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Klarna

Klarna is a Swedish fintech offering BNPL, banking, cards, and a shopping app to 150M+ consumers. Merchant API supports Pay-in-3, Pay-in-30, and financing.

agent ready

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 Klarna the way a machine reads it — 98 machine-readable artifacts across 21 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 — Klarna scores 41.8/100 (thin), 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 — 41.8/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Regulatory · Payments 5.9 / 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 Klarna

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Klarna. 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 21

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.

Klarna Payments API

Create and authorize Klarna payment sessions; create orders against authorizations.

Klarna Checkout API

Hosted Klarna Checkout (KCO) for full-funnel checkout experience.

Klarna Order Management API

Capture, refund, cancel and update orders post-authorization.

Klarna Customer Token API

Persist a payment authorization as a customer token for repeat purchases.

Klarna Settlements API

Read merchant settlement reports and transactions.

Klarna Push Notifications

Outbound HTTP POST callbacks Klarna issues to merchant-hosted URLs for Payments authorization, HPP status updates, Checkout push, and pending-order risk decisions.

Klarna Captures API

The Captures API from Klarna — 6 operation(s) for captures.

Klarna Checkout API

The Checkout API from Klarna — 3 operation(s) for checkout.

Klarna Customer Token API

The Customer Token API from Klarna — 3 operation(s) for customer token.

Klarna Hpp API

The Hpp API from Klarna — 3 operation(s) for hpp.

Klarna Merchant Urls.address Update API

The Merchant Urls.address Update API from Klarna — 1 operation(s) for merchant urls.address update.

Klarna Merchant Urls.country Change API

The Merchant Urls.country Change API from Klarna — 1 operation(s) for merchant urls.country change.

Klarna Merchant Urls.shipping Option Update API

The Merchant Urls.shipping Option Update API from Klarna — 1 operation(s) for merchant urls.shipping option update.

Klarna Merchant Urls.validation API

The Merchant Urls.validation API from Klarna — 1 operation(s) for merchant urls.validation.

Klarna Merchantcard API

The Merchantcard API from Klarna — 6 operation(s) for merchantcard.

Klarna Orders API

The Orders API from Klarna — 9 operation(s) for orders.

Klarna Payments API

The Payments API from Klarna — 5 operation(s) for payments.

Klarna Payouts API

The Payouts API from Klarna — 3 operation(s) for payouts.

Klarna Refunds API

The Refunds API from Klarna — 2 operation(s) for refunds.

Klarna Reports API

The Reports API from Klarna — 4 operation(s) for reports.

Klarna Transactions API

The Transactions API from Klarna — 1 operation(s) for transactions.

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Open Collections 4

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).

Klarna HPP

OPEN COLLECTION

Klarna Settlements API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 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.

Klarna GraphQL Schema

This document describes a conceptual GraphQL schema for the Klarna payments and BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) platform. The schema covers the full merchant integration surface: paym...

GRAPHQL

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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Klarna Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

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.

Klarna Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

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.

Klarna Push Notifications

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Klarna's outbound HTTP push surface — the set of server-to-server callbacks that Klarna issues to merchant-hosted endpoints when payment, checkout, a...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral 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.

Klarna API Rules

9 rules · 1 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

Klarna API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 62

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.

Addon

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Address

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BackgroundImageV1

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cancel not allowed error message

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

cancel_order_request_status_cancelled

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

cancel_order_request_status_pending

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

cancel_order_request_status

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Capture not allowed error message

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Capture

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CaptureObject

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

card

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

card_specification

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CarrierProduct

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

customer

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CustomerV1

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DistributionContactV1

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DistributionModuleV1

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DistributionRequestV1

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorMessageDto

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExtendDueDateOptions

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExtendDueDateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InitialPaymentMethodDto

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Location

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MerchantManualIdentificationV1

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MerchantOrderDto

26 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MerchantUrlsV1

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

No such capture error message

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

No such order error message

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Not allowed error message

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Not found error message

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OptionDto

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OptionsV1

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

order_line

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pagination

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Payout

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PayoutCollection

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PayoutSummary

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductIdentifiers

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

promise_created_response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

promise_request

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

promise_response

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Refund not allowed error message

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Refund

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RefundObject

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SelectedShippingOptionDto

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SessionCreationRequestV1

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SessionCreationResponseV1

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SessionResponseV1

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

settlement_request

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

settlement_response

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

shipping_info

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

subscription

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Timeslot

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Totals

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Transaction

27 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TransactionCollection

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Update authorization

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Update merchant references

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateConsumer

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateShippingInfo

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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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.

Klarna Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Klarna 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.

Klarna Agentic Access

37 operations · 19 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

37 operations · 19 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Klarna — 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.

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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