Plivo
Plivo is a global communications platform offering programmable Voice, Messaging (SMS/MMS/WhatsApp), SIP Trunking, Verify, and Lookup APIs, plus an AI Voice Agent platform. The HTTP API is available at https://api.plivo.com/v1/ with HTTP Basic Auth using Auth ID and Auth Token credentials.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Plivo the way a machine reads it — 35 machine-readable artifacts across 24 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 — Plivo scores 66.4/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 65/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Plivo
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Plivo. 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 24
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.
Plivo Account API
The Plivo Account API exposes account-level details (auth ID, auth token, billing balance, address, account type, max-call configuration) and supports updating account properties.
Plivo Subaccount API
The Plivo Subaccount API supports creating, updating, listing, activating, and deleting subaccounts under a parent Plivo account, enabling multi-tenant isolation of usage and bi...
Plivo Application API
The Plivo Application API manages voice applications — bundles of XML/answer/hangup/fallback URLs (and message URL bindings) used to control inbound and outbound call behavior.
Plivo SIP Authentication API
The Plivo SIP Authentication API issues per-account credentials used by SIP endpoints to register against Plivo's SIP infrastructure.
Plivo Voice Call API
The Plivo Voice Call API initiates outbound calls, retrieves details for live and historical calls, and supports active-call control (transfer, record, play, speak, hangup, DTMF...
Plivo Conference API
The Plivo Conference API manages live conference rooms — listing, retrieving members, kicking, muting, deafening, recording, and playing media into a conference.
Plivo Multiparty Call API
The Plivo Multiparty Call API supports building multi-participant calls programmatically — adding/removing participants, managing roles, recording, and barge/whisper supervisory...
Plivo Recording API
The Plivo Recording API exposes call and conference recordings — listing, retrieving, downloading, and deleting recorded media.
Plivo Endpoint API
The Plivo Endpoint API manages SIP/WebRTC endpoints (username/password/alias) used by softphones, browser SDKs, and devices to register and place/receive calls.
Plivo Audio Stream API
The Plivo Audio Stream API attaches a real-time WebSocket audio stream to a live call, enabling AI voice agents, real-time transcription, and analytics. Plivo opens a WSS connec...
Plivo Verified Caller ID API
The Plivo Verified Caller ID API allows trial accounts to verify outbound caller IDs for use as the From number in outbound calls.
Plivo Message API
The Plivo Message API sends and receives SMS, MMS, and WhatsApp messages, retrieves delivery status reports, and lists historical messages.
Plivo Media API
The Plivo Media API uploads, lists, retrieves, and deletes media files used as MMS or WhatsApp attachments.
Plivo Powerpack API
The Plivo Powerpack API creates and manages Powerpacks — pools of numbers that distribute outbound messaging traffic for higher throughput, sticky-sender behavior, and improved ...
Plivo 10DLC Brand and Campaign API
The Plivo 10DLC API registers brands and campaigns with The Campaign Registry for US application-to-person (A2P) SMS compliance.
Plivo Toll-Free Verification API
The Plivo Toll-Free Verification API submits and tracks toll-free messaging verification cases required for sustained throughput on TFNs.
Plivo Numbers API
The Plivo Numbers API searches the global number inventory, rents and releases phone numbers (long codes, toll-free, short codes, mobile numbers), and manages number application...
Plivo Pricing API
The Plivo Pricing API retrieves current voice and messaging rates per ISO country code, supporting cost estimation and rate-card synchronization for downstream billing.
Plivo Verify API
The Plivo Verify API delivers OTPs over SMS, voice, WhatsApp, or email and verifies user-supplied codes, supporting 2FA and identity-confirmation flows.
Plivo Lookup API
The Plivo Lookup API validates phone numbers and returns formatting, country, line type, carrier, and reachability metadata to feed cleansing, fraud-prevention, and routing deci...
Plivo Zentrunk SIP Trunking API
The Plivo Zentrunk SIP Trunking API manages termination and origination SIP trunks — outbound trunks (credentials, IP ACLs, dial prefixes) and origination/inbound trunks (URI, s...
Plivo CNAM Lookup and Branded Calling API
The Plivo CNAM and Branded Calling API manages caller-name lookup and branded outbound caller-display configurations on outbound voice calls.
Plivo Account API
Account-level configuration and details.
Plivo Message API
Send and retrieve SMS, MMS, and WhatsApp messages.
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Open Collections 1
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).
Plivo API
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP 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.
MCP Server
MCP SERVERPricing 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.
Plivo Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Plivo 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.
Plivo Finops
FINOPSEvent 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.
Plivo Audio Streaming WebSocket API
The Plivo Audio Streaming API delivers near real-time raw audio from active Plivo voice calls to a customer-operated WebSocket server, and (when bidirectional streaming is enabl...
ASYNCAPISpectral Rules 1
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.
Plivo API Rules
SPECTRALSecurity 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 Plivo — 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 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 12
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 3
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
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