# Telnyx

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/sms/telnyx/

A messaging API billed per message part with the carrier charge passed through at cost on a separate published line, and no platform or support fee.

## Who it suits

Wanting to see where the money goes. Telnyx publishes its own rate and the carrier passthrough as two separate lines and states the second is not marked up, with no platform fee and no support fee — the only one of the three that itemises the carrier's share rather than folding it in.

Consider something else if Your messages run long. The $0.004 is per message PART, so a 300-character text bills twice before the carrier takes its share, and the headline rate flatters short-message workloads. Adding SMS capability to a number is $0.10 a month on top of the $1.00 the number itself costs.

## iScore

65 / 100 (80% interval 61–69), rank 1 of 3 in sms — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every sms peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/sms/telnyx/alternatives/

- Price: 60 (53–66), weight 50%, 1 of 4 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: free_card_required, free_offer_type, free_tier
- Trust and compliance: 50 (44–56), weight 30%, 1 of 1 criteria scored
- Evidence: 100 (100–100), weight 20%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Entry paid plan: No platform fee and no support fee — $0 for both, with usage billed as you go. ([source](https://telnyx.com/pricing/messaging), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Two lines rather than one: Telnyx's own rate per message part, and the carrier's charge passed through at cost. Both are published and the company states the passthrough is not marked up. Volume tiers apply automatically at 100 million parts. ([source](https://telnyx.com/pricing/messaging), read 2026-09-15)

### Messaging

- Outbound SMS, US: $0.004 per message PART for outbound SMS, before the carrier passthrough. The unit is a part and not a message, so a text over one segment costs a multiple of this. ([source](https://telnyx.com/pricing/messaging), read 2026-09-15)
- Carrier fees on top: Passed through at cost on a separate published line, which Telnyx states is not marked up. Its own worked example puts the blended US carrier charge at $0.0038 a part — close to its own rate, so the carrier is roughly half the bill. ([source](https://telnyx.com/pricing/messaging), read 2026-09-15)
- Phone number, per month: $1.00 a month for a local or toll-free number, plus $0.10 a month to add SMS and MMS capability to it — the messaging capability is billed separately from the number. Short codes are $1,000 a month, vanity short codes $1,500. ([source](https://telnyx.com/pricing/numbers), read 2026-09-15)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: $0 support — Telnyx lists support at no charge beside the platform fee rather than as a paid plan tier. ([source](https://telnyx.com/pricing/messaging), read 2026-09-15)

### Compliance

- HIPAA: HIPAA is named on the pricing card beside the $0 platform and support fees. No further detail is given there. ([source](https://telnyx.com/pricing/messaging), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

- [Telnyx vs Twilio](https://inetgeek.com/compare/twilio-vs-telnyx/)
- [Telnyx vs Plivo](https://inetgeek.com/compare/telnyx-vs-plivo/)