemas covering catalog search, cart, checkout and order retrieval.'
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0658/6404/0675/files/Upway_Logo_RGB_Electric_Blue.png?v=1677147770
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/upway/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-02'
modified: '2026-09-02'
tags:
- Company
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Marketplace
- Agentic Commerce
- MCP
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- Electric Bikes
- Micromobility
- Circular Economy
- Refurbished Goods
- Shopping Agents
tags_raw:
- Company
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Marketplace
- Agentic Commerce
- Model Context Protocol
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- Electric Bikes
- Micromobility
- Circular Economy
- Refurbished Goods
- Shopping Agents
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: upway:upway-commerce-ucp-mcp
  name: Upway Commerce (UCP MCP) API
  description: 'Upway''s agent-facing commerce surface. A remote Model Context Protocol server at https://upway.co/api/ucp/mcp
    implementing the Universal Commerce Protocol shopping service, version 2026-08-25. Anonymous: an unauthenticated tools/list
    returned HTTP 200 with 13 tools - search_catalog, lookup_catalog, get_product, create_cart, get_cart, update_cart, cancel_cart,
    create_checkout, get_checkout, update_checkout, complete_checkout, cancel_checkout and get_order - each carrying a JSON
    Schema 2020-12 inputSchema. complete_checkout requires an idempotency key and explicit buyer approval. Discoverable from
    /llms.txt, /agents.md, /.well-known/ucp and a dedicated agentic-discovery sitemap.'
  humanURL: https://upway.co/agents.md
  baseURL: https://upway.co/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Agentic Commerce
  - MCP
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - E-Commerce
  - Shopping
  - Checkout
  tags_raw:
  - Agentic Commerce
  - Model Context Protocol
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - E-Commerce
  - Shopping
  - Checkout
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/upway-mcp.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/upway-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/upway-scopes.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/upway-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/upway-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/upway-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/upway-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/upway-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/upway-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/upway-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/upway-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: ucp
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/upway-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://upway.co/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://upway.co/agents.md
- type: Support
  url: https://help.upway.co/en-US
- type: Blog
  url: https://upway.co/blogs/news
- type: Login
  url: https://upway.co/account/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://upway.co/policies/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://upway.co/policies/privacy-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shopupway
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/upway-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/upway-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/upway-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/upway-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/upway-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/upway-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/upway-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/upway-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/upway-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/upway-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/upway-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/upway-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/upway-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/upway-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 23
  pass: local-v1

Upway API — frequently asked questions

Does Upway have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Upway, including Upway Commerce (UCP MCP) API.

How do I authenticate with the Upway API?

Upway documents its authentication (4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Upway Authentication.

Does Upway have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Upway: Upway's storefront exposes a live, anonymous Model Context Protocol endpoint at https://upway.co/api/ucp/mcp, advertised from https://upway.co/llms.txt and https://upway.co/agents.md and discoverable

Is the Upway API ready for AI agents?

Upway has a Kin Score of 26.9 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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