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Metronome

Metronome is a usage-based billing platform providing real-time metering, pricing, invoicing, and revenue recognition for API and cloud services.

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 Metronome the way a machine reads it — 26 machine-readable artifacts across 18 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 — Metronome scores 43.0/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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 — 43.0/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · 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 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Metronome

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

Metronome Alerts API

[Alerts](https://docs.metronome.com/connecting-metronome/alerts/) monitor customer spending, balances, and other billing factors. Use these endpoints to create, retrieve, and ar...

Metronome Billable Metrics API

The Billable Metrics API from Metronome — 5 operation(s) for billable metrics.

Metronome Contracts API

A contract defines a customer’s products, pricing, discounts, commitments, and more. Use these endpoints to create and update contracts data.

Metronome Credits and commits API

Credits and commits are used to manage customer balances.

Metronome Custom fields API

[Custom fields](https://docs.metronome.com/integrations/custom-fields/) enable adding additional data to Metronome entities. Use these endpoints to create, retrieve, update, and...

Metronome Customers API

[Customers](https://docs.metronome.com/provisioning/create-customers/) in Metronome represent your users for all billing and reporting. Use these endpoints to create, retrieve, ...

Metronome Integrations API

The Integrations API from Metronome — 1 operation(s) for integrations.

Metronome Invoices API

[Invoices](https://docs.metronome.com/invoicing/) reflect how much a customer spent during a period, which is the basis for billing. Metronome automatically generates invoices b...

Metronome Named schedules API

Named schedules are used for storing custom data that can change over time. Named schedules are often used in custom pricing logic.

Metronome Notifications API

The Notifications API from Metronome — 6 operation(s) for notifications.

Metronome Packages API

The Packages API from Metronome — 3 operation(s) for packages.

Metronome Payments API

The Payments API from Metronome — 3 operation(s) for payments.

Metronome Products API

Products are the items that customers purchase.

Metronome Rate cards API

Rate cards are used to define default pricing for products.

Metronome Security API

[Security](https://docs.metronome.com/developer-resources/security/) endpoints allow you to retrieve security-related data.

Metronome Settings API

Use these endpoints to configure a billing API key, a webhook secret, or invoice finalization behavior.

Metronome Threshold billing API

The Threshold billing API from Metronome — 1 operation(s) for threshold billing.

Metronome Usage API

[Usage events](https://docs.metronome.com/connecting-metronome/send-usage-data/) are the basis for billable metrics. Use these endpoints to send usage events to Metronome and re...

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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).

Metronome

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

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.

Metronome Rate Limits

5 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.

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.

Metronome Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Metronome Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Metronome Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS

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.

Metronome Agentic Access

133 operations · 120 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

133 operations · 120 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Metronome — 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 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

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

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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