Zong

Zong was a mobile carrier-billing micropayments company that let consumers buy digital goods, apps, and content and charge them directly to their mobile phone bill, without entering credit-card details. Founded in 2008 (spun out of Echovox) and led by CEO David Marcus, Zong was backed by Matrix Partners and NewMargin Ventures and published a developer API for selling and delivering content to mobile customers worldwide. eBay acquired Zong in 2011 for roughly $240M and folded its technology into PayPal; the brand went offline around May 2015 and zong.com now redirects to PayPal. The company is defunct and operates no live API or developer platform today.

Zong is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Fintech, Payments, Mobile Payments, and Carrier Billing.

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5.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyFintechPaymentsMobile PaymentsCarrier BillingMicropaymentsDefunctAcquired

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Composite quality — 5.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 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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Source (apis.yml)

aid: zong
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
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  label: Unknown
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  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: Zong
description: Zong was a mobile carrier-billing micropayments company that let consumers buy digital goods, apps, and content
  and charge them directly to their mobile phone bill, without entering credit-card details. Founded in 2008 (spun out of
  Echovox) and led by CEO David Marcus, Zong was backed by Matrix Partners and NewMargin Ventures and published a developer
  API for selling and delivering content to mobile customers worldwide. eBay acquired Zong in 2011 for roughly $240M and folded
  its technology into PayPal; the brand went offline around May 2015 and zong.com now redirects to PayPal. The company is
  defunct and operates no live API or developer platform today.
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x-status-detail: Acquired by eBay in 2011 and folded into PayPal; brand offline since ~2015, zong.com redirects to PayPal.
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created: '2026-07-17'
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- Company
- Fintech
- Payments
- Mobile Payments
- Carrier Billing
- Micropayments
- Defunct
- Acquired
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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  email: info@apis.io
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  date: '2026-07-21'
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