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messagebird

Build powerful apps using the fastest and most reliable cloud communications APIs.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles messagebird the way a machine reads it — 132 machine-readable artifacts across 19 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 — messagebird scores 47.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 47.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 7.3 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile messagebird

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for messagebird. 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 19

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.

messagebird Available Numbers API

Operations for searching available phone numbers for purchase.

messagebird Balance API

Operations for retrieving account balance information.

messagebird Call Flows API

Operations for managing call flows that define interactive voice response sequences.

messagebird Calls API

Operations for creating, listing, and managing voice calls.

messagebird Contacts API

Operations for managing individual contacts.

messagebird Conversations API

Operations for listing and managing conversations across channels.

messagebird Groups API

Operations for managing contact groups.

messagebird HLR API

Operations for creating and viewing HLR network queries.

messagebird Legs API

Operations for viewing and managing call legs. A leg represents a single voice connection within a call.

messagebird Lookup API

Operations for looking up and validating phone numbers.

messagebird Messages API

Operations for sending and retrieving messages within conversations.

messagebird Purchased Numbers API

Operations for managing purchased phone numbers.

messagebird Recordings API

Operations for managing call recordings.

messagebird Templates API

Operations for managing message templates on supported platforms.

messagebird Transcriptions API

Operations for creating and viewing transcriptions of call recordings.

messagebird Verify API

Operations for creating, verifying, and managing verification tokens.

messagebird Voice Messages API

Operations for sending and managing text-to-speech voice messages.

messagebird Webhooks API

Operations for managing conversation webhooks that receive real-time event notifications.

messagebird WhatsApp Messages API

Operations for sending and receiving WhatsApp messages through the Conversations API interface.

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Open Collections 12

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).

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GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

MessageBird GraphQL API

MessageBird (now Bird) is a communications platform for SMS, WhatsApp, email, voice, and push notifications. The API covers messaging, conversations, contacts, flows, channels, ...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Messagebird Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Email: starts $1.50 per 1,000 messages
SMS: per-country rates with Bundle discounts
WhatsApp: $0.005/msg + Meta passthrough
Push: $0.0005/notification
RCS: $0.005/msg + carrier passthrough
Voice API: custom pricing
REST API at api.bird.com
Default 50 req/sec/workspace
OAuth 2.0 + API keys
Webhooks for delivery, status, inbound events
200+ countries supported
Inbox for omnichannel customer messaging
Flow Builder for no-code journey orchestration
Conversations API
Numbers (rental for phone numbers)
Verify API for OTP

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Event 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.

MessageBird Conversations Events

The MessageBird Conversations webhook system delivers real-time notifications for conversation events across all messaging channels including SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, ...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Messagebird Context

0 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

messagebird API Rules

9 rules · 1 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

messagebird API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 72

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AvailableNumber

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AvailableNumberList

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Balance

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Call

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CallCreate

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CallFlow

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CallFlowCreate

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CallFlowList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CallFlowResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CallFlowStep

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CallList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CallResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Channel

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MessageBird Contact

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContactCreate

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContactList

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContactUpdate

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MessageBird Conversation

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationList

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationMessage

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationMessageList

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationMessageSend

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationStart

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationUpdate

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Group

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GroupCreate

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GroupList

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hlr

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HlrCreate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HlrLookup

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Leg

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LegList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Lookup

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MessageBird SMS Message

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MessageContent

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MessageCreate

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MessageList

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MessageSend

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NumberPurchase

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NumberUpdate

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pagination

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PurchasedNumber

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PurchasedNumberList

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Recipient

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Recipients

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Recording

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RecordingList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RecordingResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Template

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TemplateComponent

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TemplateCreate

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TemplateList

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Transcription

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TranscriptionCreate

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TranscriptionList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TranscriptionResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Verify

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VerifyCreate

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoiceMessage

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoiceMessageCreate

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoiceMessageList

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoiceWebhook

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoiceWebhookCreate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoiceWebhookList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoiceWebhookResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Webhook

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WebhookCreate

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WebhookList

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WhatsAppContent

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WhatsAppMessage

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WhatsAppMessageSend

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WhatsAppReply

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Messagebird Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security 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.

Messagebird Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Messagebird Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Messagebird Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

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.

Messagebird Agentic Access

80 operations · 40 acting

80 operations · 40 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for messagebird — 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.

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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