# Bharti Airtel

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bharti-airtel/  
**Website:** https://www.airtel.in/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Bharti Airtel Limited is an Indian multinational telecommunications operator headquartered in New Delhi, and one of the two dominant mobile network operators in its home market of India alongside Reliance Jio. It runs mobile (2G/4G/5G), fixed broadband, DTH television, enterprise connectivity, data centre (Nxtra) and payments-bank businesses across India, South Asia and — through the separately listed Airtel Africa — fourteen African countries. In the telecom value chain Airtel is an access-network owner: it holds the spectrum, the SIM estate, the subscriber identity and the network signalling that the rest of the industry resells. Its API posture is split in two, and the split is the whole story. The connectivity-product side is genuinely API-native and publicly documented: Airtel IQ, the operator's CPaaS suite, publishes open Swagger for its SMS and CDR reporting APIs and offers a self-serve trial account, while the Airtel IoT and Airtel Locate developer portals publish complete OpenAPI 3.0 catalogues (43 and 19 operations) as Redoc pages that need no login. The network-API side — the CAMARA and GSMA Open Gateway surface that defines this sector — is the opposite: Airtel is a GSMA Open Gateway signatory, a founding operator shareholder in Aduna (the Ericsson-led network-API joint venture), and has commercially launched a CAMARA SIM Swap API to Indian banks through a federated Jio/Vi/Airtel channel, yet it publishes no CAMARA endpoint, no CAMARA specification, no CIBA authorization surface and no network-API developer portal of its own. Developers reach Airtel's network capabilities only through aggregators — Aduna, and Nokia's Network as Code platform — never directly. Its own "Airtel API Marketplace" at developers.airtel.in is a login wall, and its original 2017 Smart API partner programme at openapi.airtel.in/smartapi survives as an unmaintained legacy portal.

## Kin Score — 54.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 54.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 58.4 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 56.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 81.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.7 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (5)

- **Airtel IQ SMS API** — The messaging half of Airtel IQ, Airtel's network-embedded CPaaS suite. Sends single, bulk, CSV-batch and content-moderated A2P SMS over Airtel's pan-India network, with TRAI DL...
- **Airtel IQ Reporting API** — The Call Detail Record (CDR) reporting surface of Airtel IQ. Returns detailed per-call records — time, date, duration, caller ID, destination number, status and call-recording U...
- **Airtel IoT API** — Airtel's IoT/M2M connectivity-management API, published as a complete OpenAPI 3.0.1 catalogue of 43 operations across ten areas: account authorization, account details, inventor...
- **Airtel Locate API** — Airtel Locate is the operator's network-based device-location platform, letting enterprises track a device by MSISDN without relying on the device's GPS. Published as an OpenAPI...
- **Airtel Smart API (legacy)** — Airtel's original partner developer programme, launched in 2017 and now an unmaintained legacy portal (the site still carries a 2017 copyright). Its public documentation still d...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Bharti Airtel MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Bharti Airtel Agentic Access** — 68 operations · 35 acting

## Security (3)

- **Bharti Airtel Authentication** — http-basic/oauth2 · 4 schemes
- **Bharti Airtel Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Bharti Airtel Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt

## Tags

Telecommunications, India, Mobile Network Operator, Network APIs, CAMARA, Open Gateway, SIM Swap, CPaaS, Messaging, SMS, RCS, Voice, IoT, M2M, Device Location, Broadband, 5G, Identity Verification, Carrier Billing, Consent Management

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