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.
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.
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.
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 COLLECTIONBraintree Subscriptions API
OPEN COLLECTIONGraphQL 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...
GRAPHQLPricing 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
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Braintree Finops
FINOPSEvent 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...
ASYNCAPISemantic 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
JSON-LDSpectral 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
SPECTRALbraintree API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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
JSON SCHEMAAppliedModification
JSON SCHEMACreditCardDetails
JSON SCHEMABraintree Customer
JSON SCHEMACustomerRequest
JSON SCHEMADescriptor
JSON SCHEMADispute
JSON SCHEMAError
JSON SCHEMALineItem
JSON SCHEMAModification
JSON SCHEMAModificationAdd
JSON SCHEMAModificationCollection
JSON SCHEMAModificationUpdate
JSON SCHEMAPaymentMethod
JSON SCHEMAPaymentMethodRequest
JSON SCHEMAPaymentMethodUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAPlan
JSON SCHEMABraintree Subscription
JSON SCHEMASubscriptionRequest
JSON SCHEMASubscriptionUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMABraintree Transaction
JSON SCHEMATransactionOptions
JSON SCHEMATransactionRequest
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 23 ·
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
JSON STRUCTURESecurity 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 Trust Center
PCI DSS, Visa Global Registry of Service Providers, Mastercard SDP, SOC 2 Type 2
SECURITYScopes 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.
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.
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
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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