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Acquiring

Score 20.7 / 100 31 providers +2 via APIs 10 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (31)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 13 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (10)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 3 Limited public surface area

Companies reaching this through an API (2)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Acquiring” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

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Score breakdown

Frequency
43.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.9
spread across providers
Quality lift
47.9
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

Payments broader

Related tags

Payment Processing 20 co-occurrences In-Person Payments 8 co-occurrences Card Payments 12 co-occurrences 3D Secure 10 co-occurrences Payment Gateway 17 co-occurrences Disputes 10 co-occurrences Merchant Services 6 co-occurrences Tokenization 14 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag31
Api tag10

Cohort brief

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The 31 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Acquiring, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
31
all scored
Mean Kin Score
42.2
+18.2 vs catalog 24
Mean Agent Readiness
27.7
+15.3 vs catalog 12.4
Spread
9.1–59.2
median 45.2 · σ 13.1
How the 31 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 6Developing 13Thin 8Emerging 3Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 50.8 23.4 +27.4 31
Contract Quality 43.9 20.1 +23.8 31
Operational Transparency 28.3 14 +14.3 31
Discoverability 70.9 61 +9.9 31
Contract Governance 12.1 6.5 +5.6 31
Access Clarity 32 26.5 +5.5 31

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 16% 10% +6
MCP server (first-party) 16% 13% +3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 13% 11% +2
Security 100% 96% +4
Arazzo workflows 10% 2% +8
Governance rules 10% 13% -3

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Paymentsense 59.2
  2. 2 Moniepoint 56.8
  3. 3 Dojo 56.4
  4. 4 Helcim 55.8
  5. 5 Fat Zebra 55.7
  6. 6 PPRO 54.6
  7. 7 Silverflow 53.8
  8. 8 Shift4 53.7
  9. 9 Trust Payments 52.5
  10. 10 Mercado Pago 51
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Moneris 52.6
  2. 2 Shift4 51.4
  3. 3 PPRO 48.5
  4. 4 Helcim 41.5
  5. 5 Silverflow 41.5
  6. 6 Uzum 38.7
  7. 7 Dojo 35.7
  8. 8 Tribe Payments 35.7
  9. 9 Fat Zebra 35.4
  10. 10 Till Payments 35.4
All 31 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 20 September 2026, across 27620 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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  • cohort_statsPRO — the distribution across this tag: mean, median, band split, adoption rates.
  • cohort_rankingsPRO — the leaderboard, on composite AND agent-readiness axes.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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