Valyuu

Valyuu is an Amsterdam-founded embedded recommerce service provider offering a plug-and-play trade-in platform that businesses integrate to buy back, resell, and recycle used consumer electronics such as smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches across Dutch, German, and English-language markets. Its partner-facing Trade-In API powers embedded trade-in flows covering device catalogs, condition questions, offers, payments, and shipping. Valyuu is a Techstars portfolio company; as of mid-2026 valyuu.com redirects to prioont.com, whose storefront is currently unreachable.

Valyuu publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Recommerce, Trade-In, Circular Economy, and Consumer Electronics.

Valyuu’s developer surface includes authentication, sandbox, and 10 more developer resources.

19.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyRecommerceTrade-InCircular EconomyConsumer ElectronicsSustainabilityeCommerce

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 19.4/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 1

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

Valyuu Partner API

Partner-facing trade-in API behind Valyuu's embedded recommerce platform. Version 1 exposes device catalog lookups (categories, brands, series, models, and model condition/attri...

MCP Servers 1

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

valyuu-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Valyuu Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Valyuu Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: valyuu
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/valyuu.png
name: Valyuu
description: Valyuu is an Amsterdam-founded embedded recommerce service provider offering a plug-and-play trade-in platform
  that businesses integrate to buy back, resell, and recycle used consumer electronics such as smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches
  across Dutch, German, and English-language markets. Its partner-facing Trade-In API powers embedded trade-in flows covering
  device catalogs, condition questions, offers, payments, and shipping. Valyuu is a Techstars portfolio company; as of mid-2026
  valyuu.com redirects to prioont.com, whose storefront is currently unreachable.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/valyuu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 8
  pass: local-v1
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Recommerce
- Trade-In
- Circular Economy
- Consumer Electronics
- Sustainability
- eCommerce
apis:
- name: Valyuu Partner API
  description: Partner-facing trade-in API behind Valyuu's embedded recommerce platform. Version 1 exposes device catalog
    lookups (categories, brands, series, models, and model condition/attribute questions), FAQ content, trade-in order creation
    and cancellation, item offer confirmation (accept, decline-recycle, decline-return), shipping labels, and paperless shipping
    codes, authenticated with an X-Api-Key header. Documented via a Swagger endpoint referenced by Valyuu's public frontend
    demo repository; the documented staging base URL was unreachable (HTTP 522) when probed on 2026-07-21.
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/apis-json-icon.png
  humanURL: https://github.com/Valyuu/partner-api-frontend-demo
  baseURL: https://api-staging.valyuu.tech/partner
  tags:
  - Trade-In
  - Recommerce
  - Consumer Electronics
  properties:
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/Valyuu/partner-api-frontend-demo
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/valyuu-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://valyuu.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Valyuu
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://15q6umhquujjvdoy.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/privacy-policy/(EN)%20Privacy%20policy-SCHnPlBo0ZIC7CyGhWHgpLjRIeEVLE.pdf
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://15q6umhquujjvdoy.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/selling-t%26c/(EN)%20Selling%20Terms%20and%20Conditions_Valyuu%20-LdMQiilaDa887YNj0BWw2XEGmYgLmK.pdf
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/valyuu-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/valyuu-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/valyuu-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/valyuu-authentication.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/valyuu-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/valyuu-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/valyuu-sandbox.yml