# Swisscom

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/swisscom/  
**Website:** https://www.swisscom.ch/  
**APIs profiled:** 13

Swisscom is Switzerland's largest telecommunications provider and the incumbent mobile network operator, fixed-line carrier and IT services company for the Swiss market, majority-owned by the Swiss Confederation and also operating Fastweb in Italy. In the telecom value chain it is a facilities-based MNO that owns the radio access and core network, sells mobile, broadband, TV and enterprise IT, and monetises network-derived data. Its API posture is unusual for a European incumbent: alongside the expected partner-gated enterprise surface it runs a genuine first-party API marketplace at digital.swisscom.com listing ten productive API products (SMS, SMS token 2FA, inbound SMS, mobility heatmaps, dwell times, origin-destination, NATEL go smart catalogs, AI inference endpoints and a business identity validator) served from a live api.swisscom.com gateway, plus a separately maintained, actively released Swisscom Sign Integration API with a downloadable OpenAPI 3.1 document. The catch is that every API reference, key and spec beyond Swisscom Sign sits behind a Swisscom login and, for several products, a signed service contract — the marketplace is a storefront, not open documentation. On network APIs Swisscom was one of the 21 founding signatories of the GSMA Open Gateway Memorandum of Understanding in February 2023, but it publishes no CAMARA API, no Open Gateway developer portal and no callable network-API endpoint; developers who want SIM-swap or phone-verification signals from the Swisscom network have historically reached them through third-party channels such as IPification rather than from Swisscom directly. Its legacy developer programme (developer.swisscom.com, the Cloud Foundry Application Cloud, the swisscom-developer GitHub SDKs) is dead or redirected, and the older Messaging and Voice APIs are still documented only as RAML-rendered HTML in a GitHub wiki.

## Kin Score — 62.5 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 62.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 62.6 |
| Governance | 20.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 55.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 79.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 73.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 52.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (13)

- **Swisscom Sign Integration API** — REST API that lets backend systems create, configure, release and monitor digital signature processes end to end — create a process, attach PDF documents, invite signers, releas...
- **Swisscom All-in Signing Service (AIS) API** — The Swisscom Trust Services All-in Signing Service REST interface for creating AdES signatures and seals under eIDAS and ZertES, following the ETSI TS 119 432 remote signature c...
- **Swisscom Text Messaging (SMS) API** — Application-to-person SMS sending over the Swisscom messaging infrastructure with onward delivery to 260+ operators globally, including delivery-notification callbacks to a cust...
- **Swisscom Phone Number Validation API** — Two-factor authentication API that starts an SMS token validation flow against an MSISDN and then verifies the token the user received. This is Swisscom's own SMS-OTP product, n...
- **Swisscom Receive SMS API** — Inbound SMS API that exposes message inboxes so applications can receive texts from customers and build two-way messaging flows, alerting and device control alongside the outbou...
- **Swisscom Heatmaps API** — Mobility Insights API returning estimated population density per 100m x 100m tile per hour across the whole of Switzerland, from yesterday back two years on a rolling window, wi...
- **Swisscom Dwell Times API** — Mobility Insights API returning a frequency distribution of observed dwell times per 500m x 500m tile per day across Switzerland, bucketed from 0-5 minutes up to 8-24 hours, for...
- **Swisscom Origin Destination API** — Mobility Insights API estimating the number of trips people make between two Swiss regions for weekdays and weekends over a full calendar month, including the share made by trai...
- **Swisscom Smart Catalogs for NATEL go API** — Business/wholesale provisioning API covering the full NATEL go mobile subscription procurement lifecycle — activations, number portability, option and roaming configuration, SIM...
- **Swiss AI Platform Inference Endpoints API** — OpenAI-compatible inference endpoints for chat, multimodal, audio, embedding, reasoning and guardrail models hosted by Swisscom on NVIDIA SuperPod infrastructure in Switzerland,...
- **Swisscom Business Identity Validator API** — REST API that looks up legal entities and their authorised signatories against Swiss federal and cantonal commercial registries and selected EU business registers, for KYB onboa...
- **Swisscom Voice VoIP API** — Legacy Voice API cluster for controlling a Swisscom VoIP subscriber — placing and listing calls, managing call forwardings, simultaneous ringing and phonebooks, and subscribing ...
- **Swisscom Voice Mail API** — Legacy Voice API for listing and retrieving recent voicemail messages for a Swisscom MSISDN, secured by OAuth 2.0 client-credentials or authorization-code grants. Documented as ...

## MCP servers (1)

- **swisscom-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Swisscom Agentic Access** — 12 operations · 6 acting

## Security (4)

- **Swisscom Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Swisscom Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Swisscom Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Swisscom Trust Center** — Qualified certification service provider under ZertES, Qualified trust service provider under eIDAS, Remote signature issuance conformity under ZertES

## Tags

Telecommunications, Switzerland, Mobile Network Operator, Broadband, Network APIs, Open Gateway, Messaging, SMS, Voice, Identity Verification, Mobility Data, Digital Signatures, eSIM, Artificial Intelligence

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