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Toss Payments

Toss Payments is a South Korean payment gateway (PG) operated by Viva Republica, the company behind the Toss super-app. Its REST API lets merchants accept and manage online payments across cards, Korean easy-pay wallets (Toss Pay, KakaoPay, Naver Pay), virtual accounts, bank transfer, and mobile-phone billing. The Core API (base https://api.tosspayments.com) covers payment confirmation and cancellation, recurring billing keys, virtual account issuance, cash receipts, transaction and settlement queries, and seller payouts, with asynchronous results delivered by webhooks. Authentication is HTTP Basic using a secret API key.

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 Toss Payments the way a machine reads it — 15 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 — Toss Payments scores 38.7/100 (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 — 38.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 14.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Payments 3.9 / 15
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 Toss Payments

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Toss Payments. 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 8

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.

Toss Payments Brandpay API

Brandpay is Toss Payments' embeddable in-merchant easy-pay wallet, letting customers register payment methods once and reuse them. Method and customer status changes are pushed ...

Toss Payments Billing API

Recurring (automatic) payments via billing keys.

Toss Payments Cash Receipts API

Korean cash receipt (현금영수증) issuance and cancellation.

Toss Payments Payments API

Confirm, retrieve, and cancel payments.

Toss Payments Payouts API

Marketplace balance and seller payouts (v2).

Toss Payments Settlements API

Settlement queries and manual settlement requests.

Toss Payments Transactions API

Transaction ledger queries.

Toss Payments Virtual Accounts API

Per-order virtual bank account issuance.

Scroll within the panel for all 8 ·

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).

Toss Payments Core API

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.

Toss Payments 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 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.

Toss Payments Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Toss Payments Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · 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.

Toss Payments Agentic Access

17 operations · 11 acting

17 operations · 11 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Toss Payments — 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 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 2

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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