Pax8
Pax8 is a cloud commerce marketplace that lets managed service providers (MSPs), managed IT providers, and software vendors discover, buy, sell, provision, and manage cloud software and subscriptions for small and midsize businesses. The Pax8 Public API automates the full commerce lifecycle: creating and managing partner companies and contacts, browsing the product catalog, placing and updating orders, managing subscription lifecycle changes, billing and invoice reconciliation, quoting (CPQ), vendor provisioning and usage reporting, and event-driven webhooks. APIs authenticate with OAuth2 client-credentials over api.pax8.com, and an official hosted MCP server exposes the marketplace to AI agents. Pax8 connects 47,000+ partners with hundreds of vendors serving 800,000+ SMBs. Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Pax8 the way a machine reads it — 33 machine-readable artifacts across 26 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 — Pax8 scores 51.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 71/100 (agent native). 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 Pax8
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Pax8. 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 26
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.
Pax8 Access Token API
The Access Token that allows access to the Pax8 API
Pax8 Companies API
Companies represent the customers your organization serves through the Pax8 platform. Fetch a list of your company records, or a specific company by its companyId
Pax8 Contacts API
Contacts represent the people who should be provided visibility into events such as provisioning
Pax8 Invoices API
The Invoices API from Pax8 — 4 operation(s) for invoices.
Pax8 Library attachments API
The Library attachments API from Pax8 — 3 operation(s) for library attachments.
Pax8 Orders API
Orders describe your purchases of Pax8 products. Endpoints let you create new product orders and query past purchases
Pax8 Preference attachments API
The Preference attachments API from Pax8 — 2 operation(s) for preference attachments.
Pax8 Products API
The Products resource lets you fetch all the information required to complete an Order -- product descriptions, pricing, provisioning details, and the dependencies associated wi...
Pax8 Provision Attempts API
The Provision Attempts API from Pax8 — 3 operation(s) for provision attempts.
Pax8 Provision Details API
The Provision Details API from Pax8 — 3 operation(s) for provision details.
Pax8 Provision Requests API
The Provision Requests API from Pax8 — 3 operation(s) for provision requests.
Pax8 Provision Results API
The Provision Results API from Pax8 — 3 operation(s) for provision results.
Pax8 Provisioners API
The Provisioners API from Pax8 — 5 operation(s) for provisioners.
Pax8 Provisioning Simulations API
The Provisioning Simulations API from Pax8 — 1 operation(s) for provisioning simulations.
Pax8 Quote access list API
The Quote access list API from Pax8 — 2 operation(s) for quote access list.
Pax8 Quote attachments API
The Quote attachments API from Pax8 — 3 operation(s) for quote attachments.
Pax8 Quote line items API
The Quote line items API from Pax8 — 3 operation(s) for quote line items.
Pax8 Quote preferences API
The Quote preferences API from Pax8 — 1 operation(s) for quote preferences.
Pax8 Quote sections API
The Quote sections API from Pax8 — 1 operation(s) for quote sections.
Pax8 Quotes API
The Quotes API from Pax8 — 3 operation(s) for quotes.
Pax8 Subscriptions API
Subscriptions describe terms of service, including price and the billing start/end dates for a specified product/company combination. Resources let you update, cancel, and fetch...
Pax8 Topic Definitions API
The Topic Definitions API from Pax8 — 1 operation(s) for topic definitions.
Pax8 Usage Lines API
The Usage Lines API from Pax8 — 2 operation(s) for usage lines.
Pax8 Usage Summaries API
The Usage Summaries API from Pax8 — 3 operation(s) for usage summaries.
Pax8 Webhook Logs API
The Webhook Logs API from Pax8 — 3 operation(s) for webhook logs.
Pax8 Webhooks API
The Webhooks API from Pax8 — 8 operation(s) for webhooks.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
pax8-mcp.yml
MCP SERVEREvent 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.
Pax8 Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity 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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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 Pax8 — 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 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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