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Tango

Tango (formerly Tango Card) is a rewards-as-a-service platform that provides APIs for automating digital reward and incentive delivery. The Tango RaaS API enables companies to integrate a global catalog of 3,100+ digital gift cards, prepaid cards, and charitable donations directly into their products and workflows. Tango serves loyalty programs, research panels, employee recognition platforms, and consumer incentive applications worldwide.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Tango the way a machine reads it — 37 machine-readable artifacts across 9 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 — Tango scores 66.0/100 (strong), 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 — 66.0/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.2 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 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 Tango

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Tango. 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 9

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.

Tango Accounts API

Manage sub-accounts for customers including balances and funding

Tango Catalog API

Browse the global digital reward catalog

Tango Customers API

Manage customer accounts within the Tango platform

Tango Digital Templates API

Create and manage email delivery templates for rewards

Tango Funding API

Fund accounts via credit card deposits and fund transfers

Tango Line Items API

Manage individual order line items

Tango Low Balance Alerts API

Configure low balance alerts for accounts

Tango Orders API

Place and manage reward orders

Tango Reference Data API

Exchange rates, reward countries, and credential types

Scroll within the panel for all 9 ·

Postman Collections 1

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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).

Tango RaaS API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 10

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Tango Branded Order with Email Template

Create a digital email template, then place a reward order that delivers using that template.

ARAZZO

Tango Explore Catalog and Choice Product

Browse brand categories, list Tango Choice products, and fetch one Choice product's detail.

ARAZZO

Tango Freeze and Cancel a Line Item

Freeze a line item to suspend delivery, then cancel it and confirm the cancellation.

ARAZZO

Tango Fund Account by Credit Card

Register a credit card, deposit funds onto an account with it, and confirm the deposit settled.

ARAZZO

Tango Configure Low Balance Alert

Confirm an account exists, set a low balance alert on it, and verify the alert.

ARAZZO

Tango Onboard Customer and Account

Create a customer, provision a funding account under it, and confirm the account balance.

ARAZZO

Tango Place Order with Balance Check

Check an account balance, then branch to place a reward order only when funds are sufficient.

ARAZZO

Tango Place Reward Order

Select a brand from the catalog, place a reward order for it, and confirm the order.

ARAZZO

Tango Resend Order

Look up an order, resend it to the recipient, and confirm the resend.

ARAZZO

Tango Resolve a Failed Line Item

Inspect a line item and branch — resend it when fulfilled, otherwise reissue it.

ARAZZO

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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.

Tango Plans Pricing

3 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.

Tango 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.

Tango Finops

FINOPS

Semantic 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.

Tango Context

43 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

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.

Tango API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Tango API Rules

10 rules · 1 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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.

Tango Account

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tango Catalog Item

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tango Order

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

Tango Order Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 3

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

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.

Tango Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tango 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.

Tango Agentic Access

44 operations · 19 acting

44 operations · 19 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Tango — 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 4

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

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

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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