Messaging: Country Pricing Resource
The Messaging Country Pricing resource provides a simple API to pull real-time, account-specific pricing for Twilio's SMS product.
Prices can be retrieved at a country level directly via the Pricing Messaging Countries resource or for a specific phone number by leveraging the Lookup API and Pricing Messaging Countries resource.
You may also wish to check out our Pricing API resources for Twilio's Voice and Phone Number products.
Looking for details on pricing for Twilio products? Check out Twilio's pricing page.
Authentication
HTTP requests to the REST API are protected with HTTP Basic authentication. To learn more about how Twilio handles authentication, please refer to our security documentation.
In short, you will use your Twilio account SID as the username and your auth token as the password for HTTP Basic authentication.
curl -G https://pricing.twilio.com/v1/Messaging/Countries/US \
-u '[YOUR ACCOUNT SID]:[YOUR AUTH TOKEN]'
You can find your account SID and auth token on your dashboard.
MessagingCountry Pricing properties
| Resource Properties in REST API format | |
|---|---|
country
|
The name of the country. |
iso_country
|
The ISO country code. |
url
|
The absolute URL of the resource. |
| Instance Properties in REST API format | |
outbound_sms_prices
|
The list of OutboundSMSPrice records that represent the price to send a message for each MCC/MNC applicable in this country. |
inbound_sms_prices
|
The list of InboundPrice records that describe the price to receive an inbound SMS to the different Twilio phone number types supported in this country |
price_unit
|
The currency in which prices are measured, specified in ISO 4127 format (e.g. |
Fetch a MessagingCountry resource
https://pricing.twilio.com/v1/Messaging/Countries/{IsoCountry}
In the above API call, {IsoCountry} is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 format country code.
Parameters
| Parameters in REST API format | |
|---|---|
iso_country
Path
|
The ISO country code of the pricing information to fetch. |
Example 1
The resource Twilio returns represents prices to send SMS messages to phone numbers in a given country, organized by Mobile Country Code (MCC) and Mobile Network Code (MNC), and the prices to receive messages on Twilio phone numbers in this country, organized by phone number type.
A Pricing resource will have the following properties attached based on the type of Price record it is (Outbound SMS, Outbound Price, or Inbound Price):
OutboundSmsPrice record
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| MCC | The Mobile Country Code |
| MNC | The Mobile Network Code |
| Carrier | The name of the carrier for this MCC/MNC combination |
| Prices | List of OutboundPrice records that represent the prices to send an SMS to this MCC/MNC from different Twilio phone number types |
OutboundPrice record
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| NumberType | The type of Twilio phone number sending a message, either mobile, local, shortcode, or toll free |
| BasePrice | The retail price to send a message |
| CurrentPrice | The current price (which accounts for any volume or custom price discounts) to send a message |
InboundPrice record
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| NumberType | The type of Twilio phone number receiving a message, either mobile, local, shortcode, or toll free |
| BasePrice | The retail price to receive a message |
| CurrentPrice | The current price (which accounts for any volume or custom price discounts) to receive a message |
Read multiple MessagingCountry resources
https://pricing.twilio.com/v1/Messaging/Countries
Returns a list of countries where Twilio messaging services are available along with the corresponding URL for retrieving the country-specific messaging prices. This list includes paging information.
Example 1
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