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Twilio Description

Use the language you already love to prototype ideas quickly, develop production-ready communications applications, and run serverless applications on one API-powered platform.

Twilio is a single fully-programmable platform with flexible APIs for any channel, built-in intelligence, and global infrastructure to support you at scale. Quickly integrate powerful APIs to start building solutions for SMS and WhatsApp messaging, voice, video, and email.

Browse documentation and SDKs in multiple coding languages, including Ruby, Python, PHP, Node.js, java, and C#, or jumpstart your first project with our open source code templates to quickly build production-ready communications apps. Consult our community of over 9 million developers for guidance and inspiration on your next project. Sign up and start building today.

Pricing

Pricing Starts At:
$0.0085 per min
Pricing Information:
Programmable Voice: Starting at $0.0085/min to receive and $0.013/min to make a call.
Programmable SMS: Starting at $0.0075 to send or receive a message.
Twilio SendGrid Email API: Starting at $14.95/month for up to 100k emails. Up to 40k emails free for 30 days.
Twilio API for WhatsApp: Starting at $0.0042 to send a WhatsApp Template message and $0.005 for WhatsApp Session messages.

Integrations

API:
Yes, Twilio has an API

Reviews - 12 Verified Reviews

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Company Details

Company:
Twilio
Year Founded:
2008
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
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Product Details

Platforms
SaaS
Type of Training
Documentation
Live Online
Webinars
In Person
Customer Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Twilio Features and Options

IoT Software

Application Development
Big Data Analytics
Configuration Management
Connectivity Management
Data Collection
Data Management
Device Management
Performance Management
Prototyping
Visualization

Customer Engagement Software

Analytics
Churn Management
Communication Management
Community Management
Content Syndication
Feedback Collection
Gamification
Live Chat
Video Content

WhatsApp Marketing Software

API
Alerts
Autoresponder
Bulk Messaging
Campaign Management
Contact Management
Multi-Language Support
Reporting / Analytics

Cloud Communication Platform Software

Audio / Video Conferencing
Call Center
Call Recording
Call Routing
Chat / Messaging
Fax Management
File Sharing
IVR / Voice Recognition

Mobile App Development Software

Access Controls / Permissions
Any App Development Language
Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Data Modeling
Debugging
Drag and Drop Editor
Enterprise Mobility (EMM/MAM)
FaceID and TouchID
For Consumer Apps
For Enterprise Apps
Integration Options
Mobile App Security
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Multiple Apps from Same Base
No Dependencies
No-Code
Reporting / Analytics
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Source Control
Visual Editor

Call Recording Software

Archiving
Call Sharing
Distributed Call Recording
Event Triggered Recording
File Transfer
Instant Retrieval
On-Demand Recording
Recording Bookmarking
Scheduled Recording
Screen Activity Recording
Video Call Recording

Call Tracking Software

CRM
Call Log
Call Recording
Call Routing
Caller Identification
Campaign Management
Conversion Tracking
IVR / Voice Recognition
Keyword Tracking

Application Development Software

Access Controls/Permissions
Code Assistance
Code Refactoring
Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Data Modeling
Debugging
Deployment Management
Graphical User Interface
Mobile Development
No-Code
Reporting/Analytics
Software Development
Source Control
Testing Management
Version Control
Web App Development

Customer Data Platform Software

Behavioral Analytics
Campaign Management
Customer Profiles
Customer Segmentation
Data Integration
Data Matching
GDPR Compliance
Personalization
Predictive Modeling

SIP Trunk Provider

Automatic Fail-over Routing
Call Data Records
Caller ID
Disaster Recovery
International Numbers
Multiple DID Options
PSTN Forwarding
Toll-Free Numbers
e911

Twilio Lists

  • Name: Balwinder B.
    Job Title: SDE
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1,000 - 4,999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Seamless to integrate and use.

    Date: Jul 11 2022

    Summary: Overall, Twilio is a great application which can be easily integrated with any mobile or web application for features like SMS, Calling and text messages feature.

    Positive: - It can be easily integrated with any application with ease.
    - It has brief tutorials available on the website itself.
    - The subscription model is value for money and also has a trial version available.
    - The user interface and the admin panel is intuitive and easy to use.

    Negative: - I haven't found any cons in my usage, easy to use and gets the job done.

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  • Name: Ridhi S.
    Job Title: Software Development Engineer
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Affordable and reliable communication software.

    Date: May 23 2022

    Summary: Overall, Twilio it is one of the leading cloud based communication software which provides seamless SMS, calling and other authentication services in real-time with any application.

    Positive: - The best thing about using Twilio is it is not tedious at all, can be easily connected with any application.
    - It provides SMS and messages API for applications with step-by-step guide for integration.
    - It provides trial credits to test all the features in real world before investing for the actual subscription.
    - The authentication notifications are real-time without any delays.

    Negative: - The data analytics are not as detailed as other alternatives.
    - It can be a bit difficult to use it initially.

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  • Name: Prithvi K.
    Job Title: UI/UX Designer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Reliable and Trustworthy tool.

    Date: Jan 23 2022

    Summary: Twilio is a great tool to integrate messages, calls and email API seamlessly with any technology or application. It works great every time and with the trial credits every feature can be tested before paying for them.

    Positive: - It can integrate seamlessly with any front end application with just few lines of codes.
    - The website has brief tutorial to use the services and to establish connection with other application.
    - The application is overall quite easy to use with the intuitive and all the main services are shown on the home page.
    - It lets the user test all the features and services with the 15 dollars trial credit before opting for the paid subscription.
    - The API for email and text messages works in real-time without any delays.
    - The subscription price of the application is pretty affordable and the users have to pay only for the services they want to use.

    Negative: - The after support for the Asia region lacks a bit compared to other regions.

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  • Name: Vidya B.
    Job Title: Project Manager
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1,000 - 4,999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Easy to integrate and pocket-friendly.

    Date: Dec 10 2021

    Summary: Overall, Twilio is of the best platform for automated texts, calls and email services. It is affordable, feature-rich, easy to use platform which can be easily integrated with any third-party application.

    Positive: - Twilio can be seamlessly integrated with almost any CRM system.
    - It is easy to configure and use.
    - Twilio offers trial account before opting for any subscription, and the trial account provides enough credits to test all its features and functionalities.
    - The test and emails works in real-time.
    - The subscription plan is very affordable for any organization or startup.

    Negative: - There isn't any cons that I have found in Twilio in my usage, but if I had to nitpick, I would say they can make their tutorials more intuitive.

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  • Name: Subhan A.
    Job Title: React Developer
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Deployment
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    An all-in-one marketing solution for any organization.

    Date: Nov 18 2021

    Summary: Overall, Twilio is a feature-packed and an affordable tool helpdesk solution for any organization. The users have to pay only for the features they use and nothing more.

    Positive: - It can be easily integrated with any CRM tool.
    - It is an easy-to-use tool with lots of features, functionalities and a lot of room for customization according to the user's need.
    - There is a simplified walkthrough available for the beginners at the initial set up of the tool.
    - It provides $25 credit free in the trial account, which enough to test all the features before opting for the paid version.

    Negative: - The tool claim to send text within 3 minutes, but sometimes the texts exceeds this time limit.

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  • Name: Kelly C.
    Job Title: Independent Contractor Hearing Examiner
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Sharpen your communication strategies with Twilio

    Date: Mar 22 2021

    Summary: To give an overall assessment, it could be highlighted the important amount of strategic tools to generate rapprochement and feedback between users and the company using a constant and active interaction despite the limitations that result in detracting from the mobile devices and language.

    Positive: Twilio is an application that offers an applicable proposal to increase, manage and improve strategies at the level of communication between company-client, through intelligent and practical functions such as text messaging, phone calls and an extensive list of interactive channels that specify the recipient to generate a sense of closeness.

    Negative: One of the most notable drawbacks of this application is that it does not have a mode for cell phones, which generates a certain ironic impact since it would make it much more practical in the manageability of the service through it. In addition, it has the limitation of the language, since it is only preset to English.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Marketer
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    The trustworthy message and voice robot

    Date: Aug 18 2020

    Summary: If your software uses messaging APIs to talk and deliver to thousands of customers, you definitely a robust backend to handle it. Twilio does a great job at that.

    Positive: - Very useful especially in building for cross-platform users and solutions. There are several messaging services and networks these days. Twilio can be the backend for all those at once.

    Negative: No major cons encountered. Maybe the service can be laggy at times but that is rare.

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  • Name: William D.
    Job Title: Student
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 10,000 - 19,999
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Makes it super easy to let your application send texts!

    Edited: Jul 17 2020

    Summary: Twilio's the only text sending service I know of for automated SMS messaging within apps and thus far I'm pretty happy with it.

    Positive: I learned about Twilio at a hackathon in 2016, and I really liked how easy Twilio's REST API is to use. The documentation is great too, so even with just a few hours I was able to create a prototype app that could send SMS to users.

    Negative: I struggled a bit but that was more because I was new to the concept of REST APIs at the time.

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  • Name: Mohit V.
    Job Title: Operation manager
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Intuitive SMS marketing tool

    Date: Jul 01 2020

    Summary: SMS marketing is a great way to promote a business campaign. For this, I use the Twilio platform. Twilio gives me the best platform to drive customer engagement. It works also as a feedback tool to gather feedback from survey SMS.

    Positive: Twilio is a great SMS marketing platform. It helps to drive customer engagement. It measures accurate data for campaign progress. This can also be used for sending survey go users.

    Negative: Analytical data should be improved on SMS engagement.

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  • Name: Chet N.
    Job Title: CEO
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Easy and Affordable

    Date: May 05 2020

    Summary: Overall it's great and its very well priced so that you can use it for any of the programs you have.

    Positive: Super easy to set up as they have an open API that can be integrated with a lot of different programs.

    Negative: There aren't any cons that I can think of right now.

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  • Name: Robert R.
    Job Title: President
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Stable & Reliable - and very nearly great

    Date: Aug 15 2022

    Summary: Generally - I'm very happy with Twilio. Yes, I wish error handling was faster and more intuitive. But since errors are highly infrequent, that's not a deal-breaker.

    Positive: The Zapier-Twilio interface is a good one, and makes sending MMS and SMS messages very easy. The general UX for Twilio is OK, too.

    Negative: The problem comes when there's a messaging error. The error notification can be a long time in coming, and not particularly informative. Even if you drill down to the data dispatched to Twilio, the error codes aren't very informative.

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  • Name: Nabeel N.
    Job Title: Front End Web Dev
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Most affordable messaging and verification service for business applications.

    Date: Mar 22 2022

    Summary: Overall, Twilio is one of the most affordable and integration friendly service provider for SMS, emails and verification through OTP. It also provides a free account with some free credits, which is enough to test all the features.

    Positive: - Twilio can be easily integrated with any application made on any platform.
    - The website has a brief documentation on how to integrate Twilio with various programming languages.
    - Twilio gives free 15 dollar credit to test the features and functionalities before opting for the paid version of the service.
    - The email and SMS are quick and works with both national and international numbers.
    - The configuration of the application is easy as the user interface of the application is easy to use and navigate.

    Negative: - Using simple features like emails and push messaging is easy, but to use the application's all the features to its full potential there is a high learning curve.

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