US Payments
Grouped by Kin Score band and ranked by composite score within each, with the separate agent-readiness score alongside. Click the scores on any row to open the full facet and dimension breakdown behind both numbers, and click again to close it.
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Exemplar 5 70+ Reference-quality API operations across every facet.
Stripe Exemplar agent native Gateways & PSPs
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for online businesses of all sizes.
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Square Exemplar agent native Gateways & PSPs
Square provides APIs for payment processing, point of sale, and business management solutions enabling developers to build custom commerce applications.
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Plaid Exemplar agent native Financial Data & Aggregation
Plaid is a US financial-technology company and data-network aggregator that provides an API platform for businesses to securely connect with their users' ban...
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Unit Exemplar agent native Embedded Finance & BaaS
Unit is a US Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that lets companies embed banking, cards, and payments into their own products. Its REST API — organized ar...
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Socure Exemplar agent ready Fraud, Risk & Identity
Socure is the leading vertically-integrated digital identity verification and fraud-prevention platform, used by 3,000+ banks, fintechs, crypto exchanges, ma...
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Strong 11 60–69.9 Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start.
Fireblocks Strong agent ready Crypto & Stablecoin Rails
Fireblocks is an institutional digital-asset and stablecoin infrastructure company providing MPC-secured custody, wallets (custodial and non-custodial / embe...
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Block Strong agent ready Gateways & PSPs
Block, Inc. is a global technology company building economic empowerment tools through a family of products including Square (commerce and payments), Cash Ap...
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Highnote Strong agent native Issuer-Processors
Highnote is a modern, unified embedded-finance and banking-as-a-service platform for card issuing, card acquiring, credit, and real-time money movement, with...
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Ramp Strong agent ready Spend, AP & AR
Ramp is a finance automation platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable, vendor management, and accounting integrations int...
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PayPal Strong agent ready Gateways & PSPs
PayPal is a global online payment system that lets individuals and businesses send and receive money electronically. PayPal exposes a broad surface of REST A...
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Finix Strong agent native Embedded Finance & BaaS
Finix is a full-stack payments technology provider that lets software platforms, marketplaces, and merchants accept and send payments online and in person. T...
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Authorize.net Strong agent native Gateways & PSPs
Authorize.net is a leading payment gateway providing secure online payment processing for merchants. It offers a POST-based XML/JSON API, Accept.js hosted pa...
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Spreedly Strong agent native Gateways & PSPs
Spreedly is a United States payments orchestration platform and PCI-compliant card vault that lets merchants and platforms securely tokenize payment methods ...
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Dwolla Strong agent native Financial Data & Aggregation
Dwolla is a Des Moines-based fintech providing an account-to-account (A2A) payments platform that lets businesses programmatically move money across the U.S....
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Payabli Strong agent native Gateways & PSPs
Payabli is an embedded payments platform and fintech operating system that lets software companies integrate and monetize financial services directly inside ...
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Cash App Strong agent native Gateways & PSPs
Cash App is a consumer mobile-first financial services platform operated by Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.), a publicly traded company. Cash App is not i...
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Developing 19 45–59.9 Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps.
Circle Developing agent ready Crypto & Stablecoin Rails
Circle Internet Financial is the issuer of USDC and EURC and operates a developer platform for moving regulated stablecoin money across the internet. Their A...
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Paxos Developing agent native Crypto & Stablecoin Rails
Paxos is a regulated blockchain and stablecoin infrastructure company that lets enterprises move any asset, any time, through a single API. The Paxos v2 REST...
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TabaPay Developing agent native Embedded Finance & BaaS
TabaPay is an instant money movement platform for fintechs, banks, and payment companies. One Unified API accepts payments (pull) and sends payouts (push) ac...
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Moov Developing agent ready Embedded Finance & BaaS
Moov is a financial infrastructure platform that enables developers to embed money movement capabilities directly into their applications. Their developer pl...
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Bridge Developing agent native Crypto & Stablecoin Rails
Bridge is stablecoin payment and money-movement infrastructure for developers. Its composable REST APIs let businesses accept, hold, convert, and pay out sta...
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Mastercard Developing agent ready Card Networks
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, providing APIs for payment processing, fraud detection, data analytics, and financial ser...
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Alloy Developing agent ready Fraud, Risk & Identity
Alloy is an identity decisioning platform that provides a single REST API for running KYC/KYB workflows, evaluating applicant risk, automating compliance dec...
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Clover Developing agent ready Acquirers & Processors
Clover is a Fiserv-owned point-of-sale platform for small and mid-size merchants. The Clover developer platform exposes the Clover REST API for inventory/ord...
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Braintree Developing agent native Gateways & PSPs
Our mission is to empower developers with the tools, resources, and simple-to-use SDKs and APIs to build on one platform, so they can serve merchants from ar...
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Orum Developing agent native Financial Data & Aggregation
Orum is a payments infrastructure company that lets businesses move money and verify bank accounts through a single unified API. Its Deliver product provides...
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FIS Global Developing agent ready Acquirers & Processors
FIS (Fidelity National Information Services) is a global leader in financial technology providing APIs for core banking, payments, wealth management, and cap...
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NCR Developing agent ready Acquirers & Processors
NCR Corporation separated in October 2023 into two independent public companies: NCR Voyix, a global provider of digital commerce solutions for retailers and...
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Lithic Developing agent ready Issuer-Processors
Lithic is a modern card-issuing and program-management platform offering REST APIs for cards, accounts, transactions, authorization control, ACH/wire payment...
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Affirm Developing agent ready Buy Now, Pay Later
Affirm is a buy-now-pay-later platform offering installment loans at point-of-sale via merchant SDKs and direct APIs. Public Series A through F-funded company.
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Marqeta Developing agent ready Issuer-Processors
Marqeta is a modern card-issuing and embedded-finance platform. The Core API is a large RESTful surface covering cards, users, businesses, GPA orders, KYC/KY...
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Flywire Developing agent aware Spend, AP & AR
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company that operates a proprietary cross-border payment network spanning more than 140 currencies and 2...
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Shift4 Developing agent native Acquirers & Processors
Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) is a US-based integrated payments and commerce technology company headquartered in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, and a Fortune 1000 busine...
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Chargebee Developing agent ready Billing & Subscriptions
Chargebee is a subscription billing and revenue management platform that enables SaaS and subscription businesses to automate recurring billing, invoicing, p...
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Modern Treasury Developing agent ready Financial Data & Aggregation
Modern Treasury is a money movement platform unifying ACH, wires, RTP, checks, FX, and reconciliation across multiple bank partners. Operates as the financia...
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Thin 19 30–44.9 Limited machine-readable signal beyond documentation a human can read.
Fiserv Thin agent ready Acquirers & Processors
Fiserv is a global provider of financial services technology solutions, offering a wide range of products and services to help clients in the banking, paymen...
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Visa Thin agent ready Card Networks
Visa is a global payment technology company that facilitates electronic funds transfers by providing consumers, businesses, and governments with secure, conv...
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Brex Thin agent ready Spend, AP & AR
Brex is the first fully unified spend platform with global corporate cards, expense management, reimbursements, travel, and bill pay. Brex makes it easy for ...
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Euronet Worldwide Thin agent native Acquirers & Processors
Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ: EEFT) is a US-based (Leawood, Kansas) global payments and financial technology company operating across three segments: Payments I...
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Melio Thin agent aware Spend, AP & AR
Melio is a B2B payments platform for small businesses that provides a REST API for managing bills, vendors, payment methods, scheduling payments, and syncing...
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ACI Worldwide Thin agent aware Acquirers & Processors
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) is a US-headquartered payment-software company that builds real-time payment, card, merchant/eCommerce, and bill-payment technol...
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Tipalti Thin agent aware Spend, AP & AR
Tipalti is a global accounts payable and mass payments automation platform that enables businesses to onboard suppliers, process payments across 196 countrie...
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Basis Theory Thin agent ready Fraud, Risk & Identity
Basis Theory is a PCI Level 1 compliant tokenization and data vault platform. Its API-first product lets developers tokenize, store, and use sensitive data -...
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American Express Thin agent aware Card Networks
American Express is a globally integrated payments company and card network that offers charge and credit cards, merchant acquiring, corporate payments, trav...
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BILL Thin agent ready Spend, AP & AR
BILL (formerly Bill.com) is a cloud-based financial operations platform for small and midsize businesses that automates accounts payable, accounts receivable...
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Cross River Thin agent ready Embedded Finance & BaaS
Cross River is a regulated bank (FDIC member, Fort Lee, NJ) that delivers embedded finance and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) through its Cross River Operating ...
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Nacha Thin agent native Domestic Rails & Schemes
Nacha (formerly the National Automated Clearing House Association) is the nonprofit, member-governed steward of the ACH Network, the batch-based account-to-a...
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Paymentus Thin agent aware Spend, AP & AR
Paymentus (NYSE: PAY) is a Addison, Texas-based cloud billing and payment technology company founded in 2004 that operates one of the largest electronic bill...
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Global Payments Thin agent ready Acquirers & Processors
Global Payments is a leading worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions delivering innovative services to customers globally. The compan...
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FedNow Service Thin human only Domestic Rails & Schemes
The FedNow Service is an instant payments rail operated by the Federal Reserve Banks, launched in July 2023 to move funds between U.S. financial institutions...
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Worldpay Thin agent ready Acquirers & Processors
Worldpay is a global payment processing platform (part of FIS) offering REST APIs for payment acceptance, transaction management, tokenization, recurring bil...
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Increase Thin agent ready Embedded Finance & BaaS
Increase is a banking and payments API providing direct ACH, wire, RTP, FedNow, check, and card programs. Bank-direct connectivity (no aggregator middle layer).
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Column Thin agent ready Embedded Finance & BaaS
Column is a chartered nationally-regulated bank purpose-built for developer APIs. Offers ACH, wires, FedNow, checks, BIN sponsorship, and bank-direct ledgering.
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Recurly Thin agent aware Billing & Subscriptions
Recurly is a subscription management and recurring billing platform that handles signups, plans, add-ons, coupons, dunning, invoicing, tax, revenue recogniti...
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Emerging 9 15–29.9 More than an index entry but still mostly links rather than artifacts.
Payoneer Emerging human only Cross-Border & Money Movement
Payoneer is a global payment platform that enables businesses to pay and get paid across borders in multiple currencies. It offers REST APIs for mass payouts...
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Zuora Emerging agent aware Billing & Subscriptions
Zuora provides a subscription management and billing platform with REST APIs for automating billing, managing subscriptions, processing payments, and extendi...
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Venmo Emerging human only Gateways & PSPs
Venmo is a US mobile payments service owned by PayPal that lets people send, receive, and split money with friends, pay approved businesses, and hold a balan...
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Discover Emerging human only Card Networks
Discover is a financial services company that offers a range of products and services to help individuals manage their money. They provide credit cards, pers...
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Remitly Emerging human only Cross-Border & Money Movement
Remitly is a Seattle-based digital financial services provider for immigrants and their families, operating a global cross-border remittance and money-moveme...
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The Clearing House (RTP) Emerging human only Domestic Rails & Schemes
The Clearing House (TCH) is a U.S. banking association and payments company owned by many of the largest commercial banks. It operates three core payment sys...
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Maxio Emerging human only Billing & Subscriptions
Maxio is a SaaS billing and financial operations platform formed from the merger of Chargify and SaaSOptics, providing subscription management, recurring bil...
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Galileo Emerging human only Issuer-Processors
Galileo (galileo.io, formerly reached at galileohealth.com) is a value-based, digitally enabled healthcare delivery company founded by Tom X. Lee (previously...
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Deluxe Corporation Emerging human only Acquirers & Processors
Deluxe Corporation is a major US corporation and Fortune 1000 company. The Deluxe Corporation API provides programmatic access to its platform services, data...
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Minimal 5 0–14.9 Index entry only; little beyond a description and a link.
Billtrust Minimal human only Spend, AP & AR
Billtrust is an AI-powered accounts receivable and B2B payments technology company that helps businesses accelerate cash flow by automating the order-to-cash...
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WePay Minimal human only Gateways & PSPs
WePay is a payments platform, founded in 2008 and backed by 500 Global and Y Combinator, that provided integrated payments (payment processing, merchant onbo...
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Corpay Minimal human only Spend, AP & AR
Corpay (formerly FLEETCOR) is a corporate payments company that provides commercial cards, accounts payable automation, cross-border payment solutions, fuel ...
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Ripple Minimal human only Crypto & Stablecoin Rails
Ripple is a company surfaced as a portfolio company of 500-global, lightspeed-venture-partners and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub for enrichme...
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WEX Minimal human only Spend, AP & AR
Fortune 1000 company WEX. Public API documentation has not yet been catalogued in the API Evangelist network.
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