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Chargebee

Chargebee is a subscription billing and revenue management platform that enables SaaS and subscription businesses to automate recurring billing, invoicing, payments, dunning, and revenue recognition. The Chargebee REST API v2 provides programmatic access to subscriptions, customers, invoices, payments, plans, addons, coupons, and usage metering, with HTTP Basic Auth using API keys scoped to each Chargebee site.

agent ready

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 Chargebee the way a machine reads it — 14 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 — Chargebee scores 45.4/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 45.4/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 9.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Payments 3.9 / 15
Agent readiness — 54/100 · agent ready
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 0 / 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 Chargebee

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Chargebee. 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 8

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.

Chargebee Customers API

The Customers API from Chargebee — 2 operation(s) for customers.

Chargebee Invoices API

The Invoices API from Chargebee — 2 operation(s) for invoices.

Chargebee Items API

The Items API from Chargebee — 1 operation(s) for items.

Chargebee Orders API

The Orders API from Chargebee — 1 operation(s) for orders.

Chargebee Payments API

The Payments API from Chargebee — 1 operation(s) for payments.

Chargebee Plans API

The Plans API from Chargebee — 1 operation(s) for plans.

Chargebee Quotes API

The Quotes API from Chargebee — 1 operation(s) for quotes.

Chargebee Subscriptions API

The Subscriptions API from Chargebee — 2 operation(s) for subscriptions.

Scroll within the panel for all 8 ·

Open Collections 1

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).

Chargebee API v2

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Chargebee Webhooks

AsyncAPI description of Chargebee's webhook (event) surface. When a notable change occurs on a Chargebee site (customer created, subscription cancelled, invoice generated, payme...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

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.

Chargebee API Rules

9 rules · 1 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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.

Chargebee Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Chargebee Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Chargebee Agentic Access

13 operations · 2 acting

13 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Chargebee — 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 2

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

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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