# Plivo **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/plivo/ **Website:** https://www.plivo.com/ **APIs profiled:** 24 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. ## Kin Score — 44.4 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.4). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 55.6 | | Contract Quality | 61.7 | | Governance | 13.6 | | Contract Governance | 13.6 | | Operational Transparency | 42.1 | | Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 | | Commercial Clarity | 40.8 | | Access Clarity | 40.8 | Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 23.6 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 34.4 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | documented | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | no | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | derived | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high). ## APIs (24) - **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. ## MCP servers (1) - **MCP Server** ## Agentic access (1) - **Plivo Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 2 acting ## Security (3) - **Plivo Authentication** — http · 1 scheme - **Plivo Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC - **Plivo Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, CSA STAR ## Plans (1) - **Plivo Plans Pricing** ## Tags Communications, CPaaS, Voice, SMS, Messaging, WhatsApp, SIP Trunking, Verify --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/plivo/). 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