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Cleartax

Cleartax (operating as Clear, clear.in) is an Indian fintech and financial-compliance automation platform that provides tax, GST, and e-invoicing software for individuals, tax professionals, and over 4,000 enterprises. Clear exposes a suite of developer APIs through its documentation portal at docs.cleartax.in, including the Clear Finance Cloud (CFC) ingestion APIs, the GST 2.0 / GSP filing API, the Max ITC input-tax-credit reconciliation API, the GLS API, the E-Invoicing and E-Waybill APIs (with government IRP/NIC-compatible endpoints and DSC signing), the Invoicing API, and KSA (Saudi Arabia) e-invoicing APIs. APIs authenticate with a client secret exchanged for an access token and run against production (api.clear.in) and sandbox (api-sandbox.clear.in) hosts.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Cleartax the way a machine reads it — 8 machine-readable artifacts across 5 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 — Cleartax scores 36.7/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 24/100 (agent aware). 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 — 36.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Government & Public Sector 8.5 / 15
Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile Cleartax

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cleartax. 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 5

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.

Clear E-Invoicing & E-Waybill API

Generate, cancel, and retrieve GST e-invoices (IRN) and e-waybills, including government IRP/NIC-compatible endpoints, DSC PDF signing, and bulk operations.

Clear GST 2.0 API

ASP/GSP GST filing API for uploading documents and filing G1-G9 returns via Clear's GST Suvidha Provider integration.

Clear Finance Cloud (CFC) API

Document ingestion APIs for sale and purchase documents via file upload (pre-signed URL) with access-token authentication and ingestion-status tracking.

Clear Max ITC API

Input Tax Credit (ITC) reconciliation API: upload purchase documents, trigger the Max ITC workflow, and fetch reconciliation results.

Clear Invoicing API

Create sale and non-sale documents, download document PDFs, and retrieve document details for invoicing workflows.

Security 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.

Cleartax Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Cleartax Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Cleartax Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Cleartax — 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.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

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

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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