Bird

What Bird does

Bird sells communications infrastructure through APIs. The homepage positions it as "communications for developers," and the product lineup covers the full message lifecycle: sending, receiving, verifying, and routing across several channels.

Products

Email — Transactional email, email marketing, automation, templates, contacts and audiences, SMTP relay, inbound email, deliverability tools, and analytics. Two add-on features stand out: Inbox Insights (inbox placement and testing) and Competitive Insights (tracking competitor email campaigns).

SMS — Sending API, number management, destinations, two-way messaging, routing, marketing campaigns, templates, compliance tooling including 10DLC registration, and analytics.

WhatsApp — Sending, templates, numbers, two-way messaging, coexistence, conversations, groups, marketing, a Meta business agent integration, and analytics.

Apple Messages — Registration, entry points, rich messages, forms, appointments, payments, authentication, automations, marketing, and analytics.

Voice — Numbers, outbound calls, inbound routing, SIP trunking, browser calling, call sequences, AI voice, recordings, a contact center, and analytics.

Verify — One-time passcodes delivered over SMS, email, WhatsApp, or voice, with orchestration, security features, passwordless login, and two-factor authentication.

Lookup — Check a phone number or email address before sending to it.

Mailbox — An API for agents that handle their own inbound email.

eSIM — Mobile data plans for customers and employees, covering travel, automatic renewal, top-ups, device compatibility, number porting, and embedded or employee connectivity.

Realtime — Hosted pub/sub over WebSockets with channels, presence, security, and webhooks.

AI tooling

Bird ships an MCP server, CLI, agents, and skills under its "Build with Bird" section, with listed integrations for Cursor, Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Grok Bot, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini. The pitch is connecting your coding assistant to the same Bird workspace across products.

FAQ

Which channels does Bird support? Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Apple Messages, and voice. Verification codes can go out over SMS, email, WhatsApp, or voice.

Does Bird support two-way messaging? Yes. Both the SMS and WhatsApp products list two-way messaging as a feature.

How much does Bird cost? The site has dedicated pricing pages (for example, bird.com/pricing/email), but the scraped homepage doesn't show specific prices. Check the pricing pages for current rates.

Is Bird API-only? The positioning is API-first, but several products include non-API surfaces: email marketing with templates and audiences, a voice contact center, and analytics across products. The homepage doesn't detail standalone mobile or desktop apps.

Can AI assistants integrate with Bird? Yes. Bird publishes an MCP server, CLI, agents, and skills, and lists integrations with Cursor, Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Grok Bot, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini.

Alternatives

If you're evaluating Bird for the voice and telephony side, two related tools in this directory are Alohaa, a cloud telephony solution, and Callin.io, an AI voice assistant platform for managing inbound and outbound calls. Note that neither is a direct equivalent — Bird is a multi-channel communications API platform, and the other options here are telephony or chatbot tools rather than full messaging infrastructure.