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Telnyx alternatives

SMS and messaging APIs · 2 alternatives · Telnyx iScore 76 (#1/3)

Every SMS and messaging APIs provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Telnyx's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Telnyx's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.

Ranked by iScore
  1. PlivoPricing model: Pay as you go, quoted per SMS rather than per segment — the page's only segment footnote…75#2/3
  2. TwilioPricing model: Pay as you go per SEGMENT, not per message — a text longer than one segment is billed as…75#3/3

Where Telnyx stands against these 2

Telnyx's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.

Outbound SMS, US
$0.004 per message PART for outbound SMS, before the carrier passthroughCheapest of the 3 that document it. Next: Plivo — $0.0077 per SMS sent to a US long code or short code, and $0.0079 toll-free.

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