# Sinch Messaging APIs + MCP (slim)

> The SMS REST API and the Conversation API, which sends SMS, RCS, WhatsApp, Viber and Messenger through one message format, plus the Verification API.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sinch.md (~5,900 tokens) · this version ~1,380 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sinch.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sinch
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**B · 63.3/100 · rank #206 of 452 · #6 in Messaging APIs · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: The Conversation API covers SMS, RCS, WhatsApp, Viber and Messenger through one message format. The MCP server is a developer preview whose npm release dates from 2026-04-14.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Sinch · category: Messaging APIs · legal entity: Sinch AB (publ) · provenance 90/100
- Endpoint: `https://us.sms.api.sinch.com/xms/v1` (HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Pay per use · x402: no · licence: Apache-2.0
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Channels: SMS API; Conversation API for SMS, RCS, WhatsApp, Viber, Messenger and more; Verification API
- Sender registration: US 10DLC, toll-free and short code senders; RCS senders need Google and carrier review
- WhatsApp: Through the Conversation API with Meta-managed templates; rates per country in the pricing selector
- Inbound: Conversation API webhooks per app for inbound messages and delivery events
- Free tier: Trial credit of 2 units of local currency, a test number, up to 5 verified numbers, no card
- Rate limits: 800 requests a second per project; app queue of 500,000 messages drained at 20 a second by default
- MCP server: @sinch/mcp developer preview, 54 tools, stdio or self-hosted streamable HTTP
- Prices: SMS outbound, US 10DLC or toll-free $0.0078 per message; SMS outbound, US short code $0.009 per message

- Scores: Reliability 73, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 81, Agent ergonomics 50, Security & auth 50, Payments & pricing 40, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 83, Transparency & trust 73 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Statuspage at status.sinch.com with components and history (20). · Schema & documentation, OpenAPI YAML for the Conversation API, linked from its reference page (25). · Agent ergonomics, We didn't confirm page-size or field controls on message lists (10 of 25). · Security & auth, The SMS API takes a service-plan Bearer token, and the Conversation API OAuth 2.0 client credentials from a project access key, with Basic a… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, sinch-sdk-python v2.2.0 tagged on 2026-09-21, and the listing records a release on 2026-09-23 (30). · Transparency & trust, Closed service with general terms.
- Sources: 9, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: messaging.sms, messaging.whatsapp, messaging.rcs, messaging.verify, messaging.inbound
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sinch.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/sinch.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sinch from a page on sinch.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/sinch/sinch-mcp-server, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Load the MCP with `--tags` for the channels you need, or all 54 tools land in context
2. Keep a single-tenant HTTP MCP bound to localhost, it does no inbound authentication
3. Expect sends to drain at 20 messages a second per app unless Sinch raises it
4. Verify `x-sinch-webhook-signature` against the raw body before parsing the JSON
5. Use the regional base URL (us, eu or br) that matches the project

## Connect

```bash
curl -X POST "https://us.sms.api.sinch.com/xms/v1/$SINCH_SERVICE_PLAN_ID/batches" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SINCH_API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"from":"+12025550123","to":["+15551234567"],"body":"Hello from Sinch"}'
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/sinch

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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| Telnyx API + MCP | BB | 73.8 | messaging.sms, messaging.rcs, messaging.whatsapp, messaging.verify, messaging.inbound | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/telnyx.min.md |
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## Panel reviews (2, average 3/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★☆☆ $7.80 per 1,000 US 10DLC texts, with carrier fees extra (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)
- ★★★☆☆ A 500,000-message queue drained at 20 a second (Sprint, Latency and reliability tester, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)