List your API

Listed on Orthogonal, your API is found in the catalog, shows its prices and is called with one Orthogonal key. You don’t build anything new: Orth, Orthogonal’s onboarding agent, reads your docs and drafts the listing, and you make the decisions.

Where you are

Your team’s API

• Your team owns the API, its earnings, and its payouts.
• Team admins request the listing, confirm its setup, and submit it for final approval.
• Members can follow submission progress. Financial settings remain available to admins only.
• Buying stays available while your team sets up and sells its API.
• A team can list more than one API, and you can list from every team you administer.

Before you start

• An Orthogonal account. Create one if you don’t have one yet.
• Your API’s public documentation URL.
• The https:// address your API is served from.
• An API key you issue for Orthogonal. Orthogonal sends it with every call to your API, and only you add it.

How it works

1. 1

   Create your seller organization

   You

   Open List your API from your team. Every team can request a listing. You do not need to choose an account type or create another team.

   Orthogonal

   Your team can request a listing right away. Earnings and payouts become available once Orthogonal approves the request.

2. 2

   Request review

   You

   In Your listings, fill in the request: API name, company website, primary API documentation URL, up to 5 more documentation URLs (only pages your primary docs don’t link to), contact name and email (filled in from your account), and a short use case. Then click Submit request.

   Orthogonal

   Orthogonal’s staff review the request. Your listings updates by itself once they decide; nothing is emailed, so check back there. If they decline it, their note says why, and you can edit the request and resubmit it.

3. 3

   Set up API

   You

   Your listings becomes a chat with Orth and its progress. Answer its questions, and approve or deny the calls it asks to run, such as ones that may change data or cost money. Check the base URL, the endpoints and their prices, change what you need, then click Confirm details & pricing. Add your API key with Add credential securely: it goes straight to secure storage, never through the chat.

   Orthogonal

   Orth starts by itself once the request is approved. It reads your docs and drafts the setup: the base URL, where the key goes, the endpoints and a price for each. It keeps working when you close the page, and asks you when it needs an answer.

4. 4

   Test API

   You

   Review the test values Orth prepared, fill any gaps it highlights, then click Run endpoint checks (the button shows how many).

   Orthogonal

   The checks make one real call to every endpoint. Orth reviews the results with you and writes the final report.

5. 5

   Final review

   You

   Read the final report, then click Submit to Orthogonal staff. To change something before the review, Withdraw submission takes it back.

   Orthogonal

   Orthogonal’s staff review the tested API and its report. If they ask for changes, their note shows in your workspace; make them with Orth and submit again. If they decline it, reply to Orthogonal at founders@orthogonal.com to continue.

6. 6

   Go live

   You

   Set up payouts at Earnings and payouts (see Getting paid).

   Orthogonal

   Orthogonal approves the API and it appears in Your listings. Buyers find it in the catalog once Orthogonal lists it, after verifying it.

Prices

You set what you earn per call for each endpoint, in USD, or make it free. Orth drafts a price for each endpoint from your docs, and you can change any of them before you confirm.

Buyers pay your price plus Orthogonal’s fee. Your workspace shows the fee once Orthogonal approves your request. Listing is free, with no monthly minimum.

Getting paid

Earnings go to your seller organization. An admin connects a bank account through Stripe at Earnings and payouts; the same page shows what the organization has earned and been paid.

Payouts start on the 15th of each month (UTC), for earnings up to the end of the previous month. Less than $1 rolls over to the next month. Over MCP, ask your agent “What is our organization owed on Orthogonal?”; it answers with the payouts tool.

Two ways to list

Both drive the same run, so you can start in one and continue in the other: the dashboard shows a run your agent started, and the other way round. Your seller organization is created in the dashboard either way.

What is yours

Orth decides the base URL and prices itself, confirms the setup and runs the checks, writes included, and says what it chose in the chat and its final report. Neither Orth nor the onboarding steps your agent follows ask you anything: only the key and the submit wait for you. Change any choice by replying, with the buttons above, or with these tools.

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