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Direct Debit

Score 22.1 / 100 26 providers 14 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Payments & Card Management 3
Variants seen in the corpus: Direct DebitDirect debitDirectDebit

Providers using this tag (26)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
DOKUPaymentsPayment GatewayFintechIndonesia1 API70.3
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
CurlecCompanyPaymentsPayment GatewayRecurring Payments1 API63.2MoniepointAfricaNigeriaPaymentsBanking13 APIs57.6PagaPaymentsMobile MoneyFintechCollection1 API56.3Fat ZebraPaymentsAustraliaPayment GatewayPayment Processing4 APIs55.8ZaiPaymentsAustraliaPayment GatewayPayment Processing4 APIs55.2
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Pinch PaymentsPaymentsAustraliaPayment GatewayPayment Processing10 APIs53.7SpareOpen BankingOpen FinanceAccount InformationPayment Initiation7 APIs53.4AzupayPaymentsAustraliaReal-Time PaymentsAccount-to-Account6 APIs51.3ToqioEmbedded FinanceFintechBanking as a ServicePayments17 APIs47.4ModulrPaymentsUnited KingdomBanking-as-a-ServiceEmbedded Finance1 API47.2GoCardlessPaymentsBank DebitRecurring Payments1 API46.3Workday FinanceAccountingCloudEnterpriseERP2 APIs45.6AdfinCompanyFintechPaymentsInvoicing1 API45.3Form3PaymentsUnited KingdomPayment ProcessingAccount-to-Account1 API44.1Macquarie BankFinancialBanksOpen BankingCDR1 API42.7Commonwealth BankFinancialBanksConsumer BankingBusiness Banking8 APIs42.6WorldlinePaymentsPayment ProcessingAcquiringIssuing9 APIs39.5
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
MonoOpen BankingFinancial DataPayments1 API38.1PaysafePaymentsDigital WalletPrepaid CardsFinancial-Services9 APIs34.5SwanEmbedded BankingBanking as a ServiceBaaSPayments7 APIs30.7RotessaPaymentsCanadaPre-Authorized DebitACH1 API30.6MonoOpen BankingFinancial DataPaymentsFintech1 API28.2
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Pay.UKPaymentsUnited KingdomReal-Time PaymentsISO 2002219.3PayToPaymentsAustraliaReal-Time PaymentsAccount-to-Account1 API18.6
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Aella CreditCompanyFintechBankingMicrofinance1 API9.0

APIs with this tag (11)

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
Paga Direct Debit APIBank-account mandate tokenization and recurring debits.56.3
Developing 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Spare DirectDebit APIThe DirectDebit API from Spare — 1 operation(s) for directdebit.53.4Azupay Payment Agreement APIThis API allows you to request Payments using mandates.51.3Toqio Direct debit APIThe Direct debit API from Toqio — 3 operation(s) for direct debit.47.4Workday Settlement Services APISOAP API for settlement management and payment services. Supports payment processing, bank routing, settlem...45.6Macquarie DEFT Payments APIMacquarie's DEFT payments platform, surfaced through the registered Macquarie developer portal, lets busine...42.7Commonwealth Bank PayTo APIDocumented in CommBank's business API catalogue: PayTo is a modern digital payment solution enabling near r...42.6Worldline Direct Debit APIDirect Debit Api Controller39.5
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Mono Direct Debit APICustomers, mandates, balance inquiry, and recurring debits.38.1Paysafe Payments APIThe core REST API to process payments from customers across multiple payment methods including credit and d...34.5Swan Payments APIInitiate and track SEPA payments. The initiateCreditTransfers mutation sends SEPA Credit Transfers, includi...30.7

Score breakdown

Frequency
42.4
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
52.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
4.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Account-to-Account 8 co-occurrences Confirmation of Payee 5 co-occurrences Mandates 6 co-occurrences Real-Time Payments 6 co-occurrences Recurring Payments 5 co-occurrences Payment Processing 6 co-occurrences Payment Gateway 6 co-occurrences Open Banking 12 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag16
Api tag14
Openapi tag4
Openapi op tag12

Cohort brief

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The 26 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Direct Debit, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
26
all scored
Mean Kin Score
43.6
+22.9 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
26.9
+17.2 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
9–70.1
median 46.3 · σ 15
How the 26 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 6Developing 10Thin 6Emerging 2Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 44.6 17.5 +27.1 26
Developer Ergonomics 44.3 17.9 +26.4 26
Operational Transparency 29 11.3 +17.7 26
Access Clarity 39.5 22.3 +17.2 26
Discoverability 75.9 60.4 +15.5 26
Contract Governance 16.4 6.4 +10 26

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) 58% 16% +42
MCP server (first-party) 19% 7% +12
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 42% 9% +33
Security 100% 88% +12
Arazzo workflows 8% 2% +6
Governance rules 12% 13% -1

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 DOKU 70.1
  2. 2 Curlec 66.3
  3. 3 Zai 58.7
  4. 4 Moniepoint 58.5
  5. 5 Paga 57.6
  6. 6 Fat Zebra 56.2
  7. 7 Pinch Payments 55
  8. 8 Spare 53.5
  9. 9 Azupay 53
  10. 10 Modulr 48.7
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Curlec 56.7
  2. 2 Modulr 48
  3. 3 Azupay 40.8
  4. 4 Adfin 39.1
  5. 5 Pinch Payments 38.8
  6. 6 Zai 37.2
  7. 7 DOKU 35.4
  8. 8 Paga 35.4
  9. 9 Fat Zebra 33.6
  10. 10 Toqio 33.6
All 26 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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