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telnyx.com · SMS and messaging APIs
SEPT 2026 audit

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.

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Entry paid planNo platform fee and no support fee — $0 for both, with usage billed as you go.
CategorySMS and messaging APIs

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01.Evaluation guide

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.

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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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Telnyx pricing

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Entry paid planNo platform fee and no support fee — $0 for both, with usage billed as you go.
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  • Telnyx SMS API Pricing ↗

    “get volume rate from $0.004 per part $0 platform fee $0 support”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Pricing modelTwo 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.
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  • Telnyx SMS API Pricing ↗

    “$0.004 a part. then the carrier, at cost. two lines: our rate and the carrier's passthrough, both published, neither marked up. volume tiers apply automatically at 100m parts.”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Messaging

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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.
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  • Telnyx SMS API Pricing ↗

    “send outbound messages $0.004 per message part + carrier fee $0.015 per message part + carrier fee receive inbound messages $0.004 per message part + carrier fee”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Carrier fees on topPassed 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.
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  • Telnyx SMS API Pricing ↗

    “carrier passthrough · blended us 1,000,000 × $0.0038 $3,800 published rates, pay as you go, before volume tiers. carrier passthrough and taxes vary by destination.”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

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.
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  • Telnyx Global Numbers Pricing ↗

    “local numbers from $1 per month * toll-free numbers from $1 per month * 800 tfn numbers $500 otc (covers 12-mo term) + $40 mrc (after 12 months)** short code numbers $1,000 per month vanity short code numbers $1,500 per month [...] an additional charge of $0.10 per month applies to add sms and mms capabilities to a number.”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Support

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Support on entry paid plan$0 support — Telnyx lists support at no charge beside the platform fee rather than as a paid plan tier.
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Compliance

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HIPAAHIPAA is named on the pricing card beside the $0 platform and support fees. No further detail is given there.
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