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Plivo

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.

41.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
AccessFreemiumSelf serveFree trial⚡ Free to try
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CommunicationsCPaaSVoiceSMSMessagingWhatsAppSIP TrunkingVerify

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APIs 24

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

Plivo Account API

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.

Plivo Subaccount API

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...

Plivo Application API

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.

Plivo SIP Authentication API

The Plivo SIP Authentication API issues per-account credentials used by SIP endpoints to register against Plivo's SIP infrastructure.

Plivo Voice Call API

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...

Plivo Conference API

The Plivo Conference API manages live conference rooms — listing, retrieving members, kicking, muting, deafening, recording, and playing media into a conference.

Plivo Multiparty Call API

The Plivo Multiparty Call API supports building multi-participant calls programmatically — adding/removing participants, managing roles, recording, and barge/whisper supervisory...

Plivo Recording API

The Plivo Recording API exposes call and conference recordings — listing, retrieving, downloading, and deleting recorded media.

Plivo Endpoint API

The Plivo Endpoint API manages SIP/WebRTC endpoints (username/password/alias) used by softphones, browser SDKs, and devices to register and place/receive calls.

Plivo Audio Stream API

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...

Plivo Verified Caller ID API

The Plivo Verified Caller ID API allows trial accounts to verify outbound caller IDs for use as the From number in outbound calls.

Plivo Message API

The Plivo Message API sends and receives SMS, MMS, and WhatsApp messages, retrieves delivery status reports, and lists historical messages.

Plivo Media API

The Plivo Media API uploads, lists, retrieves, and deletes media files used as MMS or WhatsApp attachments.

Plivo Powerpack API

The Plivo Powerpack API creates and manages Powerpacks — pools of numbers that distribute outbound messaging traffic for higher throughput, sticky-sender behavior, and improved ...

Plivo 10DLC Brand and Campaign API

The Plivo 10DLC API registers brands and campaigns with The Campaign Registry for US application-to-person (A2P) SMS compliance.

Plivo Toll-Free Verification API

The Plivo Toll-Free Verification API submits and tracks toll-free messaging verification cases required for sustained throughput on TFNs.

Plivo Numbers API

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...

Plivo Pricing API

The Plivo Pricing API retrieves current voice and messaging rates per ISO country code, supporting cost estimation and rate-card synchronization for downstream billing.

Plivo Verify API

The Plivo Verify API delivers OTPs over SMS, voice, WhatsApp, or email and verifies user-supplied codes, supporting 2FA and identity-confirmation flows.

Plivo Lookup API

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...

Plivo Zentrunk SIP Trunking API

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...

Plivo CNAM Lookup and Branded Calling API

The Plivo CNAM and Branded Calling API manages caller-name lookup and branded outbound caller-display configurations on outbound voice calls.

Plivo Account API

Account-level configuration and details.

Plivo Message API

Send and retrieve SMS, MMS, and WhatsApp messages.

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Postman Collections 2

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 4

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Plivo Account API

OPEN COLLECTION

Plivo Account Message API

OPEN COLLECTION

Plivo API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plivo Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Plivo Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Plivo Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

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

Plivo Audio Streaming WebSocket API

The Plivo Audio Streaming API delivers near real-time raw audio from active Plivo voice calls to a customer-operated WebSocket server, and (when bidirectional streaming is enabl...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Plivo API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors 5 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

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

Plivo Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Plivo Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Plivo Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, CSA STAR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Plivo Agentic Access

6 operations · 2 acting

6 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

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

Build 13

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

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)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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.
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: 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: '0.23'
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:
  - Application
  - Voice
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  - WebRTC
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  - Artificial Intelligence
  tags_raw:
  - 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

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