established · -1.9 market domain

Telephony

Score 24.7 / 100 51 providers +14 via APIs 31 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Customer Service Management 1

Providers using this tag (51)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 16 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 16 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (31)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 9 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (14)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Telephony” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Apollo.io Cisco Collaboration Hybrid Solutions Concentrix DealerSocket Leadping LiveKit Pipecat Salesforce Salesforce Service Cloud APIs SendPulse ServiceNow Swisscom TPP (SystmOne) Webex

Score breakdown

Frequency
52.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
45.6
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
15.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Phone Numbers 16 co-occurrences Contact Center 24 co-occurrences Voice 39 co-occurrences Voice Agents 10 co-occurrences SIP 8 co-occurrences Voice AI 16 co-occurrences CCaaS 7 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag55
Api tag31
Openapi tag4
Openapi op tag11

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 50 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Telephony, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
50
of 51 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
44.3
+22.1 vs catalog 22.2
Mean Agent Readiness
31.9
+19.9 vs catalog 12
Spread
4.5–66.9
median 50.5 · σ 16.4
How the 50 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 16Developing 16Thin 9Emerging 6Minimal 2
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 45.2 17.2 +28 50
Access Clarity 48.1 23.9 +24.2 50
Developer Ergonomics 47.2 23.2 +24 50
Operational Transparency 30.6 13 +17.6 50
Discoverability 70.8 57.9 +12.9 50
Contract Governance 13.4 6.5 +6.9 50

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 36% 13% +23
MCP server (first-party) 36% 12% +24
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 26% 11% +15
Security 98% 98% 0
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 20% 16% +4

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 SignalWire 66.9
  2. 2 Syllable 65.1
  3. 3 Genesys 62.4
  4. 4 The Mobile First Company 62
  5. 5 Bandwidth 61
  6. 6 DialNexa 60.8
  7. 7 Numbers Online 60.4
  8. 8 Sonetel 58.6
  9. 9 Synthflow 58.1
  10. 10 Phonic 57.7
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Sarj AI Developer API 65.6
  2. 2 Speko 61
  3. 3 DialNexa 60.5
  4. 4 Phonic 57.9
  5. 5 Saperly 55.8
  6. 6 Synthflow 54.9
  7. 7 The Mobile First Company 54.5
  8. 8 Genesys 54.3
  9. 9 Bolna 53.6
  10. 10 Numbers Online 49
All 51 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 50 carry a score (98%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 37 of 50 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 24 October 2026, across 31984 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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