# Stream vs Telnyx

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Stream

| Attribute | Stream | Telnyx |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 80.3 (72% (medium)) | 62.7 (72% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A platform providing SDKs and APIs for adding chat messaging, video calling, activity feeds, and content moderation to applications, supporting billions of end users across a globally distributed infrastructure. | A platform that orchestrates voice AI agents with built-in speech recognition, synthesis, and language model inference, operating on a unified owned network infrastructure billed transparently at $0.05 per minute for the core voice engine plus metered costs for additional services. |
| features.capabilities | `{"chat":true,"video":true,"voice":true,"two_way":true,"global_coverage":"global","usage_pricing_transparent":true}` | `{"sms":true,"email":true,"voice":true,"two_way":true,"whatsapp":true,"global_coverage":"global","usage_pricing_transparent":true}` |
| integrations.count | 14 | 22 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Postman"},{"name":"Xcode"},{"name":"Android Studio"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"React Native"},{"name":"Flutter"},{"name":"Swift"},{"name":"SwiftUI"},{"name":"Kotlin"},{"name":"Jetpack Compose"},{"name":"Expo"}]` | `[{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Zoom"},{"name":"Google Meet"},{"name":"Webex"},{"name":"Deepgram"},{"name":"Speechmatics"},{"name":"NVIDIA Parakeet"},{"name":"Telnyx STT"},{"name":"Telnyx Ultra TTS"},{"name":"Qwen3TTS"},{"name":"Inworld"},{"name":"Rime"},{"name":"Resemble"},{"name":"Murf"},{"name":"Fish Audio"},{"name":"Azure Neural HD"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Kimi"},{"name":"GLM-5.2"},{"name":"GPT-5.6 Luna"},{"name":"GPT-5.6 Sol"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","CA"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"125k API calls, 5k activities/month","features":["Flat & Timeline Feeds","Notification & Aggregated Feeds","Security & Compliance","Global Edge Network"],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"monthly_api_calls":"125,000","monthly_activities":"5,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Start","summary":"$499/month billed annually, or $599/month","features":["All Feeds API features","Ranked Feeds","Ticketed Support","Security & Compliance","Global Edge Network"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":499,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"monthly_api_calls":"1,250,000","monthly_activities":"50,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Elevate","summary":"$899/month billed annually, or $999/month","features":["All Feeds API features","Ranked Feeds","Ticketed Support","Security & Compliance","Global Edge Network"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":899,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"monthly_api_calls":"3,750,000","monthly_activities":"150,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing, scales to 100M+ users","features":["Activity-based pricing","99.999% SLA","SAML/SSO","Private Dedicated Servers","24/7 Support"],"commitment":"annual","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Image & File CDN Bandwidth","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.17,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Image & File Storage","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.07,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Image Resizing","components":[{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"images"},"kind":"metered","amount":5.8,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier plus $499–$899/month plans with activity and API call overages. Free Maker program for companies under 5 team members and $10k MRR.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://getstream.io/activity-feeds/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T10:25:51.982Z","startingPrice":{"amount":499,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Pay As You Go","summary":"$0.05/min voice engine, pay as you use","features":["Full platform access","Voice engine included","LLM tokens at GPU rates","Community support"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.05,"currency":"USD","description":"Voice engine (orchestration, STT, TTS)"}],"description":"Usage-based billing with no commitment. Card on file to start.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"sms_per_second":"50","concurrent_calls":"500","api_requests_per_second":"100"}},{"free":false,"name":"Committed","summary":"$500/month minimum with volume discounts","features":["All pay-as-you-go features","Volume discounts on usage","Dedicated account manager","Priority support","Higher rate limits"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Monthly commitment with volume-based discounts across all services.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$5,000/month minimum, custom enterprise pricing","features":["All committed plan features","Dedicated infrastructure","Private IP addressing","Private network interconnect","Unlimited rate limits"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":5000,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Custom pricing with dedicated infrastructure, private network, and unlimited rate limits.","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"LLM tokens","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.004,"currency":"USD","description":"Example: Kimi model on Telnyx-owned GPUs, roughly $0.004/min"}]},{"name":"Telephony","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0032,"currency":"USD","description":"SIP trunking inbound from $0.0032/min"}]},{"name":"Call recording","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.002,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"SMS outbound","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"message"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.004,"currency":"USD","description":"Volume pricing available down to $0.0005/msg"}]},{"name":"Phone numbers (US local)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":1,"period":"month","currency":"USD","description":"Volume pricing from $0.79/mo"}]}],"summary":"From $0.05/min. No monthly platform fee. Free tier available; committed or enterprise tiers for volume discounts and dedicated support.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://telnyx.com/pricing/voice-ai-agents","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T22:21:22.572Z","startingPrice":{"amount":500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | high | high |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.999 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (Communication APIs)

| Capability | Stream | Telnyx |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Channels** |  |  |
| SMS | - | ✓ |
| Voice | ✓ | ✓ |
| WhatsApp | - | ✓ |
| RCS | - | - |
| Transactional email | - | ✓ |
| Video / real-time | ✓ | - |
| In-app chat | ✓ | - |
| Verify / OTP / 2FA | - | - |
| **Messaging** |  |  |
| Two-way messaging | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Reach** |  |  |
| Geographic coverage | Global | Global |
| **Delivery** |  |  |
| Email deliverability tools | - | - |
| **Commercial** |  |  |
| Published per-unit pricing | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:06:56.749Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*