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Messaging: Country Pricing Resource

The Messaging Country Pricing resource provides a simple API to pull real-time, account-specific pricing for Twilio's Messaging API 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.

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 Twilio Console.

MessagingCountry Pricing properties

Resource Properties in REST API format
country
string Not PII

The name of the country.

iso_country
iso_country_code Not PII

The ISO country code.

url
url Not PII

The absolute URL of the resource.

Instance Properties in REST API format
outbound_sms_prices
outbound_sms_price[] Not PII

The list of OutboundSMSPrice records that represent the price to send a message for each MCC/MNC applicable in this country.

inbound_sms_prices
inbound_sms_price[] Not PII

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
currency Not PII

The currency in which prices are measured, specified in ISO 4127 format (e.g. usd, eur, jpy).

Fetch a MessagingCountry Resource

get
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
get iso_country_code Not PII

The ISO country code of the pricing information to fetch.

Example 1
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        Fetch Messaging Prices for Estonia

        The Resource Twilio returns represents prices to send 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 has the following properties attached based on the type of Price record it is (Outbound SMS, Outbound Price, or Inbound Price):

        OutboundSmsPrice

        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 a message to this MCC/MNC from different Twilio phone number types

        OutboundPrice

        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

        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

        get
        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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              List all countries where Twilio Programmable Messaging is available

              Read all MessageCountry resources

              List all countries where Twilio Programmable Messaging is available
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