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46elks

46elks is a Swedish communications platform as a service (CPaaS) offering a simple HTTP REST API for sending and receiving SMS and MMS, making and receiving voice calls with programmable call actions, provisioning virtual phone numbers, and handling media and recordings. The API uses HTTP Basic authentication with an API username and password, and is billed pay-as-you-go.

46elks publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Calls API, Media API, MMS API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include CPaaS, SMS, MMS, Voice, and Messaging.

46elks’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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33.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
AccessPaid
1 APIs
CPaaSSMSMMSVoiceMessagingPhone NumbersCommunicationsSweden

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
Composite quality — 33.8/100 · thin
Contract Quality 9.7 / 19
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 15
Access Clarity 4.3 / 15
Operational Transparency 3.3 / 10
Contract Governance 0.0 / 9
Discoverability 5.1 / 8
Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 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 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Telecommunications regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

46elks Calls API

Make and receive programmable voice calls.

46elks Media API

Access recordings and MMS images.

46elks MMS API

Send and receive picture messages.

46elks Numbers API

Allocate and manage virtual phone numbers.

46elks SMS API

Send and receive text messages.

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

46elks Calls API

OPEN COLLECTION

46elks Calls Media API

OPEN COLLECTION

46elks Calls MMS API

OPEN COLLECTION

46elks Calls Numbers API

OPEN COLLECTION

46elks Calls SMS API

OPEN COLLECTION

46elks API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

46Elks Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

46Elks Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

46Elks Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

46Elks Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

46Elks Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

46Elks Agentic Access

15 operations · 6 acting

15 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap
CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: 46elks
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/46elks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: 46elks
kind: company
description: 46elks is a Swedish communications platform as a service (CPaaS) offering a simple HTTP REST API for sending
  and receiving SMS and MMS, making and receiving voice calls with programmable call actions, provisioning virtual phone numbers,
  and handling media and recordings. The API uses HTTP Basic authentication with an API username and password, and is billed
  pay-as-you-go.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/46elks.png
tags:
- CPaaS
- SMS
- MMS
- Voice
- Messaging
- Phone Numbers
- Communications
- Sweden
created: '2026-07-01'
modified: '2026-07-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: 46elks:46elks-calls-api
  name: 46elks Calls API
  description: Make and receive programmable voice calls.
  humanURL: https://46elks.com/docs/send-sms
  baseURL: https://api.46elks.com/a1
  tags:
  - Calls
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/46elks-calls-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/send-sms
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://46elks.com/docs
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/46elks.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/46elks.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/send-mms
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/make-call
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/allocate-phone-number
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/recordings
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/kb/verify-phone-number
- aid: 46elks:46elks-media-api
  name: 46elks Media API
  description: Access recordings and MMS images.
  humanURL: https://46elks.com/docs/send-sms
  baseURL: https://api.46elks.com/a1
  tags:
  - Media
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/46elks-media-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/send-sms
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://46elks.com/docs
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/46elks.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/46elks.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/send-mms
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/make-call
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/allocate-phone-number
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/recordings
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/kb/verify-phone-number
- aid: 46elks:46elks-mms-api
  name: 46elks MMS API
  description: Send and receive picture messages.
  humanURL: https://46elks.com/docs/send-sms
  baseURL: https://api.46elks.com/a1
  tags:
  - MMS
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/46elks-mms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/send-sms
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://46elks.com/docs
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/46elks.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/46elks.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/send-mms
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/make-call
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/allocate-phone-number
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/recordings
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/kb/verify-phone-number
- aid: 46elks:46elks-numbers-api
  name: 46elks Numbers API
  description: Allocate and manage virtual phone numbers.
  humanURL: https://46elks.com/docs/send-sms
  baseURL: https://api.46elks.com/a1
  tags:
  - Numbers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/46elks-numbers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/send-sms
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://46elks.com/docs
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/46elks.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/46elks.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/send-mms
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/make-call
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/allocate-phone-number
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/recordings
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/kb/verify-phone-number
- aid: 46elks:46elks-sms-api
  name: 46elks SMS API
  description: Send and receive text messages.
  humanURL: https://46elks.com/docs/send-sms
  baseURL: https://api.46elks.com/a1
  tags:
  - SMS
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/46elks-sms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/send-sms
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://46elks.com/docs
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/46elks.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/46elks.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/send-mms
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/make-call
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/allocate-phone-number
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/docs/recordings
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://46elks.com/kb/verify-phone-number
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/46elks-capability-edges.yml
  name: 46elks Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/46elks-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/46elks-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/46elks-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/46elks
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/46elks
- type: Website
  url: https://46elks.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://46elks.com/docs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/46elks-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/46elks-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/46elks-finops.yml
- url: https://46elks.com/blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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