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 8 more developer resources.

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33.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-24 · rubric v0.13.0

AccessPaidSelf serve

5 APIs

CPaaS SMS MMS Voice Messaging Phone Numbers Communications

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scored 2026-08-24 · rubric v0.13.0

Composite quality — 33.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.0 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.8 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

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

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.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% 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.

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.

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

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/46elks.png
tags:
- CPaaS
- SMS
- MMS
- Voice
- Messaging
- Phone Numbers
- Communications
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: 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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