{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "infobip", "name": "Infobip API + MCP", "vendor": "Infobip", "vendorUrl": "https://www.infobip.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "messaging", "summary": "Per-channel REST APIs and a unified Messages API for SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, RCS and Viber, plus 2FA.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/infobip", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/infobip.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/infobip.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/infobip.json", "repo": "https://github.com/infobip/mcp", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "sse" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.infobip.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@infobip-api/sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "infobip-api-python-client" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key with scopes, sent as `Authorization: App \u003ckey\u003e`, or OAuth 2.0. Each account has its own base URL at \u003csubdomain\u003e.api.infobip.com. The MCP servers accept OAuth 2.1 with discovery or the same App key header.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pay as you go. The SMS page shows the average across networks, about $0.0082 a message to the US and $0.044 to the UK. US WhatsApp $0.00476 per utility or authentication message, $0.0374 per marketing message and $0.005 per free-form message; the first 1,000 service conversations per WhatsApp Business Account a month are free. The 60-day free trial allows up to 100 messages per channel to your verified number (https://www.infobip.com/sms/pricing).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 support in docs, pricing or MCP README (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 36, "npmWeekly": 17770, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.infobip.com/docs/api", "llmsTxt": "https://www.infobip.com/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.infobip.com/platform/1/openapi", "registryName": "com.infobip/mcp", "capabilities": [ "messaging.sms", "messaging.mms", "messaging.whatsapp", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.verify", "messaging.inbound" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "free-tier", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "webhooks", "whatsapp", "sms", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.1, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 596, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1098, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 25, "reliability": 43, "schema": 90, "security": 67, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "API keys with scopes, expiry dates and IP allowlists, and OAuth 2.1 on the MCP servers. Europe-wide traffic processing degraded on 2026-08-10 (about 1 hour) and 2026-08-15 (about 3 hours).", "bestFor": "Teams that need many channels and countries from one vendor with tightly scoped keys, or that already use Infobip.", "strengths": [ "API keys with scopes, expiry dates and IP allowlists, and OAuth 2.1 on the MCP servers", "18 hosted MCP servers split by channel, with the Message server at 1 or 2 tools", "One OpenAPI 3.1 spec for the whole platform, plus llms.txt and a no-key docs MCP", "Valid security.txt, ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018, and SOC 2 Type 2", "Sub-processor page with data locations and change alerts" ], "weaknesses": [ "Europe-wide traffic processing degraded on 2026-08-10 (about 1 hour) and 2026-08-15 (about 3 hours)", "No messaging rate limits or SLA published", "Published SMS prices are network averages, and per-network rates need a portal login", "JavaScript SDK unreleased since November 2023", "No webhook signing found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the account's own base URL (\u003csubdomain\u003e.api.infobip.com), not a generic host", "Connect only the MCP server for the channel you need, the RCS server alone has 27 tools", "Create a key with only the scopes the agent needs and an expiry date", "Send trial messages from ServiceSMS to verified numbers only (up to 5)" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 25, "reliability": 43, "schema": 90, "security": 67, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 97 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST \"https://$INFOBIP_BASE_URL/sms/3/messages\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: App $INFOBIP_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"messages\":[{\"sender\":\"ServiceSMS\",\"destinations\":[{\"to\":\"447415774332\"}],\"content\":{\"text\":\"Hello from Infobip\"}}]}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http infobip-sms https://mcp.infobip.com/sms", "config": { "mcpServers": { "infobip-sms": { "headers": { "Authorization": "App ${INFOBIP_API_KEY}" }, "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.infobip.com/sms" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/messaging.sms", "tool": "https://letme.dev/infobip" }, "sameCompany": [ "infobip-calls" ], "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "SMS outbound, US", "unit": "message", "usd": 0.0082, "note": "average across networks" }, { "item": "SMS outbound, UK", "unit": "message", "usd": 0.044, "note": "average across networks" }, { "item": "WhatsApp utility or authentication, US", "unit": "message", "usd": 0.00476 }, { "item": "WhatsApp marketing, US", "unit": "message", "usd": 0.0374 }, { "item": "WhatsApp free-form, US", "unit": "message", "usd": 0.005 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Infobip Ltd", "domain": "infobip.com", "domainRegistered": "2003-10-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.infobip.com/policies/service-terms-conditions", "privacy": "https://www.infobip.com/policies/privacy-notice", "statusPage": "https://status.infobip.com", "changelog": "https://www.infobip.com/docs/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 97 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/infobip.json", "live": { "slug": "infobip", "probe": { "target": "https://api.infobip.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-16T12:30:29.056455919Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 120, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 99.21, "uptime30d": 99.58, "p50ms24h": 110, "p95ms24h": 132, "samples24h": 253, "samples30d": 4060, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 275 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 269 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 267 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 242 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 133, "ok": 133 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.infobip.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-16T12:31:11.901568829Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "com.infobip/mcp", "version": "2.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-16T04:52:45.478717111Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@infobip-api/sdk", "version": "0.3.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-16T00:56:48.377201686Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "infobip-api-python-client", "version": "6.0.0", "released": "2026-01-22", "seenAt": "2026-10-16T00:56:48.592487663Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "infobip-api-python-sdk", "version": "5.0.1", "released": "2023-05-26", "seenAt": "2026-10-01T13:22:43.582658414Z" } ], "githubStars": 37, "npmWeekly": 7828, "pypiWeekly": 10517, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://infobip.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-01-01T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-15T15:49:07.245622001Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.infobip.com/docs/llms.txt", "ok": false, "status": 404, "checkedAt": "2026-10-15T14:16:59.292511368Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "infobip.com", "registered": "2003-10-16", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/infobip.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:13:19.624493648Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.infobip.com/sms/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-15T22:10:41.227211105Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b5e060a84bd2" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-16T12:31:11.901568829Z" } }, "answer": "Infobip API + MCP scores 59.1 (C) on agent readiness against Photon's 53.5 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Photon leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "photon", "name": "Photon", "vendor": "Photon", "vendorUrl": "https://photon.codes", "kind": "sdk", "category": "messaging", "summary": "Photon connects AI agents to iMessage, WhatsApp Business, Telegram and SIP voice through its spectrum-ts TypeScript SDK and managed iMessage lines. Photon 2.0, a public beta since 15 October 2026, adds an HTTP API that also covers email and SMS.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/photon.json", "repo": "https://github.com/photon-hq/spectrum-ts", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Something Great Inc.'s terms of service. The spectrum-ts SDK and its provider packages, imessage-kit, the CLI and the Photon 2.0 API clients are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://spectrum.photon.codes", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "spectrum-ts" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@photon-ai/cli" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@photon-ai/api" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "photonhq-api" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "The Stable Spectrum API takes the project ID and project secret as HTTP Basic credentials. The secret grants full management access to the project, doesn't expire on its own and is rotated with `photon projects regenerate-secret`. The SDK uses the same pair to mint per-line iMessage tokens, renewed at 80 per cent of their lifetime. The Dashboard API takes OAuth 2.1 tokens with PKCE and consented scopes, and the CLI logs in by a device flow approved in a browser, with a 7-day token. Photon 2.0 (Beta) uses separate bearer credentials with permissions, `pho_sk_` project keys and `pho_ask_` account service keys.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Plan prices with no per-message fee for iMessage. Free is $0 for up to 10 users on shared numbers, Pro $25 a month for up to 100 users, Business $250 per dedicated line a month, and Enterprise on request (https://photon.codes/pricing, checked 2026-10-16). Whether the Free plan needs a card wasn't established. The Photon 2.0 beta has its own plans and usage rates for SMS, MMS, voice and email, and its announcement claims $100 of free credit.", "priceSummary": "$25 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, llms-full.txt, the docs pages read, the pricing page, the terms or either OpenAPI document (checked 2026-10-16). Billing runs through Stripe checkout and the Stripe customer portal.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 107087, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-16" }, "docsUrl": "https://photon.codes/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://photon.codes/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://spectrum.photon.codes/openapi/json", "capabilities": [ "messaging.sms", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.whatsapp", "messaging.inbound", "voice.sip" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "imessage", "whatsapp", "telegram", "sms", "rcs", "sip", "voice", "sdk", "typescript", "cli", "webhooks", "llms-txt", "openapi", "oauth", "opentelemetry", "open-source-sdk", "self-hosted-option", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.5, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 757, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1098, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 20, "reliability": 68, "schema": 75, "security": 29, "transparency": 58 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-16" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-16. The iMessage platform page states '99.95% Uptime' and infrastructure 'built for speed, stability, and 99.999% uptime' (https://photon.codes/platform/imessage). Photon's own status page shows 99.89 per cent for each iMessage component from July to October 2026, including a 2-hour 7-minute full outage on 2 September 2026 (https://status.photon.codes, https://status.photon.codes/incidents/ry86mwnd). A misleading claim, -2." ], "verdict": "Photon runs iMessage agents on managed lines backed by its own macOS clusters, with a typed TypeScript SDK, signed webhooks and docs written for agents. Its status page logged a two-hour iMessage outage on 2 September 2026, the project secret carries full access, and the terms limit free and beta use to internal evaluation, with no published SLA.", "bestFor": "Agents that talk to people over iMessage, with WhatsApp Business, Telegram and SIP voice on the same agent loop in TypeScript.", "strengths": [ "One `spectrum-ts` message stream covers iMessage, WhatsApp Business, Telegram and a local terminal, with typed narrowing for platform-specific calls", "No per-message fee for iMessage on any plan. Pro is $25 a month for up to 100 users", "Webhooks are signed with HMAC-SHA256 and a timestamp for a 5-minute replay window, and retried up to six times with jitter", "llms.txt, a Markdown twin of every docs page and a documentation MCP server, with a written rule for choosing Stable or Beta", "spectrum-ts is MIT, with 14 tagged releases from 20 July to 15 October 2026 and CI on Node and Bun" ], "weaknesses": [ "The status page logged a 2-hour full iMessage outage on 2 September 2026, from a power failure at Photon's data centre", "The project secret grants full management access, never expires on its own and has no read-only variant", "The terms limit free, trial and beta use to internal evaluation, 30 days by default, with liability capped at US$50", "No SLA document. Only the Enterprise plan mentions a contractual SLA, and the terms disclaim delivery", "No prompt-injection guidance for inbound messages, and no DPA, sub-processor list or message retention period was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the Stable docs and `spectrum-ts` unless the project ID starts with `pho_prj_`. Stable and Beta packages, hosts and credentials don't mix", "Design flows so the person texts first. Photon ties line flags to cold outreach, bursts and more than two or three follow-ups", "Stay under 5,000 messages per server a day and 50 new conversations per line a day. Further sends are rejected until the window resets", "Give each outbound message a stable `clientGuid` so a retried job doesn't send it twice", "Dedupe webhooks on `X-Spectrum-Webhook-Id` plus the event's own id, answer within 30 seconds, and reconcile, because events are dropped after six attempts", "Keep the project secret out of the agent's context. It grants full management access and doesn't expire" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 20, "reliability": 68, "schema": 75, "security": 29, "transparency": 38 }, "provenanceScore": 78 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install spectrum-ts", "http": "curl -u \"$PROJECT_ID:$PROJECT_SECRET\" \\\n \"https://spectrum.photon.codes/projects/$PROJECT_ID/webhooks/\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/messaging.sms", "tool": "https://letme.dev/photon" }, "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 25, "note": "Up to 100 users on shared numbers, no per-message fee for iMessage" }, { "item": "Business plan, dedicated iMessage line", "unit": "month", "usd": 250, "note": "Per line. Cold outreach up to 50 new contacts a day per line" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Something Great Inc.", "domain": "photon.codes", "domainRegistered": "2025-10-10", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://photon.codes/terms-of-services", "privacy": "https://photon.codes/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.photon.codes", "changelog": "https://photon.codes/weekly-update/all", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-16", "notes": [ "The terms (undated) and the privacy policy (last updated 25 September 2026) name Something Great Inc. as Photon, with a notice address at 1111B S Governors Ave, Dover, Delaware.", "The terms still carry bracketed template text, including '[California]' and '[San Francisco, California]' for governing law and venue, and an acceptable use policy in brackets that links to the iMessage deliverability guide.", "RDAP for photon.codes gives a registration date of 10 October 2025. The API is at spectrum.photon.codes, iMessage lines at hosts under imsg.photon.codes, and the Beta API at api.photon.codes.", "photon.codes/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 16 October 2026. The photon-hq/api repository's SECURITY.md asks for reports through GitHub private vulnerability reporting.", "The changelog link is the weekly update index, whose last entry is dated 20 June 2026. The Beta API clients keep a CHANGELOG.md in photon-hq/api.", "robots.txt on photon.codes allows all user agents. status.photon.codes and the API hosts serve no robots.txt. The terms have no clause on automated access to the website.", "WebFetch was refused for photon.codes on 16 October 2026, so every page was read with curl. github.com web pages were refused by our session's proxy, so the repositories were read through git." ], "score": 78 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon.json", "live": { "slug": "photon", "probe": { "target": "https://spectrum.photon.codes", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-16T12:30:37.342956242Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 201, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 219, "p95ms24h": 637, "samples24h": 26, "samples30d": 26, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 26, "ok": 26 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.photon.codes", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-16T12:31:31.294096478Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-16T12:31:31.294096478Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "SDK + MCP", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Infobip", "b": "Photon", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.infobip.com", "b": "https://spectrum.photon.codes", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$0.0082 per message", "b": "not published", "name": "Price for sms" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under Something Great Inc.'s terms of service. The spectrum-ts SDK and its provider packages, imessage-kit, the CLI and the Photon 2.0 API clients are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "com.infobip/mcp", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-09", "b": "2026-10-15", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-01-22", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "36 stars, 18k npm/wk", "b": "107k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "2.8/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Infobip API + MCP scores 59.1 (C) on agent readiness against Photon's 53.5 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Photon leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Infobip API + MCP or Photon?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Infobip API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.infobip.com and Photon at https://spectrum.photon.codes.", "question": "Can an agent call Infobip API + MCP and Photon without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 75", "Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 29", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 58" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams that need many channels and countries from one vendor with tightly scoped keys, or that already use Infobip.", "slug": "infobip", "watchFor": "Europe-wide traffic processing degraded on 2026-08-10 (about 1 hour) and 2026-08-15 (about 3 hours)" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 68 against 43", "Agent ergonomics, 63 against 56", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 60" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that talk to people over iMessage, with WhatsApp Business, Telegram and SIP voice on the same agent loop in TypeScript.", "slug": "photon", 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/infobip-vs-whatsapp-cloud-api.json", "title": "Infobip API + MCP vs WhatsApp Business Platform (Cloud API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/infobip-vs-whatsapp-cloud-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photon-vs-whatsapp-cloud-api.json", "title": "Photon vs WhatsApp Business Platform (Cloud API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photon-vs-whatsapp-cloud-api" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 25, "edge": "photon", "infobip": 43, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "photon": 68, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "infobip", "infobip": 90, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "photon": 75, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "photon", "infobip": 56, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "photon": 63, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 38, "edge": "infobip", "infobip": 67, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "photon": 29, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "infobip", "infobip": 25, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "photon": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "photon", "infobip": 60, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "photon": 78, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "infobip", "infobip": 76, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "photon": 58, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Infobip API + MCP scores 59.1 (C) on agent readiness against Photon's 53.5 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Photon leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do sms.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "infobip": "API keys with scopes, expiry dates and IP allowlists, and OAuth 2.1 on the MCP servers. Europe-wide traffic processing degraded on 2026-08-10 (about 1 hour) and 2026-08-15 (about 3 hours).", "photon": "Photon runs iMessage agents on managed lines backed by its own macOS clusters, with a typed TypeScript SDK, signed webhooks and docs written for agents. Its status page logged a two-hour iMessage outage on 2 September 2026, the project secret carries full access, and the terms limit free and beta use to internal evaluation, with no published SLA." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/infobip-vs-photon", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/infobip-vs-photon.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/infobip-vs-photon.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/infobip-vs-photon.min.md" }, "markdown": "Infobip API + MCP scores 59.1 (C) on agent readiness against Photon's 53.5 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Photon leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do sms.\n\n- Infobip API + MCP: grade C, 59.1/100, rank #596 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/infobip.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/infobip.json\n- Photon: grade D, 53.5/100, rank #757 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/photon.json\n- Best SMS, WhatsApp and messaging APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/messaging/index.md\n- All 105 messaging comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/messaging/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Infobip API + MCP (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that need many channels and countries from one vendor with tightly scoped keys, or that already use Infobip.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 75\n- Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 29\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 58\n\nWatch for: Europe-wide traffic processing degraded on 2026-08-10 (about 1 hour) and 2026-08-15 (about 3 hours)\n\n### Photon (D)\n\nGood for: Agents that talk to people over iMessage, with WhatsApp Business, Telegram and SIP voice on the same agent loop in TypeScript.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 68 against 43\n- Agent ergonomics, 63 against 56\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 60\n\nWatch for: The status page logged a 2-hour full iMessage outage on 2 September 2026, from a power failure at Photon's data centre\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Infobip API + MCP | Photon | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 43 | 68 | Photon +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 75 | Infobip API + MCP +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 63 | Photon +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 67 | 29 | Infobip API + MCP +38 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 20 | Infobip API + MCP +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 78 | Photon +18 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 58 | Infobip API + MCP +18 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **59.1 · C** | **53.5 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Infobip API + MCP | Photon |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |\n| Vendor | Infobip | Photon |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.infobip.com` | `https://spectrum.photon.codes` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for sms | $0.0082 per message | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary hosted service under Something Great Inc.'s terms of service. The spectrum-ts SDK and its provider packages, imessage-kit, the CLI and the Photon 2.0 API clients are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `com.infobip/mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-09 | 2026-10-15 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-01-22 | |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | 36 stars, 18k npm/wk | 107k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Infobip API + MCP.** API keys with scopes, expiry dates and IP allowlists, and OAuth 2.1 on the MCP servers. Europe-wide traffic processing degraded on 2026-08-10 (about 1 hour) and 2026-08-15 (about 3 hours).\n\n**Photon.** Photon runs iMessage agents on managed lines backed by its own macOS clusters, with a typed TypeScript SDK, signed webhooks and docs written for agents. Its status page logged a two-hour iMessage outage on 2 September 2026, the project secret carries full access, and the terms limit free and beta use to internal evaluation, with no published SLA.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Infobip API + MCP\n\n1. Use the account's own base URL (\u003csubdomain\u003e.api.infobip.com), not a generic host\n2. Connect only the MCP server for the channel you need, the RCS server alone has 27 tools\n3. Create a key with only the scopes the agent needs and an expiry date\n4. Send trial messages from ServiceSMS to verified numbers only (up to 5)\n\n### Photon\n\n1. Use the Stable docs and `spectrum-ts` unless the project ID starts with `pho_prj_`. Stable and Beta packages, hosts and credentials don't mix\n2. Design flows so the person texts first. Photon ties line flags to cold outreach, bursts and more than two or three follow-ups\n3. Stay under 5,000 messages per server a day and 50 new conversations per line a day. Further sends are rejected until the window resets\n4. Give each outbound message a stable `clientGuid` so a retried job doesn't send it twice\n5. Dedupe webhooks on `X-Spectrum-Webhook-Id` plus the event's own id, answer within 30 seconds, and reconcile, because events are dropped after six attempts\n6. Keep the project secret out of the agent's context. It grants full management access and doesn't expire\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Infobip API + MCP or Photon?\n\nInfobip API + MCP scores 59.1 (C) on agent readiness against Photon's 53.5 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Photon leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Can an agent call Infobip API + MCP and Photon without installing anything?\n\nYes. Infobip API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.infobip.com and Photon at https://spectrum.photon.codes.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/infobip-vs-photon.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/infobip-vs-photon.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"infobip\", \"b\": \"photon\"}`. 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