# Venmo

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

Venmo is a US mobile payments service owned by PayPal that lets people send, receive, and split money with friends, pay approved businesses, and hold a balance backed by a debit and credit card. For developers, Venmo does not publish a standalone first-party public API; the historical developer.venmo.com OAuth API is no longer offered to new developers. Instead, "Pay with Venmo" is exposed to US merchants through PayPal Braintree via its GraphQL API and the Android, iOS, and JavaScript SDKs, with webhooks and a Braintree sandbox for testing. Venmo's compliance and vulnerability-disclosure posture is inherited from PayPal (Level 1 PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type 2, PayPal Bug Bounty on HackerOne).

## Kin Score — 31.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 46.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 5.1 (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 | yes |
| 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)

- **Venmo Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Venmo Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone
- **Venmo Trust Center** — PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type 2

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Payments, Fintech, Mobile Payments, P2P Payments, Money Transfer, Digital Wallet

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