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Payment Processing

Score 21.4 / 100 75 providers +2 via APIs 8 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (75)

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

Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 30 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
DojoPaymentsUnited KingdomPayment Gateway5 APIs53.6Amazon Payment CryptographyCryptographyFinancial ServicesPCI1 API52.3WorldpayPaymentsPayment GatewayTokenization20 APIs48.6WorldlinePaymentsAcquiringIssuing9 APIs47.6NMIPaymentsPayment GatewayTokenization9 APIs47.2PaystonePaymentsCanadaAcquiring1 API43.0PayUPaymentsFintechFinancial Services1 API41.6Form3PaymentsUnited KingdomAccount-to-Account1 API40.9ModulrPaymentsUnited KingdomBanking as a ServiceEmbedded Finance1 API53.9VersapayPaymentsCanadaAccounts ReceivableAR Automation2 APIs53.6HelcimPaymentsCanadaPayment Gateway1 API53.0SpreedlyPaymentsUnited StatesPayment GatewayPayment Orchestration1 API52.9Pinch PaymentsPaymentsAustraliaPayment Gateway10 APIs52.3Fat ZebraPaymentsAustraliaPayment Gateway4 APIs52.2PayPalPayPalBillingCommerceDisputes14 APIs51.4Shift4PaymentsUnited StatesPayment Gateway1 API50.4Trust PaymentsPaymentsUnited KingdomPayment Gateway2 APIs49.1CardstreamPaymentsUnited KingdomPayment Gateway4 APIs47.0CashflowsPaymentsUnited KingdomPayment Gateway4 APIs46.5ACI WorldwidePaymentsUnited StatesPayment Gateway5 APIs45.7dLocalPaymentsEmerging MarketsPay-InPayouts4 APIs44.8ConektaPaymentsCardsCash1 API44.6RazorpayPaymentsPayment GatewayFintechIndia1 API44.5Duck CreekInsurancePaymentsClaims1 API43.8MontonioCompanyFintechPayments2 APIs43.2TeyaCompanyPaymentsCard Acquiring4 APIs42.0MonerisFinancial ServicesPaymentsCard Payments1 API41.7PrimerPaymentsPayment OrchestrationFintech2 APIs41.3Tribe PaymentsPaymentsUnited KingdomIssuer ProcessorCard Issuing15 APIs41.3eWAYPaymentsAustraliaPayment Gateway1 API41.1
Thin 18 Limited public surface area
Emerging 9 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 8 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (8)

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 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (2)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Payment Processing” 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.

Apple Pay Mastercard

Score breakdown

Frequency
52.0
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
40.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

75 providers carry this tag directly, and 158 counting the 5 narrower tags below — 83 more to reach.

Payments broader Acquiring 30 providers Merchant Acquiring 8 providers Card Processing 5 providers Payment Facilitation 5 providers Payment Gateway 87 providers

Related tags

Acquiring 20 co-occurrences Payment Gateway 26 co-occurrences Card Payments 14 co-occurrences 3D Secure 13 co-occurrences Merchant Services 13 co-occurrences Tokenization 23 co-occurrences In-Person Payments 9 co-occurrences Disputes 14 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag76
Api tag8
Openapi tag1
Openapi op tag1

Markets provisional

Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this tag. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this tag.

MarketShare of the market's providers
EMV Card Terminals (card acceptance hardware and kernels)37%

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 74 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Payment Processing, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
74
of 75 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
38.6
+16.4 vs catalog 22.2
Mean Agent Readiness
28.5
+16.5 vs catalog 12
Spread
0–81.1
median 41.3 · σ 17.8
How the 74 split by band
Exemplar 4Strong 6Developing 30Thin 18Emerging 9Minimal 7
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 41 17.2 +23.8 74
Developer Ergonomics 45.7 23.2 +22.5 74
Operational Transparency 28.3 13 +15.3 74
Discoverability 65.9 57.9 +8 74
Access Clarity 31.4 23.9 +7.5 74
Contract Governance 12.1 6.5 +5.6 74

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) 27% 13% +14
MCP server (first-party) 24% 12% +12
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 24% 11% +13
Security 100% 98% +2
Arazzo workflows 9% 2% +7
Governance rules 28% 16% +12

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 Stripe 81.1
  2. 2 Square 78.1
  3. 3 Stax 72.5
  4. 4 Adyen 71.1
  5. 5 Finix 61.9
  6. 6 Mollie 59.6
  7. 7 Payabli 56.8
  8. 8 Zai 56.4
  9. 9 Paymentsense 55.1
  10. 10 Rainforest 54.4
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Mollie 70.4
  2. 2 Square 62.8
  3. 3 Stripe 58.5
  4. 4 Moneris 55.2
  5. 5 Shift4 52.4
  6. 6 Braintree 52
  7. 7 Stax 51.5
  8. 8 Modulr 49.8
  9. 9 Payabli 49.2
  10. 10 Zai 47.1
All 75 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 74 carry a score (99%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 63 of 74 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 24 October 2026, across 31984 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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