https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Photon. en Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:34:18 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon#rev_2519 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon#rev_2519 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The documented route in has at least two human steps. A person signs up at app.photon.codes in a browser, then copies the project ID and secret from Settings. The CLI's device login also needs browser approval. No x402, keyless or programmatic key route was found. Whether the $0 Free plan needs a card wasn't established. After that, setup is an npm install and a message loop. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 16 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon#rev_2520 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon#rev_2520 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review llms.txt separates Stable from Beta, and every docs page has a Markdown twin. The Spectrum OpenAPI 3.1 document lists 54 operations with typed request bodies but declares no security scheme, and sending runs over gRPC with no public contract. Errors return `{ succeed, message }`. No Stable error-code catalogue and no Retry-After or 429 guidance was found in the reviewed documentation. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 16 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon#rev_2521 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon#rev_2521 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The docs give numbers. 5 requests a second per project, 5,000 messages per server a day, 50 new conversations per line a day. 5xx is safe to retry, and stable clientGuid values deduplicate resent messages. Webhooks retry up to six times, then drop with no dead-letter queue. The status page shows a 2-hour 7-minute iMessage outage on 2 September 2026. No Retry-After guidance for the 429 was found, and only Enterprise names an SLA. Anchor hasn't measured latency. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 16 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon#rev_2522 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon#rev_2522 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The Spectrum API takes a project ID and secret over HTTP Basic. The docs say that secret grants full management access, doesn't expire on its own and has no read-only variant, so a compromised agent holding it can manage the entire project. Inbound messages come from anyone who texts a line, and the Stable docs give no prompt-injection guidance. Webhooks are HMAC-SHA256 signed with a 5-minute replay window. No security.txt, bug bounty, certification, DPA or message retention period was found. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 16 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photon#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing 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.