Cardlytics
Cardlytics is a commerce media platform that uses first-party purchase data from its financial-institution partners to help advertisers reach consumers inside banking apps with card-linked offers and measurable, closed-loop attribution. Advertisers plan, launch, and measure card-linked campaigns through Ads Manager and advertiser APIs, while banks and neobanks (publishers) embed Merchant Offers and the Cardlytics Rewards Platform into their digital channels via publisher APIs and SDKs. The company also operates the Dosh card-linked network and the Bridg offline purchase-intelligence business, giving advertisers person-level measurement across online and in-store spend. Cardlytics publishes three OpenAPI 3.0.1 definitions through its ReadMe developer hub — a Partner API for advertiser merchant and offer ingestion, reporting and a daily redemption feed; a Campaign Build API covering the Ads Manager campaign object model; and a Publisher API v2 for the bank-side rewards experience — alongside iOS, Android and web SDKs. Nothing is self-service: every credential is issued by an account manager under a partner agreement, and the API hosts answer 403 to anonymous callers. Cardlytics is a public company (NASDAQ: CDLX) and its platform is an enterprise, partnership-based product rather than a self-service developer API.
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API Evangelist profiles Cardlytics the way a machine reads it — 29 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 — Cardlytics scores 55.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (agent ready). 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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Cardlytics
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cardlytics. 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 18
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.
Cardlytics Ad Groups API
The AdGroups API from Cardlytics — 8 operation(s) for adgroups.
Cardlytics Ads API
The Ads API from Cardlytics — 10 operation(s) for ads.
Cardlytics Ads Controller API
The ads-controller API from Cardlytics — 1 operation(s) for ads-controller.
Cardlytics Audience Reach API
The AudienceReach API from Cardlytics — 1 operation(s) for audiencereach.
Cardlytics Audiences API
The Audiences API from Cardlytics — 6 operation(s) for audiences.
Cardlytics Audit Logs API
The AuditLogs API from Cardlytics — 1 operation(s) for auditlogs.
Cardlytics Authentication API
The Authentication API from Cardlytics — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
Cardlytics Campaigns API
The Campaigns API from Cardlytics — 14 operation(s) for campaigns.
Cardlytics Customer Controller API
The customer-controller API from Cardlytics — 3 operation(s) for customer-controller.
Cardlytics Geo API
The Geo API from Cardlytics — 6 operation(s) for geo.
Cardlytics Merchants API
The Merchants API from Cardlytics — 1 operation(s) for merchants.
Cardlytics Offers API
The Offers API from Cardlytics — 1 operation(s) for offers.
Cardlytics Pricing Models API
The PricingModels API from Cardlytics — 3 operation(s) for pricingmodels.
Cardlytics Purchase Categories API
The PurchaseCategories API from Cardlytics — 2 operation(s) for purchasecategories.
Cardlytics Redemptions API
The Redemptions API from Cardlytics — 1 operation(s) for redemptions.
Cardlytics Reports API
The Reports API from Cardlytics — 1 operation(s) for reports.
Cardlytics Rewards API
The Rewards API from Cardlytics — 6 operation(s) for rewards.
Cardlytics Session Controller API
The session-controller API from Cardlytics — 1 operation(s) for session-controller.
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Open Collections 3
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).
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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
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.
Cardlytics Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSEvent 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.
Cardlytics Publisher Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 3
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.
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.
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 Cardlytics — 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 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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