diff --git a/src/swarm/addrs.js b/src/swarm/addrs.js
index 103df148b..a786d32cb 100644
--- a/src/swarm/addrs.js
+++ b/src/swarm/addrs.js
@@ -1,33 +1,25 @@
 'use strict'
 
-const promisify = require('promisify-es6')
 const PeerInfo = require('peer-info')
 const PeerId = require('peer-id')
 const multiaddr = require('multiaddr')
+const configure = require('../lib/configure')
 
-module.exports = (send) => {
-  return promisify((opts, callback) => {
-    if (typeof (opts) === 'function') {
-      callback = opts
-      opts = {}
-    }
-    send({
-      path: 'swarm/addrs',
-      qs: opts
-    }, (err, result) => {
-      if (err) {
-        return callback(err)
-      }
+module.exports = configure(({ ky }) => {
+  return async options => {
+    options = options || {}
 
-      const peers = Object.keys(result.Addrs).map((id) => {
-        const peerInfo = new PeerInfo(PeerId.createFromB58String(id))
-        result.Addrs[id].forEach((addr) => {
-          peerInfo.multiaddrs.add(multiaddr(addr))
-        })
-        return peerInfo
-      })
+    const res = await ky.post('swarm/addrs', {
+      timeout: options.timeout,
+      signal: options.signal,
+      headers: options.headers,
+      searchParams: options.searchParams
+    }).json()
 
-      callback(null, peers)
+    return Object.keys(res.Addrs).map(id => {
+      const peerInfo = new PeerInfo(PeerId.createFromB58String(id))
+      res.Addrs[id].forEach(addr => peerInfo.multiaddrs.add(multiaddr(addr)))
+      return peerInfo
     })
-  })
-}
+  }
+})
diff --git a/src/swarm/connect.js b/src/swarm/connect.js
index 9875af411..f47ae6974 100644
--- a/src/swarm/connect.js
+++ b/src/swarm/connect.js
@@ -1,17 +1,22 @@
 'use strict'
 
-const promisify = require('promisify-es6')
+const configure = require('../lib/configure')
 
-module.exports = (send) => {
-  return promisify((args, opts, callback) => {
-    if (typeof (opts) === 'function') {
-      callback = opts
-      opts = {}
-    }
-    send({
-      path: 'swarm/connect',
-      args: args,
-      qs: opts
-    }, callback)
-  })
-}
+module.exports = configure(({ ky }) => {
+  return async (addrs, options) => {
+    addrs = Array.isArray(addrs) ? addrs : [addrs]
+    options = options || {}
+
+    const searchParams = new URLSearchParams(options.searchParams)
+    addrs.forEach(addr => searchParams.append('arg', addr))
+
+    const res = await ky.post('swarm/connect', {
+      timeout: options.timeout,
+      signal: options.signal,
+      headers: options.headers,
+      searchParams
+    }).json()
+
+    return res.Strings || []
+  }
+})
diff --git a/src/swarm/disconnect.js b/src/swarm/disconnect.js
index 84b800f7e..a3d60d172 100644
--- a/src/swarm/disconnect.js
+++ b/src/swarm/disconnect.js
@@ -1,17 +1,22 @@
 'use strict'
 
-const promisify = require('promisify-es6')
+const configure = require('../lib/configure')
 
-module.exports = (send) => {
-  return promisify((args, opts, callback) => {
-    if (typeof (opts) === 'function') {
-      callback = opts
-      opts = {}
-    }
-    send({
-      path: 'swarm/disconnect',
-      args: args,
-      qs: opts
-    }, callback)
-  })
-}
+module.exports = configure(({ ky }) => {
+  return async (addrs, options) => {
+    addrs = Array.isArray(addrs) ? addrs : [addrs]
+    options = options || {}
+
+    const searchParams = new URLSearchParams(options.searchParams)
+    addrs.forEach(addr => searchParams.append('arg', addr))
+
+    const res = await ky.post('swarm/disconnect', {
+      timeout: options.timeout,
+      signal: options.signal,
+      headers: options.headers,
+      searchParams
+    }).json()
+
+    return res.Strings || []
+  }
+})
diff --git a/src/swarm/index.js b/src/swarm/index.js
index fe8c88b35..e86a7c22c 100644
--- a/src/swarm/index.js
+++ b/src/swarm/index.js
@@ -1,15 +1,11 @@
 'use strict'
 
-const moduleConfig = require('../utils/module-config')
+const callbackify = require('callbackify')
 
-module.exports = (arg) => {
-  const send = moduleConfig(arg)
-
-  return {
-    peers: require('./peers')(send),
-    connect: require('./connect')(send),
-    disconnect: require('./disconnect')(send),
-    addrs: require('./addrs')(send),
-    localAddrs: require('./localAddrs')(send)
-  }
-}
+module.exports = config => ({
+  addrs: callbackify.variadic(require('./addrs')(config)),
+  connect: callbackify.variadic(require('./connect')(config)),
+  disconnect: callbackify.variadic(require('./disconnect')(config)),
+  localAddrs: callbackify.variadic(require('./localAddrs')(config)),
+  peers: callbackify.variadic(require('./peers')(config))
+})
diff --git a/src/swarm/localAddrs.js b/src/swarm/localAddrs.js
index 4798aad52..41c32db2d 100644
--- a/src/swarm/localAddrs.js
+++ b/src/swarm/localAddrs.js
@@ -1,24 +1,22 @@
 'use strict'
 
-const promisify = require('promisify-es6')
 const multiaddr = require('multiaddr')
+const configure = require('../lib/configure')
 
-module.exports = (send) => {
-  return promisify((opts, callback) => {
-    if (typeof (opts) === 'function') {
-      callback = opts
-      opts = {}
-    }
-    send({
-      path: 'swarm/addrs/local',
-      qs: opts
-    }, (err, result) => {
-      if (err) {
-        return callback(err)
-      }
-      callback(null, result.Strings.map((addr) => {
-        return multiaddr(addr)
-      }))
-    })
-  })
-}
+module.exports = configure(({ ky }) => {
+  return async options => {
+    options = options || {}
+
+    const searchParams = new URLSearchParams(options.searchParams)
+    if (options.id != null) searchParams.append('id', options.id)
+
+    const res = await ky.post('swarm/addrs/local', {
+      timeout: options.timeout,
+      signal: options.signal,
+      headers: options.headers,
+      searchParams
+    }).json()
+
+    return (res.Strings || []).map(a => multiaddr(a))
+  }
+})
diff --git a/src/swarm/peers.js b/src/swarm/peers.js
index 37d11cd7e..3b897348c 100644
--- a/src/swarm/peers.js
+++ b/src/swarm/peers.js
@@ -1,74 +1,48 @@
 'use strict'
 
-const promisify = require('promisify-es6')
 const multiaddr = require('multiaddr')
 const PeerId = require('peer-id')
+const configure = require('../lib/configure')
 
-module.exports = (send) => {
-  return promisify((opts, callback) => {
-    if (typeof (opts) === 'function') {
-      callback = opts
-      opts = {}
-    }
-    const verbose = opts.v || opts.verbose
-    send({
-      path: 'swarm/peers',
-      qs: opts
-    }, (err, response) => {
-      if (err) {
-        return callback(err)
-      }
-      const peerInfo = parsePeersResponse(verbose, response)
-      callback(null, peerInfo)
-    })
-  })
-}
+module.exports = configure(({ ky }) => {
+  return async options => {
+    options = options || {}
 
-function parsePeersResponse (verbose, response) {
-  // go-ipfs <= 0.4.4
-  if (Array.isArray(response.Strings)) {
-    return response.Strings.map(parseLegacyPeer.bind(null, verbose))
-  }
-  // go-ipfs >= 0.4.5
-  if (Array.isArray(response.Peers)) {
-    return response.Peers.map(parsePeer.bind(null, verbose))
-  }
-  return []
-}
+    const searchParams = new URLSearchParams(options.searchParams)
+    if (options.direction != null) searchParams.append('direction', options.direction)
+    if (options.latency != null) searchParams.append('latency', options.latency)
+    if (options.streams != null) searchParams.append('streams', options.streams)
+    if (options.verbose != null) searchParams.append('verbose', options.verbose)
 
-function parseLegacyPeer (verbose, peer) {
-  const res = {}
-  try {
-    if (verbose) {
-      const parts = peer.split(' ')
-      res.addr = multiaddr(parts[0])
-      res.latency = parts[1]
-    } else {
-      res.addr = multiaddr(peer)
-    }
-    res.peer = PeerId.createFromB58String(res.addr.getPeerId())
-  } catch (error) {
-    res.error = error
-    res.rawPeerInfo = peer
-  }
-  return res
-}
+    const res = await ky.post('swarm/peers', {
+      timeout: options.timeout,
+      signal: options.signal,
+      headers: options.headers,
+      searchParams
+    }).json()
 
-function parsePeer (verbose, peer) {
-  const res = {}
-  try {
-    res.addr = multiaddr(peer.Addr)
-    res.peer = PeerId.createFromB58String(peer.Peer)
-    res.muxer = peer.Muxer
-  } catch (error) {
-    res.error = error
-    res.rawPeerInfo = peer
-  }
-  if (peer.Latency) {
-    res.latency = peer.Latency
-  }
-  if (peer.Streams) {
-    res.streams = peer.Streams
+    return (res.Peers || []).map(peer => {
+      const info = {}
+      try {
+        info.addr = multiaddr(peer.Addr)
+        info.peer = PeerId.createFromB58String(peer.Peer)
+      } catch (error) {
+        info.error = error
+        info.rawPeerInfo = peer
+      }
+      if (peer.Muxer) {
+        info.muxer = peer.Muxer
+      }
+      if (peer.Latency) {
+        info.latency = peer.Latency
+      }
+      if (peer.Streams) {
+        info.streams = peer.Streams
+      }
+      if (peer.Direction != null) {
+        info.direction = peer.Direction
+      }
+      return info
+    })
   }
-  return res
-}
+})
diff --git a/src/utils/load-commands.js b/src/utils/load-commands.js
index a4a6dcd07..429776ad5 100644
--- a/src/utils/load-commands.js
+++ b/src/utils/load-commands.js
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ function requireCommands (send, config) {
     refsReadableStream: streamify.readable(refs),
     refsPullStream: pullify.source(refs),
     _refsAsyncIterator: refs,
+    swarm: require('../swarm')(config),
     getEndpointConfig: require('../get-endpoint-config')(config),
     bitswap: require('../bitswap')(config),
     block: require('../block')(config),
@@ -132,7 +133,6 @@ function requireCommands (send, config) {
     ping: require('../ping'),
     pingReadableStream: require('../ping-readable-stream'),
     pingPullStream: require('../ping-pull-stream'),
-    swarm: require('../swarm'),
     pubsub: require('../pubsub'),
     dns: require('../dns'),
 
diff --git a/test/node/swarm.js b/test/node/swarm.js
index 27d377904..9e0252a2c 100644
--- a/test/node/swarm.js
+++ b/test/node/swarm.js
@@ -29,24 +29,6 @@ describe('.swarm.peers', function () {
     expect(scope.isDone()).to.equal(true)
   })
 
-  it('handles a go-ipfs <= 0.4.4 peer response', async () => {
-    const response = { Strings: ['/ip4/73.109.217.59/tcp/49311/ipfs/QmWjxEGC7BthJrCf7QTModrcsRweHbupdPTY4oGMVoDZXm'] }
-
-    const scope = nock(apiUrl)
-      .post('/api/v0/swarm/peers')
-      .query(true)
-      .reply(200, response)
-
-    const res = await ipfs.swarm.peers()
-
-    expect(res).to.be.a('array')
-    expect(res.length).to.equal(1)
-    expect(res[0].error).to.not.exist()
-    expect(res[0].addr.toString()).to.equal('/ip4/73.109.217.59/tcp/49311/ipfs/QmWjxEGC7BthJrCf7QTModrcsRweHbupdPTY4oGMVoDZXm')
-    expect(res[0].peer.toB58String()).to.equal('QmWjxEGC7BthJrCf7QTModrcsRweHbupdPTY4oGMVoDZXm')
-    expect(scope.isDone()).to.equal(true)
-  })
-
   it('handles an ip6 quic peer', async () => {
     const response = { Peers: [{ Addr: '/ip6/2001:8a0:7ac5:4201:3ac9:86ff:fe31:7095/udp/4001/quic', Peer: 'QmcgpsyWgH8Y8ajJz1Cu72KnS5uo2Aa2LpzU7kinSupNKC', Latency: '', Muxer: '', Streams: null }] }