# Bird

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bird/  
**Website:** https://bird.com  
**APIs profiled:** 10

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.

## Kin Score — 44.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 63.8 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 57.9 |
| Access Clarity | 57.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 38.9 (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 (10)

- **Bird Customer Data API** — Sync customer data from multiple sources in real time to build a 360-degree customer view. Manage contacts, lists, segmentation, and profile enrichment programmatically.
- **Bird Phone Numbers API** — Search, purchase, and manage phone numbers inventory programmatically. Supports number search by country and capability, number porting, and inventory management at scale.
- **Bird Identity Verification API** — Verify the identity of your customers programmatically to enable additional services such as two-factor authentication and fraud prevention across SMS and voice channels.
- **Bird Touchpoints API** — Create and manage dynamic customer interactions across multiple channels. Build customer journeys, flows, and automated sequences that adapt to customer actions.
- **Bird Accounts API** — Programmatically manage your Bird organization, workspaces, users, roles, and access keys. Configure SSO and manage multi-workspace enterprise deployments.
- **Bird FAQ API** — FAQ dataset management and answer prediction operations.
- **Bird Intent API** — Intent recognition and dataset management operations.
- **Bird LanguageDetection API** — Language detection operations.
- **Bird NamedEntityRecognition API** — Named entity recognition operations.
- **Bird SMS Messaging API** — 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 th...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Bird Agentic Access** — 16 operations · 6 acting

## Security (4)

- **Bird Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Bird Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Bird Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published
- **Bird Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Bird Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Communications, SMS, Email, WhatsApp, Voice, Messaging, Omnichannel, Customer Engagement

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