Messagebird
Build powerful apps using the fastest and most reliable cloud communications APIs.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Messagebird the way a machine reads it — 152 machine-readable artifacts across 12 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 33.6/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 23/100 (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.
Kin Score
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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 32
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Available Numbers Balance API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Call Flows API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Calls API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Contacts API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Contacts API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Conversations API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Conversations API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Groups API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers HLR API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird HLR API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Integrations API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Legs API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Lookup API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Lookup API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Messages API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Numbers API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Purchased Numbers API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Recordings API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird SMS Messaging API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Templates API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Transcriptions API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Verify API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Verify API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Voice Calling API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Voice Messages API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Voice Messaging API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers Webhooks API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird Balance Available Numbers WhatsApp Messages API
OPEN COLLECTIONMessageBird WhatsApp API
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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, ...
GRAPHQLPricing 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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
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
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Messagebird Finops
FINOPSFeatures 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.
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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, ...
ASYNCAPISemantic 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
JSON-LDSpectral 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
SPECTRALMessagebird API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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
JSON SCHEMAAvailableNumberList
JSON SCHEMABalance
JSON SCHEMACall
JSON SCHEMACallCreate
JSON SCHEMACallFlow
JSON SCHEMACallFlowCreate
JSON SCHEMACallFlowList
JSON SCHEMACallFlowResponse
JSON SCHEMACallFlowStep
JSON SCHEMACallList
JSON SCHEMACallResponse
JSON SCHEMAChannel
JSON SCHEMAMessageBird Contact
JSON SCHEMAContactCreate
JSON SCHEMAContactList
JSON SCHEMAContactUpdate
JSON SCHEMAMessageBird Conversation
JSON SCHEMAConversationList
JSON SCHEMAConversationMessage
JSON SCHEMAConversationMessageList
JSON SCHEMAConversationMessageSend
JSON SCHEMAConversationStart
JSON SCHEMAConversationUpdate
JSON SCHEMAGroup
JSON SCHEMAGroupCreate
JSON SCHEMAGroupList
JSON SCHEMAHlr
JSON SCHEMAHlrCreate
JSON SCHEMAHlrLookup
JSON SCHEMALeg
JSON SCHEMALegList
JSON SCHEMALookup
JSON SCHEMAMessageBird SMS Message
JSON SCHEMAMessageContent
JSON SCHEMAMessageCreate
JSON SCHEMAMessageList
JSON SCHEMAMessageSend
JSON SCHEMANumberPurchase
JSON SCHEMANumberUpdate
JSON SCHEMAPagination
JSON SCHEMAPurchasedNumber
JSON SCHEMAPurchasedNumberList
JSON SCHEMARecipient
JSON SCHEMARecipients
JSON SCHEMARecording
JSON SCHEMARecordingList
JSON SCHEMARecordingResponse
JSON SCHEMATemplate
JSON SCHEMATemplateComponent
JSON SCHEMATemplateCreate
JSON SCHEMATemplateList
JSON SCHEMATranscription
JSON SCHEMATranscriptionCreate
JSON SCHEMATranscriptionList
JSON SCHEMATranscriptionResponse
JSON SCHEMAVerify
JSON SCHEMAVerifyCreate
JSON SCHEMAVoiceMessage
JSON SCHEMAVoiceMessageCreate
JSON SCHEMAVoiceMessageList
JSON SCHEMAVoiceWebhook
JSON SCHEMAVoiceWebhookCreate
JSON SCHEMAVoiceWebhookList
JSON SCHEMAVoiceWebhookResponse
JSON SCHEMAWebhook
JSON SCHEMAWebhookCreate
JSON SCHEMAWebhookList
JSON SCHEMAWhatsAppContent
JSON SCHEMAWhatsAppMessage
JSON SCHEMAWhatsAppMessageSend
JSON SCHEMAWhatsAppReply
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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
JSON STRUCTURESecurity 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.
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 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
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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