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PayPal

PayPal offers an MCP server, run locally or hosted, and an agent toolkit that let AI agents use PayPal business APIs such as orders, invoices, subscriptions and disputes.

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PayPal

PayPal’s agent tools are for businesses that use PayPal. They let an AI agent work with PayPal’s APIs.1

MCP server

  • You can run the MCP server yourself or use PayPal’s hosted one.2
  • The local server needs Node.js 18 or later and a PayPal access token, set for the sandbox or for production.2
  • Hosted addresses: https://mcp.paypal.com for production and https://mcp.sandbox.paypal.com for the sandbox. The hosted server can use your PayPal client ID and secret.2

Agent toolkit

  • Pre-built functions for orders, invoices, subscriptions, shipment tracking, transaction details and disputes.1
  • Works with Amazon Bedrock, CrewAI, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI’s Agents SDK and Vercel’s AI SDK, in TypeScript and Python.1

Unknown

Whether a consumer’s own agent can pay with a PayPal account through these tools, and any per-action approval. No cited source confirms it, so the wiki says unknown.

All programs: Payments.

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Footnotes

  1. Agent toolkit quickstart guide - PayPal Developer. PayPal Developer, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. MCP server quickstart guide - PayPal Developer. PayPal Developer, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

Last verified 2026-11-14

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