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braintree

Our mission is to empower developers with the tools, resources, and simple-to-use SDKs and APIs to build on one platform, so they can serve merchants from around the world.

agent native

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles braintree the way a machine reads it — 54 machine-readable artifacts across 14 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — braintree scores 51.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 62/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 51.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 62/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile braintree

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for braintree. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 14

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Braintree GraphQL API

The Braintree GraphQL API provides a modern, flexible interface for interacting with the Braintree payment gateway. It exposes a single HTTP endpoint that handles all queries an...

Braintree JavaScript Client SDK

The Braintree JavaScript Client SDK enables secure collection of payment information directly in the browser without sensitive card data touching your servers. It is organized i...

Braintree iOS SDK

The Braintree iOS SDK is a native library for accepting card and alternative payments within iOS applications. It supports Swift and Objective-C and provides modules for credit ...

Braintree Android SDK

The Braintree Android SDK provides a native library for integrating payment acceptance into Android applications. It supports Java and Kotlin and includes modules for card payme...

Braintree Webhooks

Braintree Webhooks deliver automated HTTP POST notifications to your server when specific events occur within the payment gateway. Supported event types include subscription sta...

braintree Add-Ons API

Operations for retrieving add-on definitions that can be applied to subscriptions to increase their price.

braintree Client Tokens API

Operations for generating client tokens used to initialize Braintree client SDKs on web and mobile.

braintree Customers API

Operations for creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting customer records in the Braintree Vault.

braintree Discounts API

Operations for retrieving discount definitions that can be applied to subscriptions to reduce their price.

braintree Disputes API

Operations for retrieving and managing payment disputes and chargebacks.

braintree Payment Methods API

Operations for creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting vaulted payment methods associated with customers.

braintree Plans API

Operations for retrieving billing plan definitions configured in the Braintree Control Panel.

braintree Subscriptions API

Operations for creating, retrieving, updating, canceling, and retrying customer subscriptions to recurring billing plans.

braintree Transactions API

Operations for creating, capturing, voiding, refunding, and retrieving payment transactions.

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Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Braintree Payments API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

braintree GraphQL API

The Braintree GraphQL API provides a modern, flexible interface for interacting with the Braintree payment gateway. It exposes a single HTTP endpoint that handles all queries an...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Braintree Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Braintree Webhooks

Braintree Webhooks deliver automated HTTP POST notifications to a merchant-configured destination URL when specific events occur within the payment gateway. Webhook notification...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Braintree Context

0 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

braintree API Rules

6 rules · 1 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

braintree API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 23

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Address

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AppliedModification

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreditCardDetails

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Braintree Customer

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CustomerRequest

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Descriptor

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dispute

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LineItem

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Modification

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ModificationAdd

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ModificationCollection

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ModificationUpdate

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaymentMethod

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaymentMethodRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaymentMethodUpdateRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Plan

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Braintree Subscription

24 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubscriptionRequest

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubscriptionUpdateRequest

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Braintree Transaction

28 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TransactionOptions

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TransactionRequest

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Braintree Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Braintree Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Braintree Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Braintree Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Braintree Trust Center

PCI DSS, Visa Global Registry of Service Providers, Mastercard SDP, SOC 2 Type 2

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Braintree Scopes

40 scopes

40 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Braintree Agentic Access

25 operations · 16 acting

25 operations · 16 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for braintree — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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