Chat
Chat on the APIs.io network is a curated area collecting 1 resource — specifications, tools, and documentation — for this subject.
24 providers on the network work in this area, including Synapse, Ada, Google Business Messages, Chatwoot, LivePerson, Slack, and 18 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
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About this area
Topic-level profile capturing the Chat API category in the API Evangelist network. This profile defines a reference vocabulary and a generic OpenAPI shape for chat APIs that manage conversations, messages, and participants, and is used as a baseline when cataloguing chat platform APIs (such as Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Twilio Conversations, and conversational AI platforms) into the broader catalogue.
Curated resources (1)
Reference Chat API
Reference REST API shape for chat platforms covering conversation lifecycle (create/list/get), message send and history, participant management, and typing indicator events. Intended as a vocabulary and OpenAPI baseli...
Related providers (306)
Top 24 of 306 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Synapse | Synapse is the reference Matrix homeserver implementation maintained by Element (formerly by the Matrix.org Foundation). Written in Python and Rust, it implements the Matrix ope... | 4 | developing |
| Ada | Ada (formerly Ada Support) is an AI customer service automation platform that resolves customer questions across chat, email, voice, and social channels using a generative AI ag... | 8 | thin |
| Google Business Messages | The Google Business Messages API enables agents to send messages, create events, and manage customer satisfaction surveys within conversations. It allows businesses to communica... | 1 | thin |
| Chatwoot | Chatwoot is an open-source customer support and omni-channel messaging platform that provides REST APIs for managing conversations, contacts, agents, teams, labels, and integrat... | 3 | thin |
| LivePerson | LivePerson is a leading provider of conversational AI and digital customer engagement technology. Their platform enables enterprises to design, deploy, and manage AI-powered mes... | 9 | thin |
| Slack | Slack is a cloud-based team collaboration platform that provides chat, file sharing, and integrations with other tools and services. | 39 | strong |
| Novu | Novu is the open-source notification infrastructure for developers. A single REST API and workflow engine route a triggered event across in-app inbox, email, SMS, push, chat (Sl... | 5 | strong |
| Knock | Knock is notifications infrastructure as a service — a product and customer messaging platform you use to power transactional, lifecycle, broadcast, and in-product messaging acr... | 14 | strong |
| Vapi | Vapi is a San Francisco-based voice AI platform that lets developers build real-time, low-latency voice agents over phone, web, and SIP. It orchestrates three modular components... | 15 | strong |
| Azure Web PubSub | Azure Web PubSub is a fully-managed service that enables building real-time, two-way messaging applications using publish-subscribe patterns over WebSockets. It supports broadca... | 7 | developing |
| Discord | Discord is a voice, video and text communication service used by hundreds of millions of people to hang out and talk with their communities and friends. | 9 | developing |
| Neuphonic | Neuphonic is an ultra-low-latency voice AI platform specializing in real-time text-to-speech synthesis with sub-25ms latency, making it suitable for conversational AI and live a... | 4 | developing |
| Gladly | Gladly is a San Francisco–based people-centered customer service AI platform. The Gladly Hero agent workspace unifies voice, chat, SMS, email, and social into a single, channel-... | 8 | developing |
| Azure SignalR Service | Azure SignalR Service REST API enables management of real-time web communication services. It supports creating SignalR instances, managing connections, sending messages to clie... | 1 | developing |
| HipChat | HipChat was Atlassian's team chat platform, providing persistent group chat, video, file sharing, and an extensive integration ecosystem. Atlassian discontinued HipChat Cloud, S... | 2 | developing |
| Telegram | Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice-over-IP service that provides a comprehensive Bot API for developers to build bots, automate workflows, send notifications,... | 2 | developing |
| Google Chat | The Google Chat API enables building Chat apps that integrate with Google Chat. It provides RESTful access to manage Chat spaces, memberships, messages, reactions, attachments, ... | 1 | developing |
| Forethought | Forethought is a San Francisco-based generative AI customer-support platform. Its multi-agent product suite — Solve (omnichannel resolution), Triage (ticket classification and r... | 2 | developing |
| Ably | Ably is a realtime messaging platform offering pub/sub, presence, push notifications, chat, LiveSync, and integrations over WebSocket and HTTP. Ably publishes its OpenAPI specif... | 2 | thin |
| Rainbow | Rainbow is a CPaaS platform from Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) that lets developers enrich applications with chat, group chat, voice, video, file sharing, and telephony PBX fe... | 3 | thin |
| Microsoft Bot Framework | Microsoft Bot Framework provides APIs and SDKs for building conversational AI bots that work across multiple channels including Teams, Slack, and custom applications. | 3 | thin |
| Zoho Cliq | Zoho Cliq is a team messaging and collaboration platform with a REST API for managing channels, bots, slash commands, message webhooks, and team communications. The API follows ... | 1 | thin |
| Missive | Missive is a team inbox and collaboration platform that brings email, SMS, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and live chat into one unified workspace. It provides a REST ... | 1 | thin |
| Chatbase | Chatbase is a custom AI chatbot and AI agent platform for customer support. Teams train an agent on their own content (websites, files, Q&A), embed it on their site, and connect... | 5 | thin |
Related areas
Tags: Chat, Conversational AI, Conversations, Customer Support, Messaging, Real-time.
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