Best Communication APIs
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What are Communication APIs?
Communication APIs are interfaces that allow developers to integrate various communication features such as voice, video, messaging, and email into their applications, websites, or services. These APIs enable businesses to add real-time communication capabilities without building the infrastructure from scratch, offering functionality like SMS notifications, voice calls, video conferencing, in-app messaging, and more. By leveraging communication APIs, businesses can automate communication processes, improve customer engagement, and enhance user experience. Many of these APIs are flexible, allowing developers to customize and scale features based on specific needs. Communication APIs are essential for businesses looking to streamline communication and provide seamless, integrated experiences across different platforms and devices. Compare and read user reviews of the best Communication APIs currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Twilio Messaging
Twilio
Twilio's Messaging API is a powerful tool that enables businesses to integrate messaging capabilities into their applications seamlessly. It offers a stable RESTful API that allows developers to send and receive SMS, MMS, and WhatsApp messages globally. With Twilio's Messaging API, businesses can automate and scale their communications, ensuring messages are delivered over the preferred channels of their customers. The API supports a variety of sender types, including long codes, short codes, toll-free numbers, and alphanumeric sender IDs, providing flexibility in how messages are sent. Additionally, Twilio's Messaging Services feature allows companies to group global senders and enable intelligent sending, automating sender selection, and handling compliance regulations. The API also supports inbound webhooks, allowing businesses to handle responses programmatically and engage in two-way conversations with their customers.Starting Price: $0.0079 per message -
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Twilio
Twilio
Design and deploy your ideal customer engagement experience. Twilio is a single fully-programmable platform with flexible APIs for any channel and over 400+ integrations, backed by a community of over 9 million developers. Build accurate and personalized experiences for your customers, easily and at scale, using SMS and WhatsApp messaging, voice, video, email, and more. Browse documentation and SDKs in multiple coding languages, including Ruby, Python, PHP, Node.js, java, and C#, or jumpstart your first project with our open source code templates to quickly build production-ready communications apps. Sign up and start building today.Starting Price: $0.0085 per min -
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ClickSend
ClickSend
ClickSend offers SMS, MMS, Voice, Online Mail, Email and Fax software for businesses. Our communications and messaging tools are simple to use, automate and integrate. That’s why they’re used by some of the most trusted brands, organisations and developers globally. Built for all, you can access ClickSend via our Dashboard, mobile app, flexible API or 900+ integrations. Plus, ClickSend offers helpful 24/7 support, and lightning fast delivery via a secure and reliable platform. From SMS marketing and alerts to bulk mailouts sent from your browser, join over 90,000+ businesses sending communications around the world. Our 100% uptime guarantee and lightning fast direct routes provide reliable messaging, no matter the channel. From small businesses to enterprise, ClickSend powers billions of messages around the world with 232+ direct carrier connections. Plus, ClickSend is always pay-as-you-go. That’s why ClickSend is business communications, solved.Starting Price: $20 minimum topup -
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MirrorFly
CONTUS TECH
MirrorFly is a CPaaS platform that empowers businesses and enterprises to add real-time chat features to any app. MirrorFly CPaaS offers chat, voice, video,& broadcasting in an enterprise-grade infrastructure. MirrorFly AI Voice Agent solution is uniquely built for developers who want more than basic communication – specifically for businesses that want to go AI-driven Startups and large enterprises can build their own chat app with extensive customization and branding capabilities to add logos, brand color, and other brand elements. The self-hosted Chat APIs and SDKs offer 1000+ in-app messaging features with 100% customization. In addition, MirrorFly offers a dedicated developer team to support the end-to-end custom chat app development process. MirrorFly Readymade SDKs: 1. In-app Chat API 2. HD Video Call Solution 3. HQ Voice Call SDK 4. Self-hosted Chat Messaging Solution 5. SIP & VoIP Call Solution 6. AI Voice Agent 7. AI Chat BotStarting Price: $299 per month -
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EnableX Communications APIs
vCloudx
EnableX makes integrating real-time communications into applications and workflows a lot easier. Designed and developed for Service Providers, Systems Integrators, and Developers, it provides a robust, scalable and secure communications platform without the complexity of building and maintaining the network infrastructure. By simply leveraging on EnableX comprehensive sets of programmable APIs and SDKs, developers can rapidly customize and embed all or part of the communication functions – voice, video, SMS and chat – right into existing applications, workflows and systems. Together with the Virtual Number services and advanced features such as AI and NLP, businesses can reach customers globally with an outstanding communication experience. -
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Innoinstant
Innocrux
Innoinstant offers a customized communication solution for every industry across devices and platforms. Set up a white-labeled communication application scalability, security, and reliability. With customizable APIs and SDKs, ensure real-time communication for every industry and use case. Lag-free virtual classrooms, secure financial transactions, interactive video and text chats on live streams, Gaming, E-Commerce, dating, anything, and everything is possible with 100% customizations. With Industry-standard security, encryption, and signal protocol Secure and protect user communication with end-to-end encryption. Our powerful APIs and SDKs help set up effective communication through chat, voice, and video. Enjoy the benefits of communication with robust payment gateway, file sharing, screen recording, and unlimited calls and translate words to business. The application development is entirely tailor-made to suit every industry needs that works on any platform or device. -
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Authkey
Authkey.io
Authkey is a multi-channel CPaaS platform providing SMS API, WhatsApp Business API, Voice API, Email API, and Google RCS. It helps businesses send notifications, promotional messages, transactional messages, OTPs, 2FA, and more. Designed for responsiveness and ease of use, Authkey allows you to start without adding any credit cards. Authkey offers a free sandbox account for building, testing, and deploying. It supports easy-to-integrate APIs for all channels and over 1,000 automation options via Zapier, Pabbly, Integrately, and other partners. You can easily push bulk campaigns through all channels. WhatsApp Chatbot for intelligent customer query responses. Join over 200 active businesses working with us and grow together.Starting Price: $0 -
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Channelize.io
Channelize.io
Channelize.io is an end-to-end Live Video Commerce enabler that enables E-Commerce Brands globally to add Live Shopping Experiences within their Websites and Mobile Apps. Our Platform can be easily integrated within existing websites and apps with Pre-built integrations for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop, Wix and more, and via our API, SDKs, and UI Kits. Channelize.io Live Shopping Platform gives brands the opportunity to leverage the power of Live Selling and Real-time Buyer Engagement to Boost Sales and Enhance their Brand Perception by connecting better with their Buyers and Showcasing their products in manners that lead to Informed, Trusted, and Accelerated Purchases by buyers. Our Platform has shown great results for our customer Brands by increasing Sales by 36%, Boosting Engagement by 5X, and reducing Cart Abandonment by 50%. Please Book a Demo with us to see our Platform in action.Starting Price: $49.00/month -
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smsmode
smsmode©
Communication Platform As A Service (CPaaS). smsmode© provides complete mobile messaging routing services. SMS, TTS, Google RCS or WhatsApp Business. Connect with your customers around the world via our innovative and powerful tools, with the level of security you need to ensure. smsmode© integrates easily with your existing tools to increase their potential through mobile messaging. Use our REST API, SMPP and plugins to create these custom integrations with your applications, CRM, ERP, and more. Our documentation and our experts will help you to reach your goals! European solution GDPR compliant ISO 27001 & 27701 99.95% SLA Responsability Europe CSR CommitmentStarting Price: €9 per month + 4.40 cts / SMS -
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Webex Connect
Cisco
An API and low-code Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) offering designed to help enterprises lower cost, reduce complexity, and accelerate IT roadmaps. Map and automate customer journeys in minutes using a drag-and-drop editor with powerful building blocks (nodes). Shift to low-code development to reduce the time to market for new applications and journeys. Seamlessly consume events from existing systems to trigger customer communication flows. Integrate customer interactions with backend systems to achieve end-to-end automation. Easily test, deploy, and make iterative changes to flows in a secure and scalable serverless environment. Leverage our extensive portfolio of communication APIs and SDKs for SMS, voice, push, RCS, WhatsApp, video, etc., to engage customers on their preferred channels. -
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8x8 APIs
8x8
Create more engaging customer experiences at scale with SMS, Chat Apps, Video & Voice APIs. Industry standard APIs make it easy to quickly automate notifications. 24/7 customer support ensures expertise is always there when you need it. Reliable delivery provided by our global, carrier-grade platform. Reach your customers anywhere with coverage across 190 countries and 130 network operators. Reliably reach customers anywhere with notifications, one-time passwords, reminders and alerts. Reach more customers with the ability to deliver messages across many different platforms through one API. Live support with the click of a link. Convert text to speech to create tailored, private messages at scale using this API. The Campaign Manager lets you instantly start sending SMS campaigns without integrating an API. Access the online portal, upload approved contacts and start communicating. -
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Aculab Cloud
Aculab
Aculab Cloud gives you powerful, programmable, easy to integrate APIs which allow you to make, take and interact with voice calls, send and receive SMS messages, and handle inbound and outbound fax - all with pay-as-you-go pricing and no specialist telephony equipment needed. Aculab Cloud builds upon Aculab’s core competence by combining complex technologies into a powerful, flexible and easy to use platform. Backed by a team of highly experienced engineers, Aculab empowers communication system developers around the world. In collaboration with Google and Amazon, we provide services, systems and software, already deployed in over 80 countries worldwide. We use proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI) together with hand-crafted algorithms designed and refined through extensive experience in the use of telecommunications "in the wild". Designed in-house by engineers with an in-depth understanding of telecoms. -
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Nexa|Voice
AWARE
Nexa|Voice is an SDK that offers biometric speaker recognition algorithms, software libraries, user interfaces, reference programs, and documentation to use voice biometrics to enable multifactor authentication on iOS and Android devices. Biometric template storage and matching can be performed either on a mobile device or on a server. Nexa|Voice APIs are reliable, configurable, and easy to use, complemented by a level of technical support that has helped make Aware a trusted provider of quality biometric software and solutions for over twenty-five years. High-performance biometric speaker recognition for convenient and secure multifactor authentication. The Knomi mobile biometric authentication framework is a collection of biometric SDKs running on mobile devices and a server that together enable strong, multi-factor, password-free authentication from a mobile device using biometrics. Knomi offers multiple biometric modality options, including facial recognition. -
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UIB
UIB
UIB is an AI-native, API-first company that simplifies human-to-machine communications, making them as natural as human-to-human interactions. Their platform seamlessly connects various communication channels, AI platforms, and connectors, including SaaS and IoT APIs, providing an infinitely scalable solution that reduces the complexity of bringing products to market. UIB's offerings include the UnificationEngine, an omnichannel Messaging Service Platform (MSP) that provides access to communication services via a single, unified API with over 50 connectors; Unified AI, a white-label conversational AI chatbot builder and virtual assistant designer that supports content management and conversation analysis in any language and media; and H2X Exchange, a marketplace for cloud connectors, RPA, and IoT integrations, enabling 360° interactions across all conversational user interfaces. -
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Social+
Social+
Boost in-app engagement, retention and revenues. Easily add pre-built social and community features to your app. Collect first-party data and unlock AI-powered insights to drive app growth. Add social features to your app in days. With our ready-to-use SDKs, APIs, and UIKits, you can embed the most popular social features in your app or website in no time. Harness the power of your first-party data with AI to enhance your business strategy and unlock new growth opportunities. Maximize your app’s revenue potential while enhancing user experience with our native monetization capabilities.
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