# Africa's Talking

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/africastalking/  
**Website:** https://africastalking.com  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 31.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 54.8 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 16.7 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 32.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Enterprise · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: enterprise, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Africastalking Agentic Access** — 14 operations · 12 acting

## Security (2)

- **Africastalking Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Africastalking Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Africastalking Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Communications, SMS, USSD, Voice, Airtime, Mobile Data, Payments, Africa

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/africastalking/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.