WeChat (Weixin) is Tencent's flagship super-app, combining messaging, social, payments, mini-apps, official-account publishing, video, enterprise collaboration, and cloud hosting under a single identity. Its developer surface spans the WeChat Open Platform (third-party app login and authorization), Mini Programs (client and server APIs), Mini Games, Official Accounts and Service Accounts, WeChat Pay (APIv3 for mainland China and Global v3 for cross-border merchants), WeChat Work / WeCom (Enterprise WeChat), WeChat Channels (Video Accounts), WeChat Shop, and WeChat Cloud Hosting — addressing over a billion monthly active users primarily in China and across the WeChat international footprint.
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 WeChat the way a machine reads it — 38 machine-readable artifacts across 16 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 — WeChat scores 49.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 44/100 (agent aware). 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 WeChat
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for WeChat. 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 16
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.
WeChat Mini Programs Server API
Backend HTTPS/JSON APIs that Mini Program operators call from their own servers to authenticate user sessions (code2Session), mint access tokens, send customer service and templ...
WeChat Mini Programs Client API
Client-side JavaScript API exposed inside the WeChat runtime to Mini Programs and Mini Games. Covers network (wx.request, wx.downloadFile, wx.uploadFile), storage, UI / navigati...
WeChat Pay APIv3 (Direct-Connect Merchant)
WeChat Pay's third-generation REST API for mainland-China direct-connect merchants. Authenticates with merchant API certificates and platform-key signed requests over HTTPS/JSON...
WeChat Pay APIv3 (Service Provider / Partner)
WeChat Pay's APIv3 in "service provider" mode, used by payment platforms and ISVs to onboard and operate sub-merchants. Adds combined-order JSAPI/Native/App payments, sub-mercha...
WeChat Pay Global v3 API
Cross-border WeChat Pay surface for international institutions and merchants accepting payments from WeChat users outside mainland China. Provides a "universal version for globa...
WeChat Open Platform — Mobile App Login (OAuth 2.0)
OAuth 2.0 authorization flow exposed by the WeChat Open Platform for native iOS, Android, and HarmonyOS apps. Apps redirect into WeChat to obtain an authorization code, then exc...
WeChat Open Platform — Website Login (QR OAuth)
Web-based OAuth 2.0 login that renders a WeChat QR code on third-party websites. End users scan the code in WeChat to authenticate; the website receives a code on its callback U...
WeChat Open Platform — Third-Party Platform API
API surface that lets authorized ISVs operate Official Accounts and Mini Programs on behalf of merchant clients ("代商家调用接口"). Covers merchant authorization onboarding, developing...
WeChat Official Accounts API
HTTPS/JSON APIs for WeChat Official Accounts (Subscription Accounts and Service Accounts) — the publishing surface used by media, brands, and businesses to reach WeChat follower...
WeChat Work (WeCom) API
Server API for Enterprise WeChat / WeCom — Tencent's enterprise collaboration suite. All calls are HTTPS/JSON, UTF-8 encoded, and require an access token. Covers Contacts manage...
WeChat Cloud Hosting API
WeChat Cloud Hosting (微信云托管) is Tencent's cloud-native, ops-free container deployment service tightly integrated into the WeChat ecosystem. Documented as "a cloud-native, operat...
WeChat Channels (Video Accounts) Developer Surface
WeChat Channels (视频号) is WeChat's short-video and livestreaming product. The developer surface — exposed through the Mini Programs platform and Channels merchant tools — covers ...
WeChat Shop (微信小店) API
WeChat Shop (微信小店) is WeChat's unified merchant storefront tying together Mini Programs, Channels livestreaming, Official Accounts, and WeChat Search. APIs cover product (SPU/SK...
WeChat Access Token API
Application-level access token management.
WeChat Login API
Mini Program login and session exchange.
WeChat User Information API
User identity (UnionID) lookups.
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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).
WeChat Mini Program Server API (subset)
OPEN COLLECTIONFeatures 17
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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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.
WeChat Webhooks (Official Accounts, WeChat Pay APIv3, WeCom)
AsyncAPI description of the publicly documented WeChat (Weixin) webhook surfaces. WeChat does not expose a public WebSocket / streaming endpoint for third-party developers — its...
ASYNCAPISpectral Rules 1
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.
WeChat API Rules
SPECTRALSecurity Posture 1
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.
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 WeChat — 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 12
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
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Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 14
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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