Send and receive messages at scale with Messaging APIs
Reach customers in over 180 countries and join the millions of developers who depend on Twilio to deliver messages reliably.
Cloud-scale APIs for SMS, WhatsApp, and chat.
Reach your customers on their preferred channels—at every stage of the customer journey—no matter where they are in the world.
Use Cases
Build communications flows for every interaction
Benefits
Trusted to send and receive over
66 billion messages a year
Global reach with enterprise reliability
Engage customers around the world with 1,500 redundant partner carrier connections, phone numbers in over 100 countries, and over 200 phone number types, on infrastructure that’s optimized for reliable global delivery at scale, including new verified A2P 10DLC routes in the U.S.
Support for multiple channels with one platform
Support SMS, MMS, and OTT channels plus voice, email, and more. You can easily add channels to keep up with customers’ preferences and adopt emerging channels without requiring custom code or needing to rebuild the entire architecture.
Complete control over customer engagement
Integrate communications at critical touchpoints of your customer journey. Use our visual editor to develop and iterate applications quickly, add bots and intelligent assistants to serve customers any time, anywhere.
“Integrating Twilio really helped us unify our ability and learning around building delightful customer experiences.”
Capabilities
Advanced software to power number selection, message deliverability, and compliance
Move from proof of concept to production quickly
- Use API documentation, code samples, and quickstarts in seven languages
- Access Twilio Runtime, including the CLI, visual builder, and hosted applications
- Support for default and advanced opt-out management
- Protect users with message body and phone number redaction
Send and receive with unrivaled reliability
- Optimize deliverability with intelligent route selection based on 900 million daily data points
- Use intelligent sender selection for localized, consistent, and compliant messaging
- Message globally using over 200 global phone numbers types—including toll-free, A2P 10 DLC, short codes, and alphanumeric sender IDs
- Send confidently with 99.999% API uptime for reliable high-volume messaging
Monitor and optimize your messaging
- Set a configurable validity period for message queues
- See status callbacks plus real-time analytics with Messaging Insights
- Media support for gifs, images, and audio and a fallback MMS converter when MMS isn’t supported
Docs
Start building solutions with our Messaging APIs
Programmable Messaging API
Add robust messaging capabilities to your applications with our Programmable Messaging API.
WhatsApp Business API
Use one REST API to send notifications with the world’s most popular messaging app, WhatsApp.
Programmable Messaging quickstart
Send your first messages with step-by-step instructions in your preferred programming language.
Messaging Services
Start with Messaging Services to keep your account and message logs organized as you send messages in the US and internationally.
Conversations API
Build multi-party conversations through SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, and chat using the Conversations REST API.
Twilio Conversations Quickstart
Create your first conversation, add and remove channels and participants, and build a proof-of-concept application.
Conversations + WhatsApp Business API
Twilio Conversations supports WhatsApp out of the box. Use this guide to set up common two-way use cases.
Media support in Conversations
Learn how to send and display media (photos, video, and other file types) in the Chat-based portion of a Conversation.
Pricing
Pay-as-you-go pricing with volume discounts
No-shenanigans pricing based on your usage, with additional discounts for committed usage as you scale.
Learn more about pricing for the Programmable Messaging API or Conversations API.