Pricing

SMS

Start by picking a phone number, which is billed monthly. You can use this number to send and receive global SMS right away and Twilio will bill you for usage. No subscription fees. No upfront commitments.

Example US Pricing (See details for each country)

Here’s how this is calculated:

There are two basic factors to consider when calculating monthly costs:

1) Phone Numbers: You’ll need 4 phone numbers to handle 1,000 messages per day. Why? Because carriers don’t like to see more than 250 messages per day, perphone number (short codes don’t have this limitation). So that’s $1.00 per phone number x 4 numbers = $4/month.

• Note: If you want to send those messages quickly - let’s say, within 2 minutes - you need to consider that in the US, you’re limited to one message per second,per mobile number (short codes are much higher). So 1,000 messages in 120 seconds, or ~9 messages/second (rounded up) would require nine phone numbers.At a cost of $1.00 each, that’s $9.00/month.

• Start by picking a phone number, which is billed monthly. You can use this number to send and receive global SMS right away and Twilio will bill you for usage. No subscription fees. No upfront commitments.

Example US Pricing (See details for each country)2) Message volume: You’ll pay $0.0075 for each message sent. So 1,000 messages per day x 30 days x $0.0075 per message = $225/month

• Note: for long messages that are greater than 160 characters (80 for Unicode), they will be sent as multiple message segments and reassembled at the otherend so the user sees them as a single message. Each message segment will be charged as a unique message.

• Note: With Twilio, volume discounts automatically kick-in, no need to negotiate those with Twilio ahead of time.

All of these costs are outlined on our SMS pricing page.

Whatsapp

Start by testing with the WhatsApp sandbox, and pick a phone number (billed monthly) when you are ready to go into production. You can use this number to send andreceive WhatsApp messages once it has been enabled for WhatsApp and Twilio will bill you for usage. No subscription fees. No upfront commitments.

Example US Pricing ( See details for each country)

Say you want to send 1,000 WhatsApp notifications per day in the United States. That will cost you $406/month. That’s $1 for phone number and $405 for messagessent.

Here’s how this is calculated:

There are two basic factors to consider when calculating monthly costs:

• Phone Numbers: You’ll need 1 phone number to handle 1,000 messages per day. So that’s $1.00 per phone number x 1 numbers = $1/month.

• Message Volume: You’ll pay $0.0085 WhatsApp fee for each notification sent, and $0.005 Twilio platform fee. So 1,000 messages per day x 30 days x $0.0135 permessage = $405/month.

All of these costs are outlined on our WhatsApp pricing page.

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