The eSIM API is coming to Bird

Enterprise mobility, on wires we own.

Corporate roaming eSIMs, employee phone plans, and connectivity your own product can issue through the API. One platform, one contract, running on the direct telco relationships Bird already uses to move messages.

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25GB

$25

50GB

$50

Unlimited

$150

25GB

$25

50GB

$50

Unlimited

$150

25GB

$25

50GB

$50

Unlimited

$150

Enterprise mobility has not changed in twenty years.

The same three problems turn up in every company with people who travel.

Roaming bills nobody controls

Travel data gets bought as day passes, or it lands a month later as bill shock. Finance sees the cost after the trip is over, and nobody can cap or steer it while it is happening.

A carrier contract in every country

Each market means another operator, another negotiation, another invoice. Global teams end up maintaining dozens of carrier relationships just to keep phones working.

Public WiFi as the fallback

When roaming feels too expensive, employees go hunting for hotel and airport WiFi: the least secure network they will touch all year, carrying some of your most sensitive traffic.

We own the wires.

There is no aggregator in the middle.

Bird negotiates directly with the operators it routes on, and eSIM rides the same relationships. That estate is already in production: it is what carries Bird's messaging traffic today, so the connectivity underneath your employees' phones is not a supplier list assembled for a new product line.

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direct-to-carrier connections, with no reseller chain between your traffic and the operator.

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aggregators in the chain, because Bird contracts with the operators itself.

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countries the carrier estate already reaches, with local regulatory work handled.

One platform, three ways in.

The same carrier estate, sold three ways. Most companies start with roaming because the bill is the loudest problem, then add the rest.

  1. 01

    Roaming eSIMs for your workforce

    Company-issued travel eSIMs at wholesale data rates, with the policy control IT has never had over roaming.

  2. 02

    Employee phone plans, everywhere

    Bird as your mobile operator across markets: full subscriptions HR deploys in one click, on one contract.

  3. 03

    Connectivity inside your product

    Issue eSIMs to your own customers through the API, as a perk, a promotion, or a product line of your own.

Travel data on the company's terms.

Roaming becomes a managed cost with an owner, a limit, and a live number attached to it.

Wholesale economics

Data is bought at Bird's wholesale rates instead of the operator's day-pass price. The saving comes from where the data is sourced, so it does not expire the way a negotiated discount does.

Policy control

Block video streaming, cap data per trip, set an expiry date, restrict by country. Rules are set centrally and enforced on every eSIM you issue.

Instant issuance

An eSIM lands on the device before the flight boards, sent by IT or triggered from your travel tooling. No SIM swap, no carrier store, no expense claim afterwards.

Usage finance can see

Live usage per employee, per trip, per market, in one dashboard IT and finance share. The number is visible during the trip, which is the only point at which anyone can act on it.

Security

Free WiFi is the most expensive network on the trip.

Hotel, airport and cafe networks are shared, unmanaged, and a favourite venue for rogue access points and interception. Every login, document and client call rides infrastructure nobody in your company has vetted, and VPN discipline is exactly as reliable as your most tired traveller.

A corporate eSIM keeps people on licensed mobile networks with carrier-grade encryption, live from the moment they land. There is no WiFi to hunt for, so there is nothing to gamble on.

Cheap roaming and a smaller attack surface turn out to be the same purchase. Nobody joins an open network when the data they already have works.

Employee phone plans, deployed like software.

Bird becomes the operator of record across your markets: calls, texts, data, and local numbers on one agreement.

One click from onboarding

A new joiner gets a number, a plan and an installed eSIM as part of day-one setup, before the laptop ships. A leaver is deactivated the same way, the same day.

Full subscriptions

Calls, texts, data and local phone numbers in every Bird market. This is the employee's actual plan with roaming built in, not a travel add-on bolted onto someone else's contract.

One contract, one invoice

Every market and every line consolidated. No local entities to stand up, no per-country negotiations, and no renewal calendar of operator contracts to keep track of.

Lifecycle-synced

Activation and termination follow your HR and IT systems automatically, so lines never outlive the people they belong to and nobody keeps paying for a phone that left.

Why a team moves off the operator's plan.

Three arguments come up in every conversation, usually in this order once the finance team joins.

  1. 01

    Controlled

    Hard spend caps per line. Policies per team or geography. Streaming blocks and data limits enforced at the network level, so the limit holds without anyone reading a memo.

  2. 02

    Secure

    There is no physical SIM to steal or swap, and a lost device or a leaver can be killed remotely. The company owns its number estate, so a number does not walk out with the person who used it.

  3. 03

    Cheaper

    Buying direct from the operators usually lands under operator enterprise list pricing, with roaming that does not punish the people who travel most. We will put a figure against your own footprint rather than a headline number.

Why Bird

Others rent the carrier layer. We own it.

The platforms selling employee phone plans today sit on top of someone else's carrier deals. That aggregation layer has a margin baked into every gigabyte, and it is a margin you pay without ever seeing it.

Bird negotiates directly with the operators it routes on, and every intermediary removed from the chain is money that stays with you. We also buy each market on its own merits: the best coverage and the best rate per country, instead of one blended global deal that averages the good markets down to pay for the bad ones.

The estate is already load-bearing. It is the same set of carrier relationships Bird runs its messaging traffic over, which is a different starting point from a supplier list assembled for a launch.

Live in one API call.

Issuing an eSIM uses the same auth, webhooks, idempotency contract and error envelope as every other Bird channel. One integration covers it, because you have already written most of it.

  1. 01

    Create a recipient

    Your customer or your employee, keyed to an ID you already have.

  2. 02

    Issue the eSIM

    Pick the region, the data size and the expiry at the moment that matters.

  3. 03

    Deliver it instantly

    The install link comes back inline, ready for a QR code, an email, or your own app.

  4. 04

    Meter and top up

    Usage webhooks drive your own logic: a warning, a top-up prompt, or an upsell.

Three ways to buy, one rate card.

No platform fee, no seat fee, and no minimum commit to start. Firm pricing follows your footprint, so the numbers come from a rate comparison rather than a table on this page.

Roaming data

Priced per gigabyte, per market, tiered by volume. You pay for the data an employee actually uses on the trip.

Employee plans

A flat rate per line, per month, covering calls, texts, data and the local number in that market.

Embedded eSIM

Wholesale per gigabyte, and you set the retail price your customers see. You keep the spread and Bird stays invisible in your product.

One agreement

Every market and every product on a single rate card, billed on one invoice, whichever of the three you start with.

Carrier or eSIM provider? Send us your best rates.

We buy each market on its own merits, so we are always reading new wholesale offers. Send the countries you cover and your rates to mobile@inbox.ai, and we will come back to you if there is a fit.

Let's get concrete.

Share your current mobile spend and we will come back with a rate comparison. From there you can pilot one team, one region, or one use case before anything moves onto a single contract.

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