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Plivo is a global communications platform offering programmable Voice, Messaging (SMS/MMS/WhatsApp), SIP Trunking, Verify, and Lookup APIs, plus an AI Voice Agent platform. The HTTP API is available at https://api.plivo.com/v1/ with HTTP Basic Auth using Auth ID and Auth Token credentials.
Plivo publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Account API, Audio Stream API, Message API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Communications, CPaaS, Voice, SMS, and Messaging.
The Plivo catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Plivo’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, and 28 more developer resources.
24 APIs
1 MCP Servers
Communications CPaaS Voice SMS Messaging WhatsApp SIP Trunking Verify
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Resources 35
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Machine-Readable Contract
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Agentic Access Contract
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MCP Server
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Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
The Plivo Account API exposes account-level details (auth ID, auth token, billing balance, address, account type, max-call configuration) and supports updating account properties.
The Plivo Subaccount API supports creating, updating, listing, activating, and deleting subaccounts under a parent Plivo account, enabling multi-tenant isolation of usage and bi...
The Plivo Application API manages voice applications — bundles of XML/answer/hangup/fallback URLs (and message URL bindings) used to control inbound and outbound call behavior.
The Plivo SIP Authentication API issues per-account credentials used by SIP endpoints to register against Plivo's SIP infrastructure.
The Plivo Voice Call API initiates outbound calls, retrieves details for live and historical calls, and supports active-call control (transfer, record, play, speak, hangup, DTMF...
The Plivo Conference API manages live conference rooms — listing, retrieving members, kicking, muting, deafening, recording, and playing media into a conference.
The Plivo Multiparty Call API supports building multi-participant calls programmatically — adding/removing participants, managing roles, recording, and barge/whisper supervisory...
The Plivo Recording API exposes call and conference recordings — listing, retrieving, downloading, and deleting recorded media.
The Plivo Endpoint API manages SIP/WebRTC endpoints (username/password/alias) used by softphones, browser SDKs, and devices to register and place/receive calls.
The Plivo Audio Stream API attaches a real-time WebSocket audio stream to a live call, enabling AI voice agents, real-time transcription, and analytics. Plivo opens a WSS connec...
The Plivo Verified Caller ID API allows trial accounts to verify outbound caller IDs for use as the From number in outbound calls.
The Plivo Message API sends and receives SMS, MMS, and WhatsApp messages, retrieves delivery status reports, and lists historical messages.
The Plivo Media API uploads, lists, retrieves, and deletes media files used as MMS or WhatsApp attachments.
The Plivo Powerpack API creates and manages Powerpacks — pools of numbers that distribute outbound messaging traffic for higher throughput, sticky-sender behavior, and improved ...
The Plivo 10DLC API registers brands and campaigns with The Campaign Registry for US application-to-person (A2P) SMS compliance.
The Plivo Toll-Free Verification API submits and tracks toll-free messaging verification cases required for sustained throughput on TFNs.
The Plivo Numbers API searches the global number inventory, rents and releases phone numbers (long codes, toll-free, short codes, mobile numbers), and manages number application...
The Plivo Pricing API retrieves current voice and messaging rates per ISO country code, supporting cost estimation and rate-card synchronization for downstream billing.
The Plivo Verify API delivers OTPs over SMS, voice, WhatsApp, or email and verifies user-supplied codes, supporting 2FA and identity-confirmation flows.
The Plivo Lookup API validates phone numbers and returns formatting, country, line type, carrier, and reachability metadata to feed cleansing, fraud-prevention, and routing deci...
The Plivo Zentrunk SIP Trunking API manages termination and origination SIP trunks — outbound trunks (credentials, IP ACLs, dial prefixes) and origination/inbound trunks (URI, s...
The Plivo CNAM and Branded Calling API manages caller-name lookup and branded outbound caller-display configurations on outbound voice calls.
Account-level configuration and details.
Send and retrieve SMS, MMS, and WhatsApp messages.
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Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
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Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
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Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Source (apis.yml)
aid: plivo
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/plivo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Plivo
kind: company
description: Plivo is a global communications platform offering programmable Voice, Messaging (SMS/MMS/WhatsApp), SIP Trunking,
Verify, and Lookup APIs, plus an AI Voice Agent platform. The HTTP API is available at https://api.plivo.com/v1/ with HTTP
Basic Auth using Auth ID and Auth Token credentials.
accessModel:
pricing: freemium
onboarding: self-serve
trial: true
try_now: true
public: false
label: Freemium (free trial) · 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/plivo.png
tags:
- Communications
- CPaaS
- Voice
- SMS
- Messaging
- WhatsApp
- SIP Trunking
- Verify
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-29'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: plivo:plivo-account-api
name: Plivo Account API
tags:
- Account
- Authentication
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/account/api/account/
type: Documentation
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/account/api/
type: APIReference
description: The Plivo Account API exposes account-level details (auth ID, auth token, billing balance, address, account
type, max-call configuration) and supports updating account properties.
- aid: plivo:plivo-subaccount-api
name: Plivo Subaccount API
tags:
- Subaccounts
- Multi-Tenant
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/account/api/subaccount/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Subaccount API supports creating, updating, listing, activating, and deleting subaccounts under a
parent Plivo account, enabling multi-tenant isolation of usage and billing.
- aid: plivo:plivo-application-api
name: Plivo Application API
tags:
- Applications
- Voice
- Webhooks
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/account/api/application/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Application API manages voice applications — bundles of XML/answer/hangup/fallback URLs (and message
URL bindings) used to control inbound and outbound call behavior.
- aid: plivo:plivo-sip-authentication-api
name: Plivo SIP Authentication API
tags:
- SIP
- Authentication
- Endpoints
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/account/api/sip-auth/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo SIP Authentication API issues per-account credentials used by SIP endpoints to register against Plivo's
SIP infrastructure.
- aid: plivo:plivo-call-api
name: Plivo Voice Call API
tags:
- Voice
- Calls
- Outbound
- Inbound
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/voice/api/call/
type: Documentation
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/voice/api/
type: APIReference
description: The Plivo Voice Call API initiates outbound calls, retrieves details for live and historical calls, and supports
active-call control (transfer, record, play, speak, hangup, DTMF send) on in-progress calls.
- aid: plivo:plivo-conference-api
name: Plivo Conference API
tags:
- Voice
- Conferences
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/voice/api/conference/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Conference API manages live conference rooms — listing, retrieving members, kicking, muting, deafening,
recording, and playing media into a conference.
- aid: plivo:plivo-multiparty-call-api
name: Plivo Multiparty Call API
tags:
- Voice
- Multiparty
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/voice/api/multipartycall/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Multiparty Call API supports building multi-participant calls programmatically — adding/removing
participants, managing roles, recording, and barge/whisper supervisory actions.
- aid: plivo:plivo-recording-api
name: Plivo Recording API
tags:
- Voice
- Recordings
- Media
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/voice/api/recording/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Recording API exposes call and conference recordings — listing, retrieving, downloading, and deleting
recorded media.
- aid: plivo:plivo-endpoint-api
name: Plivo Endpoint API
tags:
- SIP
- Endpoints
- WebRTC
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/voice/api/endpoint/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Endpoint API manages SIP/WebRTC endpoints (username/password/alias) used by softphones, browser SDKs,
and devices to register and place/receive calls.
- aid: plivo:plivo-audio-stream-api
name: Plivo Audio Stream API
tags:
- Voice
- Streaming
- WebSocket
- AI
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/voice/api/audiostream/
type: Documentation
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/voice/xml/audiostream
type: Documentation
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/voice-agents/audio-streaming/concepts/stream-event-protocol
type: Documentation
- url: asyncapi/plivo-asyncapi.yml
type: AsyncAPI
description: The Plivo Audio Stream API attaches a real-time WebSocket audio stream to a live call, enabling AI voice agents,
real-time transcription, and analytics. Plivo opens a WSS connection to a customer-operated endpoint declared in the `<Stream>`
XML element and exchanges JSON events (start, media, dtmf, playedStream, clearedAudio in; playAudio, checkpoint, clearAudio,
sendDTMF out) following the documented Stream Event Protocol.
- aid: plivo:plivo-verified-caller-id-api
name: Plivo Verified Caller ID API
tags:
- Voice
- Caller ID
- Verification
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/voice/api/verified-caller-id/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Verified Caller ID API allows trial accounts to verify outbound caller IDs for use as the From number
in outbound calls.
- aid: plivo:plivo-message-api
name: Plivo Message API
tags:
- SMS
- MMS
- WhatsApp
- Messaging
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/messaging/api/message/
type: Documentation
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/messaging/api/
type: APIReference
description: The Plivo Message API sends and receives SMS, MMS, and WhatsApp messages, retrieves delivery status reports,
and lists historical messages.
- aid: plivo:plivo-media-api
name: Plivo Media API
tags:
- MMS
- Media
- Uploads
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/messaging/api/media/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Media API uploads, lists, retrieves, and deletes media files used as MMS or WhatsApp attachments.
- aid: plivo:plivo-powerpack-api
name: Plivo Powerpack API
tags:
- Messaging
- Number Pool
- Throughput
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/messaging/api/powerpack/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Powerpack API creates and manages Powerpacks — pools of numbers that distribute outbound messaging
traffic for higher throughput, sticky-sender behavior, and improved deliverability.
- aid: plivo:plivo-10dlc-api
name: Plivo 10DLC Brand and Campaign API
tags:
- 10DLC
- A2P
- Compliance
- Brand
- Campaign
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/messaging/api/10dlc/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo 10DLC API registers brands and campaigns with The Campaign Registry for US application-to-person
(A2P) SMS compliance.
- aid: plivo:plivo-toll-free-verification-api
name: Plivo Toll-Free Verification API
tags:
- Toll-Free
- Compliance
- Verification
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/messaging/api/toll-free-verification/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Toll-Free Verification API submits and tracks toll-free messaging verification cases required for
sustained throughput on TFNs.
- aid: plivo:plivo-numbers-api
name: Plivo Numbers API
tags:
- Phone Numbers
- Provisioning
- DIDs
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/numbers/api/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Numbers API searches the global number inventory, rents and releases phone numbers (long codes, toll-free,
short codes, mobile numbers), and manages number application bindings.
- aid: plivo:plivo-pricing-api
name: Plivo Pricing API
tags:
- Pricing
- Rates
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/account/api/pricing/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Pricing API retrieves current voice and messaging rates per ISO country code, supporting cost estimation
and rate-card synchronization for downstream billing.
- aid: plivo:plivo-verify-api
name: Plivo Verify API
tags:
- Verify
- OTP
- 2FA
- Authentication
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/verify/api/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Verify API delivers OTPs over SMS, voice, WhatsApp, or email and verifies user-supplied codes, supporting
2FA and identity-confirmation flows.
- aid: plivo:plivo-lookup-api
name: Plivo Lookup API
tags:
- Lookup
- Number Validation
- HLR
- Carrier
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/lookup/api/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Lookup API validates phone numbers and returns formatting, country, line type, carrier, and reachability
metadata to feed cleansing, fraud-prevention, and routing decisions.
- aid: plivo:plivo-zentrunk-sip-trunking-api
name: Plivo Zentrunk SIP Trunking API
tags:
- SIP
- Trunking
- Voice
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/sip-trunking/api/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo Zentrunk SIP Trunking API manages termination and origination SIP trunks — outbound trunks (credentials,
IP ACLs, dial prefixes) and origination/inbound trunks (URI, source IPs, recording).
- aid: plivo:plivo-cnam-api
name: Plivo CNAM Lookup and Branded Calling API
tags:
- CNAM
- Caller ID
- Branded Calling
properties:
- url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/cnam/api/
type: Documentation
description: The Plivo CNAM and Branded Calling API manages caller-name lookup and branded outbound caller-display configurations
on outbound voice calls.
- aid: plivo:plivo-account-api
name: Plivo Account API
description: Account-level configuration and details.
tags:
- Account
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/plivo-account-api-openapi.yml
- aid: plivo:plivo-message-api
name: Plivo Message API
description: Send and retrieve SMS, MMS, and WhatsApp messages.
tags:
- Message
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/plivo-message-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/plivo/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/plivo-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
url: security/plivo-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/plivo-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/plivo-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/plivo-inc
- type: Website
url: https://www.plivo.com/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/
- type: APIReference
url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/sms/api/
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/getting-started/
- type: Authentication
url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/account/api/account/
- type: Pricing
url: https://www.plivo.com/pricing/
- type: SDKs
url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/sdks/
- type: StatusPage
url: https://status.plivo.com/
- type: Signup
url: https://console.plivo.com/accounts/register/
- type: Login
url: https://console.plivo.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/plivo
- type: Node.js SDK
url: https://github.com/plivo/plivo-node
- type: Python SDK
url: https://github.com/plivo/plivo-python
- type: PHP SDK
url: https://github.com/plivo/plivo-php
- type: Ruby SDK
url: https://github.com/plivo/plivo-ruby
- type: Java SDK
url: https://github.com/plivo/plivo-java
- type: Go SDK
url: https://github.com/plivo/plivo-go
- type: .NET SDK
url: https://github.com/plivo/plivo-dotnet
- type: Browser SDK
url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/sdk/web/
- type: iOS SDK
url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/sdk/ios/
- type: Android SDK
url: https://www.plivo.com/docs/sdk/android/
- type: Blog
url: https://www.plivo.com/blog/
- type: ChangeLog
url: https://www.plivo.com/changelog/
- type: X (Twitter)
url: https://x.com/plivo
- type: YouTube
url: https://www.youtube.com/c/Plivo
- type: Plans
url: plans/plivo-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/plivo-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/plivo-finops.yml
- name: MCP Server
url: https://github.com/plivo/mcp
type: MCPServer
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com