## Twilio pricing

Pricing page: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/sms/pricing/us. Verified 2026-10-25.
Lock-in: Low: sending a text is a simple API call; phone numbers can be ported to another provider.

### Pay as you go (US) (`payg`): $1.15/month base
- Text messages (segments), with the average carrier fee: 0 included; then: $0.0127
- Includes: commercial_use, compliance.gdpr_dpa, sms.send
- Not yet priced: A2P 10DLC registration: a one-time brand fee and $15 campaign vetting, then a monthly campaign fee (not on the pricing page), volume discounts (by agreement), texts outside the US
- Note: US prices: $0.0083 per outbound SMS segment from a local number plus a carrier fee (AT&T $0.0035, T-Mobile $0.0045, Verizon $0.005), priced here at a $0.0044 average weighted by carrier share, so $0.0127 a segment; plus $1.15 a month for the number.

**Sources**
- Twilio: verified 2026-10-25 (https://www.twilio.com/en-us/sms/pricing/us)

Confidence: high.

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