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OpenPhone

OpenPhone (rebranded to Quo in 2026) is a business phone and customer communications platform that provides shared phone numbers, calling, SMS/MMS texting, AI call summaries and transcripts, contacts, conversations, and tasks for teams. Its public REST API lets developers programmatically send messages, list and retrieve calls with recordings and voicemails, manage contacts and custom fields, manage conversations and tasks, look up phone numbers and users, and subscribe to webhooks for message and call events. The API uses API-key authentication in the Authorization header, returns JSON over HTTPS at https://api.quo.com, uses cursor-based pagination, and is rate limited to 10 requests per second. OpenPhone was surfaced as a portfolio company of 500 Global and profiled into the API Evangelist network.

agent native

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 OpenPhone the way a machine reads it — 14 machine-readable artifacts across 9 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 — OpenPhone scores 55.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 61/100 (agent native). 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 — 55.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 61/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile OpenPhone

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for OpenPhone. 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 9

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.

OpenPhone Calls API

Operations related to calls

OpenPhone Contact Custom Fields API

The Contact Custom Fields API from OpenPhone — 1 operation(s) for contact custom fields.

OpenPhone Contacts API

Operations related to contacts

OpenPhone Conversations API

Operations related to conversations

OpenPhone Messages API

Operations related to text messages

OpenPhone Phone Numbers API

Operations related to phone numbers

OpenPhone Tasks API

The Tasks API from OpenPhone — 10 operation(s) for tasks.

OpenPhone Users API

Operations related to users

OpenPhone Webhooks API

Operations related to webhooks

Scroll within the panel for all 9 ·

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

openphone-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

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.

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.

Openphone Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Openphone Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Openphone Trust Center

SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for OpenPhone — 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 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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