emerging · 1.5

Cross-Border Payments

Score 21.0 / 100 79 providers 16 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: Cross Border PaymentsCross-Border Paymentscross-border paymentscross-border-payments

Providers using this tag (79)

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

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 18 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 15 Limited public surface area
Emerging 17 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 21 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (15)

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Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface

Score breakdown

Frequency
54.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
2.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
34.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Foreign Exchange 23 co-occurrences Remittances 15 co-occurrences Stablecoins 30 co-occurrences Money Transfer 17 co-occurrences B2B Payments 10 co-occurrences Remittance 8 co-occurrences Virtual Accounts 8 co-occurrences Digital Wallet 10 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag77
Api tag16

Cohort brief

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The 79 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Cross-Border Payments, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
79
all scored
Mean Kin Score
28.3
+7.6 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
15.8
+6.1 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
0.6–71.4
median 28.5 · σ 19.1
How the 79 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 7Developing 19Thin 13Emerging 18Minimal 21
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 32.7 17.9 +14.8 79
Contract Quality 24.6 17.5 +7.1 79
Discoverability 67.2 60.4 +6.8 79
Contract Governance 12.1 6.4 +5.7 79
Access Clarity 26.4 22.3 +4.1 79
Operational Transparency 14.7 11.3 +3.4 79

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) 39% 16% +23
MCP server (first-party) 13% 7% +6
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 14% 9% +5
Security 97% 88% +9
Arazzo workflows 3% 2% +1
Governance rules 6% 13% -7

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 Lightspark 71.4
  2. 2 Airtm 62.8
  3. 3 BVNK 62.6
  4. 4 iBanFirst 62.6
  5. 5 Currencycloud 61
  6. 6 Ripple Labs 60.4
  7. 7 Airwallex 55.6
  8. 8 Klasha 54.6
  9. 9 Duplo 53.7
  10. 10 Fipto 52.6
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Lightspark 52.6
  2. 2 Ripple Labs 51.8
  3. 3 iBanFirst 50.4
  4. 4 BVNK 50
  5. 5 Airtm 49.8
  6. 6 Tesser 43.5
  7. 7 LianLian Global 41.7
  8. 8 Rain 39.4
  9. 9 Currencycloud 38.2
  10. 10 NALA 38.2
All 79 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 25 August 2026, across 26891 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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