SMS
Not just an API to exchange text and picture messages. A powerful software platform to simplify your development and solve deliverability.
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- $0.0075 per message
- Varies by region and volume
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Messaging Copilot for smarter text message delivery
Copilot is the code you don’t know you need yet. It handles the corner cases, the throttling, and the content formatting so your message is always delivered right. Anybody can make the first message work. Copilot is the software to make your millionth message work as well as your first.
An adaptive network that’s always improving
Unlike carrier resellers, Twilio’s Super Network gets better every single day, using the collective intelligence from delivering billions of messages across the world to adjust routes and avoid problems before they happen.
Stays up when others are down
Everybody claims a robust network. But Twilio is the only platform with multiple routes to the major US carrier networks, as well as robust, redundant carrier interconnects in every region to reach nearly every mobile subscriber on the planet. That’s how your text is delivered on Twilio, even when others are failing.
The kinds of problems we were seeing with other providers, we just haven’t seen with Twilio.
Developer tools
Helper libraries, monitoring and debugging tools, documentation, and support services get your app to market quicker and keep you from getting stuck. Or quickly get you unstuck.
Sender intelligence
Send messages from a pool of phone numbers to speed up delivery or use the same local number to maintain a conversation. We handle the backend logic for you.
Content intelligence
Automatic picture transcoding, character encoding, and message assembly ensure that messages are delivered reliably across the globe without needing custom code.
Compliance built-in
Twilio helps you stay compliant with global SMS carrier regulations by managing message volume and maintaining your opt-out list.
No other vendor had the simplicity of APIs or the reputation for handling large-scale consumer services.
Communicate reliably
Experience a 99.95% uptime SLA made possible with automated failover and zero-maintenance windows.
Operate at scale
Extend the same app you write once to new markets with configurable features for localization and compliance.
Many channels
Use the same platform you know for voice, messaging, video, chat, two-factor authentication, and more.
No shenanigans
Get to market faster with pay-as-you-go pricing, free support, and the freedom to scale up or down without contracts.