Community

Community is a conversational messaging platform that lets brands, creators, artists, sports teams, media companies, and political organizations reach their audiences directly over SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, Apple Messages for Business, and RCS. Founded in 2019 and remote-first, Community pairs a campaign-and-flows product with a developer surface: an Async REST API to send Direct Messages, create and update members, set custom member data, manage subcommunities (tags), and opt members out; a Data Export API for member, campaign, and link analytics snapshots; and outbound webhooks for inbound/outbound messages and member lifecycle events. API access is provisioned per account by the Community team rather than self-serve.

Community publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Member Data API, Messaging API, Tags API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Messaging, SMS, Communications, Marketing, and Creators.

The Community catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Community’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, engineering blog, support, pricing, and 25 more developer resources.

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58.6/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent ready Front door AI 4/6 moderate saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessPaid

1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Messaging SMS Communications Marketing Creators Webhook Company

What this lets a business do 2

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Customer Relationship Management

BC-420

member-datatags

POST /subscription_create POST /subscription_field_value_modify POST /tag_create POST /tag_keyword_modify

Application Communications

AE-150

Messaging

POST /message_send

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 58.6/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.8 / 15

Access Clarity 13.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too
Protected Resource Metadata +5 pts — a served /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource carrying `resource` (documented), and naming its authorization_servers (verified)

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points
Contract Quality scores 54.2 — up to +11.5 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 4

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

Community Data Export API

Community's Data Export API allows programmatic retrieval of account data in CSV or JSON formats, including member detail, campaign performance, link click performance, subscrip...

Community Member Data API

The member-data API from Community — 4 operation(s) for member-data.

Community Messaging API

The messaging API from Community — 1 operation(s) for messaging.

Community Tags API

The tags API from Community — 4 operation(s) for tags.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Async REST member-data API

OPEN COLLECTION

Async REST member-data messaging API

OPEN COLLECTION

Async REST member-data tags API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Onboard and segment a Community member

AGENT SKILL

Send a direct message to a Community member

AGENT SKILL

Community API pricing

Prices published by Community, read 2026-10-28 from community.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Small Business	Get personalized pricing Includes: Dedicated 10DLC Phone Number; Two-way messaging; Community Numbers; Ensured Compliance (TCPA); Membe
Mid Market	Get personalized pricing Includes: Everything in Small Business, plus AI Summaries & Message Generator, Message Flow Automations, Campa
Enterprise	Get personalized pricing Includes: Everything in Mid Market; SSO; White-glove onboarding & Training; Dedicated support team

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Community Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Community Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Community

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Community Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Community Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Community API Rules

49 rules · 47 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Community Async Overlay

3 actions · update · community-async-openapi-original.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Community Authentication

http/oauth2/apiKey · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Community Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Community Trust Center

SOC 2, GDPR

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Community Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Community Agentic Access

9 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Login

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Webhooks

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

OAuthScopes

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: community
name: Community
description: 'Community is a conversational messaging platform that lets brands, creators, artists, sports teams, media companies,
  and political organizations reach their audiences directly over SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, Apple Messages for Business, and RCS.
  Founded in 2019 and remote-first, Community pairs a campaign-and-flows product with a developer surface: an Async REST API
  to send Direct Messages, create and update members, set custom member data, manage subcommunities (tags), and opt members
  out; a Data Export API for member, campaign, and link analytics snapshots; and outbound webhooks for inbound/outbound messages
  and member lifecycle events. API access is provisioned per account by the Community team rather than self-serve.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/community/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: real-developer-api-found
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://community.com/og-image.jpg
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
x-docs-platform: readme
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-24
tags:
- Messaging
- SMS
- Communications
- Marketing
- Creators
- Webhook
- Company
tags_raw:
- Messaging
- SMS
- Communications
- Marketing
- Creators
- Webhooks
- Company
apis:
- aid: community:community-data-export-api
  name: Community Data Export API
  humanURL: https://developer.community.com/reference/data-export-introduction
  baseURL: https://dl.community.com
  tags:
  - Data Export
  - Analytics
  - Reporting
  description: Community's Data Export API allows programmatic retrieval of account data in CSV or JSON formats, including
    member detail, campaign performance, link click performance, subscription state changes, and community membership. Files
    are generated every 24 hours as account snapshots and served via time-limited redirect download URLs. Authenticated with
    a bearer session token.
  properties:
  - url: https://developer.community.com/reference/data-export-introduction
    type: Documentation
- aid: community:community-member-data-api
  name: Community Member Data API
  description: The member-data API from Community — 4 operation(s) for member-data.
  humanURL: https://developer.community.com/reference/getting-started-with-your-api
  baseURL: https://api.community.com/webhooks/v1/community
  tags:
  - Member Data
  tags_raw:
  - member-data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/community-member-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.community.com/reference/getting-started-with-your-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.community.com/reference/send-message
- aid: community:community-messaging-api
  name: Community Messaging API
  description: The messaging API from Community — 1 operation(s) for messaging.
  humanURL: https://developer.community.com/reference/getting-started-with-your-api
  baseURL: https://api.community.com/webhooks/v1/community
  tags:
  - Messaging
  tags_raw:
  - messaging
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/community-messaging-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.community.com/reference/getting-started-with-your-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.community.com/reference/send-message
- aid: community:community-tags-api
  name: Community Tags API
  description: The tags API from Community — 4 operation(s) for tags.
  humanURL: https://developer.community.com/reference/getting-started-with-your-api
  baseURL: https://api.community.com/webhooks/v1/community
  tags:
  - Tags
  tags_raw:
  - tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/community-tags-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.community.com/reference/getting-started-with-your-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.community.com/reference/send-message
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/community-capability-edges.yml
  name: Community Business Capability Map
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.community.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.community.com/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.community.com/reference/getting-started-with-your-api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.community.com/reference/getting-started-with-your-api
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/community-llms.txt
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/community-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/community-async-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/community-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.community.com/
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/community-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/community-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/community-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/community-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/community-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/community-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/community-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/community-domain-security.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/community-scopes.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/community-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/community-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/community-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/community-rate-limits.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://community.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://community.com/faq
- type: Pricing
  url: https://community.com/pricing
- type: Login
  url: https://community.com/login
- type: SignUp
  url: https://community.com/signup/book-a-demo
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://community.com/legal/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://community.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: Website
  url: https://community.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1
x-tags-removed:
- Conversational AI

Community API — frequently asked questions

Does Community have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Community, including Community Data Export API, Community Member Data API and Community Messaging API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Community API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Community, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Community API?

Community uses bearer-token authentication (http/oauth2/apiKey · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Community Authentication.

How much does the Community API cost?

Community publishes its prices; its Small Business plan is Get personalized pricing as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Community, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Community API ready for AI agents?

Community has a Kin Score of 58.6 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 31.9 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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