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Africa's Talking

Africa's Talking is a pan-African communications platform that exposes a unified set of REST APIs for SMS, USSD, Voice, Airtime, Mobile Data, and Payments. Developers authenticate with an apiKey and username and reach mobile subscribers across Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and other African markets through carrier integrations.

Africa’s Talking publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Airtime API, Mobile Data API, Payments API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Communications, SMS, USSD, Voice, and Airtime.

Africa’s Talking’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 8 more developer resources.

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33.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessEnterpriseSelf serve
6 APIs
CommunicationsSMSUSSDVoiceAirtimeMobile DataPaymentsAfrica

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 33.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 14.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 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
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APIs 6

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

Africa's Talking Airtime API

Distribute mobile airtime to recipients.

Africa's Talking Mobile Data API

Disburse mobile data bundles to recipients.

Africa's Talking Payments API

Mobile C2B checkout, B2C, and B2B mobile money transfers.

Africa's Talking Premium SMS API

Premium SMS subscriptions and checkout tokens.

Africa's Talking SMS API

Send single and bulk SMS and fetch inbox messages.

Africa's Talking Voice API

Outbound calls, transfers, queue status, and media upload.

Open Collections 1

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

Africa's Talking API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Africastalking Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Africastalking Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Africastalking Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Africastalking Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Africastalking Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Africastalking Agentic Access

14 operations · 12 acting

14 operations · 12 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 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: africastalking
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/africastalking/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Africa's Talking
kind: company
description: Africa's Talking is a pan-African communications platform that exposes a unified set of REST APIs for SMS, USSD,
  Voice, Airtime, Mobile Data, and Payments. Developers authenticate with an apiKey and username and reach mobile subscribers
  across Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and other African markets through carrier integrations.
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise · 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/africastalking.png
tags:
- Communications
- SMS
- USSD
- Voice
- Airtime
- Mobile Data
- Payments
- Africa
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: africastalking:africastalking-airtime-api
  name: Africa's Talking Airtime API
  description: Distribute mobile airtime to recipients.
  humanURL: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  baseURL: https://api.africastalking.com/version1
  tags:
  - Airtime
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/africastalking-airtime-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/sending/bulk
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/ussd/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/voice/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/sending
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/sending
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/mobile_c2b/checkout
- aid: africastalking:africastalking-mobile-data-api
  name: Africa's Talking Mobile Data API
  description: Disburse mobile data bundles to recipients.
  humanURL: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  baseURL: https://api.africastalking.com/version1
  tags:
  - Mobile Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/africastalking-mobile-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/sending/bulk
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/ussd/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/voice/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/sending
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/sending
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/mobile_c2b/checkout
- aid: africastalking:africastalking-payments-api
  name: Africa's Talking Payments API
  description: Mobile C2B checkout, B2C, and B2B mobile money transfers.
  humanURL: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  baseURL: https://api.africastalking.com/version1
  tags:
  - Payments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/africastalking-payments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/sending/bulk
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/ussd/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/voice/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/sending
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/sending
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/mobile_c2b/checkout
- aid: africastalking:africastalking-premium-sms-api
  name: Africa's Talking Premium SMS API
  description: Premium SMS subscriptions and checkout tokens.
  humanURL: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  baseURL: https://api.africastalking.com/version1
  tags:
  - Premium SMS
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/africastalking-premium-sms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/sending/bulk
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/ussd/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/voice/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/sending
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/sending
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/mobile_c2b/checkout
- aid: africastalking:africastalking-sms-api
  name: Africa's Talking SMS API
  description: Send single and bulk SMS and fetch inbox messages.
  humanURL: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  baseURL: https://api.africastalking.com/version1
  tags:
  - SMS
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/africastalking-sms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/sending/bulk
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/ussd/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/voice/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/sending
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/sending
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/mobile_c2b/checkout
- aid: africastalking:africastalking-voice-api
  name: Africa's Talking Voice API
  description: Outbound calls, transfers, queue status, and media upload.
  humanURL: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  baseURL: https://api.africastalking.com/version1
  tags:
  - Voice
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/africastalking-voice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/sending/bulk
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/ussd/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/voice/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/sending
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/sending
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/mobile_c2b/checkout
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/africastalking-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/africastalking-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/africastalking-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/AfricasTalkingLtd
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/africa-s-talking
- type: Website
  url: https://africastalking.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.africastalking.com
- type: Plans
  url: plans/africastalking-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/africastalking-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/africastalking-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com