emerging · -0.2

Recurring Payments

Score 21.1 / 100 28 providers 22 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (28)

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

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 15 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented

APIs with this tag (21)

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Developing 11 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented

Score breakdown

Frequency
42.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.8
spread across providers
Quality lift
46.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
6.2
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Direct Debit 5 co-occurrences Account-to-Account 5 co-occurrences Card Payments 5 co-occurrences Payment Gateway 8 co-occurrences Payouts 9 co-occurrences Refunds 8 co-occurrences Reconciliation 5 co-occurrences Tokenization 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag23
Provider tag14
Openapi tag1
Openapi op tag4

Cohort brief

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The 28 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Recurring Payments, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
28
all scored
Mean Kin Score
38.3
+17.6 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
23.6
+13.9 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
12.2–66.3
median 39.9 · σ 12.1
How the 28 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 1Developing 14Thin 9Emerging 4Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 43.8 17.5 +26.3 28
Developer Ergonomics 41.5 17.9 +23.6 28
Discoverability 75.8 60.4 +15.4 28
Operational Transparency 23.6 11.3 +12.3 28
Access Clarity 32.3 22.3 +10 28
Contract Governance 12.2 6.4 +5.8 28

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) 29% 16% +13
MCP server (first-party) 4% 7% -3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 18% 9% +9
Security 100% 88% +12
Arazzo workflows 4% 2% +2
Governance rules 36% 13% +23

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 Curlec 66.3
  2. 2 Azupay 53
  3. 3 Kushki 51.8
  4. 4 Nopan 51.8
  5. 5 Cashflows 49.7
  6. 6 TD Bank 49.2
  7. 7 Overflow 49
  8. 8 eWAY 43.8
  9. 9 GoCardless 43.6
  10. 10 Payple 42.2
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Curlec 56.7
  2. 2 Azupay 40.8
  3. 3 Paidy 36.6
  4. 4 GOV.UK Pay 36.3
  5. 5 Nopan 35.4
  6. 6 Cashfree Payments 34.9
  7. 7 Volt 33.3
  8. 8 Overflow 32.1
  9. 9 Cryptomus 31.6
  10. 10 Ordo 30.7
All 28 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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