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Twilio pricing
Twilio publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the telecommunications tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Twilio pricing is free, then $0.0083/per SMS message. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $0.0083/per SMS message
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Twilio plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-You-Go | On request | 4 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full Twilio feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- SMS messaging
- Voice calls
- Video conferencing
- Programmable communication
Integrations
- Slack
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
- Zapier
Platform
- Web support
- Mobile support
- API support
- SDKs support
People bring Twilio in for customer engagement, lead generation, customer support, sales automation. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Twilio are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Telecommunications
Too few telecommunications tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twilio (this page) | Free, then $0.0083/per SMS message | - | - | |
| Exotel | On request | Prepaid credit bundle with a fixed validity period | - | vs Twilio |
| Knowlarity | 1999/month | Per agent per month | - | vs Twilio |
| MyOperator | On request | Per month by plan, ten users included | - | vs Twilio |
| Ozonetel | On request | quote | - | vs Twilio |
| Bandwidth | On request | quote | - | vs Twilio |
| Telnyx | On request | Per message and per minute, priced by destination country | - | vs Twilio |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Twilio badges page.
Before you pay for Twilio
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at On request. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Twilio runs on web, apis, python, javascript, ruby, java, php, c#, and is published by Twilio Inc. of San Francisco, California, USA. The full record is on the Twilio review, and the rest of the category is under best telecommunications tools.
Twilio pricing questions
- How much does Twilio cost?
- Twilio publishes a single tier, Pay-as-You-Go, at On request.
- Does Twilio have a free plan?
- Yes, Twilio is recorded as free, so it can be used without paying.
- What am I actually paying for with Twilio?
- The record lists 12 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for customer engagement, lead generation, customer support.
- Does Twilio charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Twilio prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Twilio against before paying?
- The closest telecommunications tools in this directory are Exotel, Knowlarity, MyOperator, Ozonetel. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Twilio covering price, platforms and features.