Clerk Email & SMS API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Clerk Backend Allowlist & Blocklist Email & SMS API
  description: 'The Clerk Backend API manages Clerk''s authentication and user management resources server-side: users, organizations and memberships, sessions, clients, sign-ups, JWT templates, JWKS, email/SMS verification and templates, allowlist/blocklist identifiers, invitations, SAML/enterprise connections, OAuth applications, and Svix-powered webhooks. The base URL is https://api.clerk.com/v1 and every request (except GET /jwks and the public interstitial) is authenticated with your instance Secret Key passed as `Authorization: Bearer sk_...`. This description is grounded in Clerk''s published OpenAPI spec (github.com/clerk/openapi-specs, bapi) but is a curated subset covering the primary resource groups; it does not enumerate every parameter or schema property. Verify the current version-dated spec on GitHub for the authoritative contract.'
  version: '2026-05-12'
  contact:
    name: Clerk
    url: https://clerk.com
  license:
    name: Clerk Documentation
    url: https://clerk.com/docs
servers:
- url: https://api.clerk.com/v1
  description: Clerk Backend API
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Email & SMS
  description: Email addresses, phone numbers, and message templates.
paths:
  /email_addresses:
    post:
      operationId: createEmailAddress
      tags:
      - Email & SMS
      summary: Create an email address
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - user_id
              - email_address
              properties:
                user_id:
                  type: string
                email_address:
                  type: string
                verified:
                  type: boolean
                primary:
                  type: boolean
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The created email address.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/EmailAddress'
  /email_addresses/{email_address_id}:
    parameters:
    - name: email_address_id
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
    get:
      operationId: getEmailAddress
      tags:
      - Email & SMS
      summary: Retrieve an email address
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The requested email address.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/EmailAddress'
    delete:
      operationId: deleteEmailAddress
      tags:
      - Email & SMS
      summary: Delete an email address
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Deletion confirmation.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeletedObject'
  /phone_numbers:
    post:
      operationId: createPhoneNumber
      tags:
      - Email & SMS
      summary: Create a phone number
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - user_id
              - phone_number
              properties:
                user_id:
                  type: string
                phone_number:
                  type: string
                verified:
                  type: boolean
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The created phone number.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
  /templates/{template_type}:
    parameters:
    - name: template_type
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Either "email" or "sms".
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - email
        - sms
    get:
      operationId: listTemplates
      tags:
      - Email & SMS
      summary: List templates
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of message templates.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties: true
  /templates/{template_type}/{slug}:
    parameters:
    - name: template_type
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - email
        - sms
    - name: slug
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
    get:
      operationId: getTemplate
      tags:
      - Email & SMS
      summary: Retrieve a template
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The requested template.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
    put:
      operationId: upsertTemplate
      tags:
      - Email & SMS
      summary: Update a template
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              additionalProperties: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The updated template.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
components:
  schemas:
    DeletedObject:
      type: object
      properties:
        object:
          type: string
        id:
          type: string
        deleted:
          type: boolean
    EmailAddress:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        object:
          type: string
        email_address:
          type: string
        verification:
          type:
          - object
          - 'null'
          additionalProperties: true
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'Your Clerk instance Secret Key (starts with sk_test_ or sk_live_) passed as `Authorization: Bearer YOUR_SECRET_KEY`.'