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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.

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curl -G https://pricing.twilio.com/v1/Messaging/Countries/US \
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-u '[YOUR ACCOUNT SID]:[YOUR AUTH TOKEN]'

You can find your account SID and auth token on your Twilio Console(link takes you to an external page).


MessagingCountry Pricing properties

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Resource properties
countrytype: stringNot PII

The name of the country.


iso_countrytype: string<ISO COUNTRY CODE>Not PII

urltype: string<URI>Not PII

The absolute URL of the resource.


outbound_sms_pricestype: object[]Not PII

The list of OutboundSMSPrice(link takes you to an external page) records that represent the price to send a message for each MCC/MNC applicable in this country.


inbound_sms_pricestype: object[]Not PII

The list of InboundPrice(link takes you to an external page) records that describe the price to receive an inbound SMS to the different Twilio phone number types supported in this country


price_unittype: string<CURRENCY>Not PII

The currency in which prices are measured, specified in ISO 4127(link takes you to an external page) format (e.g. usd, eur, jpy).


Fetch a MessagingCountry Resource

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GET https://pricing.twilio.com/v1/Messaging/Countries/{IsoCountry}

In the above API call, {IsoCountry} is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 format(link takes you to an external page) country code.

Parameters

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URI parameters
IsoCountrytype: string<ISO COUNTRY CODE>Not PII
Path Parameter

The ISO country code(link takes you to an external page) of the pricing information to fetch.

Fetch Messaging Prices for Estonia

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Node.js
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twilio-cli
curl

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// Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/node/install
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// Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
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// and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
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const accountSid = process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID;
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const authToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;
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const client = require('twilio')(accountSid, authToken);
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client.pricing.v1.messaging
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.countries('EE')
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.fetch()
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.then(country => console.log(country.url));

Output

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{
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"country": "country",
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"inbound_sms_prices": [
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{
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"base_price": "0.05",
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"current_price": "0.05",
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"number_type": "mobile"
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}
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],
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"iso_country": "EE",
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"outbound_sms_prices": [
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{
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"carrier": "att",
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"mcc": "foo",
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"mnc": "bar",
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"prices": [
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{
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"base_price": "0.05",
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"current_price": "0.05",
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"number_type": "mobile"
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}
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]
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}
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],
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"price_unit": "USD",
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"url": "https://pricing.twilio.com/v1/Messaging/Countries/US"
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}

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

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PropertyDescription
MCCThe Mobile Country Code
MNCThe Mobile Network Code
CarrierThe name of the carrier for this MCC/MNC combination
PricesList of OutboundPrice records that represent the prices to send a message to this MCC/MNC from different Twilio phone number types
PropertyDescription
NumberTypeThe type of Twilio phone number sending a message, either mobile, local, shortcode, or toll free
BasePriceThe retail price to send a message
CurrentPriceThe current price (which accounts for any volume or custom price discounts) to send a message
PropertyDescription
NumberTypeThe type of Twilio phone number receiving a message, either mobile, local, shortcode, or toll free
BasePriceThe retail price to receive a message
CurrentPriceThe current price (which accounts for any volume or custom price discounts) to receive a message

Read multiple MessagingCountry resources

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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.

URI parameters
PageSizetype: integerNot PII
Query Parameter

How many resources to return in each list page. The default is 50, and the maximum is 1000.


Pagetype: integerNot PII
Query Parameter

The page index. This value is simply for client state.


PageTokentype: stringNot PII
Query Parameter

The page token. This is provided by the API.

Read all MessageCountry resources

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List all countries where Twilio Programmable Messaging is available

Node.js
Python
C#
Java
Go
PHP
Ruby
twilio-cli
curl

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// Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/node/install
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// Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
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// and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
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const accountSid = process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID;
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const authToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;
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const client = require('twilio')(accountSid, authToken);
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client.pricing.v1.messaging
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.countries
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.list({limit: 20})
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.then(countries => countries.forEach(c => console.log(c.country)));

Output

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{
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"countries": [
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{
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"country": "country",
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"iso_country": "US",
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"url": "https://pricing.twilio.com/v1/Messaging/Countries/US"
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}
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],
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"meta": {
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"first_page_url": "https://pricing.twilio.com/v1/Messaging/Countries?PageSize=50&Page=0",
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"key": "countries",
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"next_page_url": "https://pricing.twilio.com/v1/Messaging/Countries?PageSize=50&Page=1",
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"page": 0,
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"page_size": 50,
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"previous_page_url": "https://pricing.twilio.com/v1/Messaging/Countries?PageSize=50&Page=0",
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"url": "https://pricing.twilio.com/v1/Messaging/Countries?PageSize=50&Page=0"
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}
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}


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