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Vonage

Vonage (part of Ericsson) provides cloud communications APIs for voice, SMS, messaging, video, and verification. The Vonage API platform enables businesses to embed communication capabilities into applications including voice calls, SMS, multi-channel messaging (WhatsApp, Messenger, Viber, RCS), video conferencing, and two-factor authentication. SDKs are available for Node.js, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, .NET, Go, and Kotlin.

agent native

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Vonage the way a machine reads it — 62 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 — Vonage scores 65.3/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 65.3/100 · strong
Contract Quality 18.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 7.3 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 65/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 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 Vonage

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

Vonage Conversations API

Build multi-channel conversation experiences with threading across SMS, voice, and messaging channels. Manage members, events, and legs within conversation contexts.

Vonage Reports API

Generate historical reports and lookup messages sent through your Vonage account. Access delivery receipts, call records, and usage data.

Vonage Video API

Embed live, interactive video into web, mobile, and desktop applications using WebRTC. Supports sessions, tokens, broadcasting, recording, and SIP interconnect.

Vonage Applications API

Configure Vonage application settings and webhooks

Vonage Messages API

Multi-channel messaging via SMS, WhatsApp, Messenger, Viber, MMS, RCS

Vonage Numbers API

Provision and manage virtual phone numbers

Vonage SMS API

Send and receive SMS messages

Vonage Verify API

Two-factor authentication and phone verification

Vonage Voice API

Create and control voice calls

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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).

Vonage Communications API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

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.

Vonage GraphQL Schema

This document describes a conceptual GraphQL schema for the Vonage Communications API platform (part of Ericsson). Vonage provides cloud communications APIs spanning Voice, SMS,...

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.

Vonage Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

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.

Vonage Rate Limits

4 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.

Pay-As-You-Go: no platform fee, per-message/minute pricing
US SMS outbound: $0.00809/message
US SMS inbound: $0.00649/message
US Voice outbound (local): $0.00798/minute
US Voice inbound: $0.0085/minute
Verify API for OTP across SMS/Voice/WhatsApp channels
Messages API for SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook Messenger
Voice API with TwiML-style NCCO scripting
Number Insight for line type / carrier lookup
Network APIs (CAMARA — SIM Swap, Number Verify, Location)
Default 30 msg/sec for SMS and Verify
Vonage Video API (formerly OpenTok)
Conversation API for chat/voice/video apps
Webhooks for delivery receipts and inbound events
JWT and API key/secret auth
Carrier surcharges add 50-100% over base rates

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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.

Vonage Voice WebSocket API

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Vonage's publicly-documented WebSocket surface. The only Vonage product whose realtime protocol is publicly specified frame-by-frame is the Voice API...

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.

Vonage Context

0 classes · 19 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

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.

Vonage API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Vonage API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Vonage API Rules

11 rules · 1 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 16

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.

Application

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApplicationList

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApplicationRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AvailableNumberList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Vonage Call

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CallList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateCallRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Vonage Message

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MessageRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MessageResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Number

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NumberList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SmsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VerifyCheckResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VerifyResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VerifySearchResponse

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 2

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.

Vonage Message Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Vonage Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these 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.

Vonage Authentication

http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Vonage Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Vonage Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy 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.

Vonage Agentic Access

25 operations · 18 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

25 operations · 18 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Vonage — 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 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 10

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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