What is Bandwidth?
A communications platform providing voice, messaging, and emergency services APIs with direct-to-carrier network access. Enterprise-grade platform trusted by leading communication providers and SaaS platforms.
Bandwidth pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Usage-based pricing from $0.004 per SMS to $0.15 per call verification. Volume-based discounts. Custom enterprise pricing available.
SMS Messaging
Per-message SMS pricing via 10DLC, Short Code, and Toll-Free
MMS Messaging
Per-message MMS pricing
Voice API
Per-minute voice calling with transcription, text-to-speech, and conferencing
Authentication API
Two-factor authentication and call verification
SIP Trunking
Contact salesCustomizable usage-based model for premises-based or cloud stack voice
What Bandwidth does
The capabilities that matter for communication apis, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SMS
- ✓
- Voice
- ✓
- ✗
- RCS
- ✓
- Transactional email
- ✗
- Video / real-time
- ✓
- In-app chat
- ✗
- Verify / OTP / 2FA
- ✓
- Two-way messaging
- ✓
- Geographic coverage
- Global
- Email deliverability tools
- ✗
- Published per-unit pricing
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (7)
Independently observed- Microsoft Teams
- Webex
- Zoom
- Genesys
- Five9
- Google Voice
- Pindrop
Bandwidth alternatives
Other communication apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- AgoraReal-Time Engagement & Conversational AI Platformlow · 48%
- NovuThe communication infrastructure for agents and productsmedium · 64%
- DailyRealtime voice, video, and AI for developersmedium · 62%
- StreamScalable Chat, Video & Activity Feed APIs and SDKsmedium · 62%
- Plivomedium · 62%
- BirdCommunications infrastructure your AI agents operatelow · 30%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Bandwidth, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 80 | 22.00 | 1760.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 87 | 12.00 | 1040.6 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 75 | 12.00 | 900.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 26 | 16.00 | 415.5 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"rcs":true,"sms":true,"chat":false,"email":false,"video":true,"voice":true,"two_way":true,"whatsapp":false,"verify_otp":true,"global_coverage":"global","deliverability_tools":false,"usage_pricing_transparent":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 7 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |