Communications APIs brand directory

Twilio

Rank #1 · 20.0% visibility

Twilio is a cloud communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) that exposes carrier-grade telephony, messaging, and email infrastructure through developer-friendly REST APIs and SDKs. Its core product suite includes programmable SMS/MMS/RCS/WhatsApp messaging, Voice APIs (calls, SIP trunking, IVR, conferencing), the SendGrid Email API, Twilio Verify for user authentication, Twilio Flex (a fully programmable contact center), and Twilio Segment (a Customer Data Platform). More recently, Twilio has layered in Conversational AI products including ConversationRelay for deploying voice AI agents and Conversational Intelligence for call transcription and analysis. The platform serves over 402,000 active customer accounts and 10M+ developers, processing 27.9B+ voice calls, 193B+ messages, and 2.2T+ emails annually.

Knock

Rank #2 · 14.0% visibility

Knock is notification infrastructure and customer engagement software that gives engineering and product teams a single platform to design, orchestrate, and deliver cross-channel messaging. Its core primitives include a visual workflow editor with batch, delay, branch, throttle, and AI agent step functions; an in-app UI component library (feeds, toasts, guides); a broadcast tool for one-time campaigns; a preference and unsubscribe management system; and a developer toolkit (CLI, CI/CD integration, MCP server, SDKs in 8 languages). Knock acts as an orchestration layer on top of downstream email, SMS, push, and chat providers rather than replacing them.

Novu

Rank #3 · 11.3% visibility

Novu is an open-source notification infrastructure platform that provides a unified API and pre-built UI components for delivering multi-channel notifications—email, SMS, in-app, push, and chat—within modern software products. Its flagship offering is the <Inbox /> component, integrable in six lines of code, combined with a workflow orchestration engine, digest aggregation, and user preference management, available as both a managed cloud service and a self-hosted deployment.

Vonage

Rank #4 · 10.7% visibility

Vonage provides a comprehensive cloud communications platform encompassing programmable APIs (CPaaS), unified communications (UCaaS), and contact center (CCaaS) solutions. Its Communications APIs—formerly Nexmo and TokBox—allow developers to embed voice calls, SMS/MMS, RCS, WhatsApp, video, and user verification/authentication into web and mobile applications with minimal infrastructure overhead. Backed by Ericsson's global telecom network, Vonage also offers emerging Network APIs that expose 5G/4G capabilities such as silent authentication and SIM swap detection to application developers via CAMARA-standard interfaces.

Resend

Rank #5 · 9.3% visibility

Resend is a modern email API platform built for developers, offering REST API, SMTP relay, multi-language SDKs, and the React Email open-source library for building templates with React components. It handles transactional and marketing email delivery with built-in deliverability tooling, multi-region infrastructure, managed dedicated IPs, real-time webhooks, audience management, and broadcast campaigns—all accessible through a developer-first dashboard and CLI.

Mailgun

Rank #6 · 6.7% visibility

Mailgun is a cloud-based transactional email API and deliverability platform designed for developers and high-volume enterprise senders. It provides a RESTful API and SMTP relay for sending, receiving, and tracking email at scale, supplemented by tools for email list validation, inbox placement testing, deliverability monitoring, and email preview across 100+ client environments. As a Sinch subsidiary, Mailgun integrates into the broader Sinch CPaaS ecosystem.

Postmark

Rank #8 · 5.3% visibility

Postmark is a developer-focused transactional email delivery platform offering a REST API, SMTP service, and Message Streams infrastructure to ensure fast, reliable inbox delivery of operational emails—password resets, order confirmations, billing notifications, and app alerts—now operated as a standalone product within the ActiveCampaign portfolio.

Stream

Rank #7 · 5.3% visibility

Stream is a developer platform providing APIs and SDKs for building real-time in-app chat, video and audio calling, activity feeds, AI content moderation, and open-source Vision Agents for multi-modal AI applications — all on a shared global edge infrastructure.

Plivo

Rank #10 · 4.0% visibility

Plivo is a full-stack CPaaS and AI agent platform offering programmable Voice, SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, and SIP APIs alongside a no-code workflow builder and voice AI agent studio. It is built on a proprietary global carrier network connecting 190+ countries and is designed to serve both developers building custom integrations and non-technical teams deploying ready-made communication automation.

Sinch

Rank #9 · 4.0% visibility

Sinch AB's Customer Communications Cloud is a unified CPaaS suite delivering messaging (SMS, MMS, RCS, WhatsApp), voice (API, SIP trunking, in-app SDK), email (transactional and marketing via Mailgun/Mailjet), and verification APIs over a proprietary global Super Network. It serves both developers via REST APIs and SDKs, and non-technical teams via Sinch Engage, a no-code messaging platform. AI capabilities (fraud filtering, sentiment detection, generative writing) are embedded across the stack. The portfolio also includes Contact Pro (cloud contact center), Chatlayer (chatbot builder), SimpleTexting, and ClickSend, making Sinch one of the most broad-based CPaaS providers globally.

Bird

Rank #12 · 0.7% visibility

Bird (formerly MessageBird) is an AI-powered omnichannel communications platform combining CPaaS APIs (SMS, voice, WhatsApp, email, RCS) with a marketing CRM, customer data platform, and workflow automation tools. Built on proprietary global carrier infrastructure and the SparkPost email delivery engine, it targets enterprises seeking to consolidate customer communication and marketing automation into a single, cost-competitive platform.

Nylas

Rank #11 · 0.7% visibility

Nylas is a unified communications API platform that gives developers a single integration point to read, write, and sync email, calendar, and contacts data across Gmail, Outlook, Exchange, IMAP, and 250+ other providers. It abstracts provider-specific OAuth complexity, schema normalization, and webhook delivery, enabling product teams to ship embedded email, scheduling, meeting intelligence, and contact features in days rather than months.