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<Sip> from Twilio

Teach an old box new tricks: receive calls from Twilio at your SIP-enabled endpoint. Leverage your existing SIP routing hardware and move your business logic into the cloud. Build queues, text-to-speech, and play audio & record conversations and more in a few lines of code powered by a standard web stack.


Leverage your assets

Hold on to your existing hardware investment and add features quickly

1/2¢ per minute

Only pay for what you use. No contracts, no setup fees, and no shenanigans.

Features out of the box

No need to integrate additional hardware or software modules. Just start deploying features in a few lines of code.

Solve your hardware problem with software.

Moving your architecture to the cloud.

Twilio receives the call

When a user calls a phone number provisioned from Twilio, a request is made to your web server to determine how to handle the call & proceed.

<Sip> to your hardware

Your web server controls call logic and issues TwiML instructions to Twilio. Finally, routing to your existing hardware is a single line of code away.


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  • Twilio
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  • Cloud
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  • Hardware box
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  • Headset
  • User calls

  • Twilio routes the call

  • Web code routes call flow

  • Hardware & cards route call

  • Call is routed to destination


PBX hardware receives the call

When a user calls the phone numbers you've provisioned from a carrier, the call is routed to your PBX hardware.

Hardware & cards route call

Your PBX hardware receives the call and the installed hardware cards make business logic decisions on how to route & terminate the call.


  • Phone
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  • Telephone pole
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  • PBX hardware receives the call
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  • Hardware & cards route call
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  • Headset
  • User calls

  • Carrier routes the call

  • PBX hardware receives the call

  • Hardware & cards route call

  • Call is routed to destination


Integrate fast. Iterate faster.

Twilio speaks standard HTTP, which means you can build your solution in any web language & technology stack. No external consultants needed - exercise your existing web development talent.

Deploy code with the speed & flexibility of the Web. No more unscrewing a hardware box to add functionality.

Features in a few lines of code.

SIP from Twilio lets you unlock the entire feature set of Twilio Voice. <Enqueue> callers intelligently, <Record> and <Play> audio, <Gather> input digits, <Conference> callers together, and much more. And when you're done, <Sip> out to your existing hardware. The only limits to what you can build are your imagination.

Pricing that scales as you scale.

When your application reaches volume scale, you'll automatically get volume pricing. No negotiation necessary.

  • First 500k minutes per month - 0.5¢ / min

  • Next 2 million minutes per month - 0.45¢ / min

  • Next 2.5 million minutes per month - 0.4¢ / min

  • Next 10 million minutes per month - 0.35¢ / min

  • Above 15 million minutes per month - 0.3¢/ min

Develop at web speed.

Hardware is hard, and traditionally so was setting up a business phone system. After negotiating contract minimums and port reservations with a carrier, you still have to get contractors to build out hardware and special routing rules - just to build a simple IVR.

With <Sip> from Twilio, you can shelve the logic cards and telephony specialists. Build new functionality into your phone system with any web language - in a matter of hours, not months.

"Twilio's SIP capabilities enable us to quickly implement new functionality in our contact center. What's more, we can customize and scale our application on an as-needed basis. A highly modern system being updated with simple custom API web development, significantly increases our ROI and decreasing our MTTV, while at the same time making the most out of our existing technologies."

Joe McCorkle, Director of IT, Voice/UC Services

"Twilio's SIP capabilities allow us to transfer calls from our cloud-based call center application to on-premise PBX systems at heavily reduced costs without sacrificing service quality. Our ability to eliminate double leg costs with Twilio's platform made them a logical partner for our call center solutions."

Matt Lautz, President

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Sign up now and start making phone calls in a few steps. No credit cards required. Walk through our documentation and quickstarts to kick the tires on the API. When you're ready for production, upgrade your account and go live!