Coinbase
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency platform providing trading, custody, and payment infrastructure for individuals, businesses, and institutions. The Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) exposes a wide product surface across retail trading (Advanced Trade), professional and institutional trading (Exchange and Prime), merchant payments (Commerce), fiat onboarding (Onramp), developer wallet integration (Wallet SDK), market and on-chain data (Data API), and AI agent toolkits (AgentKit). Authentication is performed using API keys with HMAC-SHA256 signatures (Advanced Trade, Exchange) or JWT bearer tokens (Prime, CDP), with WebSocket and FIX feeds available for low-latency market data and order management.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Coinbase the way a machine reads it — 93 machine-readable artifacts across 29 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 — Coinbase scores 60.3/100 (strong), 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Coinbase
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Coinbase. 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 29
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.
Coinbase Wallet SDK
The Coinbase Wallet SDK allows developers to integrate Coinbase Wallet connectivity into decentralized applications. It provides a streamlined interface for users to connect the...
Coinbase Data API
The Coinbase Data API provides developers with access to cryptocurrency market data, blockchain analytics, and pricing information. It delivers real-time and historical data for...
Coinbase AgentKit
Coinbase AgentKit is a toolkit that enables AI agents to interact with blockchain networks through secure wallet management and comprehensive onchain capabilities. Built on the ...
Coinbase Accounts API
Manage user accounts and retrieve account information including balances and holds.
Coinbase Activities API
View activity history for portfolios including trades, transfers, and other events.
Coinbase Address Book API
Manage approved withdrawal addresses in the address book.
Coinbase Allocations API
View and manage order allocations across sub-portfolios.
Coinbase Assets API
Retrieve information about supported assets and products.
Coinbase Balances API
Retrieve portfolio balance information across all assets.
Coinbase Buy API
Endpoints for discovering buy options, generating buy quotes, and retrieving buy configuration for fiat-to-crypto purchases.
Coinbase Charges API
Create and manage payment charges. A charge represents a request for cryptocurrency payment from a customer.
Coinbase Checkouts API
Create and manage reusable checkout pages for accepting recurring or standardized payments.
Coinbase Conversions API
Convert between stablecoin currencies on the exchange.
Coinbase Currencies API
Retrieve information about supported currencies on the exchange.
Coinbase Deposits API
View deposit information and payment methods for funding exchange accounts.
Coinbase Events API
Retrieve webhook events that track the lifecycle of charges, checkouts, and invoices.
Coinbase Fees API
Retrieve transaction summary and fee information for the authenticated user.
Coinbase Invoices API
Create and manage invoices for billing customers with cryptocurrency payment options.
Coinbase Market Data API
Access public market data including products, order books, trades, and candles without authentication.
Coinbase Orders API
Create, cancel, and manage trading orders including market, limit, and stop-limit order types.
Coinbase Portfolios API
Create and manage portfolios for organizing trading activity and asset allocation.
Coinbase Products API
Retrieve product information, market trades, product books, and candle data for trading pairs.
Coinbase Profiles API
Manage exchange profiles and transfer funds between them.
Coinbase Sell API
Endpoints for discovering sell options and generating sell quotes for crypto-to-fiat transactions.
Coinbase Session API
Manage session tokens for embedded onramp widget authentication.
Coinbase Transactions API
View and create transactions including withdrawals and transfers.
Coinbase Users API
Manage users associated with a portfolio.
Coinbase Wallets API
Manage wallets within a portfolio for different asset types.
Coinbase Withdrawals API
Manage crypto withdrawals from exchange accounts to external addresses or Coinbase accounts.
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Open Collections 5
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).
Coinbase Advanced Trade API
OPEN COLLECTIONCoinbase Commerce API
OPEN COLLECTIONCoinbase Exchange API
OPEN COLLECTIONCoinbase Onramp API
OPEN COLLECTIONCoinbase Prime 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.
Coinbase GraphQL Schema
This document describes a conceptual GraphQL schema for the Coinbase Developer Platform. Coinbase exposes its capabilities through REST APIs (Advanced Trade, Exchange, Prime, Co...
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.
Coinbase 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.
Coinbase Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 3
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.
Coinbase Advanced Trade WebSocket
The Coinbase Advanced Trade WebSocket API provides real-time market data streaming including heartbeats, ticker updates, candle data, market trades, level2 order book updates, a...
ASYNCAPICoinbase Commerce Webhooks
Coinbase Commerce sends webhook events to notify your application when charges are created, confirmed, delayed, pending, failed, or resolved. Each webhook event is signed with a...
ASYNCAPICoinbase Exchange WebSocket Feed
The Coinbase Exchange WebSocket Feed provides real-time market data for the Exchange platform. It supports multiple channels including heartbeat, ticker, level2 order book, full...
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.
Coinbase Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 3
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.
JSON Schema 43
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.
Account
JSON SCHEMAActivity
JSON SCHEMAAddressBookEntry
JSON SCHEMAAllocation
JSON SCHEMABalance
JSON SCHEMABuyConfig
JSON SCHEMABuyQuote
JSON SCHEMABuyQuoteRequest
JSON SCHEMACandle
JSON SCHEMACoinbase Commerce Charge
JSON SCHEMACheckout
JSON SCHEMAConversion
JSON SCHEMACreateChargeRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateCheckoutRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateInvoiceRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateOrderRequest
JSON SCHEMACurrency
JSON SCHEMAEvent
JSON SCHEMAFill
JSON SCHEMAHold
JSON SCHEMAInvoice
JSON SCHEMALedgerEntry
JSON SCHEMACoinbase Order
JSON SCHEMAOrderBook
JSON SCHEMAPagination
JSON SCHEMAPayment
JSON SCHEMAPaymentCurrency
JSON SCHEMAPaymentMethod
JSON SCHEMAPortfolio
JSON SCHEMAPortfolioBreakdown
JSON SCHEMAPriceBook
JSON SCHEMACoinbase Trading Product
JSON SCHEMAProfile
JSON SCHEMAPurchaseCurrency
JSON SCHEMASellQuote
JSON SCHEMASellQuoteRequest
JSON SCHEMATicker
JSON SCHEMATrade
JSON SCHEMATransaction
JSON SCHEMATransactionSummary
JSON SCHEMATransfer
JSON SCHEMAUser
JSON SCHEMAWallet
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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.
Coinbase Structure
JSON STRUCTURESecurity 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.
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 Coinbase — 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 4
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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