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GOV.UK Pay API

GOV.UK Pay API — free tier with API key

📈 FinanceUNMONITORED
AUTH APIKEYCORS ✗AGENT ?HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

GOV.UK Pay API exposes a free-tier JSON API. Register for an API key if required; we verified a public or demo endpoint.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Docs ↗
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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
GET https://publicapi.payments.service.gov.uk/v1

{
  "message": "Unauthorized",
  "url": "http://publicapi.payments.service.gov.uk:50203/v1",
  "status": "401"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://publicapi.payments.service.gov.uk/v1"
const res = await fetch("https://publicapi.payments.service.gov.uk/v1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://publicapi.payments.service.gov.uk/v1")
print(res.json())

BROWSER CALLS BLOCKED (NO CORS/HTTPS) — USE THE CURL SNIPPET

Endpoints · 4On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /v1 awaits first probe
GET/v1PROBED

GOV.UK Pay API — free tier with API key

GET/v1/

V1 — documented GET route.

GET/v1/search

Search by query parameters.

GET/v1/popular

Popular items ranked by usage.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

GOV.UK Pay API: common questions

Is GOV.UK Pay API free to use?

Yes — GOV.UK Pay API is a free finance API. Free tier: Free tier — API key required. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does GOV.UK Pay API need an API key?

Yes — GOV.UK Pay API needs a free API key, which you pass on each request. Rate limits: Unpublished.

Can I call GOV.UK Pay API from the browser?

Not directly — GOV.UK Pay API doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is GOV.UK Pay API up right now?

GOV.UK Pay API is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.