# CAMARA

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/camara/  
**Website:** https://camaraproject.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 11

CAMARA is an open-source Linux Foundation project developing standardized, open, and globally-available telecom APIs as part of the Telco Global API Alliance. Founded and supported by AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Nokia, Telefonica, Vodafone, GSMA, and many others, CAMARA defines consistent, operator-agnostic network capability APIs so developers can access programmable network services such as quality-on-demand, device location, SIM swap, number verification, and edge cloud across multiple carriers through a single, unified, standard API surface.

## Kin Score — 34.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 34.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 49.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 47.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (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 | no |
| 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

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

## APIs (11)

- **CAMARA Device Location API** — Provides location-verification, location-retrieval, and geofencing subscription endpoints allowing applications to confirm whether a mobile device is in a specified area, to ret...
- **CAMARA Number Verification API** — Silent, cryptographically strong verification that the mobile number a user claims to own is actually the number of the SIM attached to the device making the request. Replaces S...
- **CAMARA SIM Swap API** — Detects whether the SIM attached to a given mobile number has recently been changed. Used by banks, crypto platforms, and other high-assurance services to mitigate SIM-swap acco...
- **CAMARA Device Status API** — Provides queries and event subscriptions about a mobile device's connectivity status (reachable, connected, roaming) so applications can adapt behaviour, trigger retries, or swi...
- **CAMARA Simple Edge Discovery API** — Returns the closest Mobile Edge Cloud (MEC) endpoint for a given device based on operator network topology, allowing edge-native applications to connect to the lowest-latency ed...
- **CAMARA Edge Application Management API** — Lifecycle APIs for deploying, managing, and terminating edge-native application instances across operator Mobile Edge Cloud infrastructure, enabling developers to place workload...
- **CAMARA Device Identifier API** — Returns a privacy-preserving identifier for a device associated with a network-attached session, enabling correlation and authentication flows while minimising exposure of raw M...
- **CAMARA Home Devices Quality On Demand API** — Extends Quality On Demand semantics to fixed-line / home broadband devices, allowing applications to request guaranteed bandwidth or low-latency sessions for devices attached to...
- **CAMARA Connectivity Insights API** — Exposes network insight data such as historical and real-time network quality, congestion, and throughput characteristics for a subscriber context, letting applications tune str...
- **CAMARA Identity and Consent Management API** — Shared authorization and consent model across CAMARA APIs, built on OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect Client-Initiated Backchannel Authentication (CIBA) so subscribers explicitly conse...
- **CAMARA Sessions API** — The Sessions API from CAMARA — 4 operation(s) for sessions.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Camara Agentic Access** — 5 operations · 4 acting

## Security (2)

- **Camara Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Camara Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Camara Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Telecom, Network APIs, Standards, Linux Foundation, Open Gateway, GSMA, Connectivity, 5G

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