Twilio Pricing for Programmable API and Phone numbers

What is the Twilio Pricing for Programmable API and Phone numbers?

Being one of the most used telephony and cloud communication platforms in the world, Twilio’s spectrum of plans and solutions is quite wide. It offers programmable voice, AI-powered chatbots, WhatsApp business API, programmable videos, and a bunch of others. For each and every product, you got different types of payment options and discounts like pay-as-you-go, volume discounts that activate as your business and usage grows, and committed discounts for those users who utilize Twilio services to a much larger extent. In this article, we are going to cover the basic Twilio pricing and also highlight how much Twilio costs eventually if you use their phone numbers.

How to get free access to Twilio API?

You can have an idea of Twilio’s potential by looking at the things that you can build with Twilio. For example, Twilio’s API allows you to create your own SMS marketing campaign, omnichannel contact center, web chat, push notifications, etc. And the best part is that you can buy any one of them free of cost by using the free trial credits. Twilio offers such credits to the new users which allows them to build a platform with full API for free. Once the free credits are used, you will need to pay for their services. We have mentioned the detailed pricing of a few of their APIs below.

1. Twilio SendGrid Email API: With the help of this email API, you can easily build and run email campaigns. Furthermore, you will be able to scale it anytime as per your requirements. SendGrid Email API allows you to send transactional emails as well as marketing emails seamlessly. The Twilio pricing of this API starts from $14.95 per month in which you can send up to 100k emails per month. However, if you are just starting out go for a free plan where you will be able to send 40k emails for 30 days.
2. Twilio Conversations: If you are into a cross-channel marketing campaign, where you want to control conversations from multiple platforms from a single workflow then this is for you. With this, you can centralize conversation from platforms like SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, and Chat. The pricing model of this plan is pay-as-you-go i.e. you will only need to pay for what is used by per-user. It is free for up to 200 users per month, after that, you need to pay $0.05 between 201-5,000 users, and $0.0475 for 5,001-10,000 users. However, you will be charged for standard SMS/MMS rates.

What does the Twilio phone number cost?

The phone numbers of Twilio are charged based on the MRC (Monthly Recurring Charges). You will be charged from the day when the phone number is active. There are multiple factors that determine the final pricing of Twilio phone numbers. Below, we have mentioned a few of them.

1. Type of phone number: It will cost you depending on whether it’s a mobile, national, toll-free number, or any other kind of phone number.
2. Capabilities of phone number: Businesses use phone numbers for various purposes including voice calls, SMS messaging, SIP Trunking, or all of them. You will be charged based on the services you are using.
3. Country of phone number: Twilio phone number cost differs based on the country as well.

In Twilio’s console, you can enter the phone number and you’ll get the monthly recurring charges mentioned along with the number.

To have an idea, check out the snapshot below that includes the phone number pricing of clean local numbers and toll-free numbers too.

In the product usage section of the console, you can check out the detailed and dissected Twilio pricing of every product.