Twilio alternatives
Every SMS and messaging APIs provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Twilio's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Twilio's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- TelnyxPricing model: Two lines rather than one: Telnyx's own rate per message part, and the carrier's charge p…
- PlivoPricing model: Pay as you go, quoted per SMS rather than per segment — the page's only segment footnote…
Where Twilio stands against these 2
Twilio'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
- $0.0083 per outbound segment sent to a US long code3rd cheapest of the 3 that document it. Cheapest: Telnyx — $0.004 per message PART for outbound SMS, before the carrier passthrough.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.