Twilio Messaging New feature

The next generation of business text messaging services

Build deeper customer relationships at scale with a messaging platform based on trust and compliance, quality and scale, and seamless omnichannel engagement.

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Recognition

Twilio named a Leader in CPaaS for second consecutive year

Omnichannel messaging on a scalable platform

Messaging is a centralized business messaging platform to engage customers across their preferred channels. Our enterprise-ready APIs and scalable software are powered by an intelligent network that monitors over 2+ billion data points daily, enabling unrivaled reliability at any scale.

167+ billion

messages sent and received yearly

180+ countries

within your reach

99.95% +

monthly API uptime

4,800

global carrier connections

APIs


Developer-friendly APIs for any scale

Programmable messaging API connecting to customers through preferred channel

Programmable Messaging API

Deliver text messages across preferred channels with an API for one-way, transactional messaging.

  • One API for transactional SMS, MMS, RCS, and WhatsApp messaging.

  • Build business messaging solutions for alerts and notifications, promotions, and marketing messages.

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Conversations API

Deliver text messages across preferred channels with an API for two-way messaging.

  • A single API for conversational chat, SMS, MMS, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger

  • Build conversational messaging solutions for customer care, conversational commerce, and other business needs.

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Verify API

Send one-time passwords (OTP) with a turnkey API for onboarding and verification use cases.

  • A fully managed API for multichannel one-time password (OTP) delivery.

  • Verify offers the scale of Twilio Messaging with a purpose-built solution for two-factor authentication (2FA) and fraud protection.

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Work with one of our trusted partners to get coding support or explore a pre-built messaging solution.

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Platform


A business text messaging platform with trust and compliance, quality and scale, and seamless omnichannel engagement

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Access trusted messaging ecosystems

Engage customers with verified messaging over routes that protect consumers from spam and unwanted messages. Our simplified onboarding within Trust Hub, along with our compliance and privacy software, ensures you're set up for secure engagement.

Reach customers every time with quality messaging

Our platform of APIs and software for connectivity, routing algorithms, and message transparency optimizes unparalleled deliverability and throughput using our global network of tier-1 carriers, an industry leading set of data signals, and real-time routing.

Engage customers when and where they prefer

Build business messaging solutions for customer care, conversational commerce, and transactional messaging with APIs that integrate with the most popular messaging channels like conversational chat, SMS, MMS, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger—all from one platform.

Optimize your business messaging strategy with AI

Leverage AI to optimize deliverability with our real-time routing algorithms, prevent fraudulent traffic with SMS Pumping Protection, and detect issues as they occur to save time as you scale. Plus, with the CustomerAI Perception Engine, you can leverage natural language processing (NLP) to extract relevant customer data from your voice interactions and use it to build rich customer profiles that power precise campaigns.

New feature

Modernize your messaging with Rich Communication Services (RCS)

Create more interactive messages with your customers globally. See how RCS with Twilio can provide branded communications, greater deliverability, and improved customer engagement.

Channels


Reach customers on their favorite channels from a single platform

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    SMS

    Reach consumers worldwide for notifications, alerts, verifications, and marketing with SMS.

  • Twilio MMS Messaging logo
    MMS

    Send rich marketing messages with multimedia capabilities using MMS.

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    Conversational Chat

    Engage customers seamlessly with an integrated, in-app chat experience.

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    WhatsApp

    Provide customer care, delivery notifications, and promotions on the world’s most popular messaging app.

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    Facebook Messenger

    Connect to billions with rich messaging, live cross-channel support, and ads that click to message.

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    Rich Communication Services (RCS)

    Deliver rich content and measure engagement as a branded, verified sender with RCS.

Pricing


Next-generation business messaging services, simple pricing

Only pay for what you use with no subscriptions. Additional volume and committed use discounts are available as you scale.

New

Introducing Twilio Messaging Engagement Suite

Get simpler development, quicker time to market, and higher deliverability rates.* See how Message Scheduling, Link Shortening with Click Tracking, advanced data, and real-time dashboards can benefit your business. 

 

* In an evaluation of more than 63M messages sent through Twilio with shortened hyperlinks, messages with shortened hyperlinks by 3rd party Link Shorteners were filtered at 1.96% or 28x the rate of Twilio which was filtered at a rate of 0.07%