Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited is an Indian multinational telecommunications operator headquartered in New Delhi, and one of the two dominant mobile network operators in its home market of India alongside Reliance Jio. It runs mobile (2G/4G/5G), fixed broadband, DTH television, enterprise connectivity, data centre (Nxtra) and payments-bank businesses across India, South Asia and — through the separately listed Airtel Africa — fourteen African countries. In the telecom value chain Airtel is an access-network owner: it holds the spectrum, the SIM estate, the subscriber identity and the network signalling that the rest of the industry resells. Its API posture is split in two, and the split is the whole story. The connectivity-product side is genuinely API-native and publicly documented: Airtel IQ, the operator's CPaaS suite, publishes open Swagger for its SMS and CDR reporting APIs and offers a self-serve trial account, while the Airtel IoT and Airtel Locate developer portals publish complete OpenAPI 3.0 catalogues (43 and 19 operations) as Redoc pages that need no login. The network-API side — the CAMARA and GSMA Open Gateway surface that defines this sector — is the opposite: Airtel is a GSMA Open Gateway signatory, a founding operator shareholder in Aduna (the Ericsson-led network-API joint venture), and has commercially launched a CAMARA SIM Swap API to Indian banks through a federated Jio/Vi/Airtel channel, yet it publishes no CAMARA endpoint, no CAMARA specification, no CIBA authorization surface and no network-API developer portal of its own. Developers reach Airtel's network capabilities only through aggregators — Aduna, and Nokia's Network as Code platform — never directly. Its own "Airtel API Marketplace" at developers.airtel.in is a login wall, and its original 2017 Smart API partner programme at openapi.airtel.in/smartapi survives as an unmaintained legacy portal.
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 Bharti Airtel the way a machine reads it — 30 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 — Bharti Airtel scores 50.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 28/100 (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.
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How we profile Bharti Airtel
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Bharti Airtel. 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 20
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.
Airtel Smart API (legacy)
Airtel's original partner developer programme, launched in 2017 and now an unmaintained legacy portal (the site still carries a 2017 copyright). Its public documentation still d...
Bharti Airtel Account Authorization API
This set of APIs shall allow user to generate Access Token and refresh Access Token to perform any action on CMP via the API gateway.
Bharti Airtel Account Details API
This set of APIs fetch various details about a Billable Customer Account including Customer Profile, Plan details, User details and so on.
Bharti Airtel Airtel IQ Sample CDR(Call Data Record) API
Call Detail Record (CDR) is the detailed record of the call, which contains various call details such as Time, Date, Duration, Caller_ID, Destination_Number, St...
Bharti Airtel Authorization API
This API will help you to generate token from the client credentials shared upon subscription to location services. In case you have not yet subscribed to location service, emai...
Bharti Airtel Bulk SMS APIs API
These APIs can be used to send Bulk SMS in different ways as documented below
Bharti Airtel Device & Session Information API
To data usage on a specific SIM, this API will allow user to get total data allocation, available data, used data, device information & session information for the SIM.
Bharti Airtel Individual SMS APIs API
These APIs can be used to send a single SMS in a single request as documented below
Bharti Airtel Inventory Management API
This set of APIs fetch various details about Sim details, Basket details and so on in the account.
Bharti Airtel Job Status API
This API will allow user to fetch Job details for any operations being performed in that Billable account.
Bharti Airtel KYC Manager API
This set of APIs to manage SIM KYC details.
Bharti Airtel Location API
This API will return location of MSISDN including Latitude and Longitude.
Bharti Airtel Messaging Centre API
These set of APIs allow lifecycle management of the Messaging Centre functionality
Bharti Airtel Resource Consent API
This set of APIs allow customer initiate consent, fetch consent details, delete resource, fetch list of msisdn for consent was initiated and various other API to handle consumer...
Bharti Airtel SIM LifeCycle API
This API shall allow user to change the state of SIMs.
Bharti Airtel SIM LifeCycle Bulk API
This API shall allow user to change the state of SIMs.
Bharti Airtel Tenant API
These set of Tenant APIs allow customer to initiate consent, fetch consent details, delete consent, fetch list of msisdn for consent was initiated and various other API to handl...
Bharti Airtel Validation API
These set of APIs allow customer to validate a physical address against network fetched live location. To get access to these API's please email to locate.support@airtel.com
Bharti Airtel Whitelisting API
This set of APIs to manage whitelisting numbers on Airtel IoT portal in Batch
Bharti Airtel Whitelisting APIs API
The Whitelisting APIs API from Bharti Airtel — 1 operation(s) for whitelisting apis.
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Open Collections 4
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).
Airtel IoT
OPEN COLLECTIONAirtel IQ API Documentation
OPEN COLLECTIONAirtel IQ SMS Core APIs
OPEN COLLECTIONLocate API Catalog
OPEN COLLECTIONEvent 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.
Bharti Airtel Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 3
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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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 Bharti Airtel — 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 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 9
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
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Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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