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Payment Processing

Score 20.8 / 100 77 providers +2 via APIs 8 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (77)

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

Exemplar 7 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 13 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 22 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 19 Limited public surface area
Emerging 8 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
49.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.0
spread across providers
Quality lift
41.1
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

77 providers carry this tag directly, and 168 counting the 5 narrower tags below — 91 more to reach.

Payments broader Acquiring 35 providers Merchant Acquiring 8 providers Card Processing 5 providers Payment Facilitation 5 providers Payment Gateway 91 providers

Related tags

Acquiring 21 co-occurrences Payment Gateway 27 co-occurrences Merchant Services 14 co-occurrences 3D Secure 13 co-occurrences Card Payments 14 co-occurrences Tokenization 24 co-occurrences In-Person Payments 9 co-occurrences Disputes 14 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag77
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 75 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
75
of 77 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
41.5
+17.4 vs catalog 24.1
Mean Agent Readiness
29
+14.9 vs catalog 14.1
Spread
0–82
median 43.1 · σ 19.7
How the 75 split by band
Exemplar 7Strong 12Developing 22Thin 19Emerging 8Minimal 7
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 48.8 24.5 +24.3 75
Contract Quality 42.5 18.6 +23.9 75
Operational Transparency 28.6 13.2 +15.4 75
Access Clarity 39.5 30 +9.5 75
Discoverability 66.6 59.1 +7.5 75
Contract Governance 17 9.7 +7.3 75

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% 18% +9
MCP server (first-party) 24% 16% +8
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 24% 13% +11
Security 100% 99% +1
Arazzo workflows 9% 1% +8
Governance rules 61% 36% +25

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 82
  2. 2 Square 78.2
  3. 3 Adyen 73.6
  4. 4 Stax 71.1
  5. 5 Amazon Payment Cryptography 70.6
  6. 6 Mollie 68.1
  7. 7 Fat Zebra 66.7
  8. 8 Spreedly 65.8
  9. 9 Rainforest 65.7
  10. 10 Paymentsense 64.5
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Mollie 73.2
  2. 2 Square 62.8
  3. 3 Stripe 58.5
  4. 4 Moneris 55.2
  5. 5 Stax 53.4
  6. 6 Shift4 52.4
  7. 7 Braintree 52
  8. 8 Modulr 51.7
  9. 9 Spreedly 50.4
  10. 10 Payabli 48.2
All 77 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 75 carry a score (97%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 58 of 75 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 14 November 2026, across 41591 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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  • get_cohortThis tag as a scored cohort — every provider carrying it, with scores.
  • 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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