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SMS: statistics and suppressions on the public API

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Two parts of SMS that were dashboard-only are now on the public API, with typed SDK methods, bird CLI commands, and MCP tools for each.

Getting started

What's available

  • Statistics: the aggregate summary, the daily and hourly series, and breakdowns by destination country, carrier, originator, category, status, and failure reason, plus counts of what your numbers received, by country, operator, and number. The same aggregation the Metrics dashboard reads.
  • Suppressions: list who your senders may not message and why, check one subscriber before sending to them, and add or end a suppression of your own. A send to a suppressed pair is refused with SMSRecipientSuppressed rather than going out.
  • Message timeline: a message's lifecycle events are now a public read, alongside the message itself.
  • Everywhere you build: the API, the Go, TypeScript, Python, and PHP SDKs, bird sms stats, bird sms suppressions, and bird sms list-events on the CLI, and the matching MCP tools.

Start with one channel.
Add the others when you're ready.

A test API key is yours immediately. Production unlocks when you add a payment method and verify a sender.

Using Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex? Copy a setup prompt and your agent installs the Bird CLI and skills for you. Pick yours:

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