Bird

Bird (formerly MessageBird) is an omnichannel customer communications platform offering REST APIs for email, SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, push notifications, voice, and data management. Trusted by more than 450,000 developers, Bird provides enterprise-grade connectivity through a global carrier network alongside a full customer engagement and marketing automation suite.

Bird publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including FAQ API, Intent API, LanguageDetection API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Communications, SMS, Email, WhatsApp, and Voice.

The Bird catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Bird’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 12 more developer resources.

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48.2/100 developing ▼ -6.6 Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessEnterpriseSelf serve

10 APIs

CommunicationsSMSEmailWhatsAppVoiceMessagingOmnichannelCustomer Engagement

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 48.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 16.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · 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 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

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APIs 10

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bird Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

BirdContact

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BirdMessage

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

name: Bird
description: Bird (formerly MessageBird) is an omnichannel customer communications platform offering REST APIs for email,
  SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, push notifications, voice, and data management. Trusted by more than 450,000 developers, Bird provides
  enterprise-grade connectivity through a global carrier network alongside a full customer engagement and marketing automation
  suite.
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/bird.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bird/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
version: '0.19'
aid: bird
type: Index
tags:
- Communications
- SMS
- Email
- WhatsApp
- Voice
- Messaging
- Omnichannel
- Customer Engagement
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- name: Bird Customer Data API
  description: Sync customer data from multiple sources in real time to build a 360-degree customer view. Manage contacts,
    lists, segmentation, and profile enrichment programmatically.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.bird.com/api
  baseURL: https://api.bird.com
  tags:
  - Customer Data
  - CDP
  - Contacts
  - Segmentation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bird.com/api
  contact:
  - FN: Bird Support
    url: https://bird.com/en-us/contact
- name: Bird Phone Numbers API
  description: Search, purchase, and manage phone numbers inventory programmatically. Supports number search by country and
    capability, number porting, and inventory management at scale.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.bird.com/api
  baseURL: https://api.bird.com
  tags:
  - Phone Numbers
  - Voice
  - SMS
  - Numbers
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bird.com/api
  contact:
  - FN: Bird Support
    url: https://bird.com/en-us/contact
- name: Bird Identity Verification API
  description: Verify the identity of your customers programmatically to enable additional services such as two-factor authentication
    and fraud prevention across SMS and voice channels.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.bird.com/api
  baseURL: https://api.bird.com
  tags:
  - Identity Verification
  - Authentication
  - Two-Factor Authentication
  - Fraud Prevention
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bird.com/api
  contact:
  - FN: Bird Support
    url: https://bird.com/en-us/contact
- name: Bird Touchpoints API
  description: Create and manage dynamic customer interactions across multiple channels. Build customer journeys, flows, and
    automated sequences that adapt to customer actions.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.bird.com/api
  baseURL: https://api.bird.com
  tags:
  - Customer Journeys
  - Automation
  - Flows
  - Engagement
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bird.com/api
  contact:
  - FN: Bird Support
    url: https://bird.com/en-us/contact
- name: Bird Accounts API
  description: Programmatically manage your Bird organization, workspaces, users, roles, and access keys. Configure SSO and
    manage multi-workspace enterprise deployments.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.bird.com/api
  baseURL: https://api.bird.com
  tags:
  - Accounts
  - Organizations
  - Workspaces
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bird.com/api
  contact:
  - FN: Bird Support
    url: https://bird.com/en-us/contact
- aid: bird:bird-faq-api
  name: Bird FAQ API
  description: FAQ dataset management and answer prediction operations.
  humanURL: https://docs.bird.com/api/channels-api/api-reference/messaging
  baseURL: https://api.bird.com
  tags:
  - FAQ
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bird-faq-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bird.com/api/channels-api/api-reference/messaging
- aid: bird:bird-intent-api
  name: Bird Intent API
  description: Intent recognition and dataset management operations.
  humanURL: https://docs.bird.com/api/channels-api/api-reference/messaging
  baseURL: https://api.bird.com
  tags:
  - Intent
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bird-intent-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bird.com/api/channels-api/api-reference/messaging
- aid: bird:bird-languagedetection-api
  name: Bird LanguageDetection API
  description: Language detection operations.
  humanURL: https://docs.bird.com/api/channels-api/api-reference/messaging
  baseURL: https://api.bird.com
  tags:
  - LanguageDetection
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bird-languagedetection-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bird.com/api/channels-api/api-reference/messaging
- aid: bird:bird-namedentityrecognition-api
  name: Bird NamedEntityRecognition API
  description: Named entity recognition operations.
  humanURL: https://docs.bird.com/api/channels-api/api-reference/messaging
  baseURL: https://api.bird.com
  tags:
  - NamedEntityRecognition
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bird-namedentityrecognition-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bird.com/api/channels-api/api-reference/messaging
- aid: bird:bird-sms-messaging-api
  name: Bird SMS Messaging API
  description: 'MessageBird’s SMS API allows you to send and receive SMS messages to and from any country in the world through
    a REST API. Each message is identified by a unique random ID so that users can always check the status of a message using
    the given endpoint.


    The SMS API uses HTTP verbs and a RESTful endpoint structure with an access key that is used as the API Authorization.
    Request and response payloads are formatted as JSON using UTF-8 encoding and URL encoded values.'
  humanURL: https://docs.bird.com/api/channels-api/api-reference/messaging
  baseURL: https://api.bird.com
  tags:
  - SMS Messaging
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bird-sms-messaging-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.bird.com/api/channels-api/api-reference/messaging
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/bird-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/bird-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/bird-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bird-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bird-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://bird.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.bird.com/api
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/messagebird
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/birdhq/
- type: Blog
  url: https://bird.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://bird.com/en-us/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.bird.com
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/messagebird
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bird-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bird-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/bird-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com